I a few years you may will remember my words: This kind of term is the new scheme, the muzzle-term and it will be "standard". Believe me that.
2. AFFILIATE OBLIGATIONS
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2.3 Affiliate Program participation
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You will ensure that all activities taken by you under the Affiliate Agreement will be in Company’s best interest and will in no way harm the Company’s reputation or goodwill.
"all activities taken by you under the Affiliate Agreement will [...] in no way harm the Company’s reputation"
From the legal point of view this includes public complaints about missing payments, fraud, de-tagging players whatsoever, you know, the usual things.
Did I say, that something is wrong with that minimum payout term?
No, as I wrote, it's simply for information purposes.
When I publish the useful minimum payout terms from programs, I will check from now on, I have to be fair and balanced. That means, I will not refuse to report also favorable or acceptable minimum payout terms from any programs.
The minimum payout is an option for every program to collect points or to lose some.
As things stand today, in this case 0.005 BTC are round about 200 Euro. For small webmasters this information can be useful to avoid disappointing suprises when they are waiting for their payments.
Transparency and information = No disappointments = No anger and so no outrage on forums with respect to minimum payouts.