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by Guestmodinfo 366 days ago
You guys have misunderstood in my opinion what he is saying actually.

What he means to say is. He I have a need and I am ready to contact the moderator so that he can allow me to DM a particular guy.

He might be even willing to pay some money depending on his bed to contact.

So if HN could create a paid service where genuine users would pay some amount to the HN and then a paid moderator would tap on the shoulder of the target guy and say hey this dude is interested to DM you and this is his message. If you want to chat back then you can DM him back otherwise peace out!

Yes it's not a puritanic of being a free forum but puritanism has solved not many problems.

Also without payment this system will not work. If u need it u gotta pay

1 comments

Not certain I agree about the payment part. Why not leave it up to the DM receiver to decide whether / not they want to charge for their time, and to respond accordingly?
I mant the platform should charge to let the DM reach but yes the DM receiver can also set the charge beforehand or if he is a small time player then he can be allotted some default fee or maybe he can receive the DM freely also. This can be done by fone tuning later