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flintstone277
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While I realize you are attempting to make as much money as possible, blocking people from reading the comments or making comments to articles that we read months ago and have been conversing on for months is going to destroy your clientele and you will never get new subscribers.  There is a cost benefit to where the line should be drawn and cutting off everyone is stupid.  If we have no reason to come to SA as a non-premium user then the term premium is a lie.  There is no usage for anything other than premium makes premium just a basic fee for access.  SA is hardly the only place and beginning to be the worst place to read and comment on market news.  Stupid is as stupid does.  Block all access and block all potential.

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New "cover screen" over old comment streams is rendering SA as a useless place to go

As an SA user since 2010 I have watched you slowly destroy the reasons to come here.  Now you have blocked access to past comment streams on 'expired' articles, without a subscription.  That's pretty much the last straw.  Why would I want to come here any more if I can't go back more than a couple weeks to see content from past comment streams?

Your attempts to monetize SA are destroying its value and the chances of ever reaching your goal.  Given the multiple "surprise" restrictive changes that seem to appear without warning, how do you honestly expect anyone to subscribe to anything?  I've no desire to do so simply because I believe you would continue to turn the screw every couple months by further restricting what my money buys in the way of access.

For now, I'll likely keep reviewing free content, but one day in the not too distant future, I will probably just give up on SA entirely.  I can see the lengthy stream of complaints you receive in this vein, and yet you continue on by incrementally destroying what little value remains.

Best of luck with that.

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flintstone277

SA why are you still notifying us that there are new comments for old articles if it is IMPOSSIBLE to access or read or respond.  STUPID ASS POLICY!!

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Downtown10

Will definitely lead to less comments in articles, lessening the experience for current premium users, maybe making them question why they are paying to be premium.

I would pay maybe $5 a month for greater access, but no more than that.

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Downtown10

flintstone277, I am in total agreement with your take on this.  I, like others, will certainly be using this site less, so less eyeballs viewing the advertisers.  I hope their premium viewer revenue outweighs the loss from the ad revenue.

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flintstone277

@A Hettinger,  SA is of the opinion apparently, that they can force users into paying for premium and/or they think that punishing people is a way to get more business!  FOOLS they are!!

Click on your favorite authors and send a note to each one telling them of this fiasco and maybe they will have some influence over SA since this new policy will destroy the ability of authors to make as much as before and will vastly decrease the number of comments on articles quickly.

Hope we can start a revolution and get SA to rethink their policies.  

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A Hettinger

The non-skippable popup is just awful. Worse, it ALSO blocks any access to the nav menu at the top, you have to refresh and click on something else before the popup comes back.


I don't know what moron thought it was a good idea, but they need fired.