icoforums.net looks like it is back up and running again but from what I am reading they are not rewarding those that were the first to their site. I have never heard of a site that pays affiliates basically in reverse. I am going through the forum and I literally can understand like 10% of what is written on the site. Looking further into it, the people that you can understand are the ones complaining they are getting skipped over for payment or are being paid less but have been there longer. To me it seems like they are a little lenient with the language barrier issue on the site. I'm glad I passed over that headache. If payments for the first members aren't corrected and quickly, I would stay FAR away from this site because something seems way off.
I can't really disagree or agree on the fact that affiliates are being paid in reverse, since we do not have any referral incentives there.
I could say that I'm one of the pioneer users on the site and one of the first few folks who got paid 0.50 ethereum for the first 100 posts. However the new rates that was imposed like 4 or 5 days ago which is 1 ethereum for 1000 post seems to agitate some of the older members and some of them demanded if we can get the same rate as others.
Realistically speaking yes I wish and hope that I can also get the same rate as the newer members so I also asked them from time to time about it but it can't be helped though if the owner/moderators don't want (I haven't got an straight answer from them yet). As right now their team is increasing like they added few more moderators on the forum and possibly reopening the contest. I just got paid as well for the ICO reviews that I made a week ago which was quite late due to some issues with the management that most of the members knew about.
I just don't really want to complain that much, since when I initially signed up on the forum I know that the rates would be 0.50 eth per 100 posts which I already received. I also received any pending payments that I had for the reviews and promotion from the forum.
I'm not sure though what do you mean by not rewarding those that were first to their site, since we "were" rewarded before, though the rates are "half" than what a new member - like 4 days ago - had earned from the forum. And that's the only difference between the new and old members of the site.
PS: I'm still hoping that most of the older members of the forum, like me, will get some kind of token from the owner.