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I think it needs to be a source or a service. I also think it's a source. Don't be too parental, papa bear. Let an api happen before you start being the po-lice. It's actually a pretty fascinating idear. I spend a pretty decent amount of time applying interwebs thinking to the "concrete" world (BA Urban Econ, what); I've never even consciously thought about going the other way. h^n is a giant time sink, but I also fe…
Couldn't hurt to try it for a week or two. What's there to lose?
I 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.
Yeah, think of all the ad revenue pg is going to lose. Oh, uh... there are no ads...
Perhaps make every page load remove some fraction of a point of karma? :-)
If 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…
In addition, one needs to fix the problem at the source; the thing that works for me is to turn on "Freedom" and dis-connect myself from the Internet for a few hours.