How slot machines are designed to be addictive

Re:How slot machines are designed to be addictive by Buttes on Sunday November 05, 2017 @08:58PM (#15633015)

In 10 years: How Facebook is designed to be addictive

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Re:How slot machines are designed to be addictive by scrame on Sunday November 05, 2017 @10:04PM (#15633223)

What do you think "stickiness" or "user engagement" are measuring. Same metrics that ran Farmville, and the same metrics putting lootboxes in games now.

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Re:How slot machines are designed to be addictive by Buttes on Sunday November 05, 2017 @10:47PM (#15633337)

Preaching to the choir

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Re:How slot machines are designed to be addictive by taneq on Sunday November 05, 2017 @11:18PM (#15633412)

(In the hope that a correction is actually helpful) it's 'preaching to the choir'.

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Re:How slot machines are designed to be addictive by tir on Sunday November 05, 2017 @11:45PM (#15633493)

No, it's definitely 1/20th of a ream of paper.

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Re:How slot machines are designed to be addictive by duncan-donuts on Sunday November 05, 2017 @09:22PM (#15633086)

People are already talking about social media and how it's addictive[1].

1) https://www.google.com/search?q=how+social+media+is+designed...

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Re:How slot machines are designed to be addictive by bricksmart on Sunday November 05, 2017 @09:44PM (#15633164)

He's pointing out that the material in this article has been discussed ad nauseam and this doesn't present any new ideas.

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Re:How slot machines are designed to be addictive by stubish on Monday November 06, 2017 @12:30AM (#15633607)

Or perhaps how Facebook succeeded, because it happened to be more addictive than its competitors. Evolutionary mechanisms will ensure that the most successful social network is the most addictive one.

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