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Paying to comment stops spam, not trolls

I agree with that from a spam farm perspective, where you have just massive amounts of Viagra spam going out into the world. But there's another layer of sort of low quality commenting that doesn't really get dealt with when it comes to that.

Episode 78: Dice in the Can (episode page, opens in a new tab) March 18, 2022, 2:05 p.m. CT 00:25:31 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Dave agrees that requiring payment for comments improves quality by stopping mass spam. But it doesn't stop trolls: if a comment costs only a sat, it's no real barrier to someone who wants to be nasty.