On: Poll: Turn off News.YC a few hours a day?

[vaksel]

why don't you just download rescuetime and limit the access yourself? This way you don't punish people who have the self control to do it on their own

[Alex3917 → vaksel]

This might have a positive impact on the community above and beyond whatever effect it has on the individual. For example, this might improve the quality of the submissions and/or comments. We don't know yet because it hasn't been tried before. That's what makes it an interesting experiment.

[vaksel → Alex3917]

well HN has been going down every few days for an hour or two(you know when it only shows you the top most thread), and I haven't seen the quality of posts improve

[13ren → vaksel]

It wasn't planned, and so not anticipated by users, so therefore no community effect.

I think the concept is a little like a departmental morning tea.

[Herring → vaksel]

I tried hard to get it to work, but it's pretty bad on ubuntu. I can't speak for windows/mac.

[aneesh → Herring]

I had some issues on Ubuntu as well (officially Linux isn't supported by RescueTime ... it's just something a user put together). It works great on Windows & Mac.

[unalone → vaksel]

I can't use Rescuetime, can I? I don't use Firefox.

[webwright → unalone]

RescueTime is an installable app (for Mac or Windows) and plays nicely with most browsers (FF, IE, Safari, Chrome).

[unalone → webwright]

Huh! I didn't know that, but that's excellent. I thought it was Windows-only, too.

I'll check that out. (And, as an aside, I love the level of feedback that Hacker News gets on YCombinator's stuff. It's so cool that people like you are members here.)