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Originally Posted by BV
You say you are never wrong and I can relate to that because I used to be the same way. As I've gotten older I have come to realize how foolish that mindset is.
Do you think your mindset will ever change?
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well, while I'm certainly glad you realized you weren't bright enough to always be right, your situation has nothing to do with mine. I don't speak until I know I'm right. Not assuming, not guessing, not relying on hearsay. I'm always right because I'm very careful in my determinations. will I ever be less careful? no, I won't.
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Originally Posted by BV
You also give the impression that small webmasters that bother you too much are a PITA and really not worth dealing with if they continue to take up too many of your resources. I can agree with that and face the same issues from time to time. It's not an easy issue to deal with sometimes.
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this isn't true. many many small webmasters take up too much of my time. I take care of them all. The people I have no time for are the ones who, while you're busy helping them (and many times teaching them the business) they come to the boards calling you a cheater or questioning your business ability.
THEN, I have no time for you.
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Originally Posted by BV
Do you think Franck is a cheater?
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No.
I know he is.
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I don't think so at all. I've known Franck (Battus) for a long time. (over 6 years) I've never known him to be a cheater. In fact my impression of him has always been the opposite, a hard working, go-getter type of webmaster that is not looking for the "easy way out".
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This is one of the hard facts about the internet. You never REALLY know people. you only have a good impression of frank because of your LIMITED dealings with him. I know him as a cheater because I dealt with him on a different level.
No different than the guy who kills his family and the neighbors say,"he was always a nice guy to me. This is a shock"
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Originally Posted by BV
I'm not familiar with what happened nor have I ever spoken to Franck about this but after reading what you posted in Post 95 of your interview:
Its a simple matter to disprove this lie by looking up the programs in the wayback machine and seeing that in the long life of these programs the terms changed maybe, one, twice tops.
We never gave less than a month's notice and the notice was always via email AND on the stats page.
So you admit too changing your TOS.
So in my mind I picture the scenario of Franck building a page according to your TOS and somewhere down the line you change your rules and make new ones and Franck never went back to edit the page or pages he made to promote your program.
If at the time the page he built was compliant then you changed your rules, how does that make him a cheater? I don't see the logic.
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You don't see the logic because you've never run a program. YOU NEVER EVER WANT TO LOSE A GOOD AFFILIATE. you buy into this whole idea of my identifying someone as a cheater lightly because you have no idea how valuable an affiliate is.
Also, my response to frank was a response to his lie that we "changed the TOS every other week to make people cheaters. This is simply a lie. cheaters lie. I'm sure frank would like everyone to believe that he just didn't change his old pages to comply with the TOS but thats not how you become a cheater. People who had that problem were given a list of their urls that needed changing and then asked to comply. If they had multiple pages and the refering page wasn't in their top top referers, we probably wouldn't notice, much less care.
No, to be marked a cheater, you've got to be cheating. frank is lying about the past. You don't need to lie when you're right.
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Originally Posted by BV
So my last question is this: DO you really think Franck set out to cheat your program, or do you think that all this really just got blown out of proportion because of your mindset of always being right and never being wrong?
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as I've explained above, I'm never wrong and as I've said in the ambush, I never lie.
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Let me also say that I really enjoyed your Ambush and that you have my up most respect as being one of the big Old Skewl players in this industry.
But even Old Skewl Players can be wrong from time to time.
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I can't speak for others.
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I have the same respect for Franck as he has helped me out in the past in dealing with cheaters. In fact one of the cheaters he helped me out with is on your most respected who do you look up to list.
Funny Huh?
Cheers,
BV
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unbelievable is more like it.
please explain how you were cheated and by who and how frank helped you out.
Just so we know you're not a liar.:winkwink:
oh, and I have the utmost respect for you too.