Re:Pay Phones in NYC Will Become Free Wi-Fi Hot Spots
by alexqgb on Monday November 17, 2014 @11:29PM
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Wait, you think people shouldn't post and discuss interesting stuff because you're to cheap to help underwrite the (very reasonable) cost of decent journalism?!
I'm sorry, but this is a news site. People come here to read and discuss relevant news. And while this may come as news to you, those articles don't write themselves for free.
You want to lecture somebody on etiquette? Go find a journalist and tell them how "rude" they're being by expecting payment for their work. Find their editors, while you're at it, and see if they're willing to discuss their "entitlement issues". If you haven't had your head ripped off maybe you can tell us how the conversation went.
Re:Pay Phones in NYC Will Become Free Wi-Fi Hot Spots
by mkaziz on Monday November 17, 2014 @11:07PM
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I reckon there's a fair chance that if you're on HackerNews, you know you can circumvent a paywall by going incognito ...
Re:Pay Phones in NYC Will Become Free Wi-Fi Hot Spots
by waterlesscloud on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @02:22AM
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No one is expecting you to do anything.
They are providing a link to something they feel others might find interesting.
You can choose to feel ungrateful for that, that's your right.
But I disagree with your choice.
I don't want you to feel bad, I just want you to know that I think that it's obnoxious, and not very considerate towards others to expect them to bob-and-weave through pay-walls.
> You can view something like 20 stories a month before they ask you to subscribe
Sure, that's how it is at the moment. Next month it'll be ten views, a few months after 3 views, and so on, (effectively further reducing the archival worth of news publication links)
Also, how do you know that I haven't yet exceeded my monthly allotment?
Posting paid content excludes the poor who either lack the know-how to do so or refuse to side-step the pay-walls from discussion of the article until someone either copy/pastes the important parts or a freely available source is linked, and I just want people to be aware of that.