It really is the sneetches on steroids around here, isn’t it?
Now Instagram, for $15 a month.
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@ct_bergstrom A one-off fee for a competent verification scheme is reasonable. Perhaps even a small maintenance fee. But coupling it to a wider feature set which includes being in a separate, perceptibly privileged tier is a confusion of purposes which undermines the platform.
@ct_bergstrom ... and y'know what, I'm going to take that first part back. Whatever your monetization scheme, if you're doing anything right it should be enhanced by having verified users. They should go back to folding it into the cost of doing business.