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I believe the somethingawful forums involve a cost to participate, something like a one time $10 fee that was designed to remove low content or negative content
by antishatter 9y ago
I believe the somethingawful forums involve a cost to participate, something like a one time $10 fee that was designed to remove low content or negative content participators. Might be an interesting case study of your hypothesis.
- trentmb 9y agoSee other comments about metafilter.
- Analemma_ 9y agoUnfortunately, while this works, it does not align with the goals of the companies running these forums-- to get as big as possible, to get the biggest valuation and/or slice of advertising dollars as they can. Even small monetary barriers to entry decrease participation substantially, and that's just not acceptable. This is why I'm quite pessimistic about the current situation: the current in-vogue business model of surveillance/advertising capitalism demands massive size beyond what can be moderated, and thus makes this problem inevitable. And it only gets worse when the most toxic users are the most profitable, viz. Twitter's refusal to ban Donald, even though by any reasonable interpretation of their TOS, he breaks it every other day.
- etblg 9y agoWorked, but not 100%. Many people were still willing to pay 10$ over and over and over again, for whatever reason, to reregister and keep posting (badly) just to get banned again.
- ddingus 9y agoTen bucks as ante for the entertainment? Cheap, if you ask me.
- heed 9y agoMetafilter does this as well. A one-time payment to post along with heavy moderation will remove/keep away most of the toxicity.
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