La_Valette - 8:06 pm on Nov 6, 2009 (gmt 0)

Almost as bad is that system is unfairly biased towards super affiliates. A raw number of poor quality violations is used, irrespective of the size of an account.

In my mind this is the single biggest issue with what is going on. If you're a big company advertising for 1000 sites across multiple accounts, with the current system which seems to be 3 strikes and you're out, you're basically guaranteed to be killed because your chances of getting violations is hundreds of times higher than someone promoting just a couple of sites.

I am sure it is not Google's intent to kill off their largest clients. There is a simple fix to all this: make the suspension criterion the number of violations divided by the total number of different websites being advertised across all accounts, not just the number of violations.