I look at this a couple of different ways personally, there is the one mindset that says yes, we should 'pay it forward' with newer webmasters after all, many of us wouldnt be here today if it werent for help and assistance we got when we first started out but, on the other hand, there is only so much you can do to help someone before it gets to the point of being detrimental to your own business.

A good example of this, a few months ago i had a guy who would hit me up almost daily on ICQ asking for help and advice with his site, he wasnt making sales, he wasnt getting a lot of traffic, he was basically hemmoraging money trying to break in to the business.

After literally WEEKS of telling him what he needed to do, how to build sites, get traffic, choose good banners, buy content, etc he still kept asking me why stuff wasnt working for him... The reason? He didnt do ANYTHING i had suggested he do.

In your instance, i think pointing the affiliate to GWW and letting him learn the ropes from past information that has been posted on the community and also asking specific questions is probably the way i would move forward, purely because of my own recent experience, i really do beleive that new webmasters still think the adult biz is going to make them millions overnight and because of this, a lot of them dont realize that even though we are trying to help them, we have our own businesses to run too.

On the other side of the coin, im actually thinking that the larger affiliate programs need to be mmore active in the adult webmaster community like they used to be 6+ years ago, no sponsors have regular weekly chat sessions anymore, no sponsors have online radio shows designed to educate and inform newer webmasters and affiliates and because of this, i think the intelligence levels of many are being dumbed down by people 'teaching' them what to do who quite frankly, shouldnt be teaching them what to do.

I simply cant imagine anyone hitting a board like GFY as a total newbie and actually making any money in the industry yet, everyone still seems to rely on GFY for business advice and information when they are new to the adult industry.

As with everything, bigger isnt always better, although it is good to look at

Regards,

Lee