I took ads off my websites years ago. I have no problem with the HN crowd being anti ad. I'm just saying we have the means to pay content creators right now an

I took ads off my websites years ago. I have no problem with the HN crowd being anti ad. I'm just saying we have the means to pay content creators right now and the reality is people mostly expect free content and implicitly assume that if you have sufficient traffic, you are making money and the reality is that assumption de facto has baked in an ad-based monetization strategy. Micropayments as people would like to imagine them don't yet exist. Good writing takes time. You want more of it, you should find a way to make it pay and, no, implicitly assuming an ad-based revenue model where you don't have to take a crowbar to your wallet and put it open and explicitly blocking ads and wanting nothing to do with them adds up to "Hello? Exactly how do you expect creative to make rent?"