Overall, i was suprised that any blogger would go talk to the credit card companies. Seriously, there is no gain for the "readers" when this happens. All it does is to further expose our playbook. Bloggers didn't need to go to the CC companies to find out that people who sign up for cards just for the bonus are not profitable. Common sense would have told you that. And any discuss on zombie links is definately counter productive to the people in the game. No good is going to come out of it
I'm guessing the cc companies wanted to pump the bloggers for info, which I see they did nicely. Also, I'd be interested in know how much discussion was geared towards their affliates programs, which I'm guess was a lot more then was let on.