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Bad week for Ben Dover, I see. How's his cousin, Heywood Jablome, doing?

 

Actually, that family is related to the Mike Oxsmall clan. Seriously, he alternates between Ben and Mike.

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I forgot to mention the other downside to moderating the "report abuse" comments: I actually have to read them. So my work day is peppered with chunks of the most vile, racist, sexist, xenophobic, etc. prose on the web. There are days all that negativity just weighs on you.

 

And they would pay.

I'd bet my own cold, hard cash that these fucktards would pay.

There are people who get into the commenting "community" very seriously. They usually aren't the trolls, though they can be trollish at times, and are prone to rabid flamewars with their fellow comment-dwellers. There are people who pay for special message board perks. I suspect the same would apply.

 

I've always been a proponent of Something Awful-style pay structures (one flat fee gets you in, then you pay one-time fees for perks). Screw up, you have to pay again.

This, I think, is the rub: get people to pay for things on top of the main product. Charging for the main product will do more harm than good.