New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

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Post by pg » Wed, Nov 07, 2007, 10:25 PM UTC

New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand
ycombinator.com

Re: New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

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Post by pg » Wed, Nov 07, 2007, 10:27 PM UTC

Ironically, I got banned by noprocrast upon submitting this, because I had maxvisit set to 1 to test it.

Re: New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

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Post by e1ven » Wed, Nov 07, 2007, 10:33 PM UTC

Interesting feature.. I think this falls under the heading of Keeping Honest people Honest.

Of course it's easy to get around. Log in anonymously, or use a proxy, or any number of other things- The point as I understand it isn't to hold you iron-fisted to the whims you had when you set it up, but more to act as a gentle reminder.

"Hey, it's been 2 hours already. Stop wasting time on news.yc, and get back to work"

There have been some similar program that extend the concept, and read the title of the browser window to let you graph your productive time. I can't find any at the moment, though.. There's certainly a lot that could be done in that area. Maybe someone will apply for a Fall 07 YC to track productivity effectively.

On thinking about it, I was reminded of this link from MyDreamApp (A contest to pitch apps for the Mac)

http://mydreamapp.com/contestants/view/danlundmark/

Re: New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

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Post by nostrademons » Wed, Nov 07, 2007, 10:41 PM UTC

This is wonderful. I'm off to limit my visits to daily, or maybe twice-daily if I login once in the morning and once at night.

Will this kick you off in the middle of writing a comment? That's my one qualm about it - that I'll start writing a response and then won't be able to submit it because maxvisit has timed out. Maybe exempt the comment-posting URL (it should block you from further reloads afterwards, though)?