These NY Times links always seem flaky on the 'membership required' thing. I have never registered with the NY Times and I can click and read 99% of the links I see... but there are those 1% that I can't. This one was, and is still, accessible to me but at least three of the AQ's that clicked couldn't read.

Should we just reject NY Times links and opt for another source?

Although, in this case, another source isn't an option - I'm sure.

BugMeNot, yo.

85% willing to bet that 'Logon required' is a symptom of the ubiquitous voteframe problem, which manifests itself in many subtle ways, almost all of which tend to look like the linked-to content is unavailable one way or the other.

eBay auctions will report having expired, even though they haven't, if you go there without the AQ voting frame, for one kooky example.

People swarming content that is missing is actually vanishingly rare, an unexpected blessing balanced out by Merciful Christ through the curse of the AQ voteframe problem.

I guess one day the Alpha Queue will have to stop using frames, and will instead spawn new windows or something equally garish.

Will we miss the Keystone Kops-type comment capers?

the thing about the nyt times site is it reloads without the frame, so it tricks you, like a little regulator

Fucking regulator.