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Where does it say that in the guidelines?

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

The most relevant guideline to this situation is this:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

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It's in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> . But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

This wasn’t an egregious “wah, paywall” comment. I asked if there was a way to filter these out that maybe I didn’t know about and asked about there being a solution to the issue with some type of bot.

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