Rant about NATs' Sponsors

[Chop Smith]

Originally Posted by Linkster

Chop - did I miss something? We're talking about a sponsor that makes hosted free sites for us to list on our own LLs They send us out new sites everyday

The original question was/is - What is the purpose of sponsors using encoded affiliate code? Of course, the real reason that I rant is because I cannot listed the hfs that those sponsor have made on hfslinks.com

As far as my reply to

...but is'nt harder to steal someone's link code this way

Perhaps I misunderstood stwof. But I think affiliate codes are as much of a secret as most folks' nicks.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by Chop Smith

As far as my reply to Perhaps I misunderstood stwof. But I think affiliate codes are as much of a secret as most folks' nicks.

I've been waiting for someone to steal mine for years. If they have, they suck at making sales.

Back to the orginal question...is the ability to switch from encoded to unencoded now default in NATS, or do sponsors using NATS have to contact the seller in order to have that option added? And if it is openly available to all NATS users, why are there sponsors who don't offer that option to we affiliates?

EDIT: I just decoded my sig link. Ha!

[Thumbler]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I've been waiting for someone to steal mine for years. If they have, they suck at making sales.

Yeah, sorry about that but I'm crap

[GonZo]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I've been waiting for someone to steal mine for years. If they have, they suck at making sales.

Back to the orginal question...is the ability to switch from encoded to unencoded now default in NATS, or do sponsors using NATS have to contact the seller in order to have that option added? And if it is openly available to all NATS users, why are there sponsors who don't offer that option to we affiliates?

EDIT: I just decoded my sig link. Ha!

The versions Ive seen and the one we run was set by default to allow the user to encode or unencode the links.

The NATS we run is a cascade system which includes ccbill as one processor.

The hard scrub bounces back between processors thru the year. NATS allows you to change your primary processor on the fly.

I wont spam the program here but I can tell you Ive been involved with 3 installs of NATS and one install of MPA3.

The cascade is worth the pain in the ass.

[Chop Smith]

Originally Posted by GonZo

The versions Ive seen and the one we run was set by default to allow the user to encode or unencode the links.

Since most sponsors allow the option, I would think NATS version 2.x ships to allow the use of the encode/uncode option set 'on' by default.

Why would a few not allow the affilate the option?

[GonZo]

Originally Posted by Chop Smith

Since most sponsors allow the option, I would think NATS version 2.x ships to allow the use of the encode/uncode option set 'on' by default.

Why would a few not allow the affilate the option?

Some have claimed that they have affiliates that want the link encoded to battle fraud.

Read into that what what you will.

[Chop Smith]

Originally Posted by GonZo

Some have claimed that they have affiliates that want the link encoded to battle fraud.

Now, that is stupid on their part. Sponsors with NATS can offer their affiliates to have it either way - encoded or unencoded They do not have to decide for the masses.

Originally Posted by GonZo

Read into that what what you will.

Since I am a dumb fucker, it would be better for someone knowledgable of the NATS script to tell me.