RFC: Proposed comment policy change

Posted Nov 20, 2004 6:23 UTC (Sat) by TwoTimeGrime (guest, #11688)
Parent article: RFC: Proposed comment policy change

If you're not going to allow non-subscribers to post, then also shut off their ability to see the comments. Make it so that you have to be a subscriber to both read and post comments. A private, subscriber only forum if you will.

It's very annoying to see a comment somewhere that you could add to, or correct if it had incorrect information, yet not be able to reply without paying. The fee to subscribe can be a deterrent. While the fee many be modest in places such as the USA, it may be prohibitably expensive in other countries.