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Why is nytimes.com allowed on HN?
Every day I see several posts for nytimes, and often they're not really HN material. But whats worse is that every article requires a subscription.
Why are non-free articles getting posted that most people wont be able to read? Or is it just something against me or firefox?
- jcr 12y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >"Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com." With the above said, if you put in some effort, then you'll learn that you can read as many NYTimes articles as you want without a subscription.
- getdavidhiggins 12y agoThere is no bias towards specific domains on HN, but it is required that users post intellectually stimulating resources. A lot of nytimes posts are actually really well written and have new information in there, and so it's not frowned upon. If the article requires a subscription - I am sure there is shared accounts knocking around somewhere to circumvent this...In the true hacker way
- dang 12y agoBanning paywalled links would make HN worse, and there are easy workarounds for most paywalls. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8777971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8777971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8634076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8634076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8647853 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8647853