Verified affiliate programs/representatives

THE Bull

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Since the leading management of WJunction forum (@JR, @Tango, and @M) said that there will be some changes on the forum, I'd like to suggest the first one regarding affiliate representatives.

There is a countless number of affiliate representatives active here, on WJunction, which ease webmasters to receive some 1st-hand support from them. You've recognized a need for sticking out the affiliate representatives with proper rank, but I believe there is also a need for good moderation on those threads (file hosting, image hosting, URL shortener, etc) threads.

Why?

Since I am new to the forum, I've been doing some research on affiliate programs here, and find out that many of them claim that they have several fraud detection methods, and with those in place, they're identifying and banning WJ users for fraudulent activities on their accounts. And that's great, they should protect their business.

But what worries me is that many of those affiliate owners are also doing some unethical activities, and some of them are:

- Banning users due to low-quality traffic, while they're not explicitly mentioning those rules in their ToS, or here, in their advertising thread.
- Falsely advertising affiliate revenue model, by using third-party tools to "shave" actual revenue from their users, while claiming to have none of those tools active (to be precise, picbaron and all affiliated sites with them have those in place, publicly admitting on a local forum, which you may find here, on the first post), and probably others as well. This also is rugged by the "adblock detection algorithm", while insufficient proof is shown that there is any.
- Running away with the webmaster's cash.

While the first two are not reasons to ban affiliate, I believe there should be an option to differentiate fully transparent affiliate programs from unethical ones. And I believe that solution for those would be a "Verified" Badge for the affiliate thread or for the affiliate representative. If affiliate representatives are interested in providing some level of transparency to the moderator here on WJ in order to show all of their members that they're indeed running a clean affiliate model, they can initiate verification with that moderator.

Outcome? Fewer people screaming "scam" or "shaving" to the honest affiliate representatives and recognition to those as well.

I'd like to open a discussion for this, so please let me know if you would like to see something like this on WJ, and also if the staff is interested to implement something like that in the future.

Moocheers! :cow:
 
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I also dont count VPN/Proxy/Servers traffic in my services, it is not worth to pay them.

The same is for Apps, because they scrape the website contents and removes our ads, so we would to inject VAST for it to make up the loss.

And here, i am still operating a Porn video hosting service, but I get a different rank instead. It seems porn video hosting here is different than from general video-/filehosting services.

The major breakthrough came from Themacreator and the Zoom Uploader, because most users use the Zoom uploader and every time, if they see new host in the changelog, they try it out. Wjunction is mostly for SEO pushup, i think.
 
if wjunction is to act as a trusted dealer between the hoster and the user, that will not provide more security. but the next time a hoster dies or runs away with the money, the users will blame wjunction for not preventing it. but that cannot be prevented because wjunction does not have the possibility and the right to examine a provider in detail. Or should providers now also disclose business plans, creditworthiness, cash assets, gold investments, SCHUFA rating, ID scans, curriculum vitae and what else do I know in order to be recognized as a "Verified affiliate"? who believes in something like that in this gray area, also believes in santa claus. or as the German Merkel said: "Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland / The Internet is new territory for us all"
 
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They have some "unwritten" rules where a business plan must be provided to prevent fly by scam hosts
I don't know if the unwritten rule helped as I have not been here long enough
I have tried to find the forum rules but unable to -- informed @JR
 
Trying to instil ethics in an unethical market :shrug:

You can’t have it both ways. The proof is now. The only way to become a leader of a shady gang is to bring fear so detrimental that they dare not. I’ll tell you now that you do not possess that ability, nor do you want that fight. It is beyond your capability.

If you want legit-ness, be legit. It’s that simple.
 
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