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?
This is called a “velvet rope paywall”. The idea is to keep the content open to indexing while strongly encouraging human readers to cough up. It’s a decent idea IMO, as are (easily subverted) metered paywalls.