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Why not force people to pay to be able to comment?Why not force people to pay to be able to comment?Posted Jul 29, 2010 1:40 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)Parent article: On comment spam
Perhaps LWN could sell two levels of subscription: For some very low amount (let's say $10/year), you get the right to comment. For the full fee, you get the right to comment and also access to subscriber-only content. And if you spam, your account is deleted immediately and there's no refund.
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Why not force people to pay to be able to comment? Posted Jul 29, 2010 1:49 UTC (Thu) by davecb (subscriber, #1574) [Link] You can at least congratulate yourselves that you're going at it in the right way, subsuming both the "transmission" and "reception" One of my Smarter Colleagues[tm] is of the opinion that neither transmission nor reception filtering alone is sufficient, but that both are necessary and sufficient. I don't grok his math, but his arm-waving seems persuasive... And yes, at the current price, I'll subscribe to be able to comment, or have a free account auto-canceled for spamming. --dave
Why not force people to pay to be able to comment? Posted Jul 29, 2010 2:54 UTC (Thu) by vapier (subscriber, #15768) [Link]
i think that's a terrible idea. people should be able to fully participate in the discussions here without needing to pay for the access. walled gardens like that are destined to die, not flourish.
Why not force people to pay to be able to comment? Posted Jul 29, 2010 4:13 UTC (Thu) by jhhaller (subscriber, #56103) [Link]
To a large extent, the non-paid subscribers don't get seen in the discussion because of the week delay between release to paid vs non-paid users, at least for articles available only to paid subscribers initially. While there are a few articles which I may revisit, most are read-once.
Why not force people to pay to be able to comment? Posted Jul 29, 2010 7:43 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
the solution to this is to check the http://lwn.net/Comments/unread page periodically, that way if an old post becomes active again you see the comments to it.
Why not force people to pay to be able to comment? Posted Jul 31, 2010 19:40 UTC (Sat) by vapier (subscriber, #15768) [Link]
... and the only reason i'm here is because i used lwn for a while unpaid, including a few comments
Why not force people to pay to be able to comment? Posted Jul 29, 2010 3:15 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
This would only reduce the value of the site (by losing insightful "guest" comments), and as an effect the number of people who have an interest in subscribing to it.
Not to mention people who do not have credit cards.
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