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21 Post author: RolfAndreassen 15 May 2012 09:46PM

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Comment author: ghf 17 May 2012 09:34:18AM 3 points [-]

Some are specifically focused in at the level of prompting addiction. Zynga, for example, has put a lot of work into optimizing the rate of rewards for just this effect.

Comment author: private_messaging 17 May 2012 10:14:52AM 3 points [-]

Yep. Other model is to set up mechanism that trains at least some people to produce addictive content for people within your system (Reddit does this).