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what's wrong with paywalls when you have sci-hub?

>>8860434
It's not always accessible. And adds to the bump limit.

It's an way discourage discussion or encourage a poor discussion based only on the abstracts.


We have hundreds of retards that throw said references at threads they don't sympathize with like crazy as a way of raiding it.

When someone questions it they usually go ape shit and take the thread downhill.

Or even worse, retards of antagonistic opinions fall for the bait and start throwing even more paywalls at the thread.

>>8860426
support for code tags

>>8860426
Post IDs, but no flags. If flags we find out 80% of posters are poo in loos and board dies. Something to counter same fagging.

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Bring back math captchas to keep the spooked /pol/tergeists away.

>>8860426
>>8862203
Seconded.

Math captchas need to make a return.

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>>8860426
>References to articles behind paywalls
MUH PAYWALLS

This is /sci/ - Science.
If you had any credentials at all you should be able to access most of the papers posted here for free

>>8862257
Yes, /sci/ - Science, not /cre/ - Credentialism.

>>8860426
>>References to articles behind paywalls
>not knowing how to get around paywalls
lol do you even read?

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>>8860426
threads about topics in pic related should be grounds for banning

>>8862364
t. brainlet pleb

1. If you are debating at a high level you should be able to access most papers. You only need to be a student in most cases.

2. It's not hard to get around paywalls using google provided you are not a brainlet.

>>8862403
>You only need to be a student
Guess what, kiddo? Being a student isn't impressive. It doesn't mean you have "credentials", it means you currently lack them and may never get any. People finish with school early in life, and then go on living for a long time, and they carry on learning subjects in much greater depth than the casual overview you get in college.

4chan has been around for 14 years now. Most of its regulars are not students.

>It's not hard to get around paywalls using google
Then do so, and link that. It isn't always easy or possible, and it's a waste of everyone's time to link stuff that most of the people here can't read.

Idiot kids here all do the same thing: they link to stuff behind a paywall they didn't notice because they're on the college network, to people who can't read it, then they make excuses like it was intentional and their stupid blunder was somehow everyone else's fault for not also being a child.

You're neither fooling nor impressing anyone. You're just being tedious.

>>8862459
>Guess what, kiddo? Being a student isn't impressive. It doesn't mean you have "credentials"
I know that's my point fucktard.
You are the one claiming you need credentials to access a paywall, here >>8862364

Nice strawman you've built there.

>Then do so, and link that.
It's a 5 minute search for the paper's title and author. Anyone can do it.

Posting scientific papers on a fucking science board should be encouraged, it shouldn't be a bannable offense.

>You're just being tedious.
Delicious irony.
Nothing more tedius than whine "MUH PAYWALL" instead of trying to look for the source yourself.

If you want to learn something you have the means to do so. If paywalls bother you, you can say so.

But nobody should be banned just because they don't waste their time spoon-feeding you.

Get over yourself fucktard.

>>8860426
>References to articles behind paywalls
Dude. That would be a step up over practically every post that is unsourced.

>>8862203
>Post IDs, but no flags.
+1