Affiliate links will encourage people to invest more of their time in the platform
Yes. @kaylinart
AdSense enables monetization of a web page, blog post till the end of AdSense.
Steemit enables a week's monetization.
The affiliate link may give a Steemit post some extra monetisation legs.
With or without affiliate links, Steemit has both spam & scraped content. Spam is bad for UX, scraped content kills SEO. Steemit needs more than flags & @cheetah till Steemit becomes its own universe like Facebook or even LinkedIn, where ranking on Yandex, Baidu or Google is not that important.

More than spam, with the porn content on Steemit ramping up, will any sane parent encourage their kids to blog on Steemit?
I've set my account to hide nsfw content. I recommend others do the same.
Yes, @cybercranium
That's the way to go.
I did the same.
wow, hadn't thought of that.
As a parent, I think there is a high risk having my child blog on Steemit or even watching vids on DTube. For now my daughter isn’t allowed on DTube. I’ve searched some innocent things on there and came up with some...well, you know what I mean, content.
The internet is the last place that protects a child's innocence. @cluelessmamad
With no regulation, @Steemit is potentially the ultimate free for all.
there's porn here?
At least via some @DTube NSFW videos: yes. @archytus