Newspaper to Charge People to Comment

Newspaper to Charge People to Comment

In the category of putting your money where your mouth is: I have no idea if people will be willing to pay to comment — if they’re reluctant to pay for online news why would they pay to comment on news? — but I’ll sure be watching this.

()

chatzitate liked this
srdash reblogged this from marco and added:

Responsible comments ahead…
srdash liked this
occasionaluser liked this
littlebitmore liked this
blech liked this
danielfallenstein liked this
thibaut reblogged this from marco and added:

oui, belle idée. Si ça peut faire remonter la qualité des commentaires des articles, ça peut être mieux que de les virer...
adityam reblogged this from nostrich
matthewb liked this
freedummring liked this
tennroof liked this
ubu507 liked this
hermitsloveparties liked this
rmpenguino reblogged this from marco and added:

Now this is an idea to support across most of the web. When people have to go for the wallet they have to think twice...
steampunkanachronism reblogged this from sendmelies and added:

Gives anyone that doesn’t agree with ya the perfect stalking opportunity…..
steampunkanachronism liked this
sendmelies reblogged this from marco and added:

you’ve. got. to. be. kidding.
tlmonahan liked this
pforman reblogged this from iialmostforgot
thlom reblogged this from marco and added:

Norwegian newspaper dagbladet tried that. Can’t say the comments are better in any sense. Before they started to charge...
marknoonan liked this
kxr liked this
valhallaisland liked this
playitbackward reblogged this from marco and added:

I wish the fee were two cents! I am really glad to see newspaper companies make creative decisions like this. Way to go...
azspot liked this
efliv reblogged this from marco
omegawm liked this
dalasverdugo liked this
ltwp liked this
davidchicopham reblogged this from marco
brndnblog liked this
mnmal liked this
ocularrepository liked this
informavore reblogged this from marco
zapplegate reblogged this from marco and added:

I have a major problem with this. I understand every reason for doing it but it eliminates a lot of potential...
theredpanda liked this
stigbra liked this
thestohs reblogged this from ragdoll
go liked this
kayesway reblogged this from iialmostforgot and added:

I wish the paper that I work for made this change….it would solve a lot of minor problems..
kayesway liked this
complex liked this
bronze liked this
jimcloudman reblogged this from marco and added:

Could be interesting to see how this plays out. It’s already getting some ridicule (though admittedly this
bennihahn liked this
pettifogging liked this
thisstuff liked this
krisnolte reblogged this from marco
purplegem reblogged this from marco
Show more notesLoading...