Again, directly charging popular users is detrimental to the service and ensures that <i>only</i> commercial users can safely become popular. Charging horse_ebooks for having 200k followers ruins the fun.<p>I&#x27;m still a fan of &quot;payment, but optional and decoupled from account holdership&quot; (like reddit gold that users are encouraged to buy for others) and &quot;payment for the privilege of having abuse complaints investigated by a real human&quot;.