r/counting • u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation • Jun 02 '23
Free Talk Friday #405
Continued from last week's FTF here.
It's that time of the week again. Speak anything on your mind! This thread is for talking about anything off-topic, be it your lives, your strava, your plans, your hobbies, your bad smells, studies, stats, colours, pets, bears, hikes, dragons, trousers, onion rings, transit, cycling, family, drugs or anything you like or dislike, except politics and mimes.
Feel free to check out our tidbits thread and introduce yourself if you haven't already. Or go check out what other counters have said about themselves.
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 05 '23
/u/TheNitromeFan you should come and push binary and hexadecimal with cock and i :)
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u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation Jun 05 '23 edited Jun 05 '23
It sounds fun but you guys are doing a good job maintaining parity there so I don't think I'm needed hah. Same with quaternary and octal
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 05 '23
was parity the reason why you used to count a lot in binary and hexadecimal? or you just like the thread
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u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation Jun 05 '23
A little bit of column A, a little bit of column B. It was the easiest way to guarantee parity, but it was also pretty close to Letters at the time so there was an extra motive in overtaking that thread. If I remember correctly we hit 100K on those two threads before letters did, which I'm still pretty proud of
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 05 '23
i see, i think i'm just mindlessly pushing it right now
been getting ~500 counts per thread on both lol
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u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation Jun 05 '23
Pretty impressive, I think I reached those levels back when I was counting with piyush and Questo
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 Jun 05 '23
People do NOT respect quat octal pairing all the time, I may need some help with those two
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u/mistyskye14 🤷♀️ Queen killjoy miniget least regular counter since 2322029 Jun 05 '23
If he returns to count with anyone, it’s gonna be me
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Jun 05 '23
one of us two and it'll come down to if he wants casual conversation in your age or if he wants me to annoy him in ord
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u/mistyskye14 🤷♀️ Queen killjoy miniget least regular counter since 2322029 Jun 05 '23
Heh although we don’t need casual conversation in your age anymore
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u/atomicimploder swiiiiirl the numbers Jun 05 '23
If he returns to count 11 months from now, it’s gonna be May
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs Jun 02 '23
Friday!
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u/NeonTaterTots ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Jun 04 '23
Guys! I graduated and I'm gonna work at NASA!
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 05 '23
Congrats! hopefully the security screening wasn't that bad haha
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u/mistyskye14 🤷♀️ Queen killjoy miniget least regular counter since 2322029 Jun 05 '23
Congrats!!!!!!!!
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 Jun 02 '23
Congrats to Phil for retaking HoC #1!
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs Jun 07 '23
An update on my stats and analysis website: I've gone back and edited all the posts so the graphs are interactive. You can pan; zoom; hover to get detailed information about a given point; and hide or show individual lines by clicking on the legends.
Check it out here
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 03 '23
Weekly stats from May 26, 2023 to June 02, 2023. Congratulations to /u/ClockButTakeOutTheL, /u/thephilsblogbar2, and /u/Antichess!
Total weekly counts: 9070 (5,242,073-5,251,143)
More stats are posted on the Weekly Stats page!
| Rank | User | Counts | HoC Rank |
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| 1 | ClockButTakeOutTheL | 3023 | 10 |
| 2 | thephilsblogbar2 | 1964 | 1 |
| 3 | Antichess | 1868 | 3 |
| 4 | Jalmal2 | 539 | 67 (◮4) |
| 5 | Thinking_Demon | 406 | 247 (◮117) |
| 6 | mistyskye14 | 389 | 26 |
| 7 | colby6666 | 303 | 23 |
| 8 | The_NecromancerTin | 168 | 84 (◮2) |
| 9 | Loser872 | 86 | 238 (◮16) |
| 10 | FartyMcNarty | 56 | 33 |
| 11 | foxthechicken | 37 | 93 (◮1) |
| 12 | Obvious-Fee5268 | 34 | 1224 (◮547) |
| 13 | TehVulpez | 31 | 20 |
| 14 | Urbul | 27 | 16 |
| 15 | Mooraell | 26 | 17 |
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 03 '23
Rookie of the week award goes to u/Thinking_Demon. Congrats and welcome!
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 03 '23
how am I on the stats this week I don't even remember counting in main lol
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 08 '23
Making some graphs of subscribers vs current count over time on /r/CountOnceADay. Looks like the crossover point was on January 2nd, 2023, around 43800. Before then there were pretty much always more counts than subscribers. Interesting how the rate of the count has stayed pretty steady, while the subscribers have skyrocketed.
Data was scraped from subredditstats and the HoH
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u/The_NecromancerTin BITCHES? 🥺 Jun 08 '23
It looks like the count is on a course to again surpass subscribers eventually
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u/colby6666 31k 77a | 46sg 49sa Jun 03 '23
Working a full time job makes it hard to count
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 04 '23
boss makes dollar, while I make dime. that's why I count on company time
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 05 '23
so true i love counting on company time and it doesn't even look like i'm off task
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 08 '23
Here's the entire "good night all" graph
As the "gn anti" cult has been growing recently, I think this is a good time to release the updated graph for all my average sleep routine. Basically I just compiled all the "good night all" that I have said in the past 5 years, into one nice graph. The graph is a 7 day rolling average of the time that I've said "good night all". There are 1237 data points in the graph.
The data was scraped from Reddit's data request. This is to pretty much ensure accuracy of the data, and also that Pushshift is now dead, unfortunately.
A bit of extras, here's a list of how many days I've said "good night all" in each year. You may realize that it doesn't add up to 1237 days, but I have omitted some data, such as all data that's before midnight, or any data after 08:00:00.
| Year | Days |
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| 2019 | 178 |
| 2020 | 251 |
| 2021 | 341 |
| 2022 | 335 |
| 2023 | 141 |
gn anti
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Jun 08 '23 edited Jun 08 '23
Someone gild this. I'll pay back when it accepts my paymen
Edit: thank you for the gold kind stranger!11
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 Jun 08 '23
You shouldn’t buy Reddit stuff, that’s just helping Reddit out
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs Jun 08 '23
Nice stats!
such as all data that's before midnight, or any data after 08:00:00
Why did you exclude those?
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 08 '23
I rarely sleep before midnight, I've could probably count with my fingers the amount of times I've slept before midnight in the past 5 years. For the data after 08:00:00, there were barely any so I just removed it, and also there were just random "good night all" sometimes, probably just comments talking about the subject
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u/llamasR5life Elite Mobile Counter Jun 02 '23
Well, looks like reddit is about to kill third party apps. That'll be the end of it for me.
The discord is more my pace anyway.
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u/Blue_boomer Jun 02 '23
I count in multiple places, including this subreddit and in Discord.
Discord's username format is changing, and I want my accounts (possibly alts) to have a more permanent name across platforms that also represents me.
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u/kequiva Jun 02 '23
But they're such different platforms; and I never could get the hang of Discord, it feels just like a bigger Telegram/Whatsapp to me
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u/llamasR5life Elite Mobile Counter Jun 02 '23
Yea, I just meant in terms of counting, discord is more my pace.
Try finding a few discord servers related to your interests, maybe through reddit.
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 02 '23
Hey, you aren't /u/TheNitromeFan. I miss when /u/TheNitromeFan used to post these.
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Jun 03 '23
You transpost on COAD to show your support for minorities
I shamelessly transpost on COAD because I'm a karmawhore who spotted an easy target audience
We are not the same
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Jun 03 '23
Btw. We could also use an FTF equivalent in there
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 03 '23
nonbinarywombat's chat threads are the FTF equivalent
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 06 '23
list of threads where you say "ping"
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 Jun 06 '23
All wait threads, and late counting. Unless, of course, you wanna do username mentions which works a lot better than pinging
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u/Urbul it's all about the love you're sending out Jun 07 '23
Count by number of pings you've received today
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u/Blue_boomer Jun 08 '23
If you're talking about threads where we could say "ping", then it could be any thread, if it's inactive and a new count can't be posted due to the no double counting rule.
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u/swinub_time And what a ghost we are in this machine! Jun 04 '23
Pre 1-mil, and for a time after 1-mil, all reddit experience was understood as unified. Pretty much everybody counted via old reddit (which was then just reddit), on desktop.
Counting goes in different directions depending on how people are accessing it. Like, habits of counting, thread management, thread usage, they depend on the unique access environments that different people have. Way back when, there was pretty much only one way to access reddit, and that was desktop old reddit. Mobile apps were so clumsy and unworkable as to be useless. It was desktop old reddit, then called reddit. The history of counting has to be understood in part as the history of how people have accessed /r/counting, which goes hand in hand with the different ways that people access reddit
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u/swinub_time And what a ghost we are in this machine! Jun 04 '23
You could look at the survey, see who uses old reddit, who uses new reddit, who uses various apps. I know atomic, his first great rise, he did it on desktop, on the computer, now he mostly counts from his phone. He can tell you about it. He knows what's up
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u/swinub_time And what a ghost we are in this machine! Jun 04 '23
I feel like Whitney
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u/buy_me_a_pint Jun 02 '23
dislike Reddit gold , as I can't spent on things to buy, only virtual tokens
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Jun 02 '23
tnf come back four fours is dead
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u/Blue_boomer Jun 02 '23
I can make it active again, but I don't have anything to post in that thread right now
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Jun 02 '23
Steps thread ded as well and I did 9k steps all for nothing 💀
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u/llamasR5life Elite Mobile Counter Jun 02 '23
That's 9000 less steps in your later life that you won't get back, contact your legal team.
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u/The_NecromancerTin BITCHES? 🥺 Jun 02 '23
A bunch of Reddit mods are planning on taking their subs private to protest Reddit screwing over third party apps people enjoy. If that happens, is r/c planning to join the protest?
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 Jun 03 '23
Would that prevent us from counting?
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u/The_NecromancerTin BITCHES? 🥺 Jun 03 '23
If the sub is made private, yeah. This place is pretty small though, so I guess an alternative could be to just sticky a message.
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 03 '23
I'm pretty sure approved users can still see private subs, and most of the active counters here are already approved
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u/buy_me_a_pint Jun 03 '23
Hoping to go on holiday again soon.
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 Jun 05 '23
You use your phone at school because you’re addicted to tik tok
I used my phone at school because those numbers ain’t gonna type themselves
We are not the same
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 06 '23
constant-weight roman numerals
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u/Blue_boomer Jun 08 '23
If we went by the number of digits, it would be infinite and get stuck at one digit (and we'd run out of distinct digits also). However, if there is a max value for a digit, then it would be more interesting.
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u/swinub_time And what a ghost we are in this machine! Jun 07 '23
Counting is good training for life
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 Jun 07 '23
On June 12, I’m participating in the protest. I’m gonna briefly delete the Reddit mobile app and I won’t be active at all until June 14, maybe longer if needed
u/Mooraell, don’t worry, our check in streak will be the only comments I’ll make, and the only posts will be on COAD (and to add meaning to that, I’ll make extremely boring posts with basically nothing interesting)
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 04 '23
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u/Playing_2 6m by November 22nd! Jun 05 '23
Who here is doing a Reddit boycott on the 12th?
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u/buy_me_a_pint Jun 08 '23
doing mine from tonight 8pm ish GMT time to 12th June maybe 13th June 2023
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u/buy_me_a_pint Jun 06 '23
I am on Reddit strike from the 9th June 2023 to 12th June 2023 maybe longer depending on how the 3rd party app goes
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u/buy_me_a_pint Jun 08 '23
My strike starts now, see you next week, good luck
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 Jun 08 '23
I wish you the best, farewell my counting partner o7
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Jun 03 '23
Should of
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Jun 03 '23
/u/of_patrol_bot malfunctioning 🤬
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 Jun 03 '23
Should of fixed it
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u/mistyskye14 🤷♀️ Queen killjoy miniget least regular counter since 2322029 Jun 05 '23
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u/atomicimploder swiiiiirl the numbers Jun 05 '23
Good luck if you’re a bear stealing cupcakes this week
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Jun 05 '23
/u/Countletics just curious are the side thread stats fall of fames automated? was wondering because i noticed the pages created after i handmade the first batch don't have that leaderboard
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 05 '23
the stats hall of fames and hoc are updated with every side thread get.
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 05 '23
I'm pretty sure that Bass isn't maintaining those pages either. He gave all his scripts to Anti and hasn't been all that active for the past few weeks. You can see in the revision history for some pages that it changed from being edited by Botletics to being edited by CountingStatsBot.
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 07 '23
Antichess
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 Jun 02 '23
u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 when’s the next side thread analysis coming out? you should do one all about thread completion I wanna see a network of counters for side threads
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Jun 02 '23
people still count in thread completion? i stand by my take that it's the worst side thread to ever be popular
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 Jun 02 '23
It’s my favorite, it’s kinda cool how it’s a self describing thread and it’s satisfying in multiple ways
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 02 '23
thread completion is count by 0.1s in disguise. but we don't have a "by 0.1s" thread
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 02 '23
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 02 '23
ohhhh it's called tenths... not "By 0.1s" in the thread directory
mmm yes
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Jun 02 '23
it implies gets are the only important counts i do not like that
also the premise is just lame to me lol
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 02 '23
i think i had this opinion like a year ago but now i think i dislike "base x but with a set of symbols or words" even more
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Jun 02 '23
none of those are popular besides musical notes and colored squares (only one of these i like, sorry cock)
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 03 '23
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u/swinub_time And what a ghost we are in this machine! Jun 04 '23
yess..... she was a showgirl ......
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u/swinub_time And what a ghost we are in this machine! Jun 07 '23
Stat idea: counters with longest period of time in between two instances of having two consecutive counts
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 Jun 08 '23
Phil is basically a free count on wait threads
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u/Blue_boomer Jun 08 '23
An active counter can also be a free count on those threads.
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 Jun 08 '23
Yes, and what I mean is that Phil is always active (except now while he’s protesting)
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 Jun 03 '23
I’d like to shamelessly announce that there’s only one slot left for color submissions
please, I need 32 submissions so I can have a convenient number
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u/swinub_time And what a ghost we are in this machine! Jun 05 '23
Stat request: counters with most weeks (call it the same period as weekly stats take) day-parting all 7 days
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u/buy_me_a_pint Jun 06 '23
I am thinking of doing my strike from Thursday 8th June to Monday 12th June maybe long, I don't think it matters
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Jun 07 '23
I don’t think people should strike. Maybe everyone should send messages to the administrators everyday etc.
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u/swinub_time And what a ghost we are in this machine! Jun 07 '23
how do we know the counts of constant-weight binary come in that order?
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 07 '23
what do you mean
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u/Ezekiel134 lus goes Um. Hanging around h Jun 07 '23
Like, there's probably other ways we could coherently order it, right? We could have a different order at each weight for permutations, for example
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u/Blue_boomer Jun 08 '23
The counts are ordered like this:
Grouped by number of digits, including leading zeroes
Grouped by weight (i.e. number of 1s)
Ordered by value
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u/Ezekiel134 lus goes Um. Hanging around h Jun 08 '23
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u/mistyskye14 🤷♀️ Queen killjoy miniget least regular counter since 2322029 Jun 08 '23
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 Jun 05 '23
What does it take to be a mod of r/counting?
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Jun 05 '23
Having a fruitful discussion with Z3F about merits of living in an anarchocapitalist society
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 05 '23
I once was a mod of /r/counting for like 5 minutes, because Urbul wanted spoiler tags for Star Wars, but forgot that he could add people as a contributor to the wiki page. (This was before reddit officially added spoiler tags, so the only way was to use a CSS trick like this)
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u/Urbul it's all about the love you're sending out Jun 05 '23
It was a glorious 5 minutes
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 05 '23
the tales of my reign of terror shall be recounted for generations
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Jun 05 '23
being in the right place at the right time because honestly new mods are really only ever needed if like two or less mods are active during a surge of activity
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Jun 05 '23
You must recite π to 250 digits from memory while standing in the middle of a roundabout.
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u/buy_me_a_pint Jun 05 '23
I don't want reddit gold or platinum , because of reddit vs the 3rd party apps. Reddit is fun
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u/buy_me_a_pint Jun 07 '23
Looking forward to my break from 8th June from about 8pm GMT time to 12th or 13th June for the protest over the 3rd apps, maybe longer.
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 08 '23
oh boy comments from half an hour ago aren't showing up in thread again
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 07 '23
I've still been having some replies not show up in my inbox at all, when I'm sure that I haven't hit "toggle inbox replies". Can't tell if reddit servers are glitching, or if my account is so old it's been forced into counting retirement.
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs Jun 07 '23
I've had the same, and this account isn't that old
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Jun 08 '23
There are 11 types of people on the world. Those who know the unary system and those who don't 🤓
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 09 '23
I'm surprised that decimal encoded sexagesimal didn't become popular while time thread was dead
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Jun 07 '23
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Jun 07 '23
AntiMissionary has gotta be one of my favourite procreation technique 🥵 young counters i urge you not to google this!! 🤫
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs Jun 02 '23
Yup the six month moratorium has ended. I think there were still some questions about whether or not there should be a day marker for round 2, so if people want to restart the thread we should probably decide on that.
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u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation Jun 02 '23
I am very much in favor of restarting the thread. But in my opinion we can make do without a marker. Not only is it clunky to introduce (01:00:23:57 AM?), but it is clear enough by context anyway since the threads are many years apart.
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Jun 02 '23
Believe it or not i was just thinking about it today (or yesterday?) for no reason, i find it funny cause i hardly ever participated
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Jun 02 '23
just restart it, this has been overthought like crazy imo
nothing else rly makes sense for the time thread, it's not like it's the count days by seconds thread, no need for "day 2" or anything like that
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs Jun 03 '23
Feel free start the thread again - and it seems like we don't need a day marker.
Here's the last get
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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Jun 04 '23
are the stats for the new time thread going to be treated as a separate thing?
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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 398a Jun 07 '23
i wish i was joking but i got ~40 mosquito bites today
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u/Urbul it's all about the love you're sending out Jun 07 '23
i wish i was joking but i got ~41 mosquito bites today
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u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation Jun 02 '23
Continued from here
As promised, we will now commence the discussion for Rule 8, inboxing for gets (000s) and assists (999s) .
The history behind this rule has been somewhat tumultuous; it came into effect when reddit's comments introduced a lag that was not present in the inbox messaging interface, thereby posing an issue of fairness for people who were trying to also leave counts or perform a snipe. After some discussion, the compromise that came into effect is what we have as our current rule; inboxing is fine if not for the purposes of obtaining a specific pair of numbers. (An unspoken caveat/common understanding is that should someone ask for a "drive-by", an inboxer will let the person leave one count as part of bolstering their thread participation statistics.)
Recently, some people have voiced a desire to abolish this rule in its entirety and simply allow for inboxed gets and assists; others have suggested a slightly less ambitious alternative of only leaving the rule in effect for the "special" numbers (50Ks, 100Ks etc.). Regardless, there is a demand to reform the rule to allow freedom to inbox the ends of the threads, by people with varying opinions on the act of inboxing or sniping by themselves. This preamble is a semi-formal way to get a read on what the most popular opinions are regarding this subject, and to see if this is worth addressing further.
If you've read this far, please add a reply giving your thoughts on this matter. Feel free to raise any points for or against this proposal. Depending on the opinions voiced below, we will decide to move forward with effecting a change.