Remember back around 8 plus years ago when the comment section of the online CDA Press was the fun place to hang out? The comments would sometimes number well over 100, and for the most part most of the participants were conservative. Well excluding Lizardly Larry’s hysterics. Then Mike Patrick decided to dump around 150 or more regular commentors, and it turned into a ghost town overnight. Tumbleweeds and dust devils were the new norm.
Then a few years later they limited the number of articles you could read to 10 
per month, unless you paid for a subscription. But nimble net ninjas soon discovered that they could read 10 more articles if they used a different browser. Savage and well played net ninjas, you taught us well.
Fast forward to the last few years. Aside from the occasional blip of maybe 10 plus comments on an article, most articles had no comments outside spam selling cheap sunglasses. With the paid subscription bit and the lack of comments….it was Boring with a capital B.
Now the latest news is the comment section has now faced a dodo sized extinction…Elvis has left the building. Add to that a new wrinkle. All letters to the editor during the voting primaries will have a priority given to paid subscribers. As the kids say in video game language, that’s “Pay to Play”. Meaning the person that’s dumped the most money wins. No longer are skills necessary, it’s all about a fat wallet. That’s essentially what the Press has done with this latest move. You want your letter published? Well subscribe and kiss the ring you peasant, lest your letter is filed in the waste bin.
Now we’re trying to figure out a year the Press will close shop. Their stories are as fresh as last week’s stale coffee with a sad dead fly floating in it. Readership is dwindling and they have trouble giving it away as packing paper. Well played Mr. Patrick, if the goal was to kill the CDA Press, you’re closing in on that goal.
Thank you for reading,
Chester, happy that our readership is up.