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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
I'm not going to take over Mr. Peabody's thread so this is it from me. But in a nutshell very few affiliates are going to be upset about about a sponsor seeing they have a 1:5000 ratio and deciding to credit them a sale or two as a sort of "comp". It's mainly an issue if it goes the other way where they shave.
Likewise no affiliate likes urls on sponsor content. It's branding for you, not us. We need the surfer to click the link in order to get credit unless we cookie stuff the affiliate code. Making it easier for the surfer to just type in the url hurts us. This is pretty much common sense here.
If you disagree we can always start a public (so we can check to see who is really primarily an affiliate) poll thread like "Affiliates: Do you prefer sponsors putting urls on affiliate promo content" or "Affiliates: do you have a problem with a sponsor giving you free money and sales with no catch?" and see what the results are. I think most affiliates know what the results will be already if it's a fairly worded poll.
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Well you have already mis-framed it again already. It is one thing if a sponsor openly advertises "hey there affiliate, if you send (X) number of hits and don't make a sale then we will credit you one for trying no matter who you are". That is very different from "Hey, we need this affiliate to send more traffic so let's make him think the ratios are through the roof so maybe we get more juicy traffic".
If you can't understand the difference of that then no poll of public opinion is going to help give you the level of intelligence one needs to grasp that level of the obvious. However, I think you are just trying to reshape the entire point just because you know at some point you realized that you actually have no point. The question was originally raised because not only myself but others questioned what XXXJay meant because it definitely sounded like a reverse shave scenario, that's all.
If you are not sponsor then maybe you don't get the sponsor perspective that you have to take a sale from someone else that actually deserved it to give it to someone that does not. That is why it is just the other side of what you call shaving but it is still shaving, albeit in reverse...