a affiliate who uses my content for evil

justmyopinion · 2004-08-13, 01:49 AM

I can understand Torn being pissed if he thought he was being cheated because he didn't understand skimming.

I can understand Torn being pissed at the exploits the freehost was trying to install.

BUT BEING PISSED DOES NOT GIVE A PERSON THE RIGHT TO ACT ABUSIVELY!

Being pissed does NOT excuse this kind of BAD behaviour:
running to the boards, posting affiliate's private information, sending a C&D to the affiliates host, calling their affiliate "little piss ant", and deleting the affiliates account - Doing all this WITHOUT first giving the affiliate time to respond to the complaint.

Torn's mistakes:

1.
He sent a C&D to his affiliate's host without giving his affiliate time to respond to the complaint.

2.a
He ran to a board to complain about an affiliate without giving his affiliate time to respond to the complaint.
2.b.
He posted his affiliate's whois info and domains on a board called possible cheaters and implied that the affiliate is a cheater whose account he already terminated and telling that he wrote a C&D to the affiliate and to their host.
Again without giving his affiliate time to respond to the complaint.

3.
He posted his affiliate's private email address and home address on a board.
(this isn't much of a tragedy in this case since Kloot had his home address listed in his domains whois info but about 50% of webmasters don't have their home address in their whois information - including Torn aka PO Box 8xxx - and I think Torn wouldn't be happy if I started posting his home address on message boards.)

4.He was insulting and abusive towards his affiliate by calling him "little piss ant".

Do you want to join an affiliate program who treats their affiliates like Torn?

2004-08-13, 01:49 AM	#13
justmyopinion Internet! Is that thing still around? Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 9	I can understand Torn being pissed if he thought he was being cheated because he didn't understand skimming. I can understand Torn being pissed at the exploits the freehost was trying to install. BUT BEING PISSED DOES NOT GIVE A PERSON THE RIGHT TO ACT ABUSIVELY! Being pissed does NOT excuse this kind of BAD behaviour: running to the boards, posting affiliate's private information, sending a C&D to the affiliates host, calling their affiliate "little piss ant", and deleting the affiliates account - Doing all this WITHOUT first giving the affiliate time to respond to the complaint. Torn's mistakes: 1. He sent a C&D to his affiliate's host without giving his affiliate time to respond to the complaint. 2.a He ran to a board to complain about an affiliate without giving his affiliate time to respond to the complaint. 2.b. He posted his affiliate's whois info and domains on a board called possible cheaters and implied that the affiliate is a cheater whose account he already terminated and telling that he wrote a C&D to the affiliate and to their host. Again without giving his affiliate time to respond to the complaint. 3. He posted his affiliate's private email address and home address on a board. (this isn't much of a tragedy in this case since Kloot had his home address listed in his domains whois info but about 50% of webmasters don't have their home address in their whois information - including Torn aka PO Box 8xxx - and I think Torn wouldn't be happy if I started posting his home address on message boards.) 4.He was insulting and abusive towards his affiliate by calling him "little piss ant". Do you want to join an affiliate program who treats their affiliates like Torn?