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Why medium specifically? You’d have to ban just about every news and media outlet.
by cactus2093 5y ago
Why medium specifically? You’d have to ban just about every news and media outlet.
- swyx 5y agonews/media livelihoods depend on that paywall, i'm fine with that. medium literally exists to just put a wall between you and the authors content. nobody's making real money blogging on medium. and HN is an audience of developers, for whom standing up their own blog is trivial. ironically dev.to is shadowbanned on HN (understandable because lots of blogpspam), when medium is the one that gives readers a terrible reading experience.
- throwaway98797 5y agoi’ll take terrible reading experience over poor content any day.
- coldtea 5y agoWhy pick one? With Medium you can enjoy both!
- LeftTriangle 5y agoGood, we should ban other paywall spam sites like NYT as well.
- jiofih 5y agoYes, please. I’ve been asking for this for years but mods usually flag my comments. Links should only be allowed to the public internet.
- pluc 5y agoSeriously does nobody think of moderation? I moderate a large sub on reddit and there are local news outlets that allow 4 articles a month and then you have to use trickery to get around the paywall to read the article. As a moderator I need to ensure the articles are related and comply with the rules - you know what I do when I reach the 5th article? For the rest of the month that site gets no posts on our sub.
- pavel_lishin 5y agoAs another moderator, that doesn't seem like a great approach; you're effectively punishing the readers of your sub for someone else's decision, somewhat arbitrarily. Your subscribers may not have hit that 4-article limit.
- leshenka 5y agoGood for them. Now what about rest of us?
- pavel_lishin 5y agoThe decision to ban partial-paywall sites is fine, but doing it just for a month after the moderator personally runs into a problem seems very subjective.
- dang 5y agoOut of curiosity, I looked up your past comments that have been flagged. Users flagged them, not mods. I didn't study the content closely, but it certainly looked like the flags were fair.