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So you're saying, you'd rather pay me $19 for my tutorial, than pay $5 for all tutorials on medium's platform?

by gremlinsinc 6y ago

SilasX 6y ago
For the tutorial quality and UX scumminess typical of Medium, no, I don't want the $5(/month?) option. I'd prefer any of these options: 1) Free, non-scummy tutorial sample, with the rest offered for money, or 2) Free full tutorial with non-scummy ads/UX, or 3) Free full tutorial with the understanding that this is self-promotion and I should raise my evaluation of the author and seek to hire their other work. Which of those do you feel is unjustifiably entitled?
- hmlongco 6y ago
  Probably the fact that while you listed your preferences you and most everyone else wouldn't bother to pay. Primarily since it would mean making a credit card transaction to an unknown site. Your options are clearly biased towards the fact that you don't want really to pay anything, either in terms of money or ads/attention.
  - SilasX 6y ago
    No, I've paid for courses before, far more than I care to admit. And I've listed an ad-based option that makes money (2), I'm just allowing for the possibility of people who want to get paid in self-promotion (3), although that's perhaps redundant, being a species of advertising.
_jal 6y ago
Dunno about the GP, but for me, yes. I'm not going to subscribe to Medium or other things like it. I don't like subscriptions and avoid them for the most part, and Medium is effectively a weird bundle of mostly crap I mostly don't care about. When something is worth it, a la carte works for me. It should cost more than as part of a bundle. (Although I'd need to need your tutorial rather badly to pay the price of a book for it.)
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benhurmarcel 6y ago
Why do you think your tutorial is worth a lot less on Medium than your own website? Shouldn't the price be similar?

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So you're saying, you'd rather pay me $19 for my tutorial, than pay $5 for all tutorials on medium's platform?

by gremlinsinc 6y ago

So you're saying, you'd rather pay me $19 for my tutorial, than pay $5 for all tutorials on medium's platform?

SilasX 6y ago
For the tutorial quality and UX scumminess typical of Medium, no, I don't want the $5(/month?) option. I'd prefer any of these options: 1) Free, non-scummy tutorial sample, with the rest offered for money, or 2) Free full tutorial with non-scummy ads/UX, or 3) Free full tutorial with the understanding that this is self-promotion and I should raise my evaluation of the author and seek to hire their other work. Which of those do you feel is unjustifiably entitled?
- hmlongco 6y ago
  Probably the fact that while you listed your preferences you and most everyone else wouldn't bother to pay. Primarily since it would mean making a credit card transaction to an unknown site. Your options are clearly biased towards the fact that you don't want really to pay anything, either in terms of money or ads/attention.
  - SilasX 6y ago
    No, I've paid for courses before, far more than I care to admit. And I've listed an ad-based option that makes money (2), I'm just allowing for the possibility of people who want to get paid in self-promotion (3), although that's perhaps redundant, being a species of advertising.
_jal 6y ago
Dunno about the GP, but for me, yes. I'm not going to subscribe to Medium or other things like it. I don't like subscriptions and avoid them for the most part, and Medium is effectively a weird bundle of mostly crap I mostly don't care about. When something is worth it, a la carte works for me. It should cost more than as part of a bundle. (Although I'd need to need your tutorial rather badly to pay the price of a book for it.)
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benhurmarcel 6y ago
Why do you think your tutorial is worth a lot less on Medium than your own website? Shouldn't the price be similar?