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I (now) understand your intention was to simply share your opinion of the keyboard, I happened to see the post in the same format many other commodity-like product posts take: disguising themselves as a genuine review, but really just exist to peddle a product. Intention can be hard to convey on the internet, and if you meant it as a genuine product endorsement, sorry for misinterpreting you.

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It's ok, no problem.

Actually posting this taught me a pretty good lesson on how hard it is not to be anonymous on the internet. That and I need to drop a 1 liner in the very few posts I have that contain affiliate links.

If I remember correctly, Amazon requires that you disclose that you're an amazon affiliate. Many sites just put a line of text in the footer of the page.

That said, I'm not sure why anyone is too upset at you for this. From my experience running many sites that use affiliate links, I can't imagine you're making any significant income from the affiliate links anyway, not to mention that's obviously not the purpose of this article.

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