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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
Yes but other than YOU please name an affiliate who started out a guppy and became a whale in the past 3 years. That's the problem there, too. I am in agreement with you, in principle, but the reality is most affiliates now stay at whatever level they are at and rarely grow to 'whale' status anymore.
It's a vicious cycle: affs don't grow, programs don't help affs grow.
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Yeah it's a vicious cycle, I understand why some program owners feel the need of going invite only because of the current state of affairs but in the long this will ultimately kill the affiliates and as a result it will kill the paysites too.
Nothing wrong with manually approving your affiliates, it actually means you care, you spend precious time doing the approval because you care and you want to succeed. Over doing it though is a problem it's one thing asking for verification that the person who signed up is really an active webmaster and a completely other thing when you start asking for screenshots of stats and payments from other programs...