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Originally Posted by Webzcas
Are there any plans afoot from the GPWA, to drop sponsorship and actually have a proper certified program system in place. Whereby, those affiliate programs which advertise on the GPWA and subsequently have their own forums here, have to meet a specified minimum criteria standard - before being allowed coverage by the GPWA.
Personally I feel this would add weight to the GPWA and would ensure less knowledgable new webmasters entering the industry do not sign up with some of the less reputable affiliate programs.
Just scanning the list of sponsors which the GPWA currently carries, there are several I as a webmaster or indeed a player would not touch with a bargepole.
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I would like to do that. But in the meantime, I felt is was really important to identify sponsor programs as really just being sponsor programs rather than being certified. That is all they have ever been here and on other forums insofar as I have been able to tell. There are others out there who list programs as being "certified" simply because they provide funding, and I've absolutely refused to use that label since it is misleading.
However, even without a formal certification program, I still have no interest in having "sponsors" that don't act professionally. The agreement we have with affiliate program sponsors requires that they comply with a code of conduct, which we may revise from time to time, and if they fail to do so then they would be in breach of their sponsorship. If you think a program is not operated in an honorable fashion, then you should document your reasons for feeling so in the affiliate program forum in a sound and rational fashion. That way other webmasters can see what you think and why, and can use that information to decide whether the program deserves their involvement. My only request about such posts is that they be presented in such a way that the program can fix the problem and be seen as doing that, or seen as not fixing the problem and be recognized as not fixing it by other forum participants. So please make such posts in the form of the statement of an issue and a request for a response rather than just in the form of a rant.
Thanks,
Michael