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Re: Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology

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Post by thinkMOAR »

photonios wrote: post #169
thinkMOAR wrote: post #152

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Not sure if you are Dutch, but if you follow dutch news then you'd known the soap bubble 'blendle' has burst already... Afaics they are at the brink of bankruptcy, and needed multiple financial injections to 'survive' and papers like NRC, FTM and recently the telegraaf have already pulled their publications. Today the people behind blendle launched a new product, Medianieuwsbrief.nl To me another pointer that blendle…

I am Dutch. Born and raised. I moved out two years ago though so I am not completely up-to-date with all the recent development. Jeez. I didn't know the situation became that bad. I didn't notice because I mostly read American news. From what I quickly read on for example NRC [0], they pulled their content because Blendle introduced the concept of a subscription and that would cut profits for NRC. The new concept Med…

Alexander said to be inspired by https://www.mediagazer.com For their new site.

That new site hurts my eyes :)

Re: Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology

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Post by s73ver_ »

bearbearbear wrote: post #180
s73ver_ wrote: post #158

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Then keep the watermark. But don't feel that just because you're poor that their costs are any different.

I didn't ask them to have costs or a website.

And? Your point being? Should the grocery store also give you free food because you didn't ask them to have a store?

Again, you being poor sucks. That does not change things for them, however. They still need to make money, and if you don't have the money, then you can go without. You will still live.

Re: Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology

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Post by splintercell »

japano1se wrote: post #103
hossbeast wrote: post #62

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Lightning Network, coming soon to a blockchain near you.

Real Soon Now™. It's pretty much vaporware at this point.

What about Raiden (for Ethereum) though, it is already on the test network.

Re: Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

s73ver_ wrote: post #155
AnthonyMouse wrote: post #36

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> Has anyone made any real progress in solving this problem? The reason they haven't is that the law puts the burden of fraud on the payment processors. The dispute resolution overhead is the same for a $.10 transaction as a $100 transaction, but if that average cost is $.30 then you can't have $.10 transactions and the fee on $1 transactions is onerous. Using some cheaper less effective dispute resolution for micro-…

BTC processors don't have that problem because they do absolutely no fraud detection. That's a pretty big no-go for most consumers.

If it was actually the consumers who were averse to the risk then we could get rid of the law and nothing would change.

The problem is the law is inefficient because the consumer is the lowest cost avoider. They can do things like using a good pass phrase and not reusing passwords and not holding large sums of money in uninsured accounts for unnecessarily long periods of time.

Payment processors can't stop customers with no skin in the game from making poor decisions, so they have to sum up the cost of the resulting fraud and make everyone pay it as transaction fees, and then we can't have micro-payments.

Re: Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology

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Post by skinnymuch »

tyingq wrote: post #141
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #139

I found it really difficult to take this article seriously. >Kapwing is an online video and GIF meme generator It adds bars of text to the top and/or bottom of a gif. This product is worth $0. Probably less.

"Around 8% of users who could have used the apology flow converted into paying customers" One man's trash...

I'd like proof or actual numbers before just believing this. What if 8% of users is a few people?

Re: Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology

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Post by skinnymuch »

soared wrote: post #170
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #168

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You don't need to know any of that. You just need to open Windows Movie Maker (is that still pre-installed?) and spend 10 minutes familiarizing yourself with its simple UI and 30 seconds making the video.

Eh well my point is still it takes 30 seconds with their tool and some multiple of 30 seconds to do it myself. There is some value and making things quickly.

Your point weakened more and more as you had to lean back on your exaggerated or extremely rare circumstance to the point where now this comment isn't even a strong stance for the site.

Re: Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology

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Post by skinnymuch »

bearbearbear wrote: post #180
s73ver_ wrote: post #158

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Then keep the watermark. But don't feel that just because you're poor that their costs are any different.

I didn't ask them to have costs or a website.

What? What about any store or company? You didn't ask anyone to have costs. They do. And you need or want to pay for some stuff at some point. What's your point? Seems quite entitled.

Re: Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology

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Post by bearbearbear »

s73ver_ wrote: post #182
bearbearbear wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't ask them to have costs or a website.

And? Your point being? Should the grocery store also give you free food because you didn't ask them to have a store? Again, you being poor sucks. That does not change things for them, however. They still need to make money, and if you don't have the money, then you can go without. You will still live.

> Should the grocery store also give you free food because you didn't ask them to have a store?

Yes, that's why I have food stamps.

Re: Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology

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Post by mikestew »

bearbearbear wrote: post #188
s73ver_ wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And? Your point being? Should the grocery store also give you free food because you didn't ask them to have a store? Again, you being poor sucks. That does not change things for them, however. They still need to make money, and if you don't have the money, then you can go without. You will still live.

> Should the grocery store also give you free food because you didn't ask them to have a store? Yes, that's why I have food stamps.

I don’t think that you understand how food stamps work.

Re: Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology

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Post by garblegarble »

gruez wrote: post #136
garblegarble wrote: post #110

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>Amusingly, Amazon charges me $0.14 every single month for my usage of Amazon S3. I wonder if they've got some sort of sick deal where they don't pay per-tx. Off-topic but I had this (except I have a non-US card, so the foreign transaction fee was larger than the S3 bill). I contacted Amazon and asked if I could prepay $50 and they added a small balance to my account for free that'll cover my tiny S3 usage for the ne…

Aren't foreign exchange fees calculated by %?

My bank charges a flat fee of £0.75 per transaction for foreign currency transactions - not a big deal for a normal transaction but pretty significant if you're paying a $0.03 bill every month!
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