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vasco 8y ago
I know it goes against the HN ethos to just bitch about paywalled articles being shared on the regular, and that upvotes sort it out, and that if they still go to the top is presumably because the core audience already subscribes to these publications. And still, I can't stop myself from wanting to flag all such articles on account of thinking about HN as an open and free site that should allow everyone to consume content equally, without having to resort to these schemes like internet archive, browser extensions and other workarounds.
- deleted 8y ago
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- KyeRussell 8y ago
  No matter what publications will tell you, introducing advertising will - to an extent - corrupt the journalistic process. Is this something you’re okay with, or does reporting just not have financial worth to you?
  - austenallred 8y ago
    You know what else corrupts the journalistic process? Going out of business.
- andrewla 8y ago
  An interesting feature idea would be to allow there to be multiple links for a given article topic, and allow upvoting and downvoting on the particular links, without having to submit new links that are not obviously related to the same story (and do not share comment threads, etc.). This might lead to a little bit of confusion over particular points made in one of the articles, but it would be balanced against the accessibility of other news sources, and would give us a way to organically work free of blog spam.
- payloader 8y ago
  I personally feel that this is sort of a bullying tactic. These people go to school spend hours creating content. They employ journalist, editors and web admins to bring quality articles to the masses. Its one thing to support free/opensource software and encourage it. It is another to force it on creators. If someone doesnt want to offer their articles for free or their software for free that should be respected. It shouldnt be hacked around and forcefully (obvriously not in the assult manner) taken. Instead of pirating software or copying content how about you write your own article. Dont force your ideals on others. Pay walls suck but the least we can do is watch some ads. I dont use ad block because youtube is worth something to me. And if this wsj is not worth the signup then I should just go without.

I know it goes against the HN ethos to just bitch about paywalled articles being shared on the regular, and that upvotes sort it out, and that if they still go to the top is presumably because the core audience already subscribes to these publications. And still, I can't stop myself from wanting to flag all such articles on account of thinking about HN as an open and free site that should allow everyone to consume content equally, without having to resort to these schemes like internet archive, browser extensions and other workarounds.

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KyeRussell 8y ago
No matter what publications will tell you, introducing advertising will - to an extent - corrupt the journalistic process. Is this something you’re okay with, or does reporting just not have financial worth to you?
- austenallred 8y ago
  You know what else corrupts the journalistic process? Going out of business.
andrewla 8y ago
An interesting feature idea would be to allow there to be multiple links for a given article topic, and allow upvoting and downvoting on the particular links, without having to submit new links that are not obviously related to the same story (and do not share comment threads, etc.). This might lead to a little bit of confusion over particular points made in one of the articles, but it would be balanced against the accessibility of other news sources, and would give us a way to organically work free of blog spam.
payloader 8y ago
I personally feel that this is sort of a bullying tactic. These people go to school spend hours creating content. They employ journalist, editors and web admins to bring quality articles to the masses. Its one thing to support free/opensource software and encourage it. It is another to force it on creators. If someone doesnt want to offer their articles for free or their software for free that should be respected. It shouldnt be hacked around and forcefully (obvriously not in the assult manner) taken. Instead of pirating software or copying content how about you write your own article. Dont force your ideals on others. Pay walls suck but the least we can do is watch some ads. I dont use ad block because youtube is worth something to me. And if this wsj is not worth the signup then I should just go without.