Manipulating Human Psychology To Turn Users Into Addicts

Re:Manipulating Human Psychology To Turn Users Into Addicts by sjellis on Friday November 17, 2017 @06:31AM (#15721104)

"Any potentially addictive software/service should offer a way for users to lock themselves out of their own account for a predetermined set of hours."

It's really noticeable that Hacker News provides exactly this feature, and absolutely no other site that I've seen does.

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Re:Manipulating Human Psychology To Turn Users Into Addicts by louprado on Friday November 17, 2017 @04:52PM (#15726295)

Discussion regaring profile options: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4855004

For years I resorted to hacking /etc/hosts to block HN. Mentally, I just assumed that no website would have such settings so I never bothered to learn what noprocrast meant.

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Re:Manipulating Human Psychology To Turn Users Into Addicts by pbhjpbhj on Friday November 17, 2017 @09:39AM (#15722267)

I presume you're referring to "noprocrast" in one's profile.

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