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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?
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?
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…
Don't you think if people came to the site at certain hours and there was a page saying "get back to work, we'll reopen in 1 hour and 14 minutes" it might interrupt their procrastination in a useful way, and make them think, "Ok, I'll work for a couple hours, then read the news?" I find when I've been procrastinating and there's some kind of reward coming in an hour or two (e.g. dinner) that often makes me buckle dow…