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Is there an option to hide pay walled stories because I don't see it. Can you tell me where it is?

• krapp 10y ago
  The option to hide paywalled stories is the same as with any other story - if you see a story you want to hide, click the 'hide' link. It's literally no more work than flagging it (which is an abuse of flagging rights), and less work than complaining about it (which is off-topic ranting.)
  • Fuxy 10y ago
    You do realize that completely defeats the prosperous of what I'm asking for right? A setting that would hide every pay-walled article would avoid me ranting on it because I never see it. On the other hand in your situation I seed the article title get intrigued click on it get pay-walled and then I get pissed off and hide it. The purpose or hiding it is to avoid aggravation not hiding it for the sake of hiding it.
    • krapp 10y ago
      >On the other hand in your situation I seed the article title get intrigued click on it get pay-walled and then I get pissed off and hide it. Yes. Because paywalled articles aren't off topic here (as has already been established by the staff), but rage-posting about them is. I suspect many of the people who do post indignant comments about paywalls are aware an article is paywalled to begin with, as the usual suspect domains and sites are well known. If it happens that you didn't know, now you're aware that Forbes uses paywalls, so it should be easy for you to simply choose to never click on a link from Forbes on Hacker News again. The correct solution is to either hide the article or ignore it - or, indeed, to click on it, see that it's paywalled, and then hide it or ignore it. The topic of this thread is "Wal-Mart Proves Open Source Is Big Business" not "Fuxy is triggered by advertising." If you refuse to engage with the article on any meaningful level, then don't engage with the thread, it's that simple.