Why do people post and upvote webpages that are behind a paywall? I wish there was a “no paywall or gdpr wall” rule for hackernews, or at least a [paywall] “flair”-like thing so I don’t have to waste time loading the page.
because it's explicitly allowed by the rules. I like your flair idea though, seems like a nice middle ground.
I concur. It's hard to have a discussion about an article that only a few people can read. The flair idea is a good one. We already require post titles on old articles to contain the year, seems natural to require disclaimers of paywalls.