The suggestion seems to be that AEBN has chosen to let more affiliates have a taste of the pie of sponsor cash, whether they add new members or not. However, as a webmaster who adds members, if your slice of the pie gets TOO small you may decide to stop baking, shut the kitchen permanently and eat elsewhere. That means there is no pie in the kitchen for anyone

Returning to Badpuppy. No doubt they had good business reasons for doing what they did. But did they foresee all the consequences? They said at the time that they wanted webcammers to bring in more traffic from outside (so that Badpuppy would benefit). But in fact quite a few of the webcammers seemed to give up and move onto other things.