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The communities I'm part of now go out of their way to be inclusive. People who can afford it are strongly encouraged to pay more to subsidize people who can't.
by damnyou 7y ago
The communities I'm part of now go out of their way to be inclusive. People who can afford it are strongly encouraged to pay more to subsidize people who can't. People who pay more don't get any special privileges either. Those are the sorts of communities I want to be in, not some fee gating bullshit.
- FussyZeus 7y agoA community is not a business. In fact it's hard for me to conceive of two conceptual entities further away from each other. A business is interested in profit. Apple is no different. If you're not paying in, they're directly incentivized to make your experience suck as much as they can without crossing legal lines, to get you to do so. I'm not saying I want to be in the fee-gating communities, I agree with you on that point. I'm just saying expecting a multi-billion dollar corporation to be interested in fostering that same sense of community is ridiculous.
- damnyou 7y agoWe're talking about Something Awful in this thread, not Apple. You're right that a community is not a business. That's ultimately the fundamental rot in capitalism.