Wait, you got banned from /r/Baltimore for posting archive.is links there? That's against the rules there? I would not have known that myself! (Also a Baltimorean).
I even tried to convince them to be in the mindset that Paul Graham created Hacker News to get more mindshare on YC. He gave the idea of Reddit to the 3 brilliant Ivy League founders who applied to YC with a basic GMAIL extension I think that copied emails or something.
So I tried convincing them that if it’s okay here on PG’s creation, then it should be okay on his other creation.
I thought knowledge was free, and the Baltimore sun sucked anyways. They charge money and don’t even write hood stuff anymore. They laid off a bunch of people, and moved printing to Delaware. My bet is the next step is that they announce they are shutting down all Locust Point operations, and are selling out so that Kevin Plank can build some new buildings there.
I think I had to appeal my ban with a mod, and they mentioned how it’s posted all over by the auto bot that sharing links to websites that bypass paywalls are against their subreddit rules :(
I even tried an official proposal to r/Baltimore to reconsider and life that rule. The general consensus on the poll was that people felt that the Baltimore sun and the writers should be getting paid for their work, and I shouldn’t be bypassing their paywalls lol.
I still can't find anything in the subreddit rules that clearly says this. (Not that most people read the rules first). Why don't they just add it to the rules?
This is one of the things I dislike most about reddit, it seems to be common to ban people for a single rules violation of a poorly-documented unstated rule.
My main problem with reading the Sun online is it has so much adware that my browser slows to a crawl and sometimes crashes when I try to read it!
