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That's true enough if it's a straight choice between those two scenarios. But it's a quirk of human nature that if you try and do something 3 times a week you're less likely to stick to it than doing something every day without fail. If it's only 3 times a week then it's easy to say to yourself "I'll leave it until tomorrow".
I did something like this using C++ template metaprogramming, which means you can make use of the compiler to figure out the types for you, and you just have to write class templates to produce the English description. It's described at http://blog.asymptotic.co.uk/2011/02/c-type-declaration-deco... , although somewhere along the line the markup got corrupted so the code samples don't quite render correctly.
I'm not the OP, but I've worked for Samaritans (http://www.samaritans.org/) in the UK. I'd be happy to discuss by email at 7cot.10.fishpi@spamgourmet.com if that's useful to you.
I'm not sure that "can't afford" is the right conclusion. The amount of money a site makes off each person by showing ads is miniscule, so almost anyone could afford to pay at least as much for the content as the adverts make.
I think it's more likely that the mental overhead of choosing whether to pay for something (which is roughly constant, even for small amounts of money) adds enough friction to the process that charging small amounts never works.
As it stands, the description is quite vague. It might be better to increase the focus on what you feel is the unique selling point of this community, and de-emphasise the stuff that you can do in lots of other places (e.g. share code).
Also, you have a couple of typos and grammar errors on the front page. This isn't a big deal, but it detracts from the feel of a serious project. I'm at work, but if I find time later I'll send you a pull request with some corrections.
When I looked at doing the same thing a few years ago, I found it was explicitly ruled out in the conditions attached to the eBay API. There may be a way to get by under the radar, but I considered it a sufficiently sketchy business model I abandoned the idea.
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