Comments on: Troll toll: Tablet is now charging its readers for the right to comment

By: mh024659

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By: David Brauchli

David Brauchli — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:57:00 +0000

Stefan’s right, krautreporter.de is doing this and SME, Slovakia’s biggest online newspaper was charging people for comments in 2011 using Piano Media’s platform. Still, it’s a laudable effort and worthwhile as trolling basically stops and the commentary under articles becomes better. However they might have priced it a little too high. Guess we’ll see in a few months if the price comes down or not.

By: Stefan Felten

Stefan Felten — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:42:00 +0000

Good try, but that’s what the German crowdfunded news platform krautreporter.de still does since a few months: Comments only with paid membership. http://t.co/zWPGVfb5pg

By: socrates2

socrates2 — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:07:00 +0000

Interesting. Taking their cue from paywaller content providers such as the WSJ, et al, they've decided to limit their "speak-out" demographic to those with the discretionary cash (as opposed to the time) to afford to post a comment. And the pretext is "troll elimination" or some such hogwash. How about "we only want to hear from the 'likeminded' views that reinforce our weltanschauung..." Fascinating. How capitalistic of them... Sadly, part of the price of living in a culture which places freedom of speech as a paramount value is that we will sometimes read/see/hear speech that, for lack of a better phrase, pisses us off. Please dust off your Friends of Voltaire, if you get my drift... Be well.