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Re:Withdrawing from Hacker News by noarchy on Sunday April 03, 2011 @12:34PM (#2403106)
Invite-only, and one must fill out an application? I'd pass, based on that alone. Under such circumstances, I would have never been able to enjoy HN, for example.

If there is a strong desire for an "exclusive" community, how about requiring people to pay to use it?

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Re:Withdrawing from Hacker News by abraham on Sunday April 03, 2011 @05:24PM (#2404111)
Growing communities is incredibly difficult and Forrst choose to do so through invites and an application process.

Charging to get access to a community is not really a viable option until you have the community built to charge access to.

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