What becomes of old 'friends'..

[pzkpfw]

Would you still like to have your say, if you were charged ten dollars per say? 

I don't think that's such a bad thing (in proportion). If email cost more to send, we'd all get less spam.

I'd pay $0.01 (or maybe even $0.05) per post to any of the forums I belong to.

Hmmm... I think you're onto something here.

...and at 1,000 posts I get a set of steak knives?

[ka9q]

...and at 1,000 posts I get a set of steak knives?

To use....how, exactly?

[LunarOrbit]

Hmmm... I think you're onto something here.

...and at 1,000 posts I get a set of steak knives?

Sure! At your current rate of posting you can expect to reach 1000 posts in about 30-35 years.

[Echnaton]

That may be fine for these guys, who have under 20 posts. But what about more active posters.  Do we get a volume discount?  At $0.02 I'd owe almost $8.00 by now.  That enough to buy two gallons of gas.  And whose dollars are we using her, the exchange fees will cost a bundle if we are dunned for every post.

[gillianren]

I would stop posting altogether, because I'm not good at moderation and can't afford my current level.

[Not Myself]

That may be fine for these guys, who have under 20 posts. But what about more active posters.  Do we get a volume discount?  At $0.02 I'd owe almost $8.00 by now.  That enough to buy two gallons of gas.  And whose dollars are we using her, the exchange fees will cost a bundle if we are dunned for every post.

Oh, it can be Zimbabwe dollars as far as I am concerned.  I just wanted to find a way to use "per say" in a sentence.

[Echnaton]

That may be fine for these guys, who have under 20 posts. But what about more active posters.  Do we get a volume discount?  At $0.02 I'd owe almost $8.00 by now.  That enough to buy two gallons of gas.  And whose dollars are we using her, the exchange fees will cost a bundle if we are dunned for every post.

Oh, it can be Zimbabwe dollars as far as I am concerned.  I just wanted to find a way to use "per say" in a sentence.

a Z$10 Trillion note goes for US$0.99on eBay.  I think I can swing that. 

[LunarOrbit]

I would stop posting altogether

That's all the reason I need to never implement mandatory fees.

The forum doesn't really cost me much to operate. It would if it was as busy as BAUT, and if that ever happened I'd consider adding a voluntary donations box and/or advertising to help cover the costs. But any kind of membership fees would be unlikely, except maybe to give special privileges to the paid members.

[Glom]

Modest advertising like Google ads can be good because they provide a source of amusement.

Imagine all the moon real estate ones we'd get.

[gillianren]

That's all the reason I need to never implement mandatory fees.

Aw . . . .

In all seriousness, Google ads wouldn't bother me, provided they didn't flash or make noise.  Though of course, we could also just accept the pun which started this sidebar and move on!

[Noldi400]

I always wonder about the "pre-video" ads on YouTube - the advertisers don't seem to have caught on yet that you need to get your message into the first five seconds, before the 'SKIP' button becomes active.

[carpediem]

I always wonder about the "pre-video" ads on YouTube - the advertisers don't seem to have caught on yet that you need to get your message into the first five seconds, before the 'SKIP' button becomes active.

Are there people out there not using Adblock Plus?

[Valis]

Are there people out there not using Adblock Plus?

Yes. I, for one, use Opera's built-in filtering system.

On a more serious note, there still are a lot of people who run IE without any ad blocking. Usually if you are able to install a third-party browser, you can also use an ad blocker, so it's a lot rarer to see a user with FF but without Adblock Plus.

[LunarOrbit]

I don't use any ad blockers (other than the built in measures to prevent pop-ups and pop-unders). Most ads don't bother me. It's only when they employ seizure inducing animation or audio that I get bothered by them. Plus, as a web developer, I have to make sure I'm seeing the websites that I work on exactly the way they are supposed to, and I don't trust ad blockers not to remove non-advertisement images by accident.

[gillianren]

I don't use an ad blocker, but I'm thinking about starting just because the ads on the site where I read newspaper comics are really disruptive.  I hate anything where you can accidentally start a video playing without clicking on anything.