Hi,

Kushal Mehrotra
Data QA Analyst, Seeking Alpha

You said: 

"The good news is that even without a paid subscription, you will now be able to access any article on any stock. However, there will also be a monthly limit on how many articles you can read for free. Once you reach your limit, in order to read additional articles, you will be asked to subscribe to Seeking Alpha Premium."

That seems quite fair,  but what is the limit?  And why aren't you offering  the details to us? Forgive me for asking you for a bit more detail.  My main concern is that your new model allows one to get access to older articles,  but if one goes back to the same older article one time or 10 times, does that count as 1 or 10? 

There shouldn't  be a limit or penalty if one is actively involved in multiple discussions with others on SA  that might go on for months (like I have with @tdot and @ricj).   

So Kushal,

I guess my main point is just this: 

cut any of us off as much as you need to to make your business model work,

but cutting off folks who are tying to respond to others on your network?  Not a good idea.  

Hello everyone, 

I'm not sure why, but I now seem to be able to access the SA article that I've been locked out of for the last several days where I was trying to respond to comments directed at me.    Just wanted to provide full disclosure. 

Very frustrating, indeed.  I suppose that a certain percentage of the folks that get the message that they can't get back to the thread without turning on premium will do so and turn on the 7 day free trial. And a percentage of those keep the subscription.  Simple marketing, I suppose. 

Before my bad experiences started with one of Seeking Alphas groups about four years or so ago,  I would have considered a premium subscription. But Seeking Alpha has been a net loss for me over the last several years.  I've spent most of my time on Seeking Alpha over the last 4 years trying to keep people honest instead of doing what one should be on Seeking Alpha to achieve - to learn and share in an honest environment.  

Please understand that I'm not suggesting that all of Seeking Alpha is bad, I can guarantee you that I've had many positive learning and sharing experiences on SA.   But I am I am disappointed that SA allows what appears to be organized groups of folks to pump up certain stocks and try to drive people that don't support their position away.  Sort of a "fake news" kind of situation that SA has turned a blind eye to for years now.  

In my earlier post, I mentioned that perhaps LeJoy could step in to help with this issue.  I've had many email discussions with LeJoy over the years and he has seen the problems I'm referring to for most of his roughly 4 years at Seeking Alpha. 

I'm not very hopeful that the issue will be resolved easily,  but if we don't make our concerns known, if definitely would improve.  

I'd encourage everyone to do there be to let SA know what their issues are.  It won't change if we don't tell them. 

It's pretty screwed up and has been going on for weeks now.  I wouldn't care so much, except that I'm not allowed to respond to folks that I've been engaged in exchanges with over several days or weeks.  

I'd also like to take this opportunity to make a correction.  I reached out to "Lajoy" at Seeking Alpha to perhaps help with this - It should have read "Lejoy".