Paid or open comments on Substack?

Paid-only comments work far better for some writers than open comments

Earlier today, I ran into a post on Notes that I found irritating and silly. I am not going to link to the post as I do not wish to cause the writer who said it any distress, but this is basically what she said:

Paid-only comments are used by writers who only want to hear from people who agree with them.

Since there are undoubtedly some writers who agree…