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Jul 14

Link → Newspaper to Charge People to Comment

(via sasquatchmedia):

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.

I love this idea. Has anybody ever read comments on news sites? They’re absolutely worthless. A paywall would mitigate this problem by either making it cost you money (and reputation) to leave your sniping, baseless accusations, or block you from doing it at all. The next best thing would be if they just removed commenting altogether. (via nostrich)

• Posted by: sasquatchmedia Journalism as a Conversation • Found via: nostrich nostrich
  1. 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...
  2. adityam reblogged this from nostrich
  3. 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...
  4. sp-a-m reblogged this from sendmelies and added:
    Gives anyone that doesn’t agree with ya the perfect stalking opportunity…..
  5. sendmelies reblogged this from marco and added:
    you’ve. got. to. be. kidding.
  6. pforman reblogged this from dontknowtheway
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
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  13. 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
  14. krisnolte reblogged this from marco
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  16. junekang reblogged this from marco and added:
    In lieu of the summer, which means summer school, SAT, and newspaper camp for you editors, the idea of anonymity when...