People have been seeing the pop-ups asking to subscribe, and our soft-roll out of our Premium Membership model. And to some people, this strikes a note of fear. As one fan on Twitter exclaimed worriedly, “Horrible idea! Closed community is exactly what you don’t need to spread the word.”
For the record: WE AGREE. We are an open community. We invite everyone to participate in the conversation. For free – if that is what you want. We do not want to be having the only worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century and leave anyone out.
But we do have to keep the lights on and the servers working. And what we really want most is for you, our community, to have the chance to decide on the experience you want.
So if you want a traditional type of media company, where advertising pays the bills so you can enjoy your content free of charge – you got it. And if you find the ads annoying and distracting and simply want to enjoy the content – well, you’ve got that too. Pay a small amount of money and the ads go away.
And once people get the “Aha!”, they quite like what we are doing.
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Not only that, here is an observation from commenter stromdal:
I don’t really care much either way about the extras but I will pay for membership – simply because I find GMP to be an excellent platform for reflected discussion on a broad range of topics and well worth paying for.
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You have my support. As long as a publications deliver relevant content they will find the audience willing to pay for. I have cancelled cable with its 500 channels of hysterical nonsense and started subscribing to the media I care about: NY Times, PBS, and KCET…and GMP. Keep up the good work. We need intelligent discussions.
Thank you Marc. Appreciate the support, and glad to be listed in such good company with other intelligent media.