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This has come up before and the explanation was something like:
1) It encourages spam. If these discussions were allowed, it is easy for an affiliate to create account(s) to come into everyone of these discussions and talk about how great and reliable the affiliate is. You could even use two accounts and have one start a thread about "Who is the best rakeback affiliate" and have the other respond to say "Affiliate X is the best".

2) The site wants rakeback affiliates to have to buy classified ads and banner ads in order for people to hear about their services.

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spam is a problem on alot of message boards that have to do with gambling. But the posters here respect a handful of fellow posters. If person x has 5 posts and starts touting, most people will discredit him. but if a veteran poster gives his feelings about a specific site we would all be better for it.

Classified ads and banners would still work and the top notch advertisers will see a boost in revenue. I am sitting here trying to decide which rakeback to use and i dont have a clue how to decide which one is more reputable.

i am a member at a few sports gambling sites and they all have sportsbook advertisers, but the members of the forums are free to give recomendations and critiques of all sportsbooks. By now the top 5 or so are pretty clear based on hundreds of posts (some are advertisers and some arent advertisers). Without them people would still be using corrupt sportsbooks. a site as good as this one should be equally informative to its members.