Originally Posted by
scarfy96
Ahh no it wasn't, it evolved from sharing research data at Universities. It was never designed to provide free info, it has evolved.
If you want quality anything you have to pay for it. Do you work for free? If not why do you expect others to. Once upon a time advertising revenue could support websites but Google and Facebook destroyed that. Who is going to report on local news if there are no locally employed reporters? Or do you expect them to volunteer their time for you?