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Ptchd | 3 years ago

It's to avoid pay walls....

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skissane|3 years ago

Post the actual URI, then put archive URI in comment. If it helps people (with paywalls or hug of death or whatever) people will often upvote it and it will achieve a reasonably prominent position among the comments.

Ptchd|3 years ago

But what if they modify the article after you post a link to it?

dang|3 years ago

skissane is correct—archive links are welcome in the thread, but it's important that the submission be the original source.

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html