We’re actually paying for most of our freerolls ourselves and although players sign up they’re a fraction of the masses of leechers that sign up as well.
I did contact two affiliate programs they’re using (should I name them?). Here are their replies:
a. I sat down with the poker team earlier and discussed this issue and we are of the same opinion as yourself that this site is one that we should distance ourselves from. I am going to talk to my director about it this afternoon and when I have his feedback I will let you know what our decision is. (that’s from 7 days ago)
b. I understand your concerns and like I did state before that I have stopped him from doing this with our site, and other sites that he promotes need to deal with this affiliate direct and try to get him to stop this. I have done my part that has stopped all such actions on my site and will continue to do so with all affiliates. In regards to stopping affiliation with him, well we made the deal and he is obeying all agreements made between us, so therefore we have no grounds onto which to terminate the contract.
These are lame replies. I expect affiliate programs to be proactive as they know exactly who they’re dealing with here and what those sites do to draw traffic.