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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 4:13 UTC (Thu) by jhhaller (subscriber, #56103)
In reply to: Why not force people to pay to be able to comment? by vapier
Parent article: On comment spam

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.


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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

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