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In case anyone wonders over the low vote count, for me just now, the link only briefly shows the article before swapping it for a paywall.
by mncharity 1mo ago
In case anyone wonders over the low vote count, for me just now, the link only briefly shows the article before swapping it for a paywall.
- nephihaha 1mo agoCareful. The last time I mentioned this issue I got told off for it!!!
- emdash 1mo agoReally? I'm curious as to why
- PyWoody 1mo agoBecause paywalls are trivial to bypass and it's exhausting hearing people constantly complain about them. The GP in this thread has been on HN for 10 years. They should know how to bypass it by now. Hell, four minutes after they posted someone posted the bypassed link.
- Jtsummers 1mo agoThe FAQ even addresses it: > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.
- mncharity 1mo agoInteresting. At the time, the vote count was notably low given the post age, and there were no comments IIRC. So my thought was, to avoid the poster thinking "well that didn't work - I guess HN didn't like this - doesn't want future similar posts from me", by noting an engagement funnel bounce step they may not have been aware of. Given that paywalls are often probabalistic UX. Sort of using an empty comment thread as TFA poster DM channel? Hmm. So, maybe, if my comment had noted the age/vote pair, and was clearer about the motivation for mentioning the paywall, that would have been less likely to create a meta discussion? And perhaps been consistent with the "don't post complaints about paywalls" policy?
- lightedman 1mo ago[flagged]
- Jtsummers 1mo ago> The answer, plain and simple for any 5-year-old to see, is Read it later. If you can't read it at work, you can read it on your phone or after work from another computer. Also, the guidelines and FAQ are both easy to read, and shouldn't be blocked by any CMMC nonsense at your office if HN itself isn't blocked. This one is a useful guideline for people like you, whose shouting makes you seem like a crazy uncle sending emails from your AOL account: > Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. Instead, put *asterisks* around it and it will get italicized.
- lightedman 1mo ago"Read it later. If you can't read it at work, you can read it on your phone or after work from another computer." Negative, as I have ZERO TIME when working with things involving security. "Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. Instead, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized." Yea, no. See your asterisks didn't italicize. I'm looking at your comment right now, with screencap in clipboard buffer if you need a pasted proof of this formatting not working - https://imgur.com/a/7TzQOKw https://imgur.com/a/7TzQOKw - No italics there. Unless the > at the beginning indicates (stupidly) to ignore formatting rules placed after it, your comment has zero formatting outside of regular spacing. But you see, I was already aware that function didn't work reliably. Which is why I will continue to use caps for emphasis as it's guaranteed to work.
- ck2 1mo agojust use ublock or noscript (why does that even have to be said on HN?) https://github.com/liamengland1/miscfilters https://github.com/liamengland1/miscfilters it's a fascinating story worth reading
- SockThief 1mo agoI actually find your comment very useful and therefore upvoted it.
- mncharity 1mo ago> it's a fascinating story worth reading Nod. Thus my comment, mostly aimed at the poster, that the (then) absence of votes/comments/engagement shouldn't necessarily be taken as lack of HN interest, but might reflect paywall friction. I could have been more clear, but was thinking more of supporting a dead post's postmortem, than of creating distraction on a subsequently active post. Tnx.
- j16sdiz 1mo agoStrange. It is working for me without pay wall. No adblocker Maybe some random or cookies thing?
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