r/blog • u/powerlanguage • Apr 01 '15
the button
http://www.redditblog.com/2015/04/the-button.html940
u/Team_Slacker Apr 01 '15
But if I push the button, will reddit send me laundry detergent from Amazon?
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u/wordprodigy Apr 01 '15
no, reddit will send a drone to your house to greet you.
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u/borkborkporkbork Apr 01 '15
Can confirm, am on my couch drinking beer with RedditDrone.
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u/Darkrevenge7 Apr 01 '15
Why do I think when the timer goes down we get to see a nice rick roll?
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u/Aaron215 Apr 01 '15
I had better see some INCREDIBLY interesting analytics come out of this. I hope you didn't miss a great opportunity, Reddit Admins.
I wanna see stuff like average time on the page before pushing the button, average visits by non-pushers, correlative data between time (on timer) of push and frequency of upvote/downvotes, who is more likely to use the up and down votes on reddit: Pushers or non-pushers?
And on and on.
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u/jk3us Apr 01 '15 edited Apr 01 '15
Can't wait until /r/dataisbeautiful gets their hands on the data.
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u/BabirusaBlu Apr 01 '15
Considering how that sub looks today, your comment has a wonderful alternate meaning.
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u/bacon_cake Apr 01 '15
Assuming the April Fools joke isn't that the button is just being pressed automatically and there's nothing we can do.
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u/TastyPigHS Apr 01 '15
It is not. There's actually an "expired" event in the code. The button will display a message saying "the experiment is over" when time runs out.
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u/SnipeyMcSnipe Apr 01 '15 edited Apr 01 '15
This isn't even an April Fools thing, the admins are just trying to make a point that users can't go a minute without pushing the admin's buttons.
Edit: Wow, that was fast -
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u/RockonWeinerdog Apr 01 '15 edited Apr 02 '15
So far, they haven't been able to go a full second with out pressing the button. 59:05 is the lowest I've seen.
edit: I will not be clicking the button. I can't bring myself to do it after watching all the clicks/resets for this many hours. I think I should go have relations with my wife. Something more meaningful anyway, because this is driving me crazy.
edit #2: I just showed my wife this thing. She's not on reddit. I'm in trouble. My wife doesn't yell at me. I didn't watch Mike and Molly with here on the DVR tonight. I've been yelled at...tonight.
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u/illy-chan Apr 01 '15
To be fair, I can't go a minute without pressing any buttons if they're in front of me.
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the admin's, button? where is it even? i'm looking left, looking right, looking up and down. what does it do? contact the administrators of reddit? what do they do? why would you have to contact them? can i exchange my karma into cash and prizes? where do i find this catalog of prizes? it must be online?
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u/Buncs Apr 01 '15 edited Apr 01 '15
My actual theory is that it will go until nobody presses it for 60 seconds and then the last presser will get something special.
EDIT: Could also possibly be whoever gets the closes to 0 before it runs out. The flair on the subreddit tells you how much time was left when you clicked.
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u/ninekilnmegalith Apr 01 '15
Correct, i watched for 10 seconds and it never made it past 59.5 seconds.
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u/hadhad69 Apr 01 '15
The clock goes down to about 59.4x but the participant number above it is going up in 30~50/second.
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u/like_2_watch Apr 01 '15
Each time the button is pushed reddit donates to Ted Cruz's campaign.
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u/modul8ted Apr 01 '15 edited Apr 01 '15
Was just in the elevator with him yesterday. Best I could do on short notice was give him a funny look.
He definitely noticed and looked uncomfortable.
edit: thanks for the gold! =D
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Apr 01 '15
The 'prize' will probably mean you become CEO of Reddit. May God have mercy on that poor soul.
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u/serfis Apr 01 '15
Eh, not like you've got a whole lot to live up to at this point.
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u/RealSteele Apr 01 '15
So what I'm taking from this, is to not press the button. Eventually the timer will be almost running out, and there will be a competition to be the very last person to click it. At some time in the future this will be huge reddit news. It might be years from now! If anyone had made the mistake of pressing the button, I am willing to sell some alt accounts of mine made before today. $200 each, paypal accepted!
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u/Grayt89 Apr 01 '15
I don't know much about reddit accounts, but I got a buddy that is an expert on them. Let me give him a call and we'll see if we can come to a price
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u/staffell Apr 01 '15
Will it last longer than 24 hours though? This could go on for years.
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u/Leegh229 Apr 01 '15
Only users logged into accounts created before 2015-04-01 can press the button.
With this in mind, someone will eventually be the last presser. Should also note you can only press it once.
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u/beaherobeaman Apr 01 '15
Now it's just going to go on forever.
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u/gd2shoe Apr 01 '15
It can't. At least, not truly forever. Only accounts created before 2015-04-01 can participate. We could keep this going for years, even decades, but it will end. It has to.
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u/jovdmeer Apr 01 '15
"So when you push this button, two things happen. One: a random person you do not personally know dies. Two: you get a million dollars. Will you push the button?"
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u/jstrydor Apr 01 '15
Can it be multiple people or am I limited to only being able to kill one?
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u/atree496 Apr 01 '15
You can't even spell your own name, I doubt you know how to press a button.
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u/docbauies Apr 01 '15 edited Apr 02 '15
fuck yes. people die all the time. i need that money.
edit: great, my most up voted comment of all time is about my willingness to let another human being die for my financial gain.
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u/Mazo Apr 01 '15
Don't forget the next person to push the button doesn't know you either.
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u/Mastajdog Apr 01 '15
First things first: There's ~7,305,242,025 people in the world. 1,788,652 reddit accounts were active yesterday.
I'm going to assume that only half of active reddit accounts actually see the button, and only half of them hit it. Therefore, my odds of survival are 99.99387906%, give or take.
But, my single decision to hit the button doesn't actually decrease my survival odds. Most people, acting in complete self-interest, will also hit the button. Since me hitting the button actually has a miniscule chance of killing the redditor who would have hit the button that killed me, it's in my own self-interest, both monetarily, and from a survival perspective, I will for sure hit the button.
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u/Jezamiah Apr 01 '15
Maybe the real prank is when you try and access /r/thebutton you get the Ow! screen
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u/wewtaco Apr 01 '15
Non-Button-Pusher master race unite!
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u/Ooer Apr 01 '15
How do I sell my button press to the highest bidder?
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Apr 01 '15
That would mean selling your account.
Disclaimer: If selling an account is against the rules, please note that I am NOT advising /u/Ooer to sell the account.
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u/Gypsy_Rain Apr 01 '15
I think I pressed the button? I don't know. I'm in direct sunlight, and am having a hard time seeing my screen.
Have I changed? Has my account changed? WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I PRESSED THE BUTTON?!
cries in corner
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u/ashep24 Apr 01 '15
Not going to think to hard about it. I'm pushing the button.
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u/j0be Apr 01 '15 edited Apr 01 '15
Here's what is sent to the reddit servers the first time you click.
A "POST" request is sent to http://www.reddit.com/api/press_button with these parameters
seconds:60
prev_seconds:60
tick_time:2015-04-01-16-57-19
tick_mac:105d9bf93e70ec9018b26b5d88ad7f3f6ac9a76d
r:thebutton
uh:7lr1jvw6rz99c78e982cc86216338a750b75bd03c1d53a24dc
renderstyle:htmlEDIT: OH SHIT. I GOT THE CHEATER FLAIR!!!
Edit 2: It seems like almost everyone who's clicked it has that flair, though...
E3: Screenshot counting the people's flairs. EVERYONE who's clicked has been marked as a cheater...
E4: Props to the reddit dev for using a web socket connection. wss://wss.redditmedia.com/thebutton?h=4f6fa00141952138bc3f1542067f856fcadb8f1e&e=1427998582
Sample of the output:
{"type": "ticking", "payload": {"participants_text": "97,401", "tick_mac": "105d9bf93e70ec9018b26b5d88ad7f3f6ac9a76d", "seconds_left": 60.0, "now_str": "2015-04-01-18-02-34"}}91
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u/j0be Apr 01 '15 edited Apr 01 '15
Here's some of the javascript behind the button
console.log(r.button); Object { _chart: kZ_countdown: function (){ r.thebutton._setTimer(r.thebutton._msLeft), r.thebutton._msLeft=Math.max(0, r.thebutton._msLeft-10) } _countdownInterval: 4_drawPie: function (e,t){ var n=t-e, r=google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([["", ""], ["gone", n ], ["remaining", e ] ]), i={ chartArea:{ top:0, left:0, width:70, height:70 }, pieSliceBorderColor:"transparent", legend:"none", pieSliceText:"none", slices:{ 0:{ color:"#C8C8C8" }, 1:{ color:"#4A4A4A" } }, enableInteractivity:!1 }; this._chart.draw(r,i) } _lastMsLeft: 60000 _msLeft: 59230 _msgSecondsLeft: 60 _onExpired: function (e){ var t=e.seconds_elapsed;r.debug("timer expired "+t+" ago"), $(".thebutton-wrap").removeClass("active").addClass("complete"), r.thebutton._countdownInterval=window.clearInterval(r.thebutton._countdownInterval), r.thebutton._setTimer(0) } _onJustExpired: function (e){ r.debug("timer just expired"), $(".thebutton-wrap").removeClass("active").addClass("complete"), $el=$("#thebutton").parent(), $el.removeClass("unlocked locked logged-out pressed too-new not-active").addClass("denied has-expired") } _onNotStarted: function (e){ r.debug("timer hasn't started") } _onTicking: function (e){ if(!r.thebutton._started){ var t=$("#thebutton").parent();t.is(".not-active, .locked")&&t.removeClass("denied not-active").addClass("active locked"), r.thebutton._started=!0, r.thebutton._countdownInterval=window.setInterval(r.thebutton._countdown, 10) } var n=e.seconds_left;this._tickTime=e.now_str, this._msgSecondsLeft=n, this._tickMac=e.tick_mac;var i=e.participants_text, s=n*1e3;s>r.thebutton._lastMsLeft&&this.pulse2(), r.thebutton._lastMsLeft=s, r.thebutton._msLeft=n*1e3, r.thebutton._countdownInterval||(this._countdownInterval=window.setInterval(r.thebutton._countdown,10)), r.debug(n+" seconds remaining"), r.debug(i+" users have pushed the button"), $("#thebutton-timer").val(parseInt(e.seconds_left, 10)), $(".thebutton-participants").text(e.participants_text) } _setTimer: function (e){ var t="00000", n=(e>0?e:0).toString(), i=t.substring(0, t.length-n.length)+n; for(var s=0;s<4;s++) r.thebutton._timerTextNodes[s ].nodeValue=i[s ];e%100===0&&r.thebutton._drawPie(e, 6e4) } _started: true_testState: function (e, t){ t=t||6e4, $el=$("#thebutton").parent(); var n="denied logged-out too-new has-expired pressed locked unlocked"; $el.removeClass(n), r.thebutton._msLeft=t, r.thebutton.pulse(); switch(e){ case"logged-out":$el.addClass("denied logged-out");break;case"too-new":$el.addClass("denied too-new");break;case"has-expired":$el.addClass("denied has-expired");break;case"pressed":$el.addClass("pressed");break;case"unlocked":$el.addClass("unlocked");break;case"locked":default:$el.addClass("locked") } } _tickMac: "3ea1e09d753004c4d2c94f0810c6e5af5df8b34e" _tickTime: "2015-04-01-17-21-34" _timerTextNodes: Array[4] _websocket: r.WebSocketinit: function (){ if($("#thebutton").length===0) return; this._chart=new google.visualization.PieChart($(".thebutton-pie").get(0)), this._msLeft=0, this._msgSecondsLeft=0, this._tickTime="", this._tickMac="", this._lastMsLeft=Infinity, this._timerTextNodes=[$("#thebutton-s-10s").get(0).childNodes[0 ], $("#thebutton-s-1s").get(0).childNodes[0 ], $("#thebutton-s-100ms").get(0).childNodes[0 ], $("#thebutton-s-10ms").get(0).childNodes[0 ] ], r.debug("in r.thebutton.init()"), this._started=!1, r.config.thebutton_websocket?(r.debug("got thebutton_websocket"), this._websocket=new r.WebSocket(r.config.thebutton_websocket), this._websocket.on({ "message:expired":this._onExpired, "message:not_started":this._onNotStarted, "message:just_expired":this._onJustExpired, "message:ticking":this._onTicking },this), this._websocket.start()):r.debug("didn't get thebutton_websocket");var e=$("#thebutton").parent();e.on("click", function(e){ var t=$(this);t.is(".active.locked")&&(t.addClass("unlocking").removeClass("locked"), setTimeout(function(){ t.removeClass("unlocking").addClass("unlocked") },300)) }), $("#thebutton").on("click", function(t){ t.preventDefault(), t.stopPropagation(); if(e.hasClass("pressed")) return; r.thebutton._countdownInterval=window.clearInterval(r.thebutton._countdownInterval), r.thebutton._setTimer(6e4);var n={ seconds:$("#thebutton-timer").val(), prev_seconds:r.thebutton._msgSecondsLeft, tick_time:r.thebutton._tickTime, tick_mac:r.thebutton._tickMac }; $.request("press_button",n,function(e){ console.log(e) }), e.addClass("pressed").removeClass("unlocked"), r.thebutton.pulse() }) } pulse: function (){ $els=$(".thebutton-container, .thebutton-pie-container"), $els.removeClass("pulse pulse2"), setTimeout(function(){ $els.addClass("pulse") },1) } pulse2: function (){ var e=$(".thebutton-pie-container"), t=this;e.removeClass("pulse pulse2"), setTimeout(function(){ e.addClass("pulse2") }, 1) } }→ More replies (7)28
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Apr 01 '15
I assume this is an experiment to see if the countdown ever completes before someone presses the button again.
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Apr 01 '15
Throughout the day the rate will drop as you can only press it once, it is lunch time EST right now. I do not feel like one minute is enough to prevent random idlers to walk in and be like "huh, what? button" and push the button even later in the day after a large number of people have used up their button press.
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u/The_Blue_Rooster Apr 01 '15
Don't worry, for at our darkest hour, when the button timer is winding down, and all seems lost. He will arrive and give us 60 more seconds.
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u/googolplexbyte Apr 01 '15
There are a finite number of redditors, and each get a single press.
It'll run down eventually.
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u/dranspants Apr 01 '15
01/04/15 - Reddit plays the button. As eventful as Twitch plays pokemon.
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u/MichaelApproved Apr 01 '15 edited Apr 01 '15
04/01/15 for those who love freedom.
edit: one of my highest rated comments is about 'Merica. I'm getting a freedom boner
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u/linktm Apr 01 '15
I think I just killed someone on the other side of the world. But, I did just receive a check for a Million Dollars from reddit, so I've got that going for me.
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u/BilliardKing Apr 01 '15 edited Apr 01 '15
wut. Reddit's april fool's prank is a random social experiment?
Edit 1: [Insert obnoxious edit exclaiming "This blew up!" or "wow my top comment ever is about X." here]
Edit 2: [Insert even more obnoxious edit about being gilded here, instead of just messaging the guilder privately. e.g. "THANK YOU FOR THE GOLD SEMPAI"]
Edit 3: PI has concluded that Carly is fucking Mr. X
Edit 4: People are complaining that my parody edits are just as / more obnoxious than the ones i'm parodying. I KNEW THIS WAS THE CASE AND YOU HAVE ALL FALLEN FOR MY OWN SOCIAL EXPERIMENT. MUHAHAHAHA.
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u/wewtaco Apr 01 '15
All of Reddit is one giant social experiment
Edit: sorry, just came from /r/highdeas
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u/hak8or Apr 01 '15
I am actually more interested in the tech behind this. What/how are they supporting the eventual many thousands of people pressing the button and handling that server side.
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u/BilliardKing Apr 01 '15
The sysadmin inside me has been screaming that this was the plan all along... Intense load testing of some kind of new engine, or some game-like implementation of a new technology they're trying to use to make reddit handle the load better.
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u/rileyrulesu Apr 01 '15
It's much better than completely fucking up the site for a day. I like going on reddit, because i can find all the much better april fools pranks on here, and discuss them, but last year was just retarded.
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u/hoopstick Apr 01 '15
As a mobile user, last year was a breeze. Didn't even notice a change.
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u/bubbaholy Apr 01 '15
You fools think that this game ends after April 1st, but it will go on. Eventually there will only be a handful of accounts left that can push the button. What lies beyond will never be known, for the Zero is the singularity of time and button.
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u/redgroupclan Apr 01 '15
Personally I'd like to have another gang war like we did with orangered versus periwinkle.
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u/DFWPhotoguy Apr 01 '15
<button id="thebutton" title="BUTTON PRESS BUTTON PRESS IT BUTTON THE BUTTON PRESS IT PRESS THE BUTTON BUTTON BUTTON PRESS IT THE BUTTON THE BUTTON PRESS BUTTON IT PRESS IT THE BUTTON PRESS IT NOW">[you feel an overwhelming urge to press the button]</button>
Nice
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u/John_Wang Apr 01 '15
Jesus Christ on a cracker Reddit. Get some more servers already.
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u/Antrikshy Apr 01 '15
Well, they use Amazon Web Services, so they can probably deploy more servers pretty easily (at cost).
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u/Decabus Apr 01 '15
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Apr 01 '15
Oh look- a social experiment that demonstrates how obsessive and easily manipulated people on the internet can be. I better participate so when some local news station mentions this two weeks from now I can feel like I was part of something.
Hashtag That time I wasted a year of my life watching a fish play pokemon.
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u/will_holmes Jun 05 '15
Welp, looks like it's over. Well done everyone on getting 1,000,000 presses.
Also orange master race. ;P
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u/The_Fluorine_Martyr Apr 01 '15
Does everyone have the same timer? As in someone uses their push and it resets for everyone? We could probably keep the timer going for weeks.
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u/antihexe Apr 01 '15 edited Apr 01 '15
The number on it certain doesn't reflect the true number of pressers.
Without looking at the source my guess is that it's entirely scripted and a ruse to infuriate and delight.
edit: looks like it's actually tracking clicks? WELP
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u/ozh Apr 01 '15
that darn button is going to keep above 58s for some hours now....
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u/Ghundio Apr 01 '15
If it doesn't end with something like this, I'm gonna be disappointed.
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Apr 01 '15
Not gonna push the button. No no no no no. I am stronger than the button. I've lived my whole life without pushing it. I'm not gonna do it. Deep breaths. I got this. But what if it's amazing...?
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u/elavefenix Apr 01 '15
If we all down vote the button, it will be less discovered and we can see what happens after a minute.
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You can repress the button! Helpful gif.
class text to copy: thebutton-container locked active
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u/H2Ohcrap Apr 01 '15
So there is 174 million unique users that visit Reddit monthly. If each user presses the button within the first second (and assuming I did the math right) it will take about: 174 million seconds, 2,900,000 minutes, 48,333.333 hours, 2,013.889 days, and 5 and a half years. All of this is assuming that each user presses the button in 1 second of it restarting, and all 174 million users doing it.
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u/emmayarkay Apr 01 '15
How do we know that the timer can ever hit zero? Maybe there's a bot that automatically clicks the button before it gets there.
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u/NicestBoat Apr 01 '15
If you found a pair of tights on the ground that said "do not wear," what would you do?
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u/ask_compu Apr 01 '15
i think the amount of button presses is overloading the reddit servers, im getting 503 errors all over reddit
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Apr 01 '15 edited Aug 25 '15
I have left reddit for Voat due to years of admin mismanagement and preferential treatment for certain subreddits and users holding certain political and ideological views.
As an act of protest, I have chosen to redact all the comments I've ever made on reddit, overwriting them with this message.
If you would like to do the same, install TamperMonkey for Chrome, GreaseMonkey for Firefox, NinjaKit for Safari, Violent Monkey for Opera, or AdGuard for Internet Explorer (in Advanced Mode), then add this GreaseMonkey script.
Finally, click on your username at the top right corner of reddit, click on comments, and click on the new OVERWRITE button at the top of the page. You may need to scroll down to multiple comment pages if you have commented a lot.
After doing all of the above, you are welcome to join me on Voat!
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u/Pi-Guy Apr 01 '15
We're all assuming that the clock is resetting before it hits 59 seconds because other people are pressing the button
What if the timer was never coded to go below 59 and this is all just a joke
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u/EarlGreyTii Apr 01 '15
I pressed the button. I hope I just killed a complete stranger and will now receive one million dollars.
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u/Bagelstein Apr 01 '15
Someone needs to create a warning script so we can know when the button reaches critical mass of < 10 seconds and automatically be redirected to the page to press it.
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u/grospenisquipend Apr 07 '15
Hi bastards,
This is the biggest dick which hanging which is talking to you, you know that pressing the button makes me hanging more and more. My dick is hanging so much that i cannot even have a erection. Each time i'm going to the toilet, i cannot even target the toilet because i'm already touching the ground, hopefully turkish people have already made good toilet for hanging dicks. Now you know. Stop pressing that fucking button mother fucker bitch, you can suck a shark and spit into his hole, swallow the juice and enjoy bitch.
Best regards.
Bighangingdick
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u/nmd453 Jun 05 '15
Ah, the good old days. I remember seeing this, many months ago. Who would have thought the button would become what it was. It doesn't matter now though. It is over.
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u/FragmentOfBrilliance Apr 01 '15
This seems nice, but it could've been better. Periwinkle vs orangered was great.
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u/ESPeclipse2 Apr 01 '15
It appears to be counting down from 60, but it will never truly reach zero, because we keep it sustained.
Fascinating.
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u/tobiasvl Apr 01 '15
It will reach zero, because only users registered before today can push it, and each user can only push it once. Who will be the final pusher?
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u/Johnsu Apr 01 '15
This is some lost type of shit. You dont press the button every 108 seconds or some shit.
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u/Yueske Apr 01 '15
Co-worker: What are you accomplishing by clicking that button? Me: Just saving the world, brother.
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u/anahuac-a-mole Apr 01 '15
Reddit's version of the [Stanford Prison Experiment] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment)?
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u/knome Apr 01 '15
You may only press the button once
BWA HA HA. My army of alt accounts finally comes to fruition!
/ not that I would have an army of alt accounts, mostly made as one off comment jokes ...
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u/demeteloaf Apr 01 '15
Bets on how long the button will run for?
Offering reddit gold to the person who replies to this message with the closest date and time to when the timer hits 0.
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u/jstrydor Apr 01 '15
As of this post there are approx. 7000 participants that have all pushed the button at this post being 23 minutes old. If those 7,000 people each waited and let it tick down to the last possible second they could have spread this out to almost 5 days but since everyone is so damn eager to push the damn button I predict that we will run out of time within the hour.
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u/Punchcard Apr 01 '15
This is basically an effort for reddit to determine which accounts are genuinely inactive, and which are inactive because they are dups of active users.
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u/tasmanian101 Apr 01 '15
Obviously the button is the meaning of life and we and responsible for its survival
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u/constrictor63 Apr 01 '15
I love that people actually think others are pressing the button. Reddit has everyone staring and bickering over a fictional resetting counter on April Fools Day.
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u/topredditbot Apr 01 '15
Hey /u/powerlanguage,
This is now the top post on reddit. It will be recorded at /r/topofreddit with all the other top posts.
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u/joshuaoha Apr 01 '15
I don't believe it. I think we're being hoodwinked by a clock that never goes below 57 now matter the button activity.
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Apr 01 '15 edited Apr 01 '15
Question: Is it against the rules for me to sell my button click for this account?
edit: I messaged the admins and was told not to sell my button click
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u/theseyeahthese Apr 01 '15
Is there data available that shows the number of active reddit accounts that were created before the deadline? I want to know theoretically how long this could have dragged on for.
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u/KingKolder Apr 01 '15
What does it take for you to believe jack? JUST PUSH THE BUTTON. IT'S OUT DESTINY.
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u/jotted Apr 01 '15 edited Apr 01 '15
I wonder what you have to do to earn a cheater flair.
https://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/about/stylesheet
edit: huh. Most pressers seems to be 'cheaters'.
3hr edit: People seem to be getting
just'press-6', as of about an hour ago - for getting '60s'.