Re:Twitter launches blue check for $7.99 monthly fee
by Retr0id on Saturday November 05, 2022 @06:34PM
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Metafilter has been doing something not too dissimilar for a long time - $5 one-time signup fee. I've never used it but I'm sure some people here have, and I'd be interested to hear what it's like in practice.
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Re:Twitter launches blue check for $7.99 monthly fee
by hotpotamus on Saturday November 05, 2022 @06:42PM
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Somethingawful was $10 to be able to post on the forums at least as far back as the mid aughts (when I became a "goon"). I don't know if that goes all the way back to 1999, but it's not exactly a new model.
Re:Twitter launches blue check for $7.99 monthly fee
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c on Saturday November 05, 2022 @06:49PM
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It's a solid model. At least in the recent few years the feeling of an intentionally closed community of people who have skin in the game raised the quality of conversations. Act like a jackass? Great, get a ban and pay another $10, feed Lowtax (RIP).