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Comment by scumbert | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, comrade! Everyone should provide every service for absolutely free!

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We're trying for a bit better than internet default here, and posts like this make that harder.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21334532 and marked it off-topic.

Dear rabid mod: detaching subthreads that spur intelligent discussion seems to run counter to your supposed goal. There is no reason Bloomberg should be expected to produce analysis and coverage for free..? ..Unless the person suggesting such comes from a fringe ideology. Hence my comment! :)

I can tell you from long experience that a comment like the one you posted does not spur intelligent discussion. I believe you that it was your intent, but unfortunately intent is not enough on the internet.

Didn't expect a response now I feel bad. I figured I was raging in an invisible thread. Deep down we both know you were right!

Please don't feel bad! but if you'd take the intended spirit of the site to heart, we'd be grateful. It doesn't necessarily come naturally...personally it took me years to adapt out of my earlier (much snarkier) internet commenting pattern.

In addition to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, these old links might also be helpful for getting the spirit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

The irony is that Bloomberg is complaining about Google charging for formerly free stuff while Bloomberg is doing the same thing Google is.

I dunno if it is that ironic. Google basically sold people on the idea of their services because they were free whereas Bloomberg never claimed to be free. When was a Bloomberg subscription ever free?

> When was a Bloomberg subscription ever free?

I don't think anyone is claiming that a full Bloomberg news subscription should be free. He's talking about the practice of popping up a paywall after baiting the reader with a few seconds of reading time and a few free articles. This was introduced around May 2018.

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/05/03/bloomberg-goes-behin...

This thread was detached by rabid mods, but in response to your comment, why is Bloomberg not entitled to charge for their self-produced analysis?

How the hell you took the comment above as an apology of communism?

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