RFC: Proposed comment policy change

RFC: Proposed comment policy change

Posted Nov 20, 2004 1:00 UTC (Sat) by robla (subscriber, #424)
Parent article: RFC: Proposed comment policy change

I'm a longtime subscriber, and like the idea of providing others further motivation to subscribe. But I like the idea of *some* non-subscribers being able to post.

How's this for an option: As a perk of being a subscriber, you get the benefit of giving up to three non-subscribers posting access, where "three" is an arbitrarily small number so that subscribers are careful about choosing their friends. That way, if there's some VIP or friend that a subscriber would like to encourage to be part of the conversation, they can do that.

In thinking about it a bit, I'm not sure that a limit is entirely necessary, since subscribers have little motivation to pig up the place. Perhaps if the sponsor is displayed by the guest username, that would provide an incentive for the subscriber to censor their "friend".

Rob

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