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

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

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Post by 13ren »

vaksel wrote: post #24
Alex3917 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It wasn't planned, and so not anticipated by users, so therefore no community effect.

I think the concept is a little like a departmental morning tea.

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

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Post by webwright »

unalone wrote: post #35
vaksel wrote: 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

I can't use Rescuetime, can I? I don't use Firefox.

RescueTime is an installable app (for Mac or Windows) and plays nicely with most browsers (FF, IE, Safari, Chrome).

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

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Post by unalone »

webwright wrote: post #43
unalone wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't use Rescuetime, can I? I don't use Firefox.

RescueTime is an installable app (for Mac or Windows) and plays nicely with most browsers (FF, IE, Safari, Chrome).

Huh! I didn't know that, but that's excellent. I thought it was Windows-only, too.

I'll check that out. (And, as an aside, I love the level of feedback that Hacker News gets on YCombinator's stuff. It's so cool that people like you are members here.)

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

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Post by flavio87 »

That is why I really wonder why you say you look people's News.YC accounts in the application process. Someone with a lot of karma must be spending a lot of time on the site.

How about all those people who have little karma because they're working so hard?

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

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Post by rarrrrrr »

Humans have a tendency to take the mental shortcut that scarcity implies value, and so I wouldn't be surprised if this were to actually increase interest in HN.

HN might also be one of the few sites able to conduct such an experiment (most other sites being worried about traffic, revenues, driving users away, etc.)

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