There is abuse potential as mentioned earlier. Pointing out in chat that someone is procrastinating should be beneficial enough through social pressure in this setting and it does not have any obvious drawbacks like non-mutable sounds do.
This conflicts with the ‘no chatting during the pomodoro’ rule, and notifies every one instead. It looks like we’d either want private messaging, buzzing, or Rescue Time-style “this is what tabs this person had open during their pomodoro, everyone mock them for going on facebook for 30 seconds.”
The ‘no chatting during the pomodoro rule’ shouldn’t be too strict in my opinion. I think that most people are alright if there is some minimum talking during pomodoro times especially for relevant things like this or greeting people, am I wrong? In addition, immediate feedback has been shown to facilitate learning thus scolding the person immediately as you see them slacking off should help to change their behavior faster.
There is no need of any notifications of the chat unless you want them as well. Private messaging is also a desired feature but in my opinion it is better (but not neccessery) if everything related to the task at hand is out in the open in order to create a ‘community’ atmosphere.
This conflicts with the ‘no chatting during the pomodoro’ rule, and notifies every one instead. It looks like we’d either want private messaging, buzzing, or Rescue Time-style “this is what tabs this person had open during their pomodoro, everyone mock them for going on facebook for 30 seconds.”
The ‘no chatting during the pomodoro rule’ shouldn’t be too strict in my opinion. I think that most people are alright if there is some minimum talking during pomodoro times especially for relevant things like this or greeting people, am I wrong? In addition, immediate feedback has been shown to facilitate learning thus scolding the person immediately as you see them slacking off should help to change their behavior faster.
There is no need of any notifications of the chat unless you want them as well. Private messaging is also a desired feature but in my opinion it is better (but not neccessery) if everything related to the task at hand is out in the open in order to create a ‘community’ atmosphere.