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Turns out, shouting “go fuck yourself” to a room of business executives during a high-profile televised conference isn’t a winning business strategy. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/technology/elon-musk-dealbook-advertisers.html
@ernie I'm not saying that I'm a business genius, or anything, but from pretty parallel personal experience I could have told Elon this.
As could... well, everybody, really.
@ernie It's counter-intuitive, I know, but it turns out that many people don't enjoy being told to go fuck themselves, even when those people are not doing what you want them to do.
@ernie and for people who do not like paywalls this might help: https://archive.is/sg7E3
@Fripi I understand people don’t like paywalls, but also, as a journalist, I would like to encourage people to pay for journalism they support.
@ernie I would encourage you to mark the article with a ($), so people like me, who do not intend to have another subscription in yet another language don't bother to click it.
Also I do accept paywalls, I am totally fine with them. Paywalls that only want google to read it freely so they can lure you over, I do not accept.
@Fripi I’m not going to. The thing is, you can capture much of what it says from the headline and deck. Additionally, NYT is very widely subscribed to especially from my follower base, which is mostly U.S.-based.
In some cases, such as The Information, I might share a gift link because that subscription is expensive. (I only have access because a friend gifted that to me.)
But NYT has millions of subscribers, and it is a widely read news outlet. People know the score.
@Fripi Also it should be noted that NYT has a regwall that allows limited free reads before you hit a paywall.
@ernie thanks for the honesty, will mute then because I think that is a behavior that is even worse than the paywall itself, which as stated earlier, I totally accept.
The Registration wall is just the embodiment of the old saying, "if you do not pay you are the product". I do not want this for people who are around me.
@Fripi It’s not unethical to share paywalled links.
@ernie I was talking about the registration wall.
However I see your point and I have right now 3 active subscriptions and spend between 20-40$ a month on Journalism. I completely disagree with your point and if you are not even willing to make the effort of marking paywalled links I guess we reached the end here.
I however think that this way of acting will not help Journalism at all. Time will tell, I guess.