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Thank you, nytimes.com for overruling the obituary of one of your authors with a forced signup modal.

Other than that, wow, what a story and courage. The napkin bit really got me. 42 is way too young to die.

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I don't think they add those one by one...

No, I don't think so either. So they should use their categories to determine where those are appropriate and where they really aren't.

And if you don’t pay your newspaper subscription you don’t get the paper delivered to your door at all.

Complaining about paywalls isn’t productive.

I'm not complaining about the paywall per-se, I'm complaining about the fact that an obituary of an author that is linked from a page that is not paywalled should also not be paywalled, that's common courtesy. To attempt to get people to subscribe over the backs of your recently deceased contributors is something no self respecting newspaper should ever want to be seen doing. At best it is tone-deaf, at worst simply callous.

I don’t agree. I think your interpretation reads too far into it. I don’t think it makes any statement at all.

I'm pretty sure all of NYT is paywalled, they just keep track of how many pages you visit and throw up the pay wall after a certain number.

How is it not productive? Just because your position is that obituaries should be paywalled, doesn't mean we all agree. Why is it that because you hold a different opinion, we aren't allowed to discuss it?

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