Originally Posted by signupdamnit

pompousjohn, I greatly appreciate you taking the time to do this and for having the integrity to come back and report results like this.

Yes the next step would be to change it back to:

Retro Active ON (should already be on), pay 50% of joins and 50% of rebills, hide joins OFF, hide rebills OFF

and then to see if those three joins made at the time when the other settings were present end up showing up in affiliate stats at all. Also to check the same for any trial conversions or rebills.

From what TMM_John states and what I understand they should show up in the affiliate stats after doing this because "hide joins" and "hide rebills" are not "sticky" (based on the settings at the time of the initial join). If they do not then this shows that the method likely can be used to "Shave".