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Re:Exposing Social Gaming's Hidden Lever by dcadenas on Thursday October 27, 2011 @05:07PM (#3165561)
Very interesting, it's the same mechanism behind email/Twitter addiction: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/aug/28/email.addic...
Re:Exposing Social Gaming's Hidden Lever by stephth on Thursday October 27, 2011 @05:48PM (#3165756)
Nice catch.

"Random Reward Schedule" and "variable interval reinforcement schedule" look like different names for the same concept, but looking closer the former seems to cover both time and reward, and the latter focuses on the time component. Am I reading this correctly?

Re:Exposing Social Gaming's Hidden Lever by chgriffin on Thursday October 27, 2011 @05:19PM (#3165603)
And Facebook's wall