Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology
by ballenf on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @01:00AM
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> But consider that there are plenty of people who have a basic computer or smartphone and internet access who actually can't afford a dollar.
Sure. But none of them need a meme generated that is logo-free.
If you said you don't have a credit card or other means to pay, I would get that.
Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology
by tehwebguy on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @01:04AM
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The point wasn’t that no one is broke, it’s that even if the price was $0.01 or even $0.0000001 perhaps it would still be priced too high for the actual value.
Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology
by s73ver_ on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @12:34PM
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Your situation certainly sucks, but I still have bills to pay. I still have to pay for hosting and content creation and all that.
If you can't afford to pay the price I ask, well, then you shouldn't get it. Like anything else in the world.
Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology
by jbigelow76 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @01:46AM
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If you can't, or choose not to, afford $1 to generate a gif meme without a watermark then so be it. But the $0-$1 meme market also cannot afford the cost of righteous indignation.
Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology
by vintageseltzer on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @01:27AM
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That's a pretty rude comment. I'm sure cpncrunch understands that, literally, not everyone on the planet can afford to pay a dollar. Please adjust your tone.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology
by vintageseltzer on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @02:55AM
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> Fuck off with your tone policing [0] of the downtrodden. Oppression makes people angry, if you don't want people to be angry like that then stop oppressing them.
Take a breath and relax. No one is oppressing you. I simply ask that you adhere to this community's guidelines and use a civil tone.
Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology
by SolarNet on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @03:43AM
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It's not about anyone oppressing anyone here. My reference to oppression was as a society and in general, not to this comment chain. It's about you claiming that being angry about oppression - specifically the dismissal of that oppression as valid - is for some reason disqualifying of the arguments contained with in. It's a fallacy, it's called tone policing, and you are doing it.
At the moment I'm unemployed and I'm literally living day to day just waiting for some kind of break.
It's easy to say "anyone can afford a dollar" while you sit in your $4,000 apartment sipping a late` that was just brought to you in less than five minutes by any of fifty different food delivery services available to you.
But consider that there are plenty of people who have a basic computer or smartphone and internet access who actually can't afford a dollar.