Affiliates!!! The Good!!! The Bad And The Ugly

[dominique]

It is something I have been tossing around...

[Casinomeister]

It is something I have been tossing around...

And unfortunately, it's an idea that just won't manifest itself. If viable, it would have been done by now. We've had CAP, we've had different flavors of the GPWA. We have AGD, APWC, and a number of smaller webmaster get-togethers. If an organization is to be strong with dedicated staff, it will need to be well funded. So who is going to do the funding?? Members working on a strictly volunteer basis is fraught with complications and potential pitfalls. The aspect of this being a global enterprise is also seeped in problematic situations. If it was a plausible solution, it would have been done by now.

At the moment, this is about the best as we're going to see it. Too bad CAP is flaccid, but the GPWA seems to be well organized and connected, AGD seems to be monitoring terms, APWC is doing their webcasts...and <ahem> there is this place keeping tabs on such. I'm afraid this is about as good as it gets.

[lots0]

And unfortunately, it's an idea that just won't manifest itself. If viable, it would have been done by now. We've had CAP, we've had different flavors of the GPWA. We have AGD, APWC, and a number of smaller webmaster get-togethers. If an organization is to be strong with dedicated staff, it will need to be well funded. So who is going to do the funding?? Members working on a strictly volunteer basis is fraught with complications and potential pitfalls. The aspect of this being a global enterprise is also seeped in problematic situations. If it was a plausible solution, it would have been done by now.

At the moment, this is about the best as we're going to see it. Too bad CAP is flaccid, but the GPWA seems to be well organized and connected, AGD seems to be monitoring terms, APWC is doing their webcasts...and <ahem> there is this place keeping tabs on such. I'm afraid this is about as good as it gets.

The problem is that CAP was not just flaccid it was corrupt, the gpwa while not corrupt has an inherent conflict of interest between affiliates and casinos.

The APCW is owned by gpwa so it has the same conflict of interest problems that the gpwa has.

The AGD (from what I've been told) is run on volunteer basis and is in fact non-profit.

The funding would come like like all professional non-profit organizations from the members dues.

Bryan the problem has ALWAYS been that groups like CAP, gpwa and the APCW have a financial interest that creates a conflict of interest. These groups were NOT created or started to help affiliates, they were started to make the owners of the groups money.

We as a group NEED an organization that we can ALL trust, and that just does not exist right now.