Kind of off topic, but that's what gets me when people complain about someone posting a referral link. If you like what I've read and the time I took to write the article, either A type in the link yourself and don't use my referral link, or B support the author by simply clicking a link and doing something you would have normally done anyways.

I'd much prefer scrolling past an ad then Steem deciding they are taking 10 - 15% of your author rewards like most other interfaces do. I'd actually prefer ads because most of the those interfaces do it withouth disclosing it to users (at least anywhere that I've seen, but maybe I just clicked accept somwhere withouth reading the "user agreement").