GFY Censorship - Affiliates: Do you trust MPA2/MPA3 programs? - THREAD GONE

Why would they do that?

im sending eric 20 to have this shit removed right now

LOL What a fucking joke.

IMHO it was a bullshit thread to begin with. It was over something that happened years ago and was corrected. Looked more like a troll thread than anything, just trying to stir up unnecessary drama or an unwarranted attack.

Emailing Eric to have him send the hitmen out

No offense DWB, but that should not be an option.

If a company can have old bullshit removed from GFY just because it happened years ago, that should apply to everyone equally. People bumping old bullshit when they get butthurt happens all of the fucking time on here. They should have to take their medicine like anyone else.

Whether I think it was a deliberate troll or not, really shouldn't matter. If those sorts of things are going to be outlawed or prohibited, it should become a standard rule to lock ALL of those threads, ban those bumping them, or whatever. In short, it should be 'fair' for everyone. Not selective.

You should not be able to buy a BRO drink, & have it just vanish because you do not like it.

yup
agreed
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They handled the thread very well until they had it deleted. Now they look like they have something to hide.

nats fixed that exploit & fucked something else up & charged me 240 bucks to fix it. I'm still scratching my head over that one
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I didn't read the thread, but perhaps the OP just asked for the thread to be deleted?

I started the thread and I did not ask for it to be deleted. I can't say that I am surprised. I think it had around a thousand views the last time I saw it so I know many people read it. Draw your own conclusions.

IMO, my last reply was probably the one which broke the camels back. I showed a post from 2003 where "garry" from mansion productions was commenting about charging $50 for a shave module and that being a good idea (he posted a wink emote probably to indicate it was a joke but still). Then I followed that up with a screenshot from 2004 showing the shave options in the mpa2 admin area with a message from Fabian (who worked for tmm at the time) confirming that the page in question was the first page sponsors see when entering a mpa2 program. I took screencaps of all those old messages by the way in case they disappeared. I didn't take one of the topic which got deleted itself but you can find the topic and the first few replies in the Google cache.

I think another aspect of this is that it makes some sponsors look very bad and I spoke about this in a reply. It was the first page in the mpa2 admin lounge yet how many people did the right thing and warned affiliates about it? Perhaps this has something to do with the thread vanishing? So many people with so much to hide though so it's hard to say what finally did it. Like I said, draw your own conclusions.

And it wasn't a troll post. I was wanting input from other affiliates. I only discovered allt he new stuff because I started researching it after a mpa3 program suddenly collapsed on me in conversions and rebills. I knew vaguely of the incident in the past but I saw some new things this time around after researching.

Garry popped in and basically accused me of being a troll or part of a conspiracy. I stated some opinions (such as never seeing a real apology over the incident and all their comments about the incident being PR doublespeak) and asked them to post where they had made a single honest apology in the past or where they honestly explained the incident. They then posted some old AVN article where they didn't really apologize and made a claim that basically the shaving features were to "help fight affiliate fraud". I then replied asking them to explain how the "shave all webmasters" and "shave individual webmasters" features were to help prevent "affiliate fraud" but I don't recall them ever replying again to the topic.

My original intent wasn't to start shit with mansion. In fact if they would have posted an honest apology and explanation at any time or linked to one in the past I probably would have left the whole thing alone. The thing is I think the owner of Mansion Productions is too proud to sincerely apologize and too "slick" to think he should have to honestly explain things without the PR speak or double talk. To be honest this bugs me much more than the original incident itself. Anyway I think I learned enough of what I needed to know AND THEN SOME.

GFY isn't really a democracy, it's a privately owned forum. If something isn't in the interests of the owner or the owner's friends, it may get removed. Simple as that - just gotta learn to live with it.

That's just the bottom line.

You guys don't want shit deleted, host it yourself.