VideoSlots Affiliates status change at AGD (updated)

[celena]

My simple purpose is, that Miles will not end up as the patsy.

Shall I show you again the Robin Becker Witch Hunt case to demonstrate what can happen to a single INNOCENT person here and on AGD when people don't make differences between a program and their representatives and are not interested in the real truth?

And wasn't it YOU who opened the Robin Becker thread that went into a scandal?

Not a 2nd time!

You can always later, after all these cases, sit back again behind your monitor and smile from your safe place.

Others, INNOCENT people have to fight for their existance!

Perhaps you should switch on your light in the head and think about, that here in the forum before 12. April Miles was the only active representative for Video Slots.

And I really don't care about people who are only interested in their own faith.
You got it?

My simple purpose is, that Miles will not end up as a patsy, because he is completely innocent.

If you care about it or not, I do.

And I also don't care if you like uncomfortable truths about e.g. AGD or not.
What I have described are simple facts.

Leopold

I agree with you for Miles, he's very reactive. He is always there when we have a problem or when we send him a message.
I think a lot of people will agree with me.

[Roulette Zeitung]

"It is completely ridiculous how you compare freedom of speech and the blatant arrogance of this AM, it WAS NOT the purpose to lock his account but a HEADS UP for WHAT he was posting in 2 NEW threads which have been removed FYI."

My last statement, CGC. Then you can have this thread for the attempt to destroy an innocent person.
But I am sure, this attempt is a non-starter.

Examples:

I agree with you for Miles, he's very reactive. He is always there when we have a problem or when we send him a message.
I think a lot of people will agree with me.

I have been working with Miles for a while now and he has always delivered on what he promised and the results have been very positive. There may be problems in the reporting and backend and they seem to be gradually be resolved. Things may not be perfect but I feel they are trying. I was recently told to "wake-up" regarding Videoslots however even with some reporting issues and apparent "transparency" issues I believe they really are trying to resolve them.

I agree with PokerFace.

I can't say much about VideoSlots themselves as I don't know enough about them as I have only recently started working with them, but I have worked with Miles for quite a number of years ( and very nearly employed him once too!) and can definitely say He is a decent and honest person who will do his best to resolve issues that are within his power to do so.

So CGC, when you are talking about freedom of speech ...

YOU are not the judge, what freedom of speech is or not.

Perhaps you should take some minutes for education and read the First Amendment, that is valid for both, GPWA and AGD!

If one requests I quote: "BLOCK MILES", then this is his freedom of speech, but it is also my freedom of speech to declare this as an idiotic statement and insane!

It is also your freedom of speech that you declare my fight for Miles in parts as "ridiculous".
And it's my freedom of speech, to say, how unmasking it is for me, that you not even mentioned his name.
You are writing "AM", because this makes Miles less a human being.
He is reduced to a "function", and it's easier to sell a story to the audience about a "function", not so easy about a human being.

And thank you very much for the official confirming of censorship at AGD!

"he was posting in 2 NEW threads which have been removed"

Emphasis is on "removed"!

Censorship is a sign of weakness, an evidence of incapacity.

Leopold

- END OF TRANSMISSION -

[GCG]

My last statement, CGC. Then you can have this thread for the attempt to destroy an innocent person.
But I am sure, this attempt is a non-starter.

So CGC, when you are talking about freedom of speech ...

YOU are not the judge, what freedom of speech is or not.

AM = affiliate manager RZ = Roulette Zeitung...........etc

You have no clue what was in these 2 posts and your judgement is already there.

[kwblue]

Very interesting read....

I guess I can tell everyone the truth, so that the untruths above to not take hold and seed - LOL.

On the VS post where someone said to block Miles.... I responded something to the effect that I will not block Miles. He is a good guy and with a good company. I have been talking with all parties at VS during this time and there was no problem between AGD and VS despite the status update. Miles, Ali, and myself have been chatting regularly about their status and how to resolve it by increasing transparency and communication. Again - Miles is a VERY good AM... I think most of you realize this. He was thrown into a situation not of his making and things got a little dicey.

On the Miles post - He and VS asked for it's removal. It is archived at AGD and within my email (I get an email on every AGD post and read each one). This was not a 'censorship'. Anyone who knows AGD and me knows that I don't censor anything but spam. I have had a LOT of programs asking me to delete/remove threads, but if it is not STARTED by them - I refuse. Doesn't make me popular with the programs - but it has always been the way AGD (and I) work.

As far as the 'You must post 5 times or your link is not dofollow'... That is simply not true. Signature links are signature links. The way it works at AGD is that we watch each user.. If the user (i.e., new member) is a quality member - not just someone coming in to spam links and provides benefit to the other members of the forum or to themselves by trying to become an affiliate - then we enable their signature link. The signature link is default-Xenforo (our forum software).

The only place where a 5-post takes place is in our Website feature, which is geared TOWARDS active members. This feature was built purposefully for those who are active at AGD. If you have 5 posts - then the SEO benefits become much better in that section for your website. Simple, really, and probably not a whole lot different from other forums in our industry (i.e., here) and in other industries where an active member is 'appreciated' and as a result has a link in a prominent area.


Whew.... I hope that explains it all.

[Roulette Zeitung]

"As far as the 'You must post 5 times or your link is not dofollow'... That is simply not true"

Please quote me correctly!

I wrote: "AGD deactivates your dofollow backlinks when you do not write at least 5 posts every month"

"deactivates"

And here is the proof:


This happens to every member!

A backlink quota!
Hello?!
Your forum is not yours!
It's the forum of your members who writes YOU the content, that your sponsors give YOU money!
I mean the members, who have really something to say.
They write, YOU get paid.
This is all!
The same here at GPWA.
You know the principles of Quid Quo Pro?
In the last years THIS forum improved with many, many things, small details, but for farsighted people this improvements are a gift.

I have never seen a backlink quota in my whole life, was myself moderator and also administrator of several forums.

As an old man I can tell you, the only solution would have been to close that thread in your forum for a couple of days in the moment it was clear, that a good guy can be hit by the bus, that everybody can take a deep breath and is not in danger to lose his face. The right desicion would have been to contact Miles via phone after the lockdown on the very first day to explain him why and why it's good for everyone to close for some days. Then also any kind of self-censorship is not needed later, because there is a reason for this.

The result of this case is - the same as with the shameful Robin Becker indicent - that a thread was opened here by a known troublemaker who obviously has an obsession to see also good guys falling.

It's very easy. If this thing has any negative consequences for Miles, then some can buy enough cakes, cigarettes and red wine to survive the next 3 years in the bunker. And if I have to hire three nurses who will help me to climb on the ship, I will come.

90% of your forum are only negative or sober information.
Where are the individual positive threads to praise people, that are NOT sponsors?

I tried it in your forum: http://www.affiliateguarddog.com/com...industry.7594/

But most people ONLY write negative, 24/7, and in my opinion it's the duty of forum member to open as much positive threads as possible on a regular basis.

And one last thing: "Quality members" ...
We have had here in Germany also the biggest gambling forum for decades.
Then the owner started to put people into different "quality" pockets.
Also old members, who wrote over years, were unable to read what others could read or do what others could do.
Only because the owner decided, who was qualified for what.
Slowly but surely he lost 90% of his active writing members.
The forum owner can say, that he owns the domain name or the software.
But he can never claim, that he owns the posts, because every post is a gift from a real human being and not from an idiot who shall fill the wallets of the owner.
And if I am alone with this opinion, I will stand to this until my death.

So, and now I am finished today with all these "White Knights" that are at the end only lurking for sponsors.
In the meantime, I must say, here at GPWA I see not the slightest problem, because the dominance of GPWA is so big, that they hold 80% if not more of all cards in their hands in this industry and without GPWA most programs never would be know by anyone.

By the way: As long as stolen privacy data from webmasters will be sold and shared on conferences by many programs and representatives as if it is a porn magazine, as long I will never stop to show the audience the truths about this industry.

So, now you can say, that this old idiot from Germany after more than 20 years in this industry has to be transported tomorrow into the mental asylum because he does not know, what he is talking about. This is your freedom of speech, but you would really hurt me with this, because I do not want to live together with Fernanda in the same room.

Leopold

[kwblue]

I'm honestly unsure what most of that rant was about. I don't know this Fernanda or Robin Becker. I only stated my opinion and how I run the forum.

I also mentioned that the 'Website Section' is the only one that requires a post count. And, guess what... you still get a link even if you go post and then go away. But - that was not the intention of that section. It has the same intention as GPWA's 'Most Active Member' (which many, many forums do by the way). I don't know if it is this way today, but GPWA used to post a link to the website of the most active member. But.... when they were NOT the most active member, there was no link. The difference with my method is that there is always a link provided you contribute. Most members have seen this as a 'win-win', but if you do not - that is ok.

And if you disagree with the methodology at AGD - you have a right to refuse to participate. Everyone is ok with that, I think, and no ill-will is attributed.

[MMM]

Your forum is not yours!
It's the forum of your members who writes YOU the content, that your sponsors give YOU money!
I mean the members, who have really something to say.
They write, YOU get paid.
This is all!

Man, are you serious?

Yes, without members there is no forum. But without the forum there wont be any members.
Quota - so what? There are plenty of forums where there is some kind of reward for active members. Same as here. I doubt many of the active members actually care about that.

Last, I very much agree with you point and agree that we affiliates tend to trash AMs and don't really trust or listen when someone actually tries to do something. But how it is Andy's fault. He actually posted few days back asking people to calm down (to tired to look for that post).

And obviously, nothing related to VS is Miles fault since he joined less than 100 days ago. But, in a year from now, if things remain the same, it will be his fault as well unless things change.

Last: I don't know you and don't judge you, but just a from outsider perspective: yourself, in a similar way as Inspiration, tend to be very aggressive and blunt in the way you write/ communicate.

[Roulette Zeitung]

"I'm honestly unsure what most of that rant was about. I don't know this Fernanda or Robin Becker."

Of course, you don't know "this Fernanda":

===> http://tinyurl.com/lzjwq3o

And especially not how you handled information and remarks about "this Fernanda", a proven criminal, right?:

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WARNING - AFFPOWER - Feernanda Carrascal


Guard Dog
"ok, I'm going to have to close this thread due to the inflamatory remarks. Sorry - I can't do much more than this since I am working furiously to pack for my yearly camping trip. Sorry if this offends anyone, but that is how it will go. I will also hide (not delete) the thread before I leave as I don't find this productive as an unattended piece of information which is likely false on at least one side of this coin."

===> http://www.affiliateguarddog.com/com...scammers.7862/

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"I don't know this [...] Robin Becker"

Of course, you don't know "this [...] Robin Becker":

===> http://www.affiliateguarddog.com/com...required.8077/

That leads to this scandal. Guess, who opened the thread:

===> https://www.gpwa.org/forum/gpwa-spon...og-220218.html

Again an innocent person.
By the way: Only a complete idiot would receive "automatic notifications" from a place where only dirt is thrown at her/him. Only because of a phone call by my family she was notified about your crazy ultimatum.

And for the audience: After it was clear, that Robin was completely innocent, no one, I repeat: NO ONE ever apologized to her. No respect, nothing!

You want more?

Leopold

[GCG]

Last: I don't know you and don't judge you, but just a from outsider perspective: yourself, in a similar way as Inspiration, tend to be very aggressive and blunt in the way you write/ communicate.

I do not want to compared with RZ thank you very much.

[Miles_Videoslots]

First thank you to Andy and Agd..we have been removed from Rogue Status.. And will continue to work with Agd and all members here to restore faith in.VS affiliates. To his credit he really went above and beyond what was expected and in no way censored me. I took that decision myself inorder to give us some time to work on getting things resolved.

The issue here was a pure miscommunication and could have been resolved days after the original posts but was handled badly by myself. I was new and just just didn't have all the facts on hand to give accurate answers
Wich Ali has now provided on AGD to all questions our affiliates had.

Second thank you to all for your support RZ. CELENA,HEATHER and anyone else that had my back.

What I did say was honest we will work to resolve the reports and allready have a plan in place to do so and a realistic time frame now to achive this.

We also said that any information affiliates need can be gotten through email or Skype and any deals that affiliates have and are not satisfied with results or earnings can contact there affiliate manager to talk about and negotiate a deal that works for most.

[Roulette Zeitung]

Thank you Miles.
You made your supporters very happy.
And the troublemaker failed (again).
The good guy prevailed, and I do no need to make a long cruise.
Just continue and don't care about the few idiots here in this industry.
They feel strong on the internet but in real life they are total losers.
You embodies everything as the poster girl of a program.
Now the support for you will be stronger than before.
And as you said, the program is no longer rouge.
A lot of fuss about nothing.
I have to laugh.
Once again like so many times in the last years.
One thing is sure: You are the winner in this case!
Wonderful.
Now take a glass of wine, or take the whole bottle, relax and go to sleep earlier today.
I will no longer read here in this thread.
There are enough other stories to follow.
Everythng looks fine now (for you).

Leopold

[GCG]

If it is to any comfort I have no problem that the mods modify the title and remove the Rogue part or even change the title completely.

I am sorry that I have given Miles a hard time but hopefully things will turnaround for him and Videoslots soon.

If I have offended Europartners in the thread RZ is referring or anyone else, I apologize.

Do not expect me to open another gateway to H at this portal again.

[celena]

If it is to any comfort I have no problem that the mods modify the title and remove the Rogue part or even change the title completely.

I am sorry that I have given Miles a hard time but hopefully things will turnaround for him and Videoslots soon.

If I have offended Europartners in the thread RZ is referring or anyone else, I apologize.

Do not expect me to open another gateway to H at this portal again.

All's well That ends well.

Sorry GCG, but that's the principle of forums.
We do not all agree on everything.
Then we speaks. This is what makes a community.

For Miles, It is normal to defend it because it is a very good Manager.

Since Redreturns it is there for me. It's long time

[Anthony]

If it is to any comfort I have no problem that the mods modify the title and remove the Rogue part or even change the title completely.

I am sorry that I have given Miles a hard time but hopefully things will turnaround for him and Videoslots soon.

If I have offended Europartners in the thread RZ is referring or anyone else, I apologize.

Do not expect me to open another gateway to H at this portal again.

I have edited the title of the thread.

[Miles_Videoslots]

Nice Gesture and appreciated Thank you

[Miles_Videoslots]

If it is to any comfort I have no problem that the mods modify the title and remove the Rogue part or even change the title completely.

I am sorry that I have given Miles a hard time but hopefully things will turnaround for him and Videoslots soon.

If I have offended Europartners in the thread RZ is referring or anyone else, I apologize.

Do not expect me to open another gateway to H at this portal again.

Nice Gesture and appreciated Thank you

[alisonbrincat]

Hi All

This is Alison, Head of Affiliates at Videoslots. As promised we have been working very hard within the Videoslots team to make our Affiliate Program more transparent.
Our tech team has been working round the clock to get this breakdown of fees out for affiliates as soon as possible and we promise it will be with you early next week.

You will have - GGR, Jackpot Deductions, Tax, Bank Fees, Admin Fees, Bonuses, Paid Loyalty, NGR and Breakdown of commission available under your accounts.
​​
Deposit and Withdrawals will also be added to the report by August / September update as we are not ready yet. We will try to make it as early as possible.

I would like to thank you all for your patience.

Kind Regards

Alison Brincat

[celena]

Hello,

If you could add payments by Skrill, EcoCard or Neteller, that would be nice.

Thank you

[allfreechips]

Or anything the US can accept....

[celena]

nbhy6

You do not know how to speak?