Rant: STLToday -- Answer a survey question to continue

[GeddyWrox]

PHUCK YOU and your stupid surveys. I am about ready to remove you from my favorites bar. OMG you suck.

[Fat_Bulldog]

Yeah, I'm on board with this.

Having to answer a survey question to read an article. I guess they need more data for their advertisers to target specific audiences.

[Jocephus]

hah yeah i came across that yesterday for the first time. definitely makes me want to read them less.

[Freed Roger]

Print edition for me. The times I go on Stltoday while on the move are frustrating

[Radbird]

I just won't go the website anymore. The mobile app doesn't appear to have it yet.

[mikechamp]

I only go to their mobile site, but one question seems better than paying $ per article.

[IMADreamer]

and I'm done. I'll never got back there. I took them off my bookmarks list.

[ghostrunner]

It seems to me like people want to have it both ways with newspapers. We want investigative reporting, we want substantive news, but we expect papers to provide all that content for free with no strings. People complained about the NYT paywall, but they've succeeded with it and maintain a pretty robust staff that provides a lot of unique information. Either they charge outright, they load the page up with advertising which many people will block with browser plugins, or they do something like this. Or you count on the ownership publishing the paper at a loss or reduced profit, which is a pipe dream.

Contrast that with TV news, which is almost uniformly horrid, and requires you to sit through 4 or 5 commercials every 15 minutes.

[IMADreamer]

I'm fine with ads, perfectly fine with them, I even click on them sometimes. However blocking content until I answer a damn survey question is terrible. It's just like a website that throws a big pop up in front of me. Do that and I'm gone.

[obucard]

I'm fine with ads, perfectly fine with them, I even click on them sometimes. However blocking content until I answer a damn survey question is terrible. It's just like a website that throws a big pop up in front of me. Do that and I'm gone.

This. If I can easily ignore it, I'm okay. When I can't ignore it, I have an issue.