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Pay a fixed amount every month to a third party that redistribute money to all the articles that you "liked" with a button.
by Rexxar 11y ago
Pay a fixed amount every month to a third party that redistribute money to all the articles that you "liked" with a button.
- sandebert 11y agoThat's the model of Flattr. I have no idea how successful they are though. https://flattr.com https://flattr.com
- icebraining 11y agoI have a Flattr account, but I only use it for regular contributions to a couple of open source projects, since I never see a button anywhere.
- petercooper 11y agoBeing in the content game, it's because it's totally not worth littering pages for the 5 cents a month it'd make. I'm hyperbolizing, but even if it were $100/month, it wouldn't be worth the space. What this space needs is someone with deep pockets to subsidize the publisher growth until the critical mass of users is reached.
- dave2000 11y agoMicropayments have been the obvious - to me - solution for this problem since I got on the internet in 1997. Still never seen it employed anywhere. Yes, heard of flattr. Never seen a single site that uses it.
- peteretep 11y agoI feel like unless it's opt-out per article, you'll forget to click often enough that the price of clicking will have to be high