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[MichaelCrawford]

Kuro5hin's alexa rank is about 300,000 also many stories have significant pagerank. One can see from google trends that k5 is a popular site to read, but the five dollar one-time troll suppression fee discourages new members.

[chris_wot → MichaelCrawford]

I'd consider this a positive, not a negative.

[MichaelCrawford → chris_wot]

That fee was established to keep a lid on Jason Pawloski, no one else.

Unfortunately, five dollars is far beyond the means of much of the earth's population.