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Ask HN: Would you pay to use Reddit?

9 pointsby workerdeealmost 10 years ago
If reddit had fees, how much would you realistically be willing to pay before going elsewhere?

18 comments

27182818284almost 10 years ago
No. I&#x27;m not a big fan anymore. I&#x27;m in the eight-ish year club and I can&#x27;t even talk myself into buying gold as a charitable thing.<p>Its value has decreased substantially to me with time. My answer to this would have been very different years ago, but now the site is too full of what I consider to be mediocre content that seems weighted really high. For example common expressions used over and over like &quot;nature you scary&quot; should be given a huge penalty hit. For goodness sake, looking at the site in an incognito window right now not only is a story on the frontpage twice, it is <i>the same URL</i> with one different query parameter.
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Yadialmost 10 years ago
Yeah I would actually pay for it!<p>I&#x27;m a freelancer consultant and I get decent clients reaching out to me from Reddit.<p>I read about CompSci and Machine Learning almost on daily basis and the subreddits that I visit help me on that stand point a lot.<p>But here is the deal! People Love freaking drama and some thrive on it. So whenever there is a 0.1% of drama it gets amplified.<p>Also one other thing! I respect the HN community, but I&#x27;ve seen harsher feedback &amp; more harassment here than Reddit.<p>PS: I&#x27;m a 5 years club member on Reddit.
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yetanotheraccalmost 10 years ago
I would pay not to use Reddit (or HN, for that matter). I would say..<p>$500 a month for a solution that would make me do something semi-productive instead of spending time on those websites.
jpindaralmost 10 years ago
No. But I would be glad to pay for something identical to reddit without all the hatred and childishness.<p>How much? Expensive enough to discourage those who have nothing to say but memes.
1arityalmost 10 years ago
This would be a great idea. CC verification could secure identity, and a &quot;civil society&quot; like system could spring up and effect real civil penalties for misbehaviour. Reddit&#x27;s &quot;moral code&quot; is impotent without the means to effect meaningful enforcements. So, Reddit is going to continue to be a den of iniquity and sin until people pay to use it, and pay more to use it badly.<p>I&#x27;d recharge every now and then so I could keep commenting and voting. ( 1 cent per vote, 2 cents to comment, 5 cents to down vote ( and downvotee gets it ) ), and penalties ranging in 10s - 1000s of dollars based on severity of misbehaviour. Some kind of judicial review system would also work to establish consistency.
davirossalmost 10 years ago
Reddit? No. Another internet community? Sure. I already do. (Then again, I wouldn&#x27;t be-paid to use Reddit either. I&#x27;m not opposed to paid communities, in fact I rather like the idea. But hanging it on Reddit <i>(y&#x2F;n)</i> seems a bit restrictive)
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ABach8almost 10 years ago
As a current college student that operates in a community where I see a number of my fellow classmates using reddit online during class I can say that they would not pay for directly for the service. These days there are too many supplements to Reddit that entertain me just as much if not more.<p>Although I do believe that Reddit is a very established and well liked website that would still see success if they charged a subscription fee, just not on the same scale of popularity that they currently do.
stephengilliealmost 10 years ago
I&#x27;m not a big fan of reddit. But I would realistically be willing to pay for ad-free communities. I used to be an Imgur Pro member before they stopped accepting payments. I would gladly become one again.<p>They charged $3 a month or $24 a year. Considering I pay Amazon $80 a year for a service I barely use, I should be willing to pay a community about that much.
miguelrochefortalmost 10 years ago
I wouldn&#x27;t pay for Reddit if others had to pay to contribute to it.<p>I would make it free for contributors, and paid for lurkers (i.e., monetize karma).
afridialmost 10 years ago
Wouldn&#x27;t pay a dollar, since most of the communities I use Reddit for are now also active on Facebook + Slack.
jordsmialmost 10 years ago
If it kept all of the same people and info, yes.<p>If I was going to pay just for there become a free alternative elsewhere, no.
ErikRognebyalmost 10 years ago
Nope. I don&#x27;t use it now.
kenttalmost 10 years ago
$5&#x2F;mo. I don&#x27;t go on it often, but it&#x27;s interesting enough.
nonkoolalmost 10 years ago
With a better UX, more control around quality, more relevance to me - yes.
spacemanmattalmost 10 years ago
No. I think fees would send readers and contributors scurrying, too.
Pr0duceralmost 10 years ago
Nope. I&#x27;d find something else after $0-1&#x2F;Month
andrewmcwattersalmost 10 years ago
Garbage site, garbage community.
anon3_almost 10 years ago
Reddit is a tool. It&#x27;s software; a middleman. The value is provided by the group.<p>Take a view at the attitude of the current admins:<p>&gt; Well, now she&#x27;s gone (you did it reddit!), and &#x2F;u&#x2F;spez has the moral authority as a co-founder to move ahead with the purge. We tried to let you govern yourselves and you failed, so now The Man is going to set some Rules. Admittedly, I can&#x27;t say I&#x27;m terribly upset.<p>source: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;announcements&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3dautm&#x2F;content_policy_update_ama_thursday_july_16th_1pm&#x2F;ct3n7hc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;announcements&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3dautm&#x2F;conten...</a><p>How would you feel if Microsoft Word started criticizing people based on the content they written? This is a thing?<p>Reddit was just a tool. The admins need to step out of the way. I don&#x27;t care if there are &quot;creepy&quot; reddits.<p>The entitled and pompous attitude of admins is so elitist it&#x27;s sick. You&#x27;re a forum. You&#x27;re not gods. You&#x27;re not priests.