Many paywalled articles provide a way of getting around the paywall, for SEO purposes. Open it in a private window, or search it on Google, or in the case of Quora articles, add the share link. On some sites the &quot;paywall&quot; is a modal you can just delete in the browser. It&#x27;s not really that nonsensical - those methods or alternative links will wind up being posted in a thread anyway. And a thread that doesn&#x27;t provide <i>any</i> way of discussing the content should die on its own, because the comments will be nothing but complaints about the paywall.