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What about taking the override option off noprocrast?
by pg 18y ago
What about taking the override option off noprocrast?
- aaronsw 18y agoWhat if instead of an override link it made you answer a Mechanical Turk question? Then at least you'd be accomplishing something useful with your procrastination.
- pg 18y agoHmm. Or I could make people donate to a charity...
- byrneseyeview 18y agoAs long as they're donating time (e.g. doing some small number of data entry tasks for a fundraiser) rather than money.
- rms 18y agoOr Recaptcha...
- bloch 18y agoGood idea! Noprocrast with override option is (for me) about as effective as hiding the ice cream beneath a bag of frozen peas would be for a kid. You could limit the max length of minaway to prevent people from accidentally blocking the site forever. I think max is about 190 years at moment (although if a singularity occured that could become a relevant timespan for procrastinators).
- robg 18y agoWhich problem(s) are you trying to solve? Is it simply the time sink? If you think folks spend too much time here, then why not a daily limit? Make noprocrast a fixed limit for everyone. If you think quality would improve during "open" hours, then why not limit submissions to certain hours? Read-access all the time, but write-access only sometimes.
- cperciva 18y agoSounds good to me, although of course you'd want to either limit the noprocrast lock-out time or allow a "let me in an hour from now" override to prevent permanent lock-outs. Or, if your concern is simply that YC-funded companies aren't getting work done, you could just lock them out for a couple of hours in the middle of the day. I wouldn't complain about that. :-)