You might find this hard to believe, but I don't actually know what an "affiliate link" is, and nor do I know the implications of having submitted one, assuming (as I infer from your comment) that this is one. All I did was use the bookmarklet to submit to HN the page I was looking at.

Added in edit: I've just gone to look up and read about affiliate links, but to be completely honest, I really don't have time now to try to decrypt all the crap returned to me by the Google search, and all the pages high on the marketing Ginger Factor. Suffice to say I'm clueless about web marketing/tracking crap, and I really do not have the time now to learn about stuff that's so foreign to me.

Should I delete this and resubmit it? It's possible to edit the title, but not the URL, and I can't add any text to the title because of length restrictions.

What would you propose?

Added in further edit: I've submitted a version without the tracking code - I just hope people see that one so I get the comments I was looking for. Thanks for the responses.