Martin Does Not Believe in Free Speech and is Anti-Freedom

[K@th]

[Montegriffo]

There you go, that's worth a cent of Martin's money any day of the week.

[Okeefenokee]

Those aren't cats.

[de officiis]

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

[katarn]

Well, I have to say, as a student who only seldom gets to check in on here, I like the flat rate idea. It's a great idea, you wouldn't believe how great an idea it is.

[heydaralon]

HD, I've taken some time off from the important work of searching for cute kitten pics in order to give this subject the serious consideration it deserves.
First of all I'd like to thank you for the selfless effort you've put in to this matter and although I'm sure that your motives for suggesting a flat rate per account are genuine I think it isn't the way forward for two main reasons.
First of all your payment plan doesn't take into consideration compensation for the time spent on posting the valuable insights this place is known for which was your stated intention. For example, Deo's occasional copy and pasting of frivolous legal matters like the 4th ammendment would receive equal payment as my invaluable trebuchet memes and I'm sure you would agree that's just not right.
Secondly and more importantly as you have said yourself a flat rate per account is open to massive corruption. Let's face it, not everyone can be trusted to be as scrupulously honest as yourself. Personally the satisfaction I gain, from the knowledge that my posts explaining the laws of cricket are what keeps people coming back to to the MHF, is payment enough but others are more money oriented than you and I.
So I'd like to put forward my suggestion for a fair and equal solution to this thorny problem. I think a flat rate of 1 cent per post is the answer. To solve the possible cheating some might employ by endlessly repeating the same thing over and over I think the payment should only be made for posts containing original content.
In this way Nuke can finally make true his ambition to become a full time alcoholic and StA will be able to fund his gym membership and steroid adiction. Capps will be able to buy whatever you can get for 1 cent these days.

You are forgetting to adjust for inflation Monte. In the early days of the internet, 1 cent would have been able to purchase a month's worth of food. Nowadays, it won't even buy you a cup of gas station coffee. I think $25 per post would be fair. Actually, it wouldn't, because my posts are worth far more than that, but I am trying to spare Martin's wallet a little bit, even though he should have paid me thousands of dollars for my past contributions. Please think before you post Monte, because some of us are hurting for cash, and Martin may be the key to financial success and free expression. Your cavalier attitude makes a mockery of the brutal struggle that happens every time I submit a comment on MHF.

[Montegriffo]

Be reasonable Heydaralon, If Martin were to pay $25 for each of the 155,000 posts that have so far been made he would use up all the cash that has fallen down the back of his sofa. He might even be forced to limit his world travel to only 51 weeks per year. You wouldn't want that on your conscience would you?

[clubgop]

No? You a Suess guy?

[clubgop]

Capps will also approve cause it puts circumcision in a bad light.

[SuburbanFarmer]

What fresh idiocy is this?