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by jrockway 5859 days ago
Nobody is going to pay for something they can get for free. You set an upper bound on the price when you gave your content away.

My guess is that the porn companies, which make you buy annoying subscriptions, make a lot more money that way than they would with some Google text ads. It's because they don't set the price at $0 and then ask for any amount of money. The set the price at $30 and ask for $30. Don't have $30? No soup for you.
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xavoy 5859 days ago
A lot of what I'm selling is not given for free. And the point wasn't my lack of success, but the fact that you said you'd give your money to someone who asked for it.

I'm just saying that even if this was true (which, based on what you just said, is not the case) that you would be the minority by a long, long way.

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