[libian]

yea but we are not paying $6000 reading things on HackerNews. If you are paying that much money to attend / support a talk, it better be delivering great quality.

[socalnate1]

TEDx events are not very expensive, often they are free for attendees.

TED proper is very expensive, and has consistently high quality. The question here is if TEDx is hurting TED or not.