想评论一下平板电脑杂志网站上的一篇报道吗？你得付钱。犹太人的“每日犹太新闻，思想和文化在线杂志”正在测试一种新的货币化方法，就像现代的放纵：要留下评论，你必须选择并支付一个费率：每天2美元，每月18美元，或每年180美元。

这是成年礼！

平板电脑主编阿兰娜·纽豪斯（Alana Newhouse）写道：“互联网尽管有着种种奇迹，但它对文明和建设性的讨论提出了挑战，有时甚至允许具有破坏性的（通常是匿名的）个人用谩骂（甚至更糟）来拖垮它。与其完全关闭评论（正如一些媒体开始做的那样），我们还将尝试其他方法：让你们中那些想在网站上发表评论的人支付一笔象征性的费用——与其说是支付墙，还不如说是表明自己对伟大对话事业的承诺。”

纽豪斯指出，那些不愿意支付费用的人仍然可以通过其众多社交网络渠道在网站上发表评论，或者直接通过电子邮件与网站联系。回溯到纸质杂志，其中一小部分信件将每周在给编辑部的信中发表。

出于对价格选择的好奇，我通过Gchat联系了我的妻子，寻求解释：

WHAT! THAT IS AMAZING! you know why it's $18 and $180 right 18 = chai in Hebrew each letter in the hebrew alphabet has a numerical value. chet is 8 and yud is 10, those are the two letters that spell "chai" and they add up to 18 chai means life so it's a mitzvah to give money in increments of 18 or that has 18 involved on bar/bat mitzvahs most gifts are like $36 or some such b/c that's double chai i LOVE this. they're basically making you pay to be an asshole

当然，有一种观点认为，收取评论费是一种古典主义，而在一个网站上留下反馈的小特权每天2美元，只邀请那些有钱的人参与网站上的对话。但这只是一个更大范围的对话的一部分，这个对话涉及到人们认为的在私有网站上自由发表评论的权利。不管怎样，现在在一个平板电脑的底部，读者会发现关于评论政策的解释：

COMMENTING CHARGES Daily rate: $2 Monthly rate: $18 Yearly rate: $180 WAIT, WHY DO I HAVE TO PAY TO COMMENT? Tablet is committed to bringing you the best, **artest, most enlightening and entertaining reporting and writing on Jewish life, all free of charge. We take pride in our community of readers, and are thrilled that you choose to engage with us in a way that is both thoughtful and thought-provoking. But the Internet, for all of its wonders, poses challenges to civilized and c***tructive discussion, allowing vocal-and, often, anonymous-minorities to drag it down with invective (and worse). Starting today, then, we are asking people who'd like to post comments on the site to pay a nominal fee-less a paywall than a gesture of your own commitment to the cause of great conversation. All proceeds go to helping us bring you the ambitious journali** that brought you here in the first place. I NEED TO BE HEARD! BUT I DONT WANT TO PAY. Readers can still interact with us free of charge via Facebook, Twitter, and our other social media channels, or write to us at [email protected]. Each week, we'll select the best letters and publish them in a new letters to the editor feature on the Scroll. We hope this new largely symbolic measure will help us create a more pleasant and cultivated environment for all of our readers, and, as always, we thank you deeply for your support.

Verge的评论仍然是自由的。请随意在下面使用它们。