Should Giant Bomb charge to comment on Giant Bomb articles/forums/blogs? With the number of forum posts that are ads, as well as the hateful comments, it seeming like raising the barrier to entry just a little would help curb the nonsense. I know that is what Pete Dodd has based his site off of, the content is 100% free (no ads), but you have to pay for a subscription to post on the forums. Now prominent YouTubers like: Felix Kjellberg (Pewdiepie) and John Bain (Totalbiscuit) have discussed only allowing paying users to post comments to keep the scummy stuff out. I don’t want to make it battle of the haves vs the have nots, but a small fee that covers the life of the account would may stop some of the BS. I'm not saying people should be silenced, but II think that if there was a fee involved, people would be more tactful (or maybe not). So, should there be a one time fee, for the life of the account, to comment'
I guess I see Twitter going this way too. It's free to tweet, until you want to tweet to a verified account or something like that, then it takes a subscription. Want to tweet at Gary Whitta reminding him that Apple products are made with slave labor and Apple doesn't pay US taxes... it'll cost you, and you'll get blocked.
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