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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?
I come to YC not to procrastinate, but to learn. You guys are smart bastards you know that? Maybe 1/10th post on here is something to fool around with, but in the end it all feeds the mind.
I go to Reddit to procrastinate. (Not hating on it, I love the site, just has different material)
I understand this is scope creep to your original idea - but it might be fun. And it could be a historic precedent - the first feature added to a site which would block user's access to that site.
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?
Maybe they're looking for people whose high karma comes from scoring highly on a small number of hyper-intelligent comments.
What about an option to disallow override on noprocrast? I find it a very useful feature, but sometimes I click override when I know I should probably be working. A way to effectively ban myself by removing the override option (by choice) would be effective for those of us worried about YC being a time-sink. You could log out of your account if it was that important, but it seems like putting another barrier in-place…
The problem with the override option is that it is a weak barrier. It takes a split second to click it and after two or three times it becomes a habit to override. A good solution would force the user to become acutely aware of what he is about to do and give him time to regain enough discipline to stop. Perhaps it would help if the user were forced to watch a video about procrastination or answer a series of relevan…
I used to use noprocrast until I got in the habit of using override. Now I uncomment a line to my /etc/hosts file that points news.yc to another IP. It works a lot better because if I go to news.yc while the IP is redirected, my browser caches the IP and I can't access the site, so I have to remember to unblock it before I try to access it. This forces me to think about what I'm doing.
It actually helps a little.