well put Greenguy.

I promote them on my LL and never used any of there stuff and if they close my account or other honest webmasters and they do almost owe me a payout I'll ban them on my LL and WTF if your not a gold aff dont kick a webmaster off there program just dont issue them free content - kinda a dumb statement...And you dont want to see me at a porn show and run into sponsors that kept my money or fucked me...

I would imagine there will be more than a few "interesting" face to face discussions between sponsors and affiliates at Internext in August.

If you read that it says "anyone who is not a Gold Affiliate and is promoting our sites that contain our explicit content". So if you are jsut linking to them then you should be fine. Though I would contact their rep to be sure that is the case.

Actually, the full quote reads:
You are hereby noticed that due to the stringent requirements of the new regulations going into effect on June 23rd, anyone who is not a “Gold Affiliate” and is promoting our sites that contain our explicit content will have their account closed.

The way this is written, they're not talking about "promoting with free content", they're talking about "promoting sites that contain explicit content." (which would be all of them). Probably just VERY poorly worded, so I sent an email to Danielle to see what the deal is.

Cancelling accounts on people who don't use any of their content because they're not "Gold" affiliates just seems like horribly poor business to me, so I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt until I hear back.

If they meant what I think they did instead of what they put in the newsletter, they're just doing the same thing everyone with sense is doing...no sweat. If they meant exactly what they put in the newsletter, I'm with plateman :)

I'm waiting on hearing whether or not I'm worth gold to them. They are the first sponsor I signed up with, I have a domain dedicated to their sites (full of their hardcore free content), many NA free sites, so I'm anxious to know whether or not I'm gonna lose a chunk of my work. It's been a year and now I'm benefitting from good conversions and re-occurings so I don't want to have to drop them. I was very happy up until now. I would like to keep working with their sites.

Saw this posted on another board and they are making changes. If you want to be a Gold member you don't have to be some major player just e-mail them. They want webmasters who are serious about promoting them, not some 2 hit a day webmaster downloading more content then they use. If you are not a gold member then you can still use the FHG that is on their servers. Not sure how they will work the hardcore banners since 90% have hardcore images.

I do really good with NA and hope to do even better!

yea, read the whole thing in GG's other post of sponsor emails it's not as bad as that paragraph quoted made it sound. i have a lot of sponsors going to send me ID's cuz i know them for awhile, but they are not going to give them to everyone that just signed up last week, i can see that. but everyone can still use fhg's etc

The entire message reads as follows:

I think some things were left out in the other peoples quotes. If you are gold, then you can promote their explicit content. Otherwise, everyone else can only promote softcore. If you aren't gold and promote explicit content, then they will cancel your account. It is pretty self explanatory.

I haven't made shit with them, so it doesn't really matter to me, but I see this screwing their business, because lets face it, softcore doesn't sell nearly as well as hardcore, and if the majority of your clients can only sell softcore, then you are pretty much fucked!

Danielle has always been pretty straight up and posts over here so maybe when you email on the gold status mention you are a GG&J board member.. maybe that will be an additional 'key' to opening those golden gates er doors..

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