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Metafilter has been successful, I believe primarily due to the $5 charge to create a posting account and the warmup period of limitations for new accounts. New
by nabilhat 6y ago
Metafilter has been successful, I believe primarily due to the $5 charge to create a posting account and the warmup period of limitations for new accounts. New accounts trickle in at a manageable level. All account owners get that sense of ownership and care that comes with exchanging currency for something. Most internet brigading can't scale a small expense to begin with, and existing account owners who might otherwise get bootstrapped into a brigade don't want to get kicked out for being a jerk.
- Master_Odin 6y agoSomethingAwful has a similar requirement on spending money for an account, but that's not stopped people from doing dumb things to get muted or banned, keeping the moderators quite busy.
- Hello71 6y agoat least the expense can be used to fund additional moderation. see: facebook, twitter et al complaining about moderation being too hard at scale