chapaking – possibly I would but I was thinking more in terms of 0.1p 🙂
£1.49 a month payment to be a content provider is not IMO good value. We the posters provide the content on the forum that creates the advertising revenue.
I was thinking more in terms of newspapers which I do read. For example the Herald allows you 3 free articles a month then wants you logged in to read any more ( easily worked around) YOu get to read the first paragraph free of all articles – what I would envisage is a pop up warning ” to read any more of this article click “continue” to pay 1P now to read the article”
Putting the entire content behind a paywall reduces readership and in STWs case would lead to a drop in readers thus a drop in advertising revenue.
Asking for subscriptions that don’t add any content ie the guardian does not seem to work
The internet is far from a mature tech yet and somewhere somehow someone has got to come up with an answer that allows microcharging IMO
Its a bit like spotify in a way.
I used to pirate music downloads. I refused to pay iTunes full retail for the hire ( not ownership) of the music. spotify allows me to pay £5 a month for unlimited access to music so I no longer do illegal downloads