David_Gerard comments on Rationality Quotes: April 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 05 April 2011 09:40:37AM *  3 points [-]

And this just reminded me to check the time and realise i was 40 minutes late for logging into work (cough) LessWrong as memetic hazard!

Comment author: MBlume 05 April 2011 05:21:38PM 0 points [-]

PG has added specific hacks to HN to help people who don't want it to become a memetic hazard. Is it possible we should do the same to LW?

Comment author: David_Gerard 05 April 2011 08:40:36PM -1 points [-]

I find HN to be a stream of excessively tasty brain candy. What particular hacks are you thinking of? Is there a list?

Comment author: Zack_M_Davis 05 April 2011 09:19:34PM *  10 points [-]

MBlume may be referring to the "noprocrast" feature:

the latest version of Hacker News has a feature to let you limit your use of the site. There are three new fields in your profile, noprocrast, maxvisit, and minaway. (You can edit your profile by clicking on your username.) Noprocrast is turned off by default. If you turn it on by setting it to "yes," you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours. You can override noprocrast if you want, in which case your visit clock starts over at zero.

Best wishes, the Less Wrong Reference Desk.

Comment author: Document 14 May 2011 04:03:18AM *  0 points [-]

Other possible features would include disabling links and replying in some way - for certain times of the day, or requiring the user to type a long string to access them each time.

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