User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Introducing Affiliate Marketing/@comment-26958589-20200910175358

Our Wiki pertains to a fandom of a (now cancelled) show, so merch sold is unlikely to be relevant to us, and that topic attracts a lot of fairly young users. Some of the merch that I can imagine being represented would surely be for a far older target market; I'm not sure how I feel about our site being used to market pretty irrelevant content that could be inappropriate for our average kind of viewer.

I'm concerned about the fact it might look as if we're (as in, me and my other admins) giving a seal of approval/thumbs up to whatever is being sold. This... feels a bit like selling merch in such a way where it benefits from looking associated with a Wiki even when it has nothing to do with that Wiki in question and that Wiki in question has not been asked if they can approve or opt out. Like, as if every YouTuber had a compulsory link to a YouTube merch store which sold merch for lots of other YouTubers (but not them), despite some being "problematic" or contrary to what that individual YouTuber wants to promote.

I'm definitely in support of the idea in theory -- I understand the need to diversify your income -- but I'm definitely worried about the execution. Could it be made opt out? Or only posted on Wikis where the content sold is relevant? Or could the link be displayed in a way which doesn't make it appear associated with that specific Wiki? I'm not sure.