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Originally Posted by TMM_John
I know you're well intentioned, but I don't have all night to round and round in circles on conspiracy theories. The short & direct answers to your questions are as follows:
hide joins doesn't even come into effect if there is a payout for the join. Meaning, if a program had hide joins enabled and you sent joins that had payouts associated with them, you'd see those joins regardless of the setting.
There is no way to use this feature to shave.
The retro-active payout setting is completely unrelated.
I'm out of here for the night.
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A somewhat disrespectful reply IMO. It's not conspiracy theories. It's protecting ourselves and our interests.
So is there no possible combination of options a program owner could use to say turn off the crediting of joins by toggling options at say noon and then toggling them back at 8pm such that between noon-8pm a webmaster would neither see nor be credited for joins?
The retro active payout option says that it locks the payout for the join based on the member join date. So if in theory a member joined during the noon-8pm time and the sponsor had turned off HIDE JOINS AND HIDE REBILLS plus had RETRO ACTIVE PAYOUT on (in addition to the options to not pay for joins or rebills) at the time of the member join then the webmaster would not get credit for the join or see any rebills for it. Even if later the sponsor were to toggle these options back to normal. Correct?
But the $64,000 question is whether or not the RETRO ACTIVE PAYOUT option would also HIDE the very existence of the join and any rebills too (in addition to just the amount of the payout) should it be on and used in conjunction with the HIDE JOINS and HIDE REBILLS options at the time when the member initially joins. Understand what I am getting at here? It's a legitimate question.