On: Ask HN: The WSJ paywall workaround no longer works. Why are their links allowed?

[johnward]

It's a bad user experience if a majority of readers can't actually RTFA.

[onion2k → johnward]

I agree, but I don't think banning links to the WSJ is necessarily the right solution. They're presumably interesting articles that warrant discussion here if people are upvoting them, even if those users are in the minority. When a better (e.g. more accessible) link is found the HN admin frequently replace the original URL.

[snarfy → onion2k]

People are upvoting based on the article header, not content (because it's inaccessible).

[onion2k → snarfy]

Or they're WSJ subscribers who can read the article.

[jseliger → johnward]

For good or ill, however, the WSJ still has a lot of articles and original reporting that isn't available anywhere else. It's unique, which makes it unusually valuable.