Talk:Cassava Enterprises

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[edit] Spam Magnet

User:2005 -- The spam-magnet nature of Cassava's affiliate programs surely deserves mention. This article itself was just vandalized by an affiliate hoping to capture traffic for their account by placing their affiliate information into all of the outgoing URLs. I know of at least one blog which has blocked the specific string 'pacific poker' in comments and trackbacks specifically due to the overwhelming about of spam from affiliates hoping to cash in. Isn't it relevant to the article to mention this? --Stephen Deken 04:10, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I can't imagine what you are thinking here. They have an affiliate program. Some people spam involving it. So? That is the case with any affiliate program where there is money to be made, and certainly not news nor a reason to specifically mention in this article compared to any other. 2005 06:19, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

The reason I had mentioned it at all was to clarify that it is not Cassava doing the spamming, but third-party affiliates. I've had to clarify that in the past for people who thought that Cassava was directly encouraging people to spam. --Stephen Deken 14:59, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

But again there is nothing unique about the situation. It's like saying they breathe. Any affiliate program has affiliates spamming. 2005 20:42, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Not to belabor the point, but then why is there vastly less spam for, say, Amazon.com's affiliate program? --Stephen Deken 01:10, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

It is belaboring the point, but Amazon's program has massive amounts of spam and "near spam" as all those junk copied datafeed sites are spam of a kind. More to answer your question though, there is more money in gambling affliate programs by far so of course there is more spam. 2005 07:47, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Good enough for me. Thanks. --Stephen Deken 13:20, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Adware nature

Why is there no mention in this article about their underhand advertising methods. For example - this company has pop-ups on untrustworthy sites, all of their websites try to get users to download software, the website makes your browser window full screen and users cannot go back out of their websites without another pop up window. Someone needs to write something about their underhand behaviour.

All that is common on the Internet, and hardly more than extreme trivia. The article isn't about the html on their websites. (And what does any of this have to do with "adware"?) 2005 19:39, 30 July 2006 (UTC)