After 12 years, over 3600 comments and over 11,630 likes, I have suddenly been notified that I have reached my free article limit. Too bad as many authors have enjoyed my contributions but I am not interested in paying.
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Agree! It’s all about the money. It’s always all about the money.
Maybe if SA did some pruning of their own it would be worth the premium membership. Sadly, they continue to allow bad authors, recommending bad investment ideas to unsuspecting readers. Look at the calls from the folks over at HIGH DIVIDEND OPPORTUNITIES. Absolutely horrid advice causing less knowledgeable readers to lose a lot if they take their advice. Everyone can make a bad call now and then but consistently being horrible should get you kicked off as an author. Then there’s the Pinball Wizard… Avi Gilbert. Has to police every commenter if they’ve disagreed with his position in the past. No free speech allowed. Only rave reviews will be tolerated.
Seeking Alpha is becoming more and more like a Facebook or an Instagram. Give us your money and just agree with us and you’re good to go.
Same thing happened to me after 4+ years. Basically useless app now and will seek other sites for information, this is a stupid decision by SA CEO or President. Service is not strong enough to warrant subscription IMO. Will backfire, will lose views and comments from the many, many many free subscriber accounts. Take a look at your advertisement view numbers and notice the trend going downwards. Not even YouTube is stupid enough to limit viewers. SA see you later its over for me.
This feels like double dipping. Same thing happened to me here and without any warning. Actually right before hand they were giving me a free look at premium which I thought was just some kind of demo to test drive the premium services. But I never signed up for it. When it expired I got hit by the paywall for what used to be mostly free content. I always thought the free articles were the decision of the authors. For example, authors can publish only to their paid service or they could publish it to the free section. I thought the idea was so that nonpaying readers could see some of their work and then if they liked it sign up for the newsletter. So now I have to pay to read the articles that are published trying to convince me that their newsletter is worth paying for.
I don't blame anyone for wanting to make money. Seekingalpha is certainly better than what has become fool.com which is just a pump and dump website if you ask me. But the way this was rolled out and knowing most of the articles are either half baked rah rah analysis and | or and advertisement for someone's pay for newsletter service. Not sure I want to pay for that.
I appreciate SA;s desire to make revenue - but they're going to lose what makes them valuable. Should try a different model.