New Pro Plan will reduce article comments, which are the life blood of Seeking Alpha
I am concerned that locking out the majority of investors with a high priced Pro plan to Seeking Alpha will destroy the main reason I go to this site. And this is the comments under each article. I find these comments more valuable at times than the article itself. With less people being able to participate in the comments, Seeking Alpha will be less valuable to me, and not worth the subscription cost. If the same level of comments were there, I might consider a subscription, but the participation in the comments areas are now assured to wither away and die.
I can't tell you how many great comments shot holes in the articles, or gave alternative stocks that ended up the real winners. Don't discount the importance of the large group of non-subscribers that used to comment in the articles. You need to go back to the non-subscription model to return this great content and participation. I would not consider a subscription to Seeking Alpha with a depleted comments section.
This forcing a subscription will destroy the fabric of Seeking Alpha that we all learned to love.
Hope this note gets to the right people. Seeking Alpha may not have realized the serious unintended consequences of a forced subscription model!
Anyone agree or disagree, please post here.
This change is horrible. Especially for stocks that don't get a flood of articles. Stocks that investors really need articles about. For these, less loved stocks, the 10 day wall is extremely limiting. It essentially locks ALL articles! Please change the 10 day wall do something more reasonable like 6 months. I've already started using Motley Fool at this point because I can no longer see any articles on SA.
So How do you rate The Fool? Is it worth the $100/yr or is it more for everything once you get in. I think their current ads and then using Google, Amazon, as examples of their picks is a little bit much which has kept me at Bay.