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Poll: Turn off News.YC a few hours a day?

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#21
post #18

I'm all for it. I'll hate it, but it has to be done.

It needs to be done, there is no other way.

Or as captain kurtz said ..

"In a war there are many moments for compassion and tender action. There are many moments for ruthless action - what is often called ruthless - what may in many circumstances be only clarity, seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake, looking at it. "

Re: Poll: Turn off News.YC a few hours a day?

#24
post #11

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

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.

well HN has been going down every few days for an hour or two(you know when it only shows you the top most thread), and I haven't seen the quality of posts improve

Re: Poll: Turn off News.YC a few hours a day?

#29
If you really want to help with productivity, just track when each user logs on/off (or idles), and make a forced x minute window between logins. I don't want to be penalized if I visit the site every few days and it happens to be offline when I view it.
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