I have always wondered if maybe JJ didn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel was dimming and didn’t care to have his name associated with what was to come.
Quite frankly back when he was running things, I always wondered if the poor guy didn’t do everything himself at RB, while his aff managers under him just took advantage of JJ’s good nature and so on … because if I ever wanted to get anything really done at RB, I had to contact JJ, it often took him a while to get back to me, but I tell you right now he always DID get back.
INCLUDING the small novel I wrote him one time where I elaborated to such points (this is way condensed): real people with real families with real needs who are counting on getting treated fairly and have invested their money – thereby meaning their lives, and their family’s lives; on the facts which we agreed upon when we signed up, which includes the promise to always pay us what we have legit earned.
that was about 4 or 6 months before he quit. Perhaps it even had a lot to do with his decision to walk away, whether he consciously knows it or not. I know it would very much bother me to be associated with anything but an honest program. I KNOW what its like on the other side; that we’re not all of us weekend webmasters who have only invested a few hundred bucks into this business. When a person or family invests the kind of serious money it takes to do any kind of legit advertising in this niche; they MUST see as good as return on their investment as possible because it’s going to take a big share of that money for your next month’s ads.
anyway my opinion had been that RB had begun to turn it around again. I assumed that was why my “cap” had been lifted. 
its funny. when I should have been making the big money, … I didn’t. and then when I had all but forsaken them completely, … they turn in outstanding months.
now that I’ve begun showing them some limited exposure; they are begining to fall off ….
what a riddle.