How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’

Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by droithomme on Monday May 22, 2017 @12:14AM (#14390945)

Hey. So this domain blocks access. I'd like to propose that posts containing links to all such domains be automatically held back. The reason is that posts to sites that require paid access are clearly and unquestionably spam, which is the promotion of paid material. And spam links should not be considered legitimate posts on any social media site wishing to maintain credibility and quality of discussion. Thanks for considering this.

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Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by praneshp on Monday May 22, 2017 @02:22AM (#14391364)

>> The reason is that posts to sites that require paid access are clearly and unquestionably spam.

Nonsense, also citation required. WSJ has top-notch content.

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Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by codebam on Monday May 22, 2017 @12:15AM (#14390952)

I'm not being blocked. Are you sure that your ISP isn't blocking the website?

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Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by droithomme on Monday May 22, 2017 @12:19AM (#14390964)

When I click on the link it says I need to purchase a $39.99/year or $3.99/month subscription to view the article.

(So weird someone is downvoting my posts about this, what possible reason could there be to do such a thing.)

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Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by grzm on Monday May 22, 2017 @12:34AM (#14391021)

HN has established guidelines with respect to paywalls.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Are paywalls ok?

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

Like your parent, I haven't had any issues ever accessing submissions from the Atlantic. Of course, that doesn't mean, that you're not having issues. Just today someone mentioned that they're able to access WSJ articles using the web link, while I'm not able to do so.

With respect to this (and other submissions from the Atlantic Monthly), I've never needed to use the web link. Submissions from the Atlantic Monthly are quite frequent on HN. I can't recall reading of anyone else having issues.

Does the "web" link (beneath the submission title between the "past" and "comments" links) work for you?

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Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by acover on Monday May 22, 2017 @12:27AM (#14390991)

One reason: excluding all paid journalism seems dumb.

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Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by droithomme on Monday May 22, 2017 @12:31AM (#14391009)

Ad hominems are fallacies.

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Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by philbarr on Monday May 22, 2017 @08:33AM (#14393009)

I've come to think that quoting latin phrases at people is in itself a logical fallacy. Is there a latin phrase for that?

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Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by shubhamjain on Monday May 22, 2017 @12:36AM (#14391028)

Probably because you have AdBlock installed. The Atlantic has a soft paywall.

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Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by ryandrake on Monday May 22, 2017 @01:05AM (#14391121)

Correct. If you have an ad blocker installed, you get the paywall. I simply ignore theatlantic.com links and go on with my life.

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Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by shubhamjain on Monday May 22, 2017 @01:46AM (#14391260)

Rather uncharitable, no? The Atlantic doesn't bombard visitor with ads; they are considerate in maintaining the user experience. If people are reluctant to take a paid subscription, and consider Adblocking as righteous, how many options are left for publishers to monetise?

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Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by grzm on Monday May 22, 2017 @01:52AM (#14391289)

The Atlantic is willing to provide their content on terms of subscription or viewing ads. Your parent chooses not to accept those terms and not view their content. 'ryandrake isn't expressing an expectation that the Atlantic provide content without ads and without a subscription and is willing to not have access to the Atlantic content. This seems completely reasonable and fair to me.

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Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by ryandrake on Monday May 22, 2017 @03:27AM (#14391664)

Wait, let me get this straight: It's uncharitable to choose not to visit a web site due to not agreeing to its terms?

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Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by JKCalhoun on Monday May 22, 2017 @02:20AM (#14391360)

Ads and trackers... I don't mind helping out The Atlantic but their advertisers want more than just to serve me up links and visuals, they want to harvest my browsing history.

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Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by SpoilerAlert on Monday May 22, 2017 @08:02AM (#14392839)

It's called Patreon.

It's the only choice. Or they will be blocked, period.

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Re:How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’ by NTripleOne on Monday May 22, 2017 @11:34AM (#14394392)

Yes that's just what we need, more paymetons exclusive content.

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