Perhaps make every page load remove some fraction of a point of karma? :-)
I like this! Can be circumvented, of course, but anything can, and the defaults matter.
Poll: Turn off News.YC a few hours a day?
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#82Analogous to the 24hr-licensing debates many countries (especially in Europe) seem to have regarding pub/bar drinking times (aimed at stopping binge-drinking and drink related crime/violence)?
Ultimately they too did not work as they failed to change the culture that creates the (unwanted) behaviour?
Re: Poll: Turn off News.YC a few hours a day?
#83I'd say give it a try for a week or two as a social experiment, just to see what happens.
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#84I'm in Shanghai. Most likely you would pick a black out time when I'm working during the day.
I agree with your sentiment. But online communities being a time-sink is a problem that can only be solved through individual restraint. Its a key discipline we all need to learn in this new always on society.
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#85This site is mostly populated by wanna-bes anyway. So I upvoted both options (your voting system sucks).
Also, PLEASE stop calling yourselves hackers. Real hackers use languages that allow them to exploit buffer overflows and such, not Ruby, etc.
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#87* Temporary user created just for this post - is anonymous post really discouraged around here, or is anonymous posting something that just happens to not be implemented?
While in principle I agree with most folks here - everyone is responsible for the way they use their time - truth is that right now YC is the biggest time sink for me.
I don't watch TV at all and I am able to avoid pretty much every other distraction you can imagine (even email!) - but I just can't resist opening News.YC 4 or 5 times a day.
From the fact that the possibility of disabling the site during some times is being discussed I would guess I am not the only one in this situation.
So, if you want to disable the site during some times I wouldn't mind. If you don't, that's fine too - one way or another I will have to stop wasting time like this...
Re: Poll: Turn off News.YC a few hours a day?
#88If 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…
Hm... if there were time limits on posting rather then viewing, would there be less politics crap?
Re: Poll: Turn off News.YC a few hours a day?
#89Please please please do this. If nothing more than for the experiment itself. Personally I had just decided that I need to switch the no procrastination feature on so I was delighted to the title of this post. HN is too interesting, it's dominating my life.
How about shutting the site down for one day a week? Give us the day off!
Re: Poll: Turn off News.YC a few hours a day?
#90maybe we can do this for engadget, craigslist, and mansion impossible as well