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Originally Posted by robwod
And the bold part is my point. Why would anyone who claims to be in business, and certainly a professional, not conduct their own quality control testing and auditing? Why should the health of your revenues be the responsibility of another webmaster? I agree that what Lucas is doing is generous and, to a point, valuable for others. But I certainly do not see any upside for him personally.
And therein is my entire reasoning. Lucas takes this upon himself, for the betterment of his peers, and risks entirely alienating himself from some programs. There is little gain to be had for him personally in doing so. What he is doing is something that every serious businessman should be doing themselves -- conducting their own audits. But very often it seems like several people on GFY expect others to do the leg work and then jump on a bandwagon with no first hand knowledge themselves.
I just think that revenues are your own responsibility and, thus, you should absolutely have an internal auditing system in place for your business, including your affiliate links. I know for myself, we audit our links regularly to stay on top of any abnormalities.
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While I agree someone shouldn't run to GFY and start bitching and complaining without contacting the offending party in question first - something I mistakenly did when I was a newb - this is not the case with Lucas/Teencat. He contacted RUC, he DID what you are exoriating him for NOT doing: he contacted the Sponser.
Upon hearing crickets he decided to do this test join project and post results. (BTW: whatever his results they are but another piece of data, not the end all/be all of information.)
What I am hearing from you (and others, and especially in threads about the actual porn valley porn biz) is an argument for "BROhood". Keep it all in-house, under-wraps, person-to-person and screw the masses. If they ain't BROS then fuck 'em. Maybe that's not your position but that's how it comes across to me.
I think Teencat's test join project has brought in some really useful information for affiliates.