We should think about the advertising model before its too late and it gets shoved onto us. I think each community should get its own advertiser and they get a stick post on each post which is limited to 300 chars and one url.
Its simple, non intrusive and we can make it a bidding. 80 % of the proceeds should go to the maintenance of the instance, 20 % should go to the moderators of the instance.
Would warner brothers want this for 100 $ on movies ? I think so …
The 100$ was an example but I get your point. It feels like every option leads more or less to some billion dollar company becoming richer.
Yeah I’m sure you can get more from the ads if you get a bunch of sponsors but honestly if people just paid an anual fee it would be better for everyone.
Would people pay ? Wiki barely gets by, we have so many models that are ad based but very few subscription based(am I wrong ?)