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please if you are going to post a paywalled article, have the decency to post an archive link

The unspoken etiquette here is to just post the archive link for the benefit of others, as you have done.

Then move on, knowing you have contributed a small act of kindness to the world today.

if you post an interesting link, that nobody else can read, then someone else posts the archive link to fix that, it isn't a "kindness". it's cleanup for someone else.

should we never speak of it?

Decency? Why the attack here?

it's not an attack. i just find it rude to post a paywalled article. why not take two seconds to post an archive link if you really need to?

because someone else will do it for you? is that really a decent attitude?

That is fine. Post the archive link (as you did) and gently let the poster know. You don't know who the poster is. It may be their first time trying to engage here. They may not know about archive. Many things can happen here.

Don't just assume the worse and start throwing words around. We are all trying to have fun, learn and have a conversation here.

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