I started to notice some people posting NYT, Bloomberg or other websites with hard paywalls, that leads to people in the comments that are unable to read the article to discuess the headline without any analysis and some times spreading misinformation, which cannot be countered by the article, due to the paywall.
Which bring me to this: Why does no one thought about blocking hard paywalled articles for the sake of quality of discussion?
That’s up to the specific community on that specific instance.
I had never seen a single community that apply that. There might be a one that I did not notice, but otherwise there is not a single community that has any rules about this.
I’ve definitely encountered it. I think it was in an ADHD community. I linked an unpaywalled article, plus the paywalled journal article that the first article was based on, and they asked me to remove the paywalled journal link.