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Originally posted by charly
This "we"shit is me as part of this community, I have already told one guy to go elsewhere for onetent because he signed up, broke relationships with another and might have to do so again.
So what is your solution, keep buying Matrix content and sending traffic to Hustler regardless of the fact that some of the money is going to fuck you? Can I come over and steal your car, also could you fill it with gas first?
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No I'm not going to be buying Matrix content and I don't send traffic to Hustler anyway, nor any of the other companies we *know* have signed. But I made that decision long ago based on the normal everyday practices of the companies - the fact that they've caved on this comes as no real surprise to me. I don't have links to pull.
I have to wonder about the folks that *do* have links to pull from CE, Hustler, Platinum Bucks etc. I guess they really like that razor and they just ignore everything they've ever read about these companies, including admissions from the companies themselves. But then again things move so fast here, webmasters often have short memories.
My point with you not having traffic is that I can see both sides (hence the wink at the end of my note). You don't make your income from links pointing to sponsors, so it's rather easy for you to sit up there and tell everyone to pull their links to the companies that are putting food on their table. It's quite a different story when you're an actual webmaster, you've got thousands of links to pull if you're going to do this, and you're risking your income.
*Your* specific effort might be better steered in highlighting the fact over and over that Paul Markham has not and will not sign with Acacia. You don't have to say "don't buy content from Matrix" and turn it into a negative campaign looking like a competitor who's kicking their competition while they're down; you don't have to try to tell webmasters to risk their income when you aren't going to be doing the same thing.
Just keep it positive and focus on reminding folks that you haven't signed and they do have options for good content without compromising their principles.