Not really. Doing so would lower the average number of readings per article. In the most extreme case, this would lead to every article being write-only and nev

Not really. Doing so would lower the average number of readings per article. In the most extreme case, this would lead to every article being write-only and never read by anyone. Of course this is absurd because writing takes so much more effort than reading, and the vast majority of people will be consumers without writing anything (except short private chats).