What if we had to pay £0.5 to start a topic?

Branshen

We would have less content, but would we have less substance?

Would we be able to weed out the nonsensical rubbish? Like this topic?

richardhomer

You probably should have saved your 50p

Branshen

richardhomer said:

You probably should have saved your 50p

and spend more time practising 

RandallFlagg

Last time I was there, it was 30p for a shit in King's Cross toilets. Not sure 50p to post my shite here instead is good value.

Sassafras

Still wouldn't stop @siraxetwat

stratman3142

...and two pennies' worth to comment maybe?

beed84

As a race, I thought we liked free shit?

57Deluxe

@Branshen ; -- you must most deffo work for local government...

Sporky

Perhaps there could be a sort of lottery, where the posting fees are pooled and then apportioned out to topic starters based on how good their threads are.

I'd make out like a bandit.

Guitar_Slinger

What if someone paid and then claimied ownership of the topic, deleting off-topic or other comments they didn't like.

There goes yer free speech!

spark240

Annual fee notional £10 would be fine....

CHRISB50

Sassafras said:

Still wouldn't stop @siraxetwat

Don’t forget he’d be making a £49.50 profit if he can get to 20 pages. What a winner. 

musteatbrain

Imagine if just off topic areas were chargeable and people started just to post on guitar related stuff 

Roland

Can you imagine the way that would distort postings? We’d have serious threads containing even more un-related twaddle.

Any form of monetarisation will affect the format and content. One of the beauties of this forum is that it is not channelled by sponsorship, or packed our with advertising.

tone1

I’d make it a £1 for a Topic in BCD 

Philly_Q

RandallFlagg said:

Last time I was there, it was 30p for a shit in King's Cross toilets. Not sure 50p to post my shite here instead is good value.

Now free at Victoria, if you can survive a few more stops on the tube without shitting yourself.

Nunogilberto

If that was the case, most of the forum would leave. Me included.

AlexC

It would be the old days of ‘payola’ all over again. The little guys couldn't afford to speak. Only the rich and powerful would reign. Endless conversations about boutique pedals and flame top Les Pauls. Corporations would buy a thread to promote their over-priced wares and the Russians would infiltrate and start tampering with favourable comments about Japanese guitars.
I reserve my right to write.
Up the workers!
Who’s with me, brothers and sisters?

scrumhalf

You'd just end up with a handful of very long threads which have been hijacked time and again for new topics.

sev112

AlexC said:

It would be the old days of ‘payola’ all over again. The little guys couldn't afford to speak. Only the rich and powerful would reign. Endless conversations about boutique pedals and flame top Les Pauls. Corporations would buy a thread to promote their over-priced wares and the Russians would infiltrate and start tampering with favourable comments about Japanese guitars.
I reserve my right to write.
Up the workers!
Who’s with me, brothers and sisters?

A Free press ,


I love looking at the 21st century, and seeing how much control is held by corporations.  This is the aspect is 50s and 60s science fiction that they got right.
quite frightening in many respects, 
the way that the internet is being controlled these days, it might be worth breaking out the printing presses again

darthed1981

You'd have to have 50p for a perfectly servicable thread, £1 for one made in the USA, and £3 for a custom shop, not to mention £10 for a "true historic" thread made with original moans about young people, from the 60s.