Ask HN: Do paywalled articles have an effect on comments?

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It occurs to me that I regularly hit a paywall on top-rated posts, and decide not to work around it. It made me wonder how often paywalled articles receive comments from people who were unable to read the article in its entirety due to a paywall vs comment and voting rates for users that interact with articles that don’t sit behind a paywall.

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I read the comments on the paywalled article and often it incents me to work around the paywall - if I can. Mostly I avoid clicking paywalls and browse their comments and then decide to dig deeper or not.

If you're working around paywalls for news organizations you often read, why don't you buy a subscription?

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