“A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept”
Why do Quora articles continue to make the front page when we can't read them?  I'm greeted with <a href="http://i.imgur.com/WTeSt8s.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/WTeSt8s.png</a> No, I won't sign in with Google, nor Facebook.<p>How do the people upvoting this read the article?  Do they sign in?  What possible benefit is there to signing in?  They're basically holding content hostage.<p>When I defended Scribd, people came out in droves to point out how wrong it was to hold unique content hostage.  I'll admit, it made me rethink my position.  But it's strange to see that Quora doesn't get the same stick.<p>EDIT:  If the HN homepage had a popup saying "Login with Google or Facebook to read all of HN," would you tolerate it?