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I'd like a reddit-like site that is more exclusive, it filters out the non-serious users with a yearly subscription fee of say $100.

tmpz22 8y ago
Subscription filters might also filter out un-employed content producers who have free time to produce the quality content in the first place.
curiousgal 8y ago
Metafilter started with premise but it grew into something so obnoxious imo.
heckanoobs 8y ago
I've made reddit more enjoyable in the past by using plugins that auto collapse comments past depth 1 or 2. On avg, conversation devolves past that point. I've since quit Reddit but comments here have convinced me to take a second look. I think this time around I will put even more filters in place, like no subreddits with over 10k subs, and some way to hide everyone's karma count including my own. I guess what I'm trying to say is maybe you and I don't need a pay wall to filter, we just need an opinionated browser plugin (or easy way to share settings in RES)
empath75 8y ago
https://tildes.net/ https://tildes.net/
- thanatropism 8y ago
  That's invite-only. Got any?
rsync 8y ago
"I'd like a reddit-like site that is more exclusive, it filters out the non-serious users with a yearly subscription fee of say $100." This exists: https://www.metafilter.com/ https://www.metafilter.com/ The fee is $5 which turns out to be an insurmountable barrier for just about everyone. I personally like the site very much.
- GSimon 8y ago
  This is cool, I may join! Thanks
- ajryan 8y ago
  Metafilter has just about the highest groupthink quotient of any site I know of. Every single post ends up being about social justice, even when it isn't.
  - rsync 8y ago
    Agreed. I know that going in, though, and I still enjoy a lot of it.
- thanatropism 8y ago
  About two years ago I tried membership in The WELL, the semi-mythical web community that used to be featured in the printed booklets that came with 28.8kbps dial-up modems. The retro interface was nice but the populace was incredibly homogeneous and everything was saturated with San Francisco liberal politics. I concluded that the insurmountable joining fees led the website to be frozen with a small self-referential community.
tianheyang 8y ago
I made an ad-free reddit alternative that has the option of super-liking a post to send $5 (minus paypal fees) to the author: https://www.vlnc.co/ https://www.vlnc.co/

tmpz22 8y ago

Subscription filters might also filter out un-employed content producers who have free time to produce the quality content in the first place.

curiousgal 8y ago

Metafilter started with premise but it grew into something so obnoxious imo.

heckanoobs 8y ago

I've made reddit more enjoyable in the past by using plugins that auto collapse comments past depth 1 or 2. On avg, conversation devolves past that point. I've since quit Reddit but comments here have convinced me to take a second look. I think this time around I will put even more filters in place, like no subreddits with over 10k subs, and some way to hide everyone's karma count including my own. I guess what I'm trying to say is maybe you and I don't need a pay wall to filter, we just need an opinionated browser plugin (or easy way to share settings in RES)

empath75 8y ago

https://tildes.net/ https://tildes.net/

thanatropism 8y ago
That's invite-only. Got any?

rsync 8y ago

"I'd like a reddit-like site that is more exclusive, it filters out the non-serious users with a yearly subscription fee of say $100." This exists: https://www.metafilter.com/ https://www.metafilter.com/ The fee is $5 which turns out to be an insurmountable barrier for just about everyone. I personally like the site very much.

GSimon 8y ago
This is cool, I may join! Thanks
ajryan 8y ago
Metafilter has just about the highest groupthink quotient of any site I know of. Every single post ends up being about social justice, even when it isn't.
- rsync 8y ago
  Agreed. I know that going in, though, and I still enjoy a lot of it.
thanatropism 8y ago
About two years ago I tried membership in The WELL, the semi-mythical web community that used to be featured in the printed booklets that came with 28.8kbps dial-up modems. The retro interface was nice but the populace was incredibly homogeneous and everything was saturated with San Francisco liberal politics. I concluded that the insurmountable joining fees led the website to be frozen with a small self-referential community.

tianheyang 8y ago

I made an ad-free reddit alternative that has the option of super-liking a post to send $5 (minus paypal fees) to the author: https://www.vlnc.co/ https://www.vlnc.co/