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Content behind pay-walls should not be allowed for submission on HackerNews.
by Cookingboy 12y ago
Content behind pay-walls should not be allowed for submission on HackerNews.
- wmf 12y agoAlso, complaints about paywalls should not be allowed on HN.
- melling 12y agoWhy not? Plenty of people here can read it so there can be a discussion, which should convey most of the information that's in the article. In the end, everyone reading HN benefits.
- dang 12y agoIt's not that simple. HN prefers accessible stories, but it also prefers original sources and demands substantive ones, and many of those are behind paywalls. Are we to ban the NYT, Economist, and New Yorker? That would be chopping off a foot to spite a hangnail. Not all paywalls are equally problematic, and most of this content is not truly inaccessible. There are standard workarounds that everybody already knows or can easily learn. It's not as if HN users are shy about pointing them out. The status quo isn't great, but the brokenness of online content models is not something we can just fix by decree in our little corner of the web.
- mullingitover 12y agoGoogle the article title. No paywall on articles linked directly from Google.