“Completely harmless” is not an accurate description of TV Tropes Wiki—many people have noted that it can become an immense time sink. In my opinion, this is due to the large amount of material being available and heavily crosslinked—and given high average and moderate variation in data attractiveness, this produces a variable-ratio schedule of positive reinforcement, leading to addictive behavior much like that observed in gambling.
That last link is the only safe one, by the way—it goes to psychology.about.com, as opposed to TV Tropes or xkcd, and is very brief.
It’s 2 PM and I still haven’t done any work today. Thanks. :(
Was that supposed to be funny? About.com is pretty bad—it’s full of hard-to-spot sponsored ad links and is a mess when it comes to readability.
All true, but about.com is pretty anti-addictive, unlike Wikipedia.
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“Completely harmless” is not an accurate description of TV Tropes Wiki—many people have noted that it can become an immense time sink. In my opinion, this is due to the large amount of material being available and heavily crosslinked—and given high average and moderate variation in data attractiveness, this produces a variable-ratio schedule of positive reinforcement, leading to addictive behavior much like that observed in gambling.
That last link is the only safe one, by the way—it goes to psychology.about.com, as opposed to TV Tropes or xkcd, and is very brief.
It’s 2 PM and I still haven’t done any work today. Thanks. :(
Was that supposed to be funny? About.com is pretty bad—it’s full of hard-to-spot sponsored ad links and is a mess when it comes to readability.
All true, but about.com is pretty anti-addictive, unlike Wikipedia.