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Re: Poll: What is your age?

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My thoughts exactly. That's a lot of <10 year olds...

I'll have to think of something extra for them too. Any ideas? Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90, so whatever it is can't conflict with extra large fonts.

extra bright colors; maybe some blink tags too.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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post #67
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

My thoughts exactly. That's a lot of <10 year olds...

I'll have to think of something extra for them too. Any ideas? Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90, so whatever it is can't conflict with extra large fonts.

Care bears.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My thoughts exactly. That's a lot of <10 year olds...

I'll have to think of something extra for them too. Any ideas? Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90, so whatever it is can't conflict with extra large fonts.

Translate everything to binary

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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post #67
post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My thoughts exactly. That's a lot of <10 year olds...

I'll have to think of something extra for them too. Any ideas? Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90, so whatever it is can't conflict with extra large fonts.

Many high contrasting colors. Children like different colors and it could help anyone reading that has poor eyesight.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls. A few years ago we could. That's an unfortunate change. However, it's an ill wind that blows no good. When I'm done reading applications, I'll add a little tweak to HN to make the fonts super big for all the users over 80.

How do you know some people are lying here about their age?

From the other comment:

> Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90

Re: Poll: What is your age?

#77
post #67
post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My thoughts exactly. That's a lot of <10 year olds...

I'll have to think of something extra for them too. Any ideas? Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90, so whatever it is can't conflict with extra large fonts.

Sadly, I think you're going to have to ban them. COPPA[1] makes it risky to have children under 13 on your web site without clear parental consent.

..you could let them send in a note from their parents to get unbanned :-)

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childrens_Online_Privacy_Protec...

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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For those also interested in Male to Female ratio (data courtesy of user 'pdx'): 1309/89 == 15 to 1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1571216 1377/72 == 19 to 1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591309 506/31 16 to 1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175603 466/35 == 13 to 1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=749617 reply

Looks like the ratio in CS courses. I came up with the constant 4: Either 4 or 4% are female, whichever is less.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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post #62

The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls. A few years ago we could. That's an unfortunate change. However, it's an ill wind that blows no good. When I'm done reading applications, I'll add a little tweak to HN to make the fonts super big for all the users over 80.

How do you know some people are lying here about their age?

Multiple answers, at least, would be my guess.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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post #67
post #64

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My thoughts exactly. That's a lot of <10 year olds...

I'll have to think of something extra for them too. Any ideas? Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90, so whatever it is can't conflict with extra large fonts.

Limit their HN access to 20 minutes per day. When I was that young my parents enforced a very strict time limit on daily media consumption.
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