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Originally posted by papa56
Affiliates should come on the board when they feel they are being shaved
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And get reamed? Yeah right. If you "feel" you are being shaved that means you don't have proof positive to back it up.
I think something that a previous poster said is happening with much greater frequency than shaving and that is simply redirecting links and/or accounts just mysteriously disappearing while the sponsor continues to receive traffic from the sites. It's not like they can't check logs to see who rarely checks stats. Even if they only get away with it a week or few before a webmaster catches on multiply that by the number they do it to and the newbies lined up to take their place and that is a lot of free shaved traffic while dealing better on the level with their high volume affiliates who will come to the boards and blast detractors.
Now I have no proof of that^. My experience of logging on from 2 other computers and a WebTV to "check my links" only to have those hits not show in my stats means nothing. Currently I am going through my pages to remove a couple of sponsors who are well advertised around the webmaster boards/resource pages to remove their links because my account logins no longer work. One even sends me my login that doesn't work when I request my password info. Neither responded to e-mail inquiring about my account status.
As far as taking cheaters to court, nobody is going to spend the big bucks it would cost for what is probably a fraction of the amount they could "prove" was taken from them IF they could prove it. THEN, how many courts are going to deal fairly with a porn case anyway?