I actually agree with you much to the chagrin of the majority of the board. Clicking a link and hitting a paywall is a bit of a nuisance, and if people are going to submit a link to this site or any other link aggregation site, they should make sure that "everyone" can read it.

You don't have to create an account. Just google the title. WSJ breaks enough good stories, and it takes all of 2 seconds to view the articles through google that it would be counter productive to suggest "banning" them.

HN should implement a feature to optionally hide paywalled articles for those who don't want to see them.

You could save a bookmarklet that allows you to bypass the header: https://gist.github.com/jashkenas/9a4d9e648eb11aab394e

Or you could just skip the article when you see it. I don't see why we'd ban wsj.com just because you have trouble reading it.