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As an online entrepreneur I am curious as to why you dislike affiliates?

Because it changes the motivation for recommending recommending a product when you're getting paid for it. The perverse incentive structure is why most of Reddit bans them.

In Reddit's case, it means they have an incentive to silently promote posts and comments that have affiliate links because it makes them money.

If a review of a product has affiliate links then I'll immediately distrust the review because it's not possible for me to know whether they actually like the product or because they get paid if they convince people to like it.

I have so many reactions to these thoughts that I hardly know where to start! My first reaction is that this means all sales functions are to not be trusted. Is that accurate for you?

Primarily because when they are done at the post level, meaning, when those that post add them there's a misalignment of incentive in many cases.

In this case however, since the posters aren't putting them in there's no incentive.

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