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Poll: How often do you visit HN?

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Re: Poll: How often do you visit HN?

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Post by robryan »

FD3SA wrote: post #57
kgermino wrote: post #5

It needs an option for "Way too much." Unless that's meant to be covered by 10+ times a day. It's time well spent though.

Tell me about it. Was on a date last Friday and couldn't resist checking it when my lady friend checked her phone for the time. I showed her what I was reading and she was floored. Her attitude became far more amiable since she believed I was going to be the next Julian Assange. Thank you pg! P.S. As a kid, I always dreamed of a secret online community where the world's smartest people gathered to discuss highly rele…

A good poll may be is what your doing with your life right now in a large way influenced by you frequenting HN?

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Post by martinkallstrom »

shadowpwner wrote: post #46
sev wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not placing the poll on HN will help a little... ;) 1.) Need a random sample 2.) Need large enough sample size I guess placing the poll on another popular site (not in the same genre as HN, preferably) would help

Oh, but doesn't that mean you're measuring Hacker News to another popular site?

And the link would immediately be posted and upvoted on HN, nullifying the effort.

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Post by jermy »

yason wrote: post #68

noprocrast is a life saver. About anything that doesn't happen immediately causes me fairly too often to take a look at HN. I much prefer coding without internet.

True, although I often fall into a worse trap when that 'Get back to work!' message comes up by seeing what's on Reddit instead.

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Post by martincmartin »

I always wished the decay with time was normalized by the number of visits someone makes per day. That way, when someone visits frequently, they're often see more stuff, but if someone only visits once a week, they'll see the highest rated stuff over the past week (and some lower rated stuff from the last few days).

Perhaps not completely normalized by number of visits, but at least nudged a little by number of visits, to produce the user experience mentioned in the above paragraph.

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