This comes up every time we post a collection from Referly to HN, regardless of it being very relevant to the community here. I think it bears pointing out tha

This comes up every time we post a collection from Referly to HN, regardless of it being very relevant to the community here. I think it bears pointing out that every content site makes money from getting traffic on HN - for us we make money if people purchase products but don't have any ads. For Techcrunch, CNET etc. they primarily make money from ads. Furthermore, most writers don't ever see the proceeds of these ads (they do far better as full time writers). In our case we pass through revenue to our contributors directly (in this case Kevin is a cofounder of Referly so his earnings go to the company). If the argument is that the content is somehow altered because of affiliate links, to guarantee some better payout or something - pretty much ANY movie is covered by affiliate programs these days and payouts are all about the same (even on the front page this article only stands to make ~$10 in commissions). As always, the content has to stand on its own, and we hope that Referly could be a new format for product/list blogging.