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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
HN is a large international community with people from many walks of life, and the vast majority have no connection to venture capital or anything like it.
If your salary were reduced unilaterally, would you accept that because you make enough?
Obviously an anti-consumer move is going to upset consumers, even on a venture capital forum.
I'll tell you what I am upset about though. Where's my one click buy button? That's an example of a degradation you couldn't pay your way out of. Amazon used to let me buy things with one click. Now it's three clicks. If I could pay to get that experience back, I'd do it in a heartbeat. But that's not even a choice I'm granted. The whole point of money is to give us choices. No point in raging against the system working as intended. If you truly cared, you'd be rallying support to bring one click back.
If they decide to add advertisements after the fact, I am allowed to stop paying.
After all, they are degrading the service.