Thanks Irv

I have reformatted the text in the blog

Hi Paul

I'm not trying to slander WA or anything; it's just something that I realised.

I have a good head for numbers, and when I first joined WA, I thought that the site comment feature was an excellent feature (and still do). It keeps activity flowing on people's articles - for every two comments given, one is received, which is great for new sites that would not see activity otherwise.

As mentioned, I have a good head for numbers, and I knew something wasn't sitting right with the features, it just took me a while to realise what the problem was.

The comment section CANNOT exist without some people either buying credits or exchanging their referral credits, which is done via the "Credit Dashboard" section.

If everyone that purchases credits just stopped buying credits, then the amount of people submitting their articles for comments would soon dry up, and there wouldn't be any articles left to comment on.

Put 2 credits into the system, and only one comes out the other end, which means the amount of (unpaid) credits in circulation is continuously reducing.

I hope this explains it a bit better?

Yes, it does, Josh.
The way you have explained it, it seems like a 'Ponzi' type of situation meaning not enough coming in to support what is going out.

In your opinion, however, is this an integral part of the overall program, and if so, so do you have any recommendations to correct this possible negatively perceived aspect?

Paul.

Well, I know that Carson is the computer programmer of the operation, and I'm confident that he and Kyle have mulled this one over. The only viable solution from their end would be to offer ten free credits every so often to say, the top 200, or anyone that has gone premium in the last month, or something to that effect.

I've only been here a month, so I couldn't say if that is the done thing or not. You've been here three months, have you ever heard of free credits being issued?

I have not heard of 'free credits' being offered, but I too am too new here to make any assumptions or comments.

I'm still confused about 'purchasing credits' for 'comments.'

I'm just getting to that part of the Course. Why would I purchase credits, when I can earn those same credits by reviewing member sites and leaving comments.

Yes, I understand that reviewing two sites is only going to give back only one review on my site, but I think that this is all part of the learning process.

Chances are that I am going to learn more by reviewing other people's sites in an objective manner so that I can bring back some value to mine.

I'm not sure what I am missing here. Am I losing out on an income opportunity?

Paul.

Yes, I agree that the comments and review feature is awesome for soaking up the knowledge and ideas that other people have presented. I've read some really, great helpful articles this way.

BUT

Eventually (hopefully), you, I, and others will become that successful with affiliate marketing that we just simply won't have the time to be leaving comments everywhere to earn credits then. It's a time-consuming process, so I am fairly confident that the successful WA's just only purchase the credits.

It's these "buyers" that are keeping the comment and review feature alive! I'd love to know what Kyle and Carson's thoughts are on the matter

That's true, BUT, you would be sacrificing your payout, so in essence, you would still be paying for them that way. That would be instead of receiving the cash!

I didn't know you can receive credits when a referral buys a domain name, though...

Additionally, don't you have to have a premium referral rate of 5% to be able to cash out on those credits (in addition to having amassed 40 credits)?