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Originally posted by SleazyDream:
couple more posts and this one will top mine.
Havn't read everything here yet and I'm sure this has been said but I'm gona say it anyway cause I just have to be part of this huge thread. One topic seems to come through clear and it's recieving traffic from sites that have the hint of childporn promotion on them. I agree with the sponsers to not pay the accounts and keep them active - this costs the cheater money and time. But ANY sponser who POCKETS that money and doesn't turn it over to charity (and both sides of payment too, the sponser's profit and the affiliates profit from that traffic- minus basic business expensis which would only be a small portion) would be a TOTAL SKUMBAG and is JUST AS MUCH A PROMOTER of childporn as the cheating affiliate. Yes keep the account open and don't pay the idiot, but don't profit from it either. Make the effort to purge yourself of that bit of what can only be called pure Evil.
Those sponsers that make up excuses not to do this are not even fit to be called human.
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Sleazy it's good You mentioned that You didnt read it all and it seems You've been a bit mislead.
The traffic in question is
http://www.paintop.com
which originally at the time of signup to CandidClicks according to the webmaster Darkness had only BDSM-Torture traffic.
BDSM-Torture is a completely legal niche as You probably know. Every known mainstream sponsor has fetish or BDSM paysites. From MaxCash to the rest of them known guys.
However even Torture traffic is not allowed at CandidClicks.
However the Darkness dude , probably because he is a bit of a newbie, was under the impression that sites get approved manually in CandidClicks and after he submitted it he started working on simple basis - "they manually approved me, therefore it's ok".
Later however he added pure rape fantasy traffic to his paintop.com which is also a clear Candid Clicks rule abusement.
He is not hiding that fact and says basicly a very simple thing "Why didnt You guys inform me that You not gonna pay and why dont You terminate my account and keep it open? So I send You more bucks I never gonna see?"
Now we come to a very simple fact, Darkness has abused Terms of Service (TOS) of Candid Clicks which is true and noone of us Russians here hides it so dont get us wrong please.
However here comes point 1:
There was absolutely NOTHING even remotely connected to anything younger than 18.
We despise child porn just like You do and even much much more so please refrain from such stupid and dangerous words.
Point2: His traffic was not illegal. Or to be exact may be it was - may be it wasnt , this has to proven if said so only by PROPER AUTHORITIES. CandidPublishing is no proper authority to identify what's legal or what's illegal except child porn of course, where the laws are pretty simple and the question of what's legal may be judjed by the content easily.
However Candid Publishing Terms of Service or agreement prohibits such traffic. Therefore there is no question if it is allowed by law or not. It is not allowed by Candid Clicks and that's enough. And no one of us webmasters from Russia here does hide the understanding of that fact or disagrees with it.
The only thing we'd like to point out - "it's not against the law, it's against Candid Clicks Terms of Service".
Point 3: By Candid Clicks Terms of Service which are DIFFERENT from StandartInternet's or ADULT.COM's there is no implementation of any kind that the account which is not terminated can be left active and not payed for.
Which in the end means a very simple thing - darkness violated Candid Clicks TOS but by leaving his account active and in the same time unpaid Candid Clicks violated their own TOS (the way it is written).
Point 4: Darkness has sent WRONG traffic for fucks sake, which is not cleary even illegal by far, and left UNPAID ON AN ACTIVE ACCOUNT which means that before he understood that checks wont come he generated money for monthes, be it a lousy sum anyway, and suffered a whole lot of rasism here.
Now if You ask me and take into consideration that both parties broke the same TOS, what's worse to send wrong traffic , not a fucking hitbot shit or Child Porn or to steal money and to steal it in a such a brutal way I'd vote that stealing money and insulting anyone that hard is much much worse and I beleive that honest webmasters are with me on that.
I'm also voting at the very least to donate this money to those who need it.
Dont fucking keep it - it's not Yours.