Posted by badhaircut on January 22, 2004, at 9:57:21
In reply to Re: ads and fees archive link » badhaircut, posted by Dinah on January 22, 2004, at 9:17:57
Thanks for the link.
I was flat-out opposed to any fee until reading those old threads. There was even opposition way back when to registration, and registration now seems so minimal and natural.
I now think maybe a small fee for posting (not reading) *may* be okay. But this 2000 post by medlib was interesting:
> I believe that charging for posting would kill Babble in short order. People willing to pay to post become, in effect, vanity publishers--a uniquely boring group of people.
I have no idea if that's true. But it might be a trade-off that has to be made to keep the site going long-term and to reduce the domino-effect damage of hostile or provocative postings (eg, provocative rant -> reasonable response containing a technical violation -> draconian block -> valuable source quits the board).
I think Dr Bob's co-op idea is awesome:
> What if *everyone* received something? A share of what was generated overall, depending on how much they each chipped in? Minus a percentage or something for me? I kind of like that idea...
But talk about administrative headaches! (SEC, FCC, FTA, IRS....) So I think that's out.
But I'd go $5 bucks as an annual posting fee. Does anyone know how much that'd net after bank fees?
-bhc
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