<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm not exactly sure when it started, but I think the fee has been around for a few years. See: <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/newuser.mefi">http://www.metafilter.com/newuser.mefi</a><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/newuser.mefi"></a>Anyway, I do agree that the requirement to log in is a key factor in terms of evaluating the difference in community between the two. </div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 1, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Steven Walling <<a href="mailto:swalling@wikimedia.org">swalling@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Note the other huge difference at Metafilter: you have a pay a small fee<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">just to create an account, ...<br></blockquote><br><br>I may be old, but when I signed up ages ago, there was no such fee. I<br>see a larger difference in that you cannot participate in MeFi without<br>an account.<br><br>We should perhaps invite Jessamyn West to this discussion, btw - she's<br>a moderator on MeFi and a Wikipedian.<br><br>-Ole<br><br>-- <br><a href="http://palnatoke.org">http://palnatoke.org</a> * @palnatoke * +4522934588<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Gendergap mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org">Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Walling</div><div>Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation<br><a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/">wikimediafoundation.org</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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