why don't you just download rescuetime and limit the access yourself? This way you don't punish people who have the self control to do it on their own
Poll: Turn off News.YC a few hours a day?
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#12Due to time zones, I doubt there's really a clear time that would fit well.
Besides, people are going to procrastinate one way or another. More importantly, if you are spending too much time on the site, then just stop loading it. Nobody else is making you reload the page X times a day.
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#13I like the idea (and voted as such), but doesn't that duplicate what noprocrast does? Though, it would be an interesting experiment to do for awhile; I'd like to see if your thought about improving the community by taking it away for a bit each day would have any noticeable effect. Also, among the sites to procrastinate on, I imagine that HN is one of the better ones - There's mostly intelligent conversations and sub…
For users who contribute to the discussion, I'm guessing most of the time they refresh the site it's just for a handful of seconds to see if anyone has responded to their comments. Noprocrast isn't really ideal for this use case scenario.
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#14Could it possibly be a temporary anomaly? I know the extreme bad global financial news has put me on occasion into a bit of a funk, but the novelty of it all will wear off in time.
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#15I'm surprised that personal responsibility is losing right now (37 to 29).
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#16Problem is mid-day, for many, is the time for meetings and other interruptions. Rather than try to force yourself to focus during the "mid-day" hours (i.e. 10am-4:30pm) I find it easier to dedicate that time to (in addition to meetings, dealing with vendors/customers, doing paperwork) typical procrastination activities.
That leaves the morning (7:30-10am) and evening (4:30pm and later) to getting things done. I'd rather see news.y.c allow people to apply whatever means of time management they use (my "idea", RescueTime) to managing their y.c time.
One in the middle idea is to disable posting during those hours, allow only reading.
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#17why don't you just download rescuetime and limit the access yourself? This way you don't punish people who have the self control to do it on their own
This might have a positive impact on the community above and beyond whatever effect it has on the individual. For example, this might improve the quality of the submissions and/or comments. We don't know yet because it hasn't been tried before. That's what makes it an interesting experiment.
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#18I'm all for it. I'll hate it, but it has to be done.
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#19I'm surprised that personal responsibility is losing right now (37 to 29).
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#20Or may be just have a div appear after 10 minutes of constant activity which says "OK, now enough is enough. Get back to work. (Signed PG)"
Signed PG is an extra effect: Many take your words religiously :)