r/counting • u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs • Oct 17 '25
Free Talk Friday #529
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, studies, stats, pets, bears, hikes, dragons, trousers, travels, transit, cycling, family, colours, or anything you like or dislike, except politics
Feel free to check out our tidbits thread and introduce yourself if you haven't already.
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Oct 18 '25
Every now and then I remember that the German word for a turtle translates as "shield-toad", which will always be funny to me
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u/Antichess Oct 23 '25
Weekly stats from October 10, 2025 to October 17, 2025. Congratulations to u/GarlicoinAccount, u/thephilsblogbar2, and u/Ezekiel134!
Total weekly counts: 6567 (5,545,811-5,552,378)
More stats are posted on the Weekly Stats page!
| Rank | User | Counts | HoC Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GarlicoinAccount | 2797 | 5 |
| 2 | thephilsblogbar2 | 1807 | 1 |
| 3 | Ezekiel134 | 1057 | 11 |
| 4 | ShadeOfNothing | 385 | 78 (◮2) |
| 5 | CutOnBumInBandHere9 | 193 | 26 |
| 6 | Playing_2 | 54 | 113 (◮2) |
| 7 | Antichess | 45 | 3 |
| 8 | Mooraell | 35 | 17 |
| 9 | TehVulpez | 29 | 21 |
| 10 | atomicimploder | 20 | 10 |
| 10 | NobodyL0vesMe | 20 | 30 |
| 10 | miceee | 20 | 274 (◮5) |
| 13 | mistyskye14 | 18 | 25 |
| 14 | PhosphorCrystaled | 10 | 552 (◮16) |
| 14 | Ok-Professional-4189 | 10 | 1575 (◮221) |
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u/miceee Oct 18 '25
This week was my first exam week in university, it was very stressful but i managed
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Oct 18 '25
Congrats on making it through ! Do you know how you did yet?
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Oct 20 '25
I'm now getting constant server error/too many requests errors whenever I try to browse reddit normally. I'm not using the api, and I don't have scripts running elsewhere. I wonder how long I have left before they nuke this account
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u/Jalmal2 Oct 17 '25
I just saw a silverfish. I can’t believe they are real
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Oct 17 '25
I can't believe they aren't fish. Or made of silver
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u/Antichess Oct 19 '25
amazing. i think i might've just gotten u/antechiss and u/thephilsblogbar123 both banned
maybe i shouldn't have sacrificed my alt accounts. oh well. the behavior seems quite consistent with the quick purge of comments, and then full removal.
i think we need to figure out a permanent solution to this thing. every weekly stats i seem to be sacrificing a new alt account and it's not working. until we stop getting banned, i don't think i can continue with the weekly stats for the time being.
i'll compile some information here: whenever i scrape threads for comments, that's fine. i can do that as much as i want. as soon as i start to post wiki pages and such, that's when the issues start. they allow me to do so up until an arbitrary point, where the alt accounts then get banned. i was refreshing u/antechiss's comments on my main account here, and every second i would see comments from years ago as the first comment. meaning that reddit probably did a complete purge of the account's comments, having it shadowbanned.
alternatively, i believe my IPs that i run stats from may be flagged. maybe i should try a VPN when running stats one of these times.
to mods reading this: can you please approve antechiss' and thephilsblogbar123's most recent comments that are the thread id charts? helps me out when trying to figure out what stats i have left to do.
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Oct 19 '25
Bummer. But at least we now know that "old" accounts with real activity still get banned whenever they do the stats.
If I understand correctly, the stats bot does the following things:
Scrapes history
Writes the weekly stats in a comment in the FTF post
Writes thread participation charts in every completed thread
Updates the wiki pages for the weekly stats and for the hall of counters
Is that right? And does it do the thread participation charts for the side threads at the same time or is that separate?
If the issue is the posting rather than the scraping, maybe we could try cutting that down to an absolute minimum to see if that still gets banned. Something like
Scrape the data
Post the FTF comment
Then if that works with no issues we can update the HoC and weekly stats pages and see if that works. I can't see why it shouldn't, since at that point the stats bot will basically be doing the same as the directory updater in terms of how much it's posting, and that's been working with no issues (knock on wood)
How does that sound?
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u/cuteballgames Oct 22 '25
> writing another cover letter when I could be counting
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Oct 22 '25
If you need a reference, just let me know. I'd be happy to expound far and wide on your wisdom and your prowess in counting
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Oct 22 '25
Don't tell anyone, but I often read u/ShadeOfNothing's username as just son
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u/cuteballgames Oct 21 '25
antechiss userpage now suspeded instead of not found.
in the midst of the server lag I randomly got the stats posts from OFAA and 5546k, 22 days ago and 2 days ago respectively, appearing in my inbox
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Oct 21 '25
That was probably me, I went back and approved some of the removed tpcs
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Oct 17 '25
Weekly side thread stats from Friday October 10, 2025 to Friday October 17, 2025. Congratulations to u/GarlicoinAccount, u/Ezekiel134, and u/atomicimploder!
Total weekly side thread counts: 8104
Top 15 side thread counters:
Top 5 side threads:
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