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> habitual selectors Ah, my condition has a name. All it needs now is a support group. My case become terminal when I discovered three finger drag on OSX. HN
by scrumper 14y ago
> habitual selectors
Ah, my condition has a name. All it needs now is a support group. My case become terminal when I discovered three finger drag on OSX.
HN is a particularly good site to do it on because of the little lines and gaps that appear between selected blocks of comments. You can get a very satisfying 'pop' of a multi-comment selection springing from a single one if you move your mouse just a bit while dragging over the gap between one comment and the next.
- georgeott 14y agoCurious... Why are you selecting? Is it to assist in reading, or some other reason?
- scrumper 14y agoNo legitimate reason. Part habit, part compulsion, part tic. It's basically doodling with the selection highlight. Edit: don't need to share all that, I think.
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- cardamomo 14y agoI often select text so that I have an easy visual reference when I'm scrolling down. I don't want to scroll too far!
- guiambros 14y agoI do exactly the same. For me it's not really selection reading, but selection marking, when scrolling.
- aangjie 14y agoTo me it has become a sign that i am bored of what i am reading and should just skip to the story's punchline. Or sometimes abandon it altogether.
- devcpp 14y agoGreat, we have our first theoretician. Now we do need some sort of organizational structure for advocacy.
- scrumper 14y agoWe do. I can smell allowances and tax exemptions. Maybe even an annual fun run. I don't much mind about the structure, but it'd be really nice if it all lined up perfectly straight.
- illuminate 14y ago"Curious... Why are you selecting? Is it to assist in reading, or some other reason?" Sometimes unconscious compulsion, otherwise to put together a quote in the context of an existing thread. I immediately noticed this feature due to the high number of discards :)
- markokocic 14y agoScrolling. Selected text or word is just a marker when scrolling fast. It is much easier to follow visually fast moving selected part of the text than to keep track about sentence that I'm currently reading. When using keyboard it's not that important, since one quickly learn how much PgDn scrolls, but when using mouse it is good to have a selection marker to quickly continue to read from there after scrolling.
- rdwallis 14y agoI'm waiting for a bug in incognito to be fixed before I start promotion but I built a chrome extension that specifically solves this problem if you'd like to try it out. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magicscroll-web-reader/ecldhagehndokdmaiaigoaecbmbnmfkc https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magicscroll-web-re...
- paulovsk 14y ago>I immediately noticed this feature due to the high number of discards the same here.
- creamyhorror 14y agoNew recruit reporting for duty. I've never seen anyone else read webpages the same way I do - by selecting to scroll - so it's a surprise to finally find my kin. I guess it was more likely to happen on a place like HN? Scrolling without selecting is just disorienting when I'm reading.