@bb1webs 132125 wrote:
Hi again all,
the Prof is spot on.
the sponsors need to address these issues by freezing accounts.
perhaps also a thread be made on sponsors who won’t act on unethical behavior.
in fact.. i beleive that would gain more effect than just pointing out the bh’ers because they are going to just use different names for whois but I assure you …. any program will allow only so many accounts (though I’m one ot talk of that because I have several partners each of whom we have a separate account at same programs but i have written managers and made them aware of why this is done) …
the thing is … any program willing to do the slightest research will find these out for who and what they are…. the money will always go to the same person or persons and if complaints are made against that person for scraping or other unethical actions …….its not too hard to weed out the bad guys.
these programs will gain support from us …. the majority of affs who ARE ethical and thus gain for their time taken to act upon these matters.
A lot of times you have to be careful of that. For instance, site A is spamming and puts aff banners up. Everyone reports these links. But a lot of times those are innocent affiliates links set as decoys, the juice is simply passed on in other forms (text links or a 301 redirect later in time) to other sites, to other sites, then to the landing page.
So in essence a lot of these spammers also set up a chain of good guys reporting good guys in the process.