Tell HN: Posting a link that's behind a paywall (ie NYTimes) is annoying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2201894

by ceslami • 15 years ago

6 9 15 years ago

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Please don't post content that lives behind a paywall.

Khao• 15 years ago

Amen

_wp3r• 15 years ago

Seconded

Fjslfj• 15 years ago

I disagree. Some information is worth paying for. If it was voted up, others agreed. You are always free to avoid it. How will we get high quality investigative content if none of us wants to pay for it?

ceslami• 15 years ago

I will agree with you, and amend my position to coincide with zeynel1.

It isn't that paywalls are bad -- good content should be paid for. I just don't think it makes sense to submit a link to a site when only a subset of that site's users can see it. Ruins the fun...

zeynel1• 15 years ago

It would be nice if the title indicates that the article is behind a paywall.

sorbus• 15 years ago

Far more annoying, to me, is comments on articles complaining that they're behind a paywall (especially when it's actually a registration wall). So, while I understand that it may be frustrating to some people, please don't post comments complaining that an article is behind a paywall.

arn• 15 years ago

NYTimes is not a paywall.

philthy• 15 years ago

NYTimes has selective access to a lot of the front page stories, visiting nytimes.com not logged in won't normally allow you to advance past the little blurbs to see full articles (connection, location, time of day, visitor amount dependent). You'll notice however Google searching the article title and then choosing the first result will take you to the full article.

Could anyone else shed some light on this?

matdwyer• 15 years ago

FYI If I'm not mistaken you can link to the mobile version of the story on NYT and it will be "free"

Tell HN: Posting a link that's behind a paywall (ie NYTimes) is annoying.

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