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Please don't post articles that require sign in.

• deleted 11y ago
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• dang 11y ago
  This question is settled on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989. Articles behind paywalls are ok as long as the paywall has a workaround. Comments helping people read an article are ok. Generic paywall complaints are off topic.
  • colinshark 11y ago
    It's not settled. These links are annoying.
    • dang 11y ago
      I didn't say everyone agreed—that's clearly not the case. But we've made the decision and you can read about our reasoning at that link. Yes, the paywalls are annoying, but HN would be much poorer without any articles from those publications, and that's more important. Hence the site policy is: (1) if there's a standard workaround, then posting them is ok, (2) flagging them for that reason alone is an abuse of flagging, and (3) comments generically complaining about this are off topic.