You&#x27;re quoting things I didn&#x27;t say. The snark-amplification mechanism of putting the most uncharitable spin you can possibly think of on someone&#x27;s remarks is one of the worsts you can do in comments here. I spend a lot of time asking users not to do it to other users.<p>Of course the paywalls suck. Is there any user who has to deal with more of these annoyances than we ourselves do? There can&#x27;t be many.<p>The question is the lesser of two evils. Anyone who doesn&#x27;t get what a disaster it would be for HN to lose the NYT, WSJ, Economist, and New Yorker doesn&#x27;t get HN in the first place.