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>Do note that this is a slightly negative post Ha. It's my personal opinion that this is an insanely negative post. I hate advertising with a vibrating passion
by happytoexplain 4mo ago
>Do note that this is a slightly negative post
Ha. It's my personal opinion that this is an insanely negative post. I hate advertising with a vibrating passion that I can only assume other people would consider unreasonable, but even I don't blink at a "Buy me a coffee" button. In fact, I smile at the quaint notion, and I have clicked it a few times.
The idea that hosting is the primary cost of writing is so far off the mark, I don't even know where to begin.
- prmph 4mo agoYou misunderstand the article. His point is that if you want to be properly compensated for your writing, then you need to take the capitalist bull by the horns, so to speak. His objection is this middle place where "buy me a coffee" is only likely to make you a few bucks here and there, nothing like a proper compensation for your efforts (if you think you need that) and yet also leaves a slightly stale taste in the mouth of some readers. Basically, cheapening the blog for nothing. Not to say I entirely agree with him, but this is his point in a nutshell.
- happytoexplain 4mo agoI disagree - the author makes his unqualified disdain for "begging" unambiguously clear. He is unreasonable, simplistic, and frankly does not make the (exact) argument you generously ascribe to him (though maybe he meant to, and you can see through his miswording).