[serf]

> and I don't feel bad about posting an interesting story from a site that uses a paywall once or twice month.

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.

[alexqgb]

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.

[mkaziz]

I reckon there's a fair chance that if you're on HackerNews, you know you can circumvent a paywall by going incognito ...

[waterlesscloud]

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.