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A comment on Ask HN: How can HN be more addictive than Reddit?.

Re:Ask HN: How can HN be more addictive than Reddit? by idclip on Sunday March 03, 2019 @05:25AM (#19293754)
Why? Why make it addictive? Why abuse human nature on what is a website run by adults, for adults, and is doing fine without being turned into a raging nest of wasps?

Go away.

Edit: we have lives to live. I personally avoid addictive shit with vengeance.

I quit smoking, I quit alcohol. I quit facebook. I would quit HN if it ever became “addictive” or anything other than the technology safe harbor i find it to currently be.

Yes, I feel strongly about this.

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Re:Ask HN: How can HN be more addictive than Reddit? by DavidSJ on Sunday March 03, 2019 @05:39AM (#19293797)
The OP is not requesting that HN be more addictive. They're asking why it is already.
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Re:Ask HN: How can HN be more addictive than Reddit? by HNLurker2 on Sunday March 03, 2019 @07:15AM (#19294108)
Elizer once said in a blogpost don't click on the link that goes to HN to not create another internet addiction: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cyzXoCv7nagDWCMNS/you-re-cal... and that was 10 years ago. Looking back on what I've done all year seems like I sent hours and hours on reddit and HN basically doing nothing.
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