Yer Right, Algebraist (Score 1)

It's another form of censorship, isn't it? Anyway, I've been browsing their site today and I was pleasantly surprised by the content. They had a great article about how cocoa beans, for chocolate production, are harvested by slave laborers over in Africa, some of them little kids. I never knew that. I really enjoyed browsing it today. I think that if they changed their forum, "The Well," to more of an anonymous forum-type site that they'd have more lurkers and therefore more subscriptions. But, $18 for a year is not a big deal. I think the problem has been that people didn't want to pay for content that they weren't sure of. $18 for information for the year is nothing. Plus, now they have the option to simply spend 10 seconds clicking through an advertisement and you can read for free. I spend more than that bursting the pop-ups on regular sites, so I have no problem with Salon charging $18. In fact, you have NO pop-ups with Salon, period, so it's worth reading for that fact alone! Hope other people check it out too.