Information is like snacks, money, and drugs to the brain

Re:Information is like snacks, money, and drugs to the brain by Zealotux on Friday June 21, 2019 @01:43PM (#20244727)

While Stack Overflow is great for solving issues, I still had to block the "Hot Network Questions" suggestions from the sidebar because it was an almost systematic distraction that would inevitably send me down a rabbit-hole of unrelated questions.

Any system designed to solve the attention problem will have to be opinionated, blocking specific websites, or at least parts of it, I guess it's an interesting case study for machine learning.

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Re:Information is like snacks, money, and drugs to the brain by mthoms on Friday June 21, 2019 @04:03PM (#20245871)

I did this as well and it definitely helped. For Stack Overflow I've also removed the left sidebar entirely and upped the minimum width of the main content (so code doesn't get cut off nearly as much).

Another helpful one was removing the "next page" links on Reddit (I use the classic version). That way I can check on some things I'm interested in, but not get carried away.

I'm considering doing the same for Hacker News.

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Re:Information is like snacks, money, and drugs to the brain by tomcatfish on Friday June 21, 2019 @03:06PM (#20245429)

Thanks for the idea! That's what always gets me too!

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Re:Information is like snacks, money, and drugs to the brain by cgoecknerwald on Friday June 21, 2019 @02:17PM (#20245016)

How did you do that?

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Re:Information is like snacks, money, and drugs to the brain by Zealotux on Friday June 21, 2019 @02:27PM (#20245121)

I used an adblocker to block the element (the ID is #hot-network-questions).

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