Shit - I gotta jump in & really don't want to.
I know what Jim knows which is what Greg sent him. It has very little to do with the bot. If I, as a program owner, saw the stats & didn't know who Plateman was, I probably would've kicked him out as well. I might have paid him the money that was owed & I might have suggested that he move to revshare insterad of PPS, but his account would have to be changed/adjusted.
Now, knowing Plateman as I do, I'd probably call him up & ask him a few questions about what I saw in the stats let him know what's what & go from there.
<the following applies to everyone>
Everyone has to remember that there are a lot of cheats & scammers out there & with a sponsor paying $25-$35 per sign up, if they see something fishy in the stats (bots, conversions that are too good, very low % of trails to recurring, etc) they have to step in & do something about it.
I've had sponsors change me form PPS to Revshare because they said my conversions from trial to recurring member sucked.
I've had sponsors change me to the "confirmed member" thing on the free trials because very few people were recurring.
I've had a few sponsors tell me to stop using the free trial links or decide to pay me less per sign up because my trials were not converting.
You move on.
Yank the links if you don't agree & go find another sponsor - there's 500 programs out there - you're traffic will not do well with all of them & even if it does, that does not mean the sponsor can justify paying you a flat fee based on what your traffic does after they sign up.
Be With You