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I'm going against the crowd here, but frankly, I wish that more websites could switch to that model. I'd rather honestly pay for great content that is worth re

by rayalez 11y ago

I'm going against the crowd here, but frankly, I wish that more websites could switch to that model. I'd rather honestly pay for great content that is worth reading. I think that ads misalign incentives, and force journalists and writers to focus on writing clickbaity articles to drive as much traffic as possible. If more people would agree to pay for content - we would see less bullshit ads and less articles needlessly separated into 10 stupid parts. It would provide a legitemate business model for new writers and allow them to focus on creating high quality content instead of being forced to dumb it down to the mainstream level to get the views. Also, if websites like facebook could suggest an alternative payed model without being hated for it by everybody, they could focus on user experience and building quality products, instead of tricking people into watching as much ads as possible and selling their data. Right now writers and artists can only: - Rely on ads for their income - Beg for money on patreon - Have to sell some t-shirts and dumb merch to support themselves. The only honest and bullshit-less way to make money is selling books, but it's not always applicable. I believe that if you think that the content is worth reading - it is worth paying for. Do an honest business transaction, and pay money for the value that you receive, instead of forcing people to come up with shady and manipulative ways to extract money from your attention. If more people would agree to pay for content, internet would be a much better and more awesome place.

iamjdg 11y ago
i respect your opinion. i agree it is tough to make a business for writer and artist these days. same goes for game programmers, wow talk about a march to the pricing bottom. but why fight what the market wants with paywalls? for me it's the "nickel and dime" thing, not just simply paying for quality product. i can't stand it. i want to pay for everything once, in an indirect way, that is almost unnoticeable to me. have you ever driven in switzerland and italy? you enter switzerland and you pay 40 euros to use their roads and you sort of hate switzerland for it. then you enter italy and you don't pay anything and then all of the sudden you start hitting pay gates every so often and you end up paying double what you did in switzerland. i fear for where these paywalls will take the internet in the future...i want something more like driving in switzerland than in italy
- rayalez 11y ago
  Yeah, I completely agree that the current system sucks. There needs to be some universal way to conveniently pay small sums of money for viewing an article or watching a video. It would be awesome if there would be some generally accepted system that allows you to embed a button on your website and accomplish that in one click. Maybe it even exist, I'm not sure(if it does it's not widely accepted enough), also maybe there's more elegant and clever way of doing that. But to me it seems like a great startup idea, if someone could solve this problem a lot of people would be happy.
  - iamjdg 11y ago
    it does sound like a good start up idea. if you can crack the internet rewards system that satisfies both buyers and seller, you would be really onto something. it fits with peter thiels philosophy from zero to one: what is nobody else doing?" "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?"

by rayalez 11y ago

iamjdg 11y ago

i respect your opinion. i agree it is tough to make a business for writer and artist these days. same goes for game programmers, wow talk about a march to the pricing bottom. but why fight what the market wants with paywalls? for me it's the "nickel and dime" thing, not just simply paying for quality product. i can't stand it. i want to pay for everything once, in an indirect way, that is almost unnoticeable to me. have you ever driven in switzerland and italy? you enter switzerland and you pay 40 euros to use their roads and you sort of hate switzerland for it. then you enter italy and you don't pay anything and then all of the sudden you start hitting pay gates every so often and you end up paying double what you did in switzerland. i fear for where these paywalls will take the internet in the future...i want something more like driving in switzerland than in italy

rayalez 11y ago
Yeah, I completely agree that the current system sucks. There needs to be some universal way to conveniently pay small sums of money for viewing an article or watching a video. It would be awesome if there would be some generally accepted system that allows you to embed a button on your website and accomplish that in one click. Maybe it even exist, I'm not sure(if it does it's not widely accepted enough), also maybe there's more elegant and clever way of doing that. But to me it seems like a great startup idea, if someone could solve this problem a lot of people would be happy.
- iamjdg 11y ago
  it does sound like a good start up idea. if you can crack the internet rewards system that satisfies both buyers and seller, you would be really onto something. it fits with peter thiels philosophy from zero to one: what is nobody else doing?" "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?"