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Re:Show HN: ThingsOnReddit – Products linked to on Reddit by kfriede on Saturday September 23, 2017 @11:13PM (#15323111)
Their wording is "lack of original content." Affiliates is geared towards bloggers who write posts (such as reviews) about linked products. Mine was nowhere close to that. Some sites skate by with alternatives, but I can see how I need to revise in order to comply with the program.

Edit: for example, http://hackernewsbooks.com/ is a site that has been successful with Affiliates. Amazon tends to be a bit moody with that program.

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Re:Show HN: ThingsOnReddit – Products linked to on Reddit by justboxing on Sunday September 24, 2017 @12:49AM (#15323363)
Thanks. You are right. The only difference I see between your site and the hackernewsbooks.com site is that the latter also links to a source, like the comment on HN thread that the book reference was scraped from...
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Re:Show HN: ThingsOnReddit – Products linked to on Reddit by kfriede on Sunday September 24, 2017 @12:33PM (#15325376)
That was on my to-do list for future features. I shipped it very early, and Amazon demonetized me pretty soon after that, so lots of things I wanted to do became useless.
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Re:Show HN: ThingsOnReddit – Products linked to on Reddit by badmin_ on Sunday September 24, 2017 @05:45PM (#15326644)
Have you tried something like skimlinks/viglink? I think you could use either as a medium to amazon associates and still get paid.

I'm using skimlinks with my project and it seems to work pretty well, though it does take a while to get paid.

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Re:Show HN: ThingsOnReddit – Products linked to on Reddit by kfriede on Sunday September 24, 2017 @10:47PM (#15327744)
I'd looked into it as an expansion in the future. Currently my data set was built strictly on Amazon links, so expansion would mean a rebuild/reindex of all reddit posts.
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Re:Show HN: ThingsOnReddit – Products linked to on Reddit by badmin_ on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:59PM (#15333577)
The skimlinks JS code automatically rewrites any links within their affiliate system, including amazon. I only suggested it because you'd only need to copy/paste a few lines of code to rewrite everything.
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