AsyLum said:
Supposedly we're the new Microsoft, squeezing the life out of kids by forcing them to join the coalition of the willing or perish..
correct. Through allowing for discrimination between paying and non paying members in regards to access to resources, you are in effect giving a further advantage to those students who are from wealthy backgrounds, therefore assisting the propagation and expansion of a class divide, through heightening their probability of HSC success. Thus you create a spiral whereby the standard of achievement is raised, - this is by no means a bad thing, however, stratified access to opportunity is - but what it means is that those who previously wouldn't have seen the need to pay for such access will be pressured into doing so - and putting money in your pockets - so as not to 'fall behind'
Furthermore, given that the vast majority of the resources on the website and that you will be expanding upon are in fact user submitted. You are engaging in exploitation through yielding a benefit through the labour of others. Many people will be offended by this and I suspect that this will be a catalyst for the creation of alternative, more community orientated databases that will be the demise of this website.
You guys aren't worthy of respect.
