NetWork Marketing Lifestyles published an article last month on the Boom. Today there are probably over 6 million Multi-Affiliates in the United States. Yes, if some part of their compensation plan allows a person who has not paid anything to join or paid money to collect commissions. Yes it could be by changing to a bifurcated compensation plan and having Affiliates in one category and distributors in another. Affiliates could operate only in one part of the compensation plan designed for them.
Distributors can work in both.
We have enough trouble with NetWorkers spamming and hurting our reputation. The great thing about the Multi-Affiliate boom is that people are going to learn about the power of building residual incomes via harnessing the efforts of others.