Given that other people here seem to be capable of discussing the actual subject at hand, the posting of paywalled articles obviously isn't wasted on the community at large. However, every irrelevant tangent about how terrible paywalls are is a waste of time.
Given that other people in this thread seem to be capable of disucssing the paywall, complaints about it obviously aren't wasted on the community at large.
The complaints are wasted, because the staff has made it clear that they aren't going to change the policy to banning all paywalled content, and complaining that they should is off topic.
This thread is about Samsung discontinuing the Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone, it's not about the paywall, or whether Hacker News should allow paywalls.
This community is about prioritizing signal over noise and these tangents are always, always mere noise.
