Well we fear reprisals much more often and from a much more vulnerable position.
Yet we do it. (speak up that is)
1. We cannot police ourselves if we don’t know who to police.
2. We cannot “police ourselves” effectively: period. However we can support the programs. But its up to the programs to protect themselves in this matter. There simply is no other way. So what if the names were released, what is anybody here going to do about it?
Just like we work together to exposure programs that shave, cheat or otherwise have “tracking issues”, the programs must learn to work together in a similar way.
Many, many times I have signed and sent programs very good traffic and seen nothing for my troubles.
That is the risk you take. What should have happened is just like we will put in $200 into a PPC and then if it doesn’t produce, we don’t go back.
It should be the same for the other side of the table. If any program got taken for an extreme amount of money then frankly as I see it they’ve nobody to blame but their own lazy if not totally incompetent people.
When after the first 10 players signed up and not one of them showed any signs of being a quality player, (afore mentioned number should be recalculated according to the expected quality of the traffic, I just picked 10 out of a hat): it should have raised a red flag big enough to see from across the room.
When such happens, its the program’s responsibility to contact the traffic’s origin (that would be the offenders) and tell them they no longer are going to pay them on that sort of basis.