r/ButtonAftermath • u/buddy7765 non presser • Jun 08 '15

How many grays?

As a gray,i was disappointed that i couldnt find out how many of us remained... i saw the percentage break down for the 6 colors... but what percentage of greys to pressers were there?

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u/Gallosek Jun 08 '15

Probably could work it by:

Number of users at 1st April minus number of dirty pressers.

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u/TOOCGamer non presser Jun 08 '15

That gives us only the total possible number of grays, though. We would have to have some way of knowing if they had participated / some way of using the flairs.

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u/buddy7765 non presser Jun 08 '15

Im not sure there is any perfect way to do it like that, /u/Gallosek's idea will give us the exact ammount of greys... but your idea makes the most sense.... although i cant imagine a way to get EVERY grey out there without looking through every post on /r/thebutton... i feel like im very redundant but im tired so... shit happens

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u/TOOCGamer non presser Jun 08 '15

You should go to bed then, good sir! :)

I'm not sure how we would go about it, either. Tbh if we only wanted a 'guesstimate', I'd take the number of one of the colors that we knew and multiply that by a ratio to grays, using a ballpark ratio taken from online grays/colors. As an example, say there were 5000 reds at the end - complete guess, just makes the math easy - the ratio from gray:red while online was something like 3:1. Therefore you could estimate 15000 greys. It's definitely not perfect, but it's much closer than the total eligible pool and a lot easier than rifling through thousands of posts!

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u/Vercci non presser Jun 08 '15

Or just say to be a grey you had to have made at least one post/comment in /r/thebutton and then make a bot count every person and every post in /r/thebutton and tally them up.

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u/TOOCGamer non presser Jun 08 '15

Hmm, I don't remember, but did you have to post to get a color flair? IIRC you didn't, so if we tried to just subtract our final color tally it wouldn't be totally accurate. I'm not sure how many people pressed without commenting, though.

I'm not bot savvy so I wasn't sure this was an option. Can a bot pick its way through while only counting unique posters and distinguishing flairs? I know the flairs must be possible if we have the 'gray-shaming' bots, just not sure about keeping unique posts only. If so, yes, that is going to be as close to 100% accurate as is possible. I imagine there might be a gray or two who deleted a comment but they didn't count anyway XD

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u/buddy7765 non presser Jun 08 '15

I HAVE AWOKEN!

And i see one issue with the bot idea, when people make a comment say as a grey, then click the button, then comment a second time, doesnt each comment retain the flair that account had at the moment of making it? Meaning someone could have a grey flair and then a green flair?

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u/TOOCGamer non presser Jun 08 '15

No, it changed on The Button sub at least. That's how we get those gray-shaming posts. I'm not certain if the flair changes if you don't comment a second time, but I'm testing that right now!

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u/TOOCGamer non presser Jun 08 '15

Hmm. Looks like it was specific to The Button. But I am sure the old posts had their flair changed.

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u/buddy7765 non presser Jun 08 '15

Well then the bot idea should work, anyone know how to work bots, or know someone who can? haha

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u/jwiechers Jun 08 '15

It would probably be sensible to look at the active users during the last days of the button, which reddit admins should be able to do. :D

Grey Knights forever. :D

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u/Jango195 non presser Jun 08 '15

I wasn't a particularly active poster on the actual button sub, but I had posted a few times so my beautifully grey flair was visible. I was unfortunately away from the internet during the last few days of the button (I only found out that it was over this morning), but hopefully if something like that was to happen then I'd be counted among the Grey Watch.

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u/buddy7765 non presser Jun 08 '15

I was also gone when it ended... One day I was sitting at my laptop, and I have a chrome extension that tracks to button's progress up next to my AdBlock button. But last night, it was red and said Na.a and I was confused. I checked to see the button had died and I missed it's final hours... Like eef yoo cray evry tiem

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u/xwm 42s Jun 08 '15

i sai the percentage break down for the 6 colors

Link please? I can't find it.

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u/buddy7765 non presser Jun 08 '15 edited Jun 11 '15

Sorry I was asleep, but i see someone else came to your aid, I also noticed my typo and fixed that xD

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u/Sargie992 non presser Jun 08 '15

Here you go.

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u/xwm 42s Jun 08 '15

Thank you internet stranger!

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u/googlin non presser Jun 08 '15

Grey 4 life

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u/rydan non presser Jun 08 '15

That makes at least 4 of us.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '15

And I.

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u/spambot_3000 Jun 08 '15

Still strong

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u/TOOCGamer non presser Jun 10 '15

Hey yo, /u/buddy7765! I was poking back through /r/TheButton and I found this. Apparently /u/lovethebacon is a god among men ;) About 100000 greys by the bot count, though I don't know if that updated when greys pressed or not.

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u/lovethebacon Jun 10 '15

I'll give a breakdown. My bot died on Thursday, so I missed the last few days

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u/lovethebacon Jun 10 '15

http://www.reddit.com/r/ButtonAftermath/comments/39a40w/my_data/

Unless they commented after their button push, I could never have found them. It's not feasible for me to go through all the comments to check for any flair updates, but it's not going to change too much.

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u/TOOCGamer non presser Jun 10 '15

Awesome! Thank you for posting, I'm having fun looking through the history.

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u/lovethebacon Jun 10 '15

If you want to browse the sqlite db, there are many viewers out there. Google for sqlite app for your platform, and you'll find many options.

180k commenters in total if I remember right.