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. 

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  1. srdash reblogged this from marco and added:
    Responsible comments ahead…
  2. 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...
  3. adityam reblogged this from nostrich
  4. 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...
  5. steampunkanachronism reblogged this from sendmelies and added:
    Gives anyone that doesn’t agree with ya the perfect stalking opportunity…..
  6. sendmelies reblogged this from marco and added:
    you’ve. got. to. be. kidding.
  7. pforman reblogged this from iialmostforgot
  8. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. efliv reblogged this from marco
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  13. 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...
  14. thestohs reblogged this from ragdoll
  15. 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..
  16. 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
  17. krisnolte reblogged this from marco
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