Look. I don't want to fight. The fact of the matter is Hubski is a website which means you need a computer and internet access to get to it. That computer might be granted, rented, borrowed, whatever but regardless, this isn't the Sally Struthers set we're talking about here. As with most of the Western Web, the majority of the participants have enough disposable income that prioritizing a nominal fee isn't an issue. A shower at a truck stop costs $2, FFS.

Besides which, whatever the price is someone has to pay it. If it costs $2/user/year and most users can't afford $2/user/year, either one in five users better be paying $10/user/year or everyone gets to suck down two thousand ads per year each..

That's about 5 ads per user per day. Hardly the end of the world. But then, we're talking about a nothing fee. Spin it out further: Let's say you make $100k a year. .4% of your annual income is $33 a month. That's three times what Pando charges - that makes it expensive, but not crazytown expensive.

All this "vehemence" and disdainful language combined with the plea to poverty is just... distasteful. And rude. I grew up the son of two grad students in Breaking Bad country. I can throw down with the Rit dye and government cheese with the best of them but I haven't because it's beside the fucking point.

The money has to come from somewhere. Someone has to pay it. They likely need some sort of incentive. This was supposed to be a discussion about possible methods to test, not an excuse for you to paint me up as Scrooge McDuck.