Here we go hijacking another thread Colin. I am not attacking anyone, I'm bringing up a valid point that a member here is promoting a rogue site. I have provided evidence of that. You can check for yourself.
Yes, it was well covered last year I promoted a rogue site. I admitted it, I have never denied that fact. I removed the link from CM when I was asked.
Once again, I say respectfully... I no longer webmaster ANY affiliate site. If any site I used to manage is promoting a rogue site, what can I do about it? You have the option of reporting it to the UKGC, ASA just like anyone else.
For clarity, the image provided clearly shows the SB ad on thePOGG is not the front page, but 9 pages down.
**Apologies, this was covered further down, I was eating tea and left this post for a while before coming back to it**
Okay, moving on - you say "any site you used to manage etc" but that's the point, this happened on your watch, not just yesterday. With the knowledge/info you had made available to you regarding bcasino and given your position & responsibilities you listed in that other thread I cannot believe that that site got promoted without your say-so. Either you had the same decision-making clout as the office cleaner in that set-up you described OR you simply decided to ignore the advice given.
You also misrepresented (as well as unwisely posting a private message from Bryan when just referring to the gist would have been enough) that Bryan 'proved' you didn't remove those incriminating images. His PM said nothing of the sort. He was simply being diplomatic and politely asking after the images in a softly-softly manner - you misrepresented his speculation about image host issues as fact.
Upon further investigation, it appears that it's almost certain (but I cannot demonstrate this 100% at this stage until I get the remaining info) that the timing of their removal doesn't match the reasons put forward thus far. You could have cooperated in the spirit of the community by supplying them which could have been instrumental in ensuring this outfit, which can only have been funded by the 1668/JAZ scams, never got near to passing themselves off as legitimate and getting a UK license. I highly doubt, Xenofo host or whatever, you never retained those incendiary images on your PC or device and possibly even still have them.
At this stage you're probably thinking 'this is the moment he'll say you took the wrong path, forgot your ethics'. Nope - that would be unfair. The obtaining of the UGC license by GS/AI was a vital stage in their dodgy enterprise and you could've blown it out of the water when they saw your thread. Because we at CM, between us, have had SEO Black Hat, death threats to kids, hacking threats, DDOS, content skimming, the whole lot from them and their acolytes. So in my opinion, my personal belief only, I reckon you were either coerced or if lucky incentivised to remove what you could - they would know you cannot edit the post away and getting you to ask the admin to do it would simply confirm you were right, but images were the main part and you could 'lose' those.
In my eyes (and I reiterate this is solely MY take on this and not endorsed by anyone else) you made a great spot when starting that thread but to go from the kudos you got there for ethics and community safety right through to actually promoting them is baffling to many and the above is the only logical explanation I can see. If a member has PM'd you in support, I suggest they read the above and understand what these people are all about and then see why the matter is so emotive. No affiliate is perfect, far from it, and it ain't a perfect industry to be as I have discovered like most.
OK, this has been a long post and I started off with a paragraph or two relevant to the thread, typed rather too much addressing one line of your quoted post so it's best I finish with relevance again. It's important to distinguish in these matters between 'CM Rogued' and 'Rogue Casinos'. The two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive - example being SkyVegas who were CM rogued for affiliate treatment IIRC at one time yet we all know that for players there aren't many safer or better and no way would Bryan have sanctioned members for promoting them on their websites. This is a player advocacy forum and they are great as far as players go, right? The term 'rogue' is quite subjective and there are many shithouse casinos scamming players who are the opposite and look after the affiliates (for a while anyway). Then you have some in the middle with a 'rogue term'. It's worth considering the difference.
My keyboard is wearing out and no!
@vinylweatherman hasn't come back either!
