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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
Not that I doubt the guy is a scammer or that there is anything wrong with outing frauds, however, I know one of the rules here requires affiliates to provide proof before accusing a sponser of shaving in public. Shouldn't the same also be required for outing cheating affiliates?
What'd the guy do and what proof have you.
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This is different, and I don't believe proof needs to be stated in these cases.
1) Primarily, affiliate info does not generally make him identifiable to anyone but those programs that have him/her in their affiliate database. No GFY usernames were used. In cases that they are, or there's something that publicly ties the affiliate info to a GFY username - sure... maybe proof should be needed... but in these cases? Nah.
2) I, and I expect most others, don't go "oh, this guy's a cheater? Well... /suspend /delete /revoke /nuke," but rather use this info as a guide-light to an affiliate who might be a cheater, and check out the info that we have for the individual ourselves.
If an affiliate program identifies someone as cheating, that generally means that they're a carder (use credit card information fraudulently)... but it could mean three or four other types of transgressions, too. Whatever the case, I'm checking out the information on our databases, and always appreciate it when other programs share this kind of information.
Cheaters fuck things up for everyone.