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Are you familiar with metafilter.com and their moderation model? They charge a one time $5 membership to join, and it's heavily moderated, and they don't toler
by empath75 8y ago
Are you familiar with metafilter.com and their moderation model?
They charge a one time $5 membership to join, and it's heavily moderated, and they don't tolerate trolls or jerks very long before banning them and returning their money. They're a small scale site, and have a handful of moderators, but requiring someone to lay out actual cash to post seems to deter a lot of the behavior you see at reddit where anybody can create as many sockpuppets as they want with no problem.
- pjc50 8y agoI thought they kept the money from banned people? Surely that's the point?
- Maybestring 8y agoThat's how SomethingAwful worked as well. While money isn't an equitable solution, and it gives the forum a financial incentive to ban users, I think the idea of forcing users to somehow put some skin in the game is a great idea.
- Deimorz 8y agoDefinitely familiar with it, I used to use Metafilter quite a bit. I think it's an interesting approach, but overall I disagree pretty strongly with requiring people to pay to access the site. That cuts off a huge amount of people that can't justify spending $5 to be able to post. It's great from a perspective of reducing issues, but it also hurts the site and community in a lot of other invisible ways.