https://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/09/digg_and_netsca.html
Whats funny to me about all of this is that its essentially the same discussions, arguments and decisions to be made that were made by AOL back in the days before unlimited usage. The staff (later community leaders) that were the unpaid 1% lived their lives to create the community for AOL updating content, patroling chat rooms and message boards, etc. AOL decided to go unlimited and ditch the cyber cops in order to compete for dial-up dollars.If they would have only continued to cultivate community, instead of dive for pennies, they could have kept an elite walled garden alive.- Stafford