I've seen auto Amazon affiliate links on stack exchange sites and always thought it was a brilliant and non-bothersome way to monetize user generated content. W

I've seen auto Amazon affiliate links on stack exchange sites and always thought it was a brilliant and non-bothersome way to monetize user generated content. With all this Pinterest/Skimlinks attention I realized that some people apparently don't think this is so brilliant, so I wondered what SE users thought about it and found this: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26964/auto-inserting-stack-overflow-affiliate-into-all-amazon-book-links http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26964/auto-inserting... Looks like Jeff didn't "ask permission" beforehand but was explicit and open about the decision, and seemed to get a pretty positive reaction.