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Ask HN: What does showdead and noprocras mean?

1 pointsby terrykohlaabout 12 years ago

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TranceManabout 12 years ago
From the FAQ [link at bottom of page]:<p>In my profile, what does showdead do?<p>If you turn it on, you'll see all the submissions and comments that have been killed by the editors. They're mostly spam and duplicates.<p>In my profile, what is noprocrast?<p>It's a way to help you prevent yourself from spending too much time on News.YC. If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours. You can override noprocrast if you want, in which case your visit clock starts over at zero.