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Comment by vaksel | Hacker News Reader

why don't you just download rescuetime and limit the access yourself? This way you don't punish people who have the self control to do it on their own

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This might have a positive impact on the community above and beyond whatever effect it has on the individual. For example, this might improve the quality of the submissions and/or comments. We don't know yet because it hasn't been tried before. That's what makes it an interesting experiment.

well HN has been going down every few days for an hour or two(you know when it only shows you the top most thread), and I haven't seen the quality of posts improve

It wasn't planned, and so not anticipated by users, so therefore no community effect.

I think the concept is a little like a departmental morning tea.

I tried hard to get it to work, but it's pretty bad on ubuntu. I can't speak for windows/mac.

I had some issues on Ubuntu as well (officially Linux isn't supported by RescueTime ... it's just something a user put together). It works great on Windows & Mac.

I can't use Rescuetime, can I? I don't use Firefox.

RescueTime is an installable app (for Mac or Windows) and plays nicely with most browsers (FF, IE, Safari, Chrome).

Huh! I didn't know that, but that's excellent. I thought it was Windows-only, too.

I'll check that out. (And, as an aside, I love the level of feedback that Hacker News gets on YCombinator's stuff. It's so cool that people like you are members here.)

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