[chipperyman573]

In order to view an answer on Experts Exchange, you had to subscribe.

[aembleton]

I used to change my user agent to be that of a Google Bot

[daurnimator]

Did you? I always just scrolled past the fold.

[chipperyman573]

I think they changed it once SO started becoming popular (I may be misremembering the timeline, but I definitely remember being very frustrated about not being able to view the answers at one point)

[daurnimator]

I think they may have had a google-wall: if you came from google you could scroll down to the content, but if you were just browsing the forum you couldn't see the answers.