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Poll: Turn off News.YC a few hours a day?
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#32I do like the idea of everyone showing up at the same time; worth a shot, in my opinion. What is the median number of pages loads/user/day?
As an aside, my deskmate habitually edits his /etc/hosts file to keep himself under control :)
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#33If people want to procrastinate, they're going to procrastinate anyway. They'll just do it on other websites -- and if anyone else is like me, they'll probably get sufficiently irritated by coming to a frequently-broken website that they'd end up coming here far less frequently. As for the notion of improving the feeling of community by having everybody turn up at once... do we REALLY want to get dozens of posts all…
It seems to me that having a fixed "opening time" would interfere with the site more than aid it.
You're right, we should make the down hours fluctuate a little bit randomly. Like within the peak visit zone, make one or two of the hours a blackout period, and let that change every day (randomize it).
The page that replaces YC News during that time could be anything. What if YC did some advertising? That way, the silly folks who sit there refreshing (probably me) will at least be doing something productive (generating pageviews)?
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#34Just get LeechBlock for yourself for Firefox 3.
Seconded, link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476
Re: Poll: Turn off News.YC a few hours a day?
#35why 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
I can't use Rescuetime, can I? I don't use Firefox.
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#36I can see it now. McDonald's new policy - you're all eating too many Big Macs. In the interest of public health, we're closing just a few hours in the middle of the day each day and we're going to do it when most of you normally come to eat. Give me a break. Dumb idea.
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#37This is a tad paternalistic. You can't turn off nyt.com or my tv. So your chances of stopping me if I want to procrastinate are slim.
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#38Close new link submission, maybe, but don't close the site. Everyone is on different schedules, and I don't like the idea of having to adjust mine to yours if I want to read what the community submit/is talking about at the time I usually do each day. Selfish? Maybe (but that could be applied both ways).
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#39I'm surprised that personal responsibility is losing right now (37 to 29).
I like experiments.
Haha, I think there's so many yes votes because any group like this can't resist tinkering.
Its like my grandmother told me as a kid when I took apart her iron, "Don't fix what ain't broke."
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#40No, please don't do that. Honestly, I cannot imagine anything more non-brainy (euphemism for foolish) than that. People do what they want to do. Maybe HN gives them a creative pause or a state of subdued brain activity which boosts their post HN productivity.
Live and Let Live! :)