Now seeing as Referback doesn’t carry over negatives I feel I am safe in commenting on this in defense of those who do…
It’s not a matter ok “making the affiliate suffer” but the name of this game is revenue share or aka, a term now long lost in the mists of affiliate marketing, “profit sharing”.
Now when a player takes out a load of cash from a casino as an affiliate you can at that point, from a pure money made vs money paid out perspective, be considered unprofitable.
In the truest sense if the deal is that you receive [x% of the profit] your players bring an affiliate program then with massive winner on your name there is [no profit] and thereby [no commission due]. *see why it had to be a rep who has no negative carryover saying this* 
What is often forgotten is that when the affiliates are making no comm with a legit affiliate program that it means the program itself is not making money from the affiliate.
*Let the lynching begin* :angel: