Can we petition for HN to block paywalled and ad-riddled content? As it is there's an incentive to spam paywalled content around social media websites to earn yourself more money.
Additional point: we can't have a balanced community discussion if only a small percentage of viewers have access to the full article. This is a community website, so we should favor content that is openly shareable.
Re paywalls: if there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread. This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:
Well Mr. Dang, we've got a new edge case for you lol: An article with substantive content before the paywall, but that doesn't have any workarounds for the rest of the article. I would love to be proven wrong, but AFAICT we'd need a subscriber to this particular person's Substack to host a version for us.
> Additional point: we can't have a balanced community discussion if only a small percentage of viewers have access to the full article
It's pretty common on non-paywalled articles for only a small percentage to read the article, yet we often manage to have balanced discussions of those.
