rogerd - 1:49 pm on Jan 30, 2012 (gmt 0)

I can't count the number of times I've called a company out for spam posting on one of my sites and have them claim, "that wasn't us, it was an affiliate who got carried away."

The fact that affiliates are violating the firm's TOS doesn't exonerate the firm - anything beyond an isolated, very short incident means poor monitoring of affiliate behavior and lax enforcement of the TOS.