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Re:Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Me... by SilasX on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:17PM (#24943795)
For the tutorial quality and UX scumminess typical of Medium, no, I don't want the $5(/month?) option. I'd prefer any of these options:

1) Free, non-scummy tutorial sample, with the rest offered for money, or

2) Free full tutorial with non-scummy ads/UX, or

3) Free full tutorial with the understanding that this is self-promotion and I should raise my evaluation of the author and seek to hire their other work.

Which of those do you feel is unjustifiably entitled?

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Re:Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Me... by hmlongco on Friday October 30, 2020 @06:41PM (#24947546)
Probably the fact that while you listed your preferences you and most everyone else wouldn't bother to pay. Primarily since it would mean making a credit card transaction to an unknown site.

Your options are clearly biased towards the fact that you don't want really to pay anything, either in terms of money or ads/attention.

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Re:Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Me... by SilasX on Friday October 30, 2020 @07:37PM (#24947875)
No, I've paid for courses before, far more than I care to admit. And I've listed an ad-based option that makes money (2), I'm just allowing for the possibility of people who want to get paid in self-promotion (3), although that's perhaps redundant, being a species of advertising.
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