Should Chaturbate allow models to post affiliate links to their profile?

[grundy]

Should Chaturbate models be allowed to post their own affiliate links to their chaturbate profile or in cam chat?

Please only affiliates views, just to get a general consensus from chaturbate affiliates and the cam affiliate model in general.

What are your opinions on this issue?

[Flower Power]

The idea of an affiliate program is to bring new customers to a product and credit the rightful person for referring them in commission of sales. Having affiliate links on the sponsors site which the customer is already visiting and then on top of that encouraging customers to create a new account to take away the commission payable to the rightful affiliate is nothing less than affiliate fraud.

So, NO, chaturbate shouldn't allow it.

There are some affiliates successfully getting referrals who have made new accounts linked to models, returned to the rightful affiliate and compensated with the commission earned during the time the member was reregistered linked to a model, but affiliates shouldn't have to do this, it will risk the affiliate's accounts and lead to a breakdown in affiliate/sponsor relationship.

It's not only that, there are non-affiliate referred customers who are creating new accounts linked to a model, that is taking 20% straight from the hand that feeds them.

I live in hope that this unethical practice will be resolved in the near future.

[brian74]

Models use of the affiliate program needs a review to ensure that it remains to be used ethically and without affiliate fraud. You can't have existing members, whether linked to an existing affiliate or not, enticed into creating a new account with the purpose of linking user to model's affiliate account, either that or an effective tracking system in place that can distinguish when existing users creating new accounts as a referral of the model, so that it continues to be linked to the original and rightful affiliate whom referred the user to the site.