Regarding the issue of carrying over negative balance, yes CPays was horrible in not making a clear policy. Now this new policy of taking a 5% cut in payout rate and eliminate any carryover is a fair policy. Remember a casino aff program does take a cost hit if they do not carry over negatives, so this is fair and the aff just needs to make a choice. (I myself am so far in the negative that i am unable to make this choice so that is why you will not see them on my sites)
The Black Hat issue and their SEO contests on the other hand I feel are serious issues. I do believe their SEO contest attracts black hatters and is intended to increase their database of BH affiliates. I think if they continue down this path then it is clear that they are not going to change their ways and we should all remove them from our sites as they are actively damaging our industry.
Their T&C’s imply they do not accept BH but they obviously do, once again this is not a hard item for them to identify and to enforce the blockage. Lou I understand your point that they have dug themselves a hole, but THEY dug it themselves. They need to take a look at their traffic and see if they can find a way to manage their traffic back to the good side.
My recommendation if the group is in agreement is to:
1. No more SEO contests unless they can run one which will stop the BH from using their tacticts or eliminate them from the contest.
2. Show that they do not support BH and will take action when this is pointed out to them.
Lou the one point i think that is missing is they do have a large revenue flow coming in because of the amount of players they generated by allowing this greedy behavior to begin with, all those players can still be active and generating.
I say they need to quickly show they are going to run a clean program but there are soooooo many good programs out there we have no need or fear of loosing one that is not good. We should be rewarding the good ones.
Don’t close communication, but let them know in order to work with them we need to see some positive action. I myself have taken them down from the big winners i have had consistantly but even if I did not have this negative I would remove them till I saw they were making steps to put their house in order.
Just my thoughts,
Brian