&gt;  Pay for the publication&#x2F;article, don&#x27;t pay for it, but why should anyone&#x27;s opinion about paywall&#x27;s dictate link etiquette&#x2F;form, etc.<p>Because it directly affects this community.  It&#x27;s a link aggregator site for heaven&#x27;s sake.<p>&gt; If you run into a link and discover it&#x27;s to pay-walled content simply move on, you&#x27;ve only wasted like 3 seconds of your life.<p>I could take this argument ad infinitum.  Why didn&#x27;t you just move on instead of posting a comment here?  Why does anyone say anything critical ever instead of just moving on?<p>&gt; Also, I&#x27;ll be creating a scraper that analyzes users&#x27; comment histories to determine when they complain about paywalls if they&#x27;ve ever complained about the state of journalism or scientific funding. If they have, I will link to the evidence so they can be duly down-voted, ridiculed, and shamed.<p>Great, vigilante justice and public ridicule over a topic you supposedly don&#x27;t care one whit about.