[brw]

I've asked dang about this before and he answered that it gets killed automatically because of the sign-up wall on some of their articles and that their articles weren't considered suitable for HN in the past:

> does that mean every 404media.co article submission gets killed immediately by software and has to be vouched for before people can vote/comment on it?

Yes.

> Is that the case for every site with a signup wall as a sort of penalty

It depends on whether there are workarounds. Last I checked, 404media.co didn't have those. Your counterexample proves that it does, at least sometimes. Or maybe they changed something?

I'm open to unbanning that site but I'd like to be more sure than I am that this will continue to be the case in the future; and I guess I'd also like to see a few more good (for HN) articles from there before unbanning it. For a long while, all the articles I saw were pretty shallow and fluffy.

That was in 2024 so perhaps it's time for a re-evaluation. I'll shoot him another message.

[Terr_]

At present, all I'm seeing is a dismissable popup to sign up for a newsletter.

Not that I can reasily rule out something far more annoying if I were to make more visits without clearing cookies, or with other articles, etc.

[brw]

This one does not have a sign-up wall no, however some of their other articles do (e.g. https://www.404media.co/inside-the-telegram-channel-jailbrea..., also from today)