Comments on: Would you be interested in Scienceblogs Premium Services?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:25:58 +0000

Nope, I can’t even FTP shit to my own server. I’d have more control on blogspot. I get the blog post div and the left column div.

By: blahblah

blahblah — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:03:53 +0000

Oh. I thought with all your linux ninja stuff you were involved with the technical support for this site. Also, I always see the Scienceblogs business plan posts from here so I thought you were heavily involved with the company.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:57:49 +0000

I have no idea how many yes/no answers there are, and I’ll never know. It is not my survey.

I will tell you that when I filled out my survey form, I basically said “no” to everything. I hate premium sites and i don’t much like logging in to sites either, though I’ll do that sometimes.

By: Blahblah

Blahblah — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:52:41 +0000

How many Yes answers did you get Greg?

By: Randouche

Randouche — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:12:59 +0000

A: No

is this place swirling the bowl or what? That might change the answer…

Q for Sb: Why do you ask?

By: becca

becca — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:19:05 +0000

I would pay $4/month, as long as ‘premium services’ included a pie of the month (and we’re talking *quality* pie)

By: Glendon Mellow

Glendon Mellow — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:51:29 +0000

I agree with Jennifer. I don’t really need any of those so-called premium services.

It sounds like it’s trying to be more like a combination of Nature and Richard Dawkins forums with $ attached. I hardly ever log into those though I have a profile. It’s just one more profile to keep track of when I just want to use my email, url and name.

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:32:51 +0000

Hell no.

By: netjaeger

netjaeger — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:36:04 +0000

I would like experiments. I.e. what’s going on, more of it, and more chances with different stuff.

After that it gets fuzzy, smile.

By: Jennifer Ouellette

Jennifer Ouellette — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:20:43 +0000

The wording on the survey wasn’t very clear. I would pay a small subscription fee to unfettered access to ScienceBlogs, since I find this blog-community well worth following and participating in. But I hate “membership” kinds of things, and most of the extra “services” that were listed as possibly being included in such a premium deal would be of no interest to me.

So… based on current wording? No. Which is not to say that I don’t value the SB content, and wouldn’t ever pay a small amount for it. I just don’t need all the other stuff that apparently would go along with a “Premium Service.”