a affiliate who uses my content for evil

[Jim]

Originally posted by tgpguy
Just my humble opinion, if you run a pay site and Don't want to have your content used on a thumb tgp that skims it is a business decision I can admire in the fact that you are willing to give up a good 35% to 45% of your income potential on principle. All I can say is Bravo and welcome to the cheese line

I can't believe this conversation is even taking place at all. And to think that Torn was on AWI soliciting tgp webmasters to promote his "humble" little site.

Jerked around a bit or not.....TGP's are here to stay and command a sizeable chunk of the total traffic picture........So go ahead and opt out of that corner of the market.......go ahead.......crazier things have been done........like patting yourself on the back because a bunch of linklist guys happen to agree with your position.

Skimming is not your enemy.......the damn "xxx toolbar" is! I hate those damn things and hate it even more when somebody tries to autoinstall one on my machine. I see fewer and fewer sites trying this now.

I agree with you almost 100%. If I was the sponsor in question, I would be happy to let anyone do anything they wanted with content I "gave away". To me...it's just good business. I have had the same feelings since the very beginning and don't think they will ever change.

But, if you look at Torn's first post, you will see that one of the problems is the content was being used" to help install whatever crap he is trying to install." I believe that would be "the damn "xxx toolbar"" that you mention or something just as bad. Would I go out policing my content to make sure it wasn't being used for that...No. But, if I stumbled on someone using my content to install something, I think I would be pissed off. I would have written to the advertiser and asked him to stop. I would not have gotten any host involved until I was sure that didn't work. And I would not have terminated the advertiser's account. But, that's just me. I also believe that if you are going to "give away" content and you have rules about using it, you should make sure they are posted clearly.

Until GreenguyandJim, I did nothing but run and market affiliate programs. I believe that is why my thoughts on this subject differ so much from the other regulars on GreenguyandJim. I have always been about the business of making money for the affiliate program. I don't think you will see sponsors coming out of the woodwork saying they would allow this type of thing. Just as you will not see sponsors saying they allow email spamming. But, most of them do. That's just the way it is.

Torn, you and I should really sit down and talk in Florida