[cobblestone]

people like this comment writer will not be representative of the majority of your website's readers

Elsewhere you talked up the benefits of affiliate links, so I find your whole post somewhat ironic.

Further, it's worth noting that affiliate link blogs almost never make it anywhere on HN, /r/programming, or elsewhere. They generally exist on the fringe, existing on the meager search engine traffic, capturing the accidental visitor. Actual empirical reality seems to counter your claims. The only blog of any consequence that actually lowers itself to affiliate links is Marco Arment, and thankfully he confines that to standalone "review" type posts.