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These recommendations are from people I follow, and I'll be gradually adding people one recommendation a time. I couldn't find relevant information on Google for Billy G. Do you mind sharing his profile?
It's Bill Gates
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Personally, I prefer not to use any project that has no way to make money. Life is expensive and time consuming. Projects require at least a little time and money. If that isn't reimbursed in any way, the rest of life will nearly always take precedent at some point. Affiliate links seem like a good way to solve this. I don't see where the conflict of interest lies.
I want myself and others to contribute because of the desire to contribute. I don't want to bring affiliates into the equation lest it brings the wrong incentives (however glimmering it may be). There are other ways to make money.
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Personally, I prefer not to use any project that has no way to make money. Life is expensive and time consuming. Projects require at least a little time and money. If that isn't reimbursed in any way, the rest of life will nearly always take precedent at some point. Affiliate links seem like a good way to solve this. I don't see where the conflict of interest lies.
I wonder at what ROI do we consider an investment something more like philanthropy and at what ROI it is more like capitalism?
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I want myself and others to contribute because of the desire to contribute. I don't want to bring affiliates into the equation lest it brings the wrong incentives (however glimmering it may be). There are other ways to make money.
I'm honestly curious how you envision that affiliate links might create the wrong incentives. There are other ways to make money, but the ones I can think of seem much worse. Advertising sucks and clearly has more wrong incentive problems. Donations are less predictable and disconnected from the usefulness of the site. It seems to me that getting a small cut of "hey this book does look useful, I think I'll buy it!" i…
I used to wait for ads to appear on my Garena client back in the days when I played DOTA because they were so cool (and useful).
If I know my audience, I don't have to compromise privacy to show useful ads clean and neat either (watertight curation is applied here as well).
Good ads are relevant.
On amazon affiliates:
The iron rule of nature is: You get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor — Charlie Munger
I don't want to reward the wrong type of behavior.
Thanks so much for implementing this idea. Very nice idea. Whenever i want to watch a movie its hard to find whats best with imdb or google search because its so generalized. But if a movie is liked by John Carmack, Michael Nielsen, Steve Yegee or Elon Musk then the chance of me liking is really great.
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Thanks for the feedback. I'm building one useful feature a time. No to amazon affiliates.
> No to amazon affiliates. Thanks you! This shows character and actual, proper altruistic intentions. Before reading this, I was not even going to click the link.
> Thanks you! This shows character and actual, proper altruistic intentions.
I hate ads and every other scheme to extort money from people, but I have no problem with affiliate links and do not understand why would someone have a problem with them. Could you, or someone else who thinks like this explain what problem you have with affiliate links?
Thanks.
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I dont use any single recommendation source anymore for this reason. Its always a combination od youtube, amazon recommendations and reviews, reddit, and stackexchange sites.
Great idea. Crowdsourcing is good but averaging out crowdsources of crowdsources is a better way to understand the general sentiment of the population.
I think what recsys really should be trying to target is finding the group most similar to your tastes, and then picking based on the outliers of that group. The goal being to find something within your tastes, but far enough from your normal to be interesting
Recommending based on star personalities preferences, is I think, a way of approaching this idea: why would you want to know what the average item is? You want the best one.
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> No to amazon affiliates. Thanks you! This shows character and actual, proper altruistic intentions. Before reading this, I was not even going to click the link.
>> No to amazon affiliates. > Thanks you! This shows character and actual, proper altruistic intentions. I hate ads and every other scheme to extort money from people, but I have no problem with affiliate links and do not understand why would someone have a problem with them. Could you, or someone else who thinks like this explain what problem you have with affiliate links? Thanks.
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>> No to amazon affiliates. > Thanks you! This shows character and actual, proper altruistic intentions. I hate ads and every other scheme to extort money from people, but I have no problem with affiliate links and do not understand why would someone have a problem with them. Could you, or someone else who thinks like this explain what problem you have with affiliate links? Thanks.
It tosses in the incentive to start recommending things based on how valuable the affiliate link would be,diluting the value of the recommendations