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I don't understand why we can't blacklist domains on HN.

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The question has been answered countless times. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928452.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928127 and marked it off-topic.

HN does blacklist domains. Here's the blacklisted domain list from 2009[1]. Here's a blog post examining penalties applied to posts, some of the penalties are based on the domain[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044

[2] http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...

I've developed somewhat of a brain ad-on to bypass the paywall: click on the address bar and select all, cut, type "archive.is", paste in the search box, press enter.

The WSJ would be much better served by requiring a free, easy login with an email or social account, then throttle down the number of free articles one can read. Turning down people interested in your product that you could offer a sample at zero marginal cost to you seems such a poor business decision.

Why would we blacklist one of the most important American newspapers?

All of the articles are paywalled.

Do you work for free?

false dichotomy.

I should be able to blacklist it from showing up when I look at hacker news, either by the grace of the ycombinator site or via a custom client. Does this exist?

No, because web discussion boards are still behind where NNTP news readers were 20 years ago.

EDIT: Or, 30 years, for that matter.

There are browser extensions which support that, as well as other features ("cleaner" UI, thread collapsing before it was in core, inline reply, etc). Explore a few, you might find something you like.

It's one of the highest quality news sources in the United States and many people pay for it.

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