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Originally Posted by rowan
I'm not talking about the affiliate losing his $, I'm talking about Robbie making some from the efforts of the spammer. You cut off a spammer but continue to take his sales, then you're benefiting from that "method" of promotion. Note I'm not accusing him of anything, I have no idea what his stance on this is, I'm just saying that IMHO the only ethical thing to do is block any traffic to that affiliate link.
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I guess this might come into play more if it was something like myspace spamming or the like, because in this case I really doubt there is any traffic from the links.... I didn't bother to look at the legit links he may have put out there (don't think there were very many) and he really only got traffic out of the google glitch that had his aff link on the serp for the join page, so now that the sponsor fixed some problems that traffic source for that affiliate is now gone
I think your nitpicking though worried about a sponsor getting a sale or two out of a spammer that they didn't know about at the time.... he would likely have gotten the sale anyways through a different traffic source in cases like this