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You say that as if their costs should be my costs, as a creator of content for them. The way the real world works, it's the other way around. They should be paying me to write for them. This is how youtube works for instance. Do the youtube content creators pay youtube for the privilege of putting their videos up? No, of course not, it works the other way around, youtube pays them, some of them like pewdiepie, millions of dollars a year. And he's not even GOOD at video games. Do reporters pay newspapers for the privilege of writing for them? No, of course not, they get paid a salary by the newspapers for doing work for them and making their news institution the institution that it is, the readers who buy the newspapers are the ones who pay the newspaper institution money to read what the content creators wrote. If I sent my stories to a sci-fi magazine, they could choose to publish it or not, but regardless they're certainly not going to charge ME money for the privilege of them doing so, their readers or businesses they sell advertisement space to would be the ones paying any money they get. I don't CARE what the printing costs are for the sci-fi magazine, or what writing.com pays their webhost (and I pay like 150 dollars a year for my website's webhost and I get several gigabytes of space, so MY contribution to writing.com's "server costs" are literally nothing, it wouldn't even add to a penny a year, and if they think I will pay them 15 or 20 bucks every 3 months to cover their "costs" for me or else they'll delete all but 10 tiny text files of mine, they're in for a surprise), it's not my place to pay it for them, they can either pay me or bare bare minimum host it for free, or get bent and ultimately have nothing that anyone would want to come here to read on their website. I mean, this FORUM POST, right here, is using more physical hard drive space than plenty of my static items yet I'm getting this for free. It makes no sense whatsoever for them to charge me for the privilege of doing for them the thing that actually does them good.