beware of closing down the content.

beware of closing down the content.

Posted Jul 31, 2002 16:19 UTC (Wed) by pspinler (subscriber, #2922)
In reply to: beware of closing down the content. by Deno
Parent article: LWN status update

> If you really consider closing down the content in order to get
> more $$, do the following:
>
> * Big friendly "Doomsmeter" on the front page
> * Site is open for everyone as long as the "doomsmeter remains in
> the good shape.
> * Site is open only for subscribers if the "doomsmeter" is in the
> red zone.
> * When the site is closed for non-subscribers, they discover a
> note explaining what's going on, how much money is missing,
> etc. instead of content.

I like this option a lot. This seems like a really adoptation of the public radio/television pledge model to the net. Please consider something like this.

-- Pat

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