Originally Posted by AAB

I was doing just fine before I started promoting kinkydollars and will do just fine after I no longer have anything to do with them. That's what was instantly clear to me when, after I enquired why I couldn't log into my account, I was told that my account was banned. Life goes on, they are not the only sponsor in the world.

But seeing how after 6+ years of being their affiliate and 4+ years of promoting them on this specific site they just banned my account after I moved their banners up to the most prominent area of my pages resulting in a bunch of big spenders signing up through my aff code, I felt cheated. So I went ahead and made a few banners which had a text on them explaining what happened and advising my members to cancel their subscription they may have paid for when this ad space had banners promoting the sites.

I knew kinkydollars was a big player and a few cancelled subscription would not disrupt their operation, yet I still felt that it's not right that they should rake money in from people referred to them by me while not even bothering to explain to me why my account was banned.

Look at it this way (this is just an example, actual course of events may have been different):

Let's say you run a website about alternative sexual practises. For the purpose of this example, let's say you have a sub/dom site. It contains videos and photos of voluntary submissive women being abused by voluntary dominant men and a self righteous prick comes to your site, sees women getting abused by men, gets offended and swears to take your site down. Since niche of your site is not illegal in any way, he can't succeed taking it down through legal means so he at least goes through lengths to hurt it in some way. The easiest thing to do is to whine to advertisers to disrupt cash flow to the site.

This is precisely what happened to me. Though in my case, the advertiser decided to side with the whiner and responded by terminating my account without telling me so I continued sending traffic without realizing and when asked why they terminated my account, they did not reply. I didn't want to watch my members support the backstabber, so I was gonna tell them I was backstabbed so they know whom they paid money to. I had banners made, but before posting any of them, I decided to bring it up with GFY cause this board is full of webmasters who struggle with the type of shit I have to go through. Afterall, GFY used to be an "industry board" so having a business related thread, I thought, should be perfectly within the scope of it.

As I said - with or without kinkydollars, my life will be just fine. The same goes for GFY.