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RE: SteemIT Monetisation Without Ads - Learning From Pinterest
I, for one, am strongly against affiliate links. It will make it seem fishy for one, as you said. And a social network needs none of that. You are already encouraged by free money, what more do you want?
I think there's a lot to discuss this, but affiliate links seems an outdated model that just isn't a good fit for a futuristic thing like steemit.
People link to products already (from reviews), their own authored books on amazon etc. Why not get revenue in the process from it?
Skimlinks automatically converts a normal link to an affiliate one, we don't have to manually do anything.
There is no such thing as free money though. At Imo, steemit should find a way to allow content creators to allow ads, the profit from them would be then split using the algorithm in place for voting. This way steem is backed up by more than just new people buying into steem.