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What's wrong with charging for an account and enforcing a clear ban-hammer for posts which violate a set of rules? That was SomethingAwful's model and it seemed
by er4hn 5y ago
What's wrong with charging for an account and enforcing a clear ban-hammer for posts which violate a set of rules? That was SomethingAwful's model and it seemed to work well. Especially combined with their "Leper's Colony" where you could see what each person was temp/perm banned for. That seemed to scale well over time since you have a fixed cost to make an account as long as you aren't getting out of line.
Charging per post does seem regressive and stifles conversation among everyone who doesn't have money to burn / doesn't view the post as an investment.
- polyomino 5y agoThe problem that comes to mind is that the site is required to grow in accounts in order to continue functioning. In the long term, you'd need to add additional sources of revenue.
- willcipriano 5y agoAlso why would the first users join? The site would be dead.
- smolder 5y agoNaturally the site owner would have a few hundred sock puppets they talk to themselves with, in order to bootstrap the social network. Growth hacking 101.
- consumer451 5y agoExactly what Reddit did according to Huffman in the Coinbase talk.
- echelon 5y agoSomethingAwful made it work.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 5y ago