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As to paying for Hacker News, there are several community sites that have a low one-time (non-reimbursable) fee for joining. MetaFilter (http://www.metafilter.
by blinks 18y ago
As to paying for Hacker News, there are several community sites that have a low one-time (non-reimbursable) fee for joining. MetaFilter (http://www.metafilter.com/ http://www.metafilter.com/) costs $5 to join, for example. I feel like it makes the community a little more invested in the content, and is worth it overall.
I think that paying for community membership will become more popular in the very near future.
- pchristensen 18y agoWith all the free stuff, it's sort of anathema to suggest that you should pay to just talk to people on the internet, but as everyday internet users keep getting confronted with their own Eternal September, I agree that paying will become more common.
- jrockway 18y agoI hope reddit starts charging people to post. The "joke accounts" are ruining the site. $5 would kill those in 20 seconds. Then we would just have to delete the non-programming parts of reddit. :)
- marcus 18y agoScience, Gadgets & Cogsci are not bad either.
- slater 18y agoi'm a member at the MeFi too, and agree that even that little fee helps keep the morons out (the odd misguided marketing twit notwithstanding). Want proof? Check this out: http://www.thatsaspicymeatball.com/comments/ http://www.thatsaspicymeatball.com/comments/ Compares the latest MeFi comments with the latest Youtube comments :)