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Originally Posted by potter
Yes and no. What you have done outside this thread was right. Though, having done it along WITH THIS thread it makes it wrong.
You're simply two faced. You are pretending to be the big bad program owner. Who is calling out these babeblogs, saying you are going to kill their accounts. Saying you don't need their traffic or sales. That you won't loose sleep over not having them as affiliates. Slinging the shit and dragging names through the mud. All the while off the board you do the complete opposite. By kissing ass, running damage control, and cunducting new biz deals. With the same people you are supposedly outing.
Like I said, I'm perfectly fine with leaving this thread. I don't care about what the hordes of GFYers think of my rep. So if you want to twist the public's eye of what is happening here. That is fine with me. I'm content knowing what is really happening behind the scenes.
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My take as an outside observer is... I disagree with most or all of what you said here. After re-reading page one of this thread I again get the impression that Shap contacted those webmasters prior to starting this thread. Read his post where he says that a few of them agreed to fix/change a few things, while others argued with him and refused to cooperate with his rules.
In light of that, this thread is completely understandable in my view. He could have just gone ahead and killed their accounts outright with no chance for a dialogue, right? I'm sure some program owners would have. Seems to me Shap has been for the most part quite reasonable in his tone here, even when responding to those who obviously have a skewed and boneheaded attitude.
Shap isn't the first program owner to demand that his stuff appear on affiliate pages alone with no other sponsors. I can think of a few that have had this same rule in place for over 7 years in their TOS.
Lastly, I don't see it as Shap trying to trash anyone's name here. However, the fact is and has always been that when you flout the rules of a program and that program asks you to make a few changes and you flat out refuse to cooperate, you run the risk of A) being shitcanned, B) getting called out on the boards, or C) both.
Final thought: Affiliates need to either follow the rules of the programs they choose to promote, or find other programs to promote that don't mine having their rules broken (or ones that don't have such rules).
Btw, I'm not affiliated with Shap's program in any way.
Cheers. :D