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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
As long as you are telling the surfers that you are making a buck no matter how good or bad your reviews are, that's fine with me.
When you hide that fact, and fail to tell them that you do not review sites which you can't make a buck off of, that smacks of deceptiveness and dishonesty (the same would be true if you gave bad reviews to companies that do not help you line your pocket).
Legitimate food and movie/entertainment reviewers do not take kickbacks. Why? Because to do so compromises their integrity. Where is the integrity in reviewing only sites that provide you with referral money?
If you want to do a review site that is primarily intended for you to make referral money from, then say so upfront, otherwise you are running a shady money making scheme operation in my opinion (although I am coming to doubt that you have a problem with putting money before integrity - it seems to be a common trend in the adult biz).
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What should I tell the surfers? "Hello... My name is Sherm. I spent time writing a 2 page review about a site, but please feel free to just type in the domain if you don't want to join through my referral code". Just like webmasters, they will skip clicking the link so that no money can be made for another person. Another thing that surfers may do (the same way I got in this business when I was 18), is to follow the webmaster link on the porn page, signup for the affiliate program and use my own ref code to join the site. Not all surfers are stupid, and hardly any surfers want to line the pockets of webmasters. How would you propose that I tell surfers that I am using a referral code?
My lowest rated reviews are the sites that are offering me the most money per signup. I'd hardly think there is anything deceptive there. I'm being 100% honest with these reviews, and that won't change.
"Legitimate food and movie/entertainment reviewers do not take kickbacks.".... But don't you think they get paid for somebody to make these reviews? Come on man. Critics get paid for columns... There is no difference except I'm not making money upfront from a company to review. They do. Would the majority of critics do what they do for no money? I seriously doubt that. They get paid for making good reviews and bad reviews...much like I would (and most other website reviewers).
I'm running a shadey operation? Come on man. Are you saying that TGP/MGP owners and submitters are shadey as well because the galleries they promote don't mention that they have referral ID's in their links? I've never seen a webmaster tell surfers that they are getting money for selling memberships. We're selling porn...not convincing surfers to compensate us.
What is your problem with me tonight and your accusations? You've never seemed to have a problem with me before, and I sure as hell can't remember ever having a problem with you. I take serious offense to you questioning my ethics.