[colmvp]

On a meta HN note, whenever a WSJ article gets submitted, invariably someone mentions the existence of the web link and the method in which to bypass the paywall. It's almost as if we are better served by having a bot that creates a comment informing users of the existence and purpose of this link in situations where the domain is known to have paywalls.

[user5994461]

And invariably someone has to explain to that someone that the web link doesn't help. Still getting a paywall...

I'd love to see a bot.

[cgvgffyv]

Click the [-] on the thread to collapse it, thank your overlords, and move on. Works every time.

Alternatively, pay for a damn subscription and stop moaning that the free lunch is over.

[wayn3]

Its the newspapers who will realize that the free lunc his over when nobody needs their crap anymore.

Put up paywalls and dont even make it remotely easy to actually pay. Then bitch about you not having an account, still want you to click on a thousand facebook and twitter links and have ads that slow the site down to a standstill and what not.

Newspapers are really not having it easy huh. Throughout the web, you either run a subscription or monetize with ads. Newspapers do both and cant even hire an engineer who doesnt shit out a javascript turd that will never load.

[wpietri]

> Its the newspapers who will realize that the free lunc his over when nobody needs their crap anymore.

I'm just amazed that you can expect the 5,000 people at the Wall Street Journal to work for you for free, and then accuse them of pursuing a "free lunc".

[wayn3]

found a misspell. ouch.

[cgvgffyv]

> when nobody needs their crap anymore

I bet you wouldn't see WSJ articles on HN if this was the case.

Yet they keep showing up, paywall or no.