Please pay for quality content or don't complain about clickbait journalism.
I'm fine paying for content, but the content rarely belongs on HN, because it is insane to say to the general HN reader "Hey, here's an interesting article. Pay to read it before you have any idea of what it is about beyond the title".
What happens when you have pay-to-read content on HN is that no one actually discusses the content of the article, and only discusses general topics relating to the topic of the article - making for lower quality discussions.
If you want a good discussion for a topic you like, go pay for access to it. Nowhere in HN rules does it say that content cannot be behind paywalls.
> Are paywalls ok?
It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls ---> that have workarounds. <---
In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so.
I don't want to be mean but literally every sentence in your post is off base or just wrong in some manner.