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I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by hanoz »

nebalee wrote: post #178
Antwan wrote: post #140

I ran a website for youngsters several years ago. One of the duties to maintain it was to moderate discussion boards. Some kids were difficult to manage and would not accept to be banned (via email/IP/or whatever solution) and would keep recreating profiles. Ultimately I dealt with those ppl by “greylisting” them. Added a sleep() prior each page rendering of 5 to 25 secs (actually it was more sophisticated and would…

Another sinister way of doing this is having users solve captchas in order to comment and keeping a badness score of the troublemakers. Then pretend they failed the captchas at a rate proportionally to their score.

If that's going on then what on earth have I done to offend Google?

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by z3t4 »

throw18374 wrote: post #167

I took similarly extreme measures to end my video game addiction many years ago. I played MMOs compulsively. They basically hijacked the reward center of my brain to the point where what happened outside of the game seemed completely irrelevant to me. I didn’t even see the point of showering. During “moments of clarity” I understood perfectly well exactly what was happening to me, how the game was specifically design…

What you're looking for is probably "semester". Depending on where you live, your employer can't deny you two weeks off. Then you go somewhere where you wont have access to a computer. And treat yourself well. You should do that at least once or twice a year. You can also set "working hours" and just don't do any work outside those hours. Having a healthy work/life balance will make you even more productive at work.

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by aabhay »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #219
vnorilo wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found a single origin espresso that I really like. One time I bought a bag of beans it occurred to me that requiring coffee beans from a specific farm in Rhuanda sounds like something a king might do. Even my bog standard middle class luxury feels wildly excessive sometimes.

I feel like telling the trade caravan that you want to buy from a specific place they visit is something your average merchant could do.

Agreed, perhaps it is more king-like to _not_ need to know where everything on your plate has come from. In that way, perhaps these coffee ‘blends’ that are so plebeian to the modern taste would be considered the most elevated to aristocratic.

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by rozab »

jtrip wrote: post #33

This is brilliant! I've been suffering from work related anxiety for years which I've learned to douse with Youtube, Reddit or HN. This became a huge problem for me recently and so I had to try to break my habit loops (Cue -> Action -> Reward). I cannot quit cold-turkey because all the methods that I can think of to block the websites I can undo in the mania of anxiety. Youtube always gives you an option to look for…

I have deleted the 'more' link at the bottom of the HN homepage with Stylus, somewhat limiting my daily timewasting.

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by Avamander »

hanoz wrote: post #241
nebalee wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another sinister way of doing this is having users solve captchas in order to comment and keeping a badness score of the troublemakers. Then pretend they failed the captchas at a rate proportionally to their score.

If that's going on then what on earth have I done to offend Google?

Are you blocking their tracking and fingerprinting? Do you sit behind a massive CG-NAT?

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Post by agumonkey »

Antwan wrote: post #140

I ran a website for youngsters several years ago. One of the duties to maintain it was to moderate discussion boards. Some kids were difficult to manage and would not accept to be banned (via email/IP/or whatever solution) and would keep recreating profiles. Ultimately I dealt with those ppl by “greylisting” them. Added a sleep() prior each page rendering of 5 to 25 secs (actually it was more sophisticated and would…

I often wondered if one could slip some brain teaser in the process.

Messengers made everybody wrte liek this .. but it you made the UI a bit difficult unless the author spells right. Maybe we'd see some global gain ?

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Post by MayeulC »

pier25 wrote: post #147

A couple of years ago I was pretty addicted to Facebook and would compulsively open a new tab and start typing "f..." in the address bar. Even if I had another tab with Facebook open. I tried blocking it for lapses of time but it didn't reduce my addiction. What did work was logging out of Facebook. The annoyance of having to log in and stop my flow was enough for me to stop using Facebook. Now I use it less than onc…

It helps that Facebook is pretty annoying when logged out, not sure it would translate well to Reddit (or HN). Maybe I should insert adds, banners, etc, on purpose in my tabs?

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Post by mirimir »

kortilla wrote: post #145
marksomnian wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not an uncommon practice, Jeff Atwood calls it "hellbanning": https://blog.codinghorror.com/suspension-ban-or-hellban/

No, he calls it slowbanning. Hellbanning is when you let them keep posting but other people can’t see the posts. Hackernews hellbans as well and you can see the comments from the deplorables if you turn on “showdead” in your profile.

Yep.

And you can vouch for good comments from shadowbanned accounts, just as for manually flagged comments.

Being rather paranoid, I check this account occasionally via Tor.

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by chillfox »

hanoz wrote: post #241
nebalee wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another sinister way of doing this is having users solve captchas in order to comment and keeping a badness score of the troublemakers. Then pretend they failed the captchas at a rate proportionally to their score.

If that's going on then what on earth have I done to offend Google?

Adblock? I ended up switching mine off just to make the internet usable.
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