Personally your idea is going to end up in the Rogue Pit. I would assume you just posted your thought without much thought.
im glad someone noticed
you can probably tell by the website it was thought up pretty quickly and put out there in about 30 minutes, basically it was just to show people what could be done, as some cant visualise thing until they see it
i was going to add more but im only on chapter 2 of html and css for dummies
thats why i asked for opinions and didnt post any links to aff sites,
of course there would have to be some rules in place to stop anyone posting to there own agenda,
True dat.
Then there's the question of who decides what's rogue. What's the criteria for roguedom? Most of us would agree that anything "Virtual" or from the Gambling Wages stable are so rogue they squeak...yet some of the most, ahem, "respected" affiliates in the industry would promote them to their own mothers. You'd have to be prepared for some serious backlash.
like you said anything from the virtual group, if any affiliate is promoting virtual,cool cat,cirrus,ect, i doubt very much if they didnt know anything about them, the list would be very short,probably 10-20 or so casino;s i bet most of you probably could name them all, i just listed those sites because thats where i hear the most problems comming from, i mean someone like grand prive casino's couldnt be listed there even though they shafted all of there affiliates ive never heard of them shafting players, even though it seems most affiliates have stopped promoting them anyway.
as for the backlash , i expect most of the people doing the backlash were people promoting rogues, if i was scared of being insulted or intimidated by these people making any of these threats i probably wouldnt ever go on the internet or message boards again, water off a ducks back,
I think Swampwitch has hit on most of the problem points here, assuming that the genuine desire would be that such a section were to be objective and fair.
And it is definitely a possibility that there would be some "with an axe to grind" who would seek to manipulate the concept if it were not carefully and consistently supervised.
i would hope that there would be enought people out there that willing to post with enough honesty and integrity to keep it going in the spirit it was meant, i am pretty sure im not the only person who feels this way about affiliates getting away with promoting rogues,
if you get one bad apple in a bunch of 20 im sure the other posters wouldnt stand for it, so they wouldnt be around long enough to start there own agenda,
Instead of a webpage maybe it could be in the form of a forum that is moderated ?,
i did post awhile back here at CM about having a section about evil affiliates, but i could now that see it probaly wouldnt be a good idea as the person doing it would be under attack left right and center from disgruntled affiliates, and i expect they could do alot of damage to someone trying to make a living from having this sort of forum, so they would probably have to have no ties to the online gaming world,
Either way, it looks like a helluva lot of work for someone.
personally i wouldnt have the time to do it all or give it the proper commitment it would need, thats where the idea of having around 10-20 people involved. 20 people giving 30 minutes a week = 10 hours, a task shared is a task halved,i think thats how the saying goes?
it was just an idea, something needs to be done but i doubt it will be, affiliates will still be promoting rogues and keeping them in business in 10 years time,
if anyone has the time and commitment to undertake it , the idea's out there,
although several people agreed with what i said very few people actually spoke up, ever since then my opinion of that site went way down,
