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This is a tough vote for me, because I enjoy spending my time with CS/hacker related content and yet I fancy politics. But what I do have a problem with is the

This is a tough vote for me, because I enjoy spending my time with CS/hacker related content and yet I fancy politics. But what I do have a problem with is the links to subscription-only content. Very often, it appears that the Wall Street Journal articles are submitted and approved to HN, but when I go to try and view this article(usually with a great title- often that might be something I would like to read), it turns out that I need to be a subscriber to the WSJ - hogwash! If this is all about what good hackers would find interesting, IMO, it should be in the realm of the free too. In other words, articles that require a subscription should not be submitted... unless of course all of HN's readers have a subscription and I'm just missing out...

mattmaroon 18y ago
I think we can all agree that stuff behind a paywall sucks.
rms 18y ago
I think the WSJ articles go subscription 1-2 weeks after they are published. So they are free for a while and then they disappear from the internet.
- fauigerzigerk 18y ago
  It doesn't appear to be as simple as that. Some new articles are accessible but others are not. It's confusing.
  - LogicHoleFlaw 18y ago
    I've never seen a WSJ paywall on HN? Is it possible I'm blocking a cookie or something which disables them?
greendestiny 18y ago
Surely its not a CS/politics dichotomy? Really the voting system works quite well except for those articles where we vote to show our support. I think staying away from American politics is a good rule of thumb - there is little chance that articles will be rated on their quality or relevance.
- meredydd 18y ago
  ...staying away from American politics... Good gracious. Might I suggest that America does not have a monopoly on political controversy (nor on visitors to this site)? It may be an election year, and the country fairly heavily polarised at the moment, but fierce partisanship is no more exclusively American than apple pie is. (For an immediate example, take a peek at the proportion of reddit currently obsessed with the situation in Georgia.)
  - greendestiny 18y ago
    I didn't mean to suggest there is anything special about American politics but Americans do form the largest proportion of visitors to this site. Georgia and Russia were at war, its nothing like the minutia of American politics that gets discussed on reddit.

mattmaroon 18y ago

I think we can all agree that stuff behind a paywall sucks.

rms 18y ago

I think the WSJ articles go subscription 1-2 weeks after they are published. So they are free for a while and then they disappear from the internet.

fauigerzigerk 18y ago
It doesn't appear to be as simple as that. Some new articles are accessible but others are not. It's confusing.
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y ago
  I've never seen a WSJ paywall on HN? Is it possible I'm blocking a cookie or something which disables them?

greendestiny 18y ago

Surely its not a CS/politics dichotomy? Really the voting system works quite well except for those articles where we vote to show our support. I think staying away from American politics is a good rule of thumb - there is little chance that articles will be rated on their quality or relevance.

meredydd 18y ago
...staying away from American politics... Good gracious. Might I suggest that America does not have a monopoly on political controversy (nor on visitors to this site)? It may be an election year, and the country fairly heavily polarised at the moment, but fierce partisanship is no more exclusively American than apple pie is. (For an immediate example, take a peek at the proportion of reddit currently obsessed with the situation in Georgia.)
- greendestiny 18y ago
  I didn't mean to suggest there is anything special about American politics but Americans do form the largest proportion of visitors to this site. Georgia and Russia were at war, its nothing like the minutia of American politics that gets discussed on reddit.