Originally posted by FarleyHiggins
1. IMO, from what I have seen.. Most sites that actually have CP are promoted in the newsgroups, yahoo groups and chat rooms.. Not through free sites, link lists and TGPs. This would catch those that are promoting legal sites but using underhanded tactics.. making it look like they are going to an illegal site.
an excellent point. it's through the chat mediums like IRC, etc where chatters can send URL to the sidedoors and "hidden pages" on an otherwise legitimate website, a front if you will.
i will chat with Joan at ASACP about where the thousands of CP leads per month come from, whether ppl found the sites through chat rooms, or stumbled upon them from link lists, etc.
2. LOL... apparently you haven't dealt much with sites such as linklists that have scripts doing the checking. The scripts can get tripped up pretty easy and they often auto reject. I don't imagine that a sponsor, once they have an automated check will be any more vigilant. An unfortunate outcome of automating any process is that people tend to become reliant on the automation and ignore the human check features that should be in place.
3. see #2 
not sure about your points here. you say that automated checks produce errors and that sponsors are reliant on them, rather than having human checking.. but that's exactly what sniffy does, reliance on human checking, not automated scripts. maybe i have been typing too long and not understanding what i am reading.
4. This is kind of like "Only guilty people get arrested".
for the humor impaired, the following is a joke and any racial or racist interpretations are only valid if you are not white (dj is not a cracka).
no, guilty people are not the ONLY ones to get arrested, innocent black and mexicans get arrested. no such thing as an innocent white person getting arrested. werd.
If a sponsor shuts down a site on sniffy's (or any scripts/bots/whatever) say so, they are shutting down an income stream. This can be very damaging.
this is the problem that sponsor's are starting to face, where they are letting affiliates go that have CP material. we already have one sponsor make a post to say he removed some sites. sponsoprs could certainly keep CP sites in the affiliate program, could be because they do their job well and make the sponsors money, but Lee observed that there was an issue, and a problem, and hence, the birth of sniffy.
-dj