I would rather see the price drop to $0 if not, drop the price by the amount you would be paying the authors. Alternatively, you can look into swag like free su

I would rather see the price drop to $0 if not, drop the price by the amount you would be paying the authors. Alternatively, you can look into swag like free subscriptions for contributors. Though I wonder what kind of change in dynamics on the site would we see once the mturk people find out that you can get paid for posting articles and comments at HN.