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« on: June 18, 2016, 06:27:45 PM »
I signed-up so I could post a comment on one of their articles.  My comment was never posted, but I received an email from solidopinion.com about my new membership, and apparently I'm supposed to pay them if I want my comments to be visible.  *expletive deleted*ck that.  :mad:  My comments might not be particularly valuable, but they are content for their website.  If anything, they should be paying me a nominal sum.
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Re: reason.com
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2016, 07:16:06 PM »
Quote from: zxcvbob on June 18, 2016, 06:27:45 PM
I signed-up so I could post a comment on one of their articles.  My comment was never posted, but I received an email from solidopinion.com about my new membership, and apparently I'm supposed to pay them if I want my comments to be visible.  *expletive deleted*ck that.  :mad:  My comments might not be particularly valuable, but they are content for their website.  If anything, they should be paying me a nominal sum.

reason and libertarians have changed a bit over the last couple decades.  The magazine went downhill after Posterel left the helm to lesser men.
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Re: reason.com
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2016, 07:36:34 PM »
I read it from the late 70s through (I think) the early 90s.  It was quite different, and more interesting, then, than later.
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Re: reason.com
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2016, 08:22:24 PM »
Quote from: zxcvbob on June 18, 2016, 06:27:45 PM
I signed-up so I could post a comment on one of their articles.  My comment was never posted, but I received an email from solidopinion.com about my new membership, and apparently I'm supposed to pay them if I want my comments to be visible.  *expletive deleted*ck that.  :mad:  My comments might not be particularly valuable, but they are content for their website.  If anything, they should be paying me a nominal sum.

There are two different commenting sections: the paid comments, which no one actually pays any attention to except for one particularly mentally-ill troll, and the regular comments, which are free.

solidopinion are the paid ones. Going here should get you signed up for the regular, free comment section.
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Re: reason.com
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2016, 09:39:11 AM »
I'm signed up for free commenting, but there's too much of a disconnect between the articles (which I like) and the comments (ugh).
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Re: reason.com
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2016, 02:00:35 PM »
Having to pay to play seems appropriate for a libertarian rag. One recalls the wrangling over Napster, during which, Rush Limbaugh staked out his position by putting a bunch of his website content behind a paywall.
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