Originally Posted by nwflyboy

There are some very obvious, basic truths about this activity that many people fail (or refuse) to grasp:

The more attention that any of this gets, to sooner the banks and airlines and other parties (who are ultimately funding us) notice, or are moved to respond to cut their losses by moving to close it down or at very least make it harder. The more attention things get, the more that clueless noobs without a lick of common sense swarm the existing exploits, which brings both more attention from the banks and makes their losses even more obvious (and action to stem those losses more urgent). The more that people keep their activities "below the radar", the longer things can run.

It's not a coincidence that lots of exposure inevitably leads to opportunities being shut down. It happens over and over again. Has for years. Has recently.

The companies funding all of this are not run by morons at every level. They take action when they feel they need to. When articles like this go mainstream, when bloggers openly mock them, when people boast online that they have been playing these companies for suckers and here's how you can too, that's when they move to close off opportunities. The death of nearly every opportunity over the past 12 months is a direct result of that.

Why would anyone expect this not to be the case?