On: Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?

[decadentcactus]

When you say for memberships, shouldn't you mean charge for comments? It wouldn't affect the site much if I could still sign in, save threads, set procrast etc. Which would still be useful to many users.

[sunir → decadentcactus]

You could make the charge wall control:

  * posting a comment
  * voting on a comment
  * submitting a link / question
  * voting on a submission

Each of those are debatable. For instance, submission voting might be open to all but comment voting is not.

An interesting variant: You can 'keep' a link without paying, but if you are paying, your 'keep' is the counted as a 'vote'.