That solution doesn't scale to all HN users and all sites. If there's no way to access an article without paying, it's a pretty poor choice to share it here.
Its clear users here see value in WSJ articles. To the extent that whenever it is posted someone asks how to circumvent their subscription paywall. They do good work and create articles people want to read, I don't think its fair not to suggest people actually pay for the content they consume.
If these articles didn't belong here people wouldn't be upvoting them.
