frup - 10:01 pm on Dec 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

>Affiliates are slaves, a sponsor is their master.
>Too blunt?

No, just silly. You are/were just a low-level unsuccessful affiliate. If you have quality traffic you command the terms, people will jump through hoops for you like you wouldn't believe. But you have to earn that position.

This thread is describing a very real phenomenon. It's not simple and there's no obvious "correct" result. Google is making a valiant effort to deal with it in the test datacenter, with some good and not-so-good results. We'll see how it comes out in the end.\

300m, it is not a Google glitch to show affiliate IDs. It is a legitimate expression of Google's algorithm and has been for a long time. Same on MSN and Yahoo, don't you know. That may change, but calling it a glitch is missing the point of how Google works.