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Originally Posted by webmasterchecks
i had defined shaving perhaps more broadly than you did, as any method that can be used to not process/payout on sales for the affiliate.
how would you define shaving?
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I call what you are talking about a traffic leak. A bad one, but still a traffic leak. Really no different than a PPS having exits.
Shaving is the manipulation of statistics shown/given to the Affiliate, normally done through code. Here is the thing... with NATS, you aren't taking something before/after it has the data, and changing it, and the re-giving it back to nats.
Think of it like this.. If you tried to shave random people, you could shave yourself, your own traffic, your best webmaster. How crazy would it be to shave your own traffic buys?
Thus you need something to help calculate who should be shaved, when, how much they have been, the levels of shave, where it should happen, countries, etc.
Doing that in NATS means data is different, time stamps, member poll won't come in correctly, webmaster stats aren't going to post in time, clicks/sales, rebills, something is going to be behind. If it's a going program, it's going to change when all other nats programs don't..
Anyway.. it's software based
