emonrad87: his email to me after banning for pm spam:

[VoraciousReader]

Anyone who wants to see one of these "helpful" PMs, there is one posted here.

If you follow the URL, it is an affiliate site where you choose the site you want to play at, click on the link and enroll.

It looks like his criterion for sending them is being a relatively new poster posting a strategy question. I think this is outside of what should be considered allowable.

[AngryCola]

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Anyone who wants to see one of these "helpful" PMs, there is one posted here.

If you follow the URL, it is an affiliate site where you choose the site you want to play at, click on the link and enroll.

It looks like his criterion for sending them is being a relatively new poster posting a strategy question. I think this is outside of what should be considered allowable.

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Yeah, this looks to me like a barely disguised affiliate site. It's just using the angle of a 'school' to get people to register under their trackers.

I have no doubt that emonrad had one goal in mind when sending those PMs: Money.

[B Dids]

Yup- if that's the message, that's an instaban, although there's no adds at all on their site. Which makes their solicitation even sillier.

[Mat Sklansky]

I'm giving him one more chance.

[AngryCola]

Here's a bit more info. from the site:

This page explains in very clear terms what they "get" out of this:

"What does NWPS get out of the program?
The bonus code we’ll give you corresponds with an affiliate account we have with your poker site of choice. In return for sending a new player to their site, we receive a small portion of the rake they generate. However, due to the affiliate payment structure, it’s difficult for us to make money with losing players on our affiliate account."

All of their bonus code stuff is on this page.