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Reddits "the Button" I love it

Apr 10, 2015#1

CrimsonSoul

Apparently on April 1st http://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/ went live with a countdown timer of 60 seconds. Every user that was registered before 4/1/15 gets one button press that resets the timer back to 60 seconds. It's been 9 days. the timer still hasn't reached 0.

Apr 10, 2015#2

PatrThom

I have resolved not to push it at all.

--Patrick

Apr 10, 2015#3

CrimsonSoul

PatrThom said:
I have resolved not to push it at all.

--Patrick

Grey to the end, brother!

Apr 10, 2015#4

Bowielee

Interesting.

Apr 10, 2015#5

Dave

All hail grey!

Apr 10, 2015#6

Bowielee

So, no one is going to comment on how CrimsonSoul's avatar is absolutely made for this thread?

I mean I still wish it could be animated like it should be so we can get the "receive bacon" part, but in this ONE instance, it's perfect.

Apr 10, 2015#7

PatrThom

Bowielee said:
So, no one is going to comment on how CrimsonSoul's avatar is absolutely made for this thread?

--Patrick

Apr 10, 2015#8

General Specific

PatrThom said:
View attachment 18018

--Patrick

Apr 11, 2015#9

GasBandit

I watched the button count down for a few minutes last week, it never got below 50. Maybe I'll click it if I ever see it below 10 or so.

Apr 11, 2015#10

blotsfan

I've seen it get into the 30s and apparently it's gotten to the 20s.

Apr 11, 2015#11

CrimsonSoul

The lowest I've seen it is 29

Apr 14, 2015#12

Dave

My flair says 40's now and I've never pressed! I was grey last week. WTF is going on?!?

Apr 14, 2015#13

Dave

Turns out I left my computer unlocked at work and a filthy, button-pressing dickhead "friend" pushed the button on my account. I am tainted. TAINTED!!

Apr 14, 2015#14

Dave

Now it gets even weirder. My friend hasn't admitted to pushing the button - he just smiles when I ask - but the color of the flair and the text of the flair don't match. I'm purple and it says "40s". That means it should be blue or green, not purple.

Something is weird in Buttonland.

Seems he did press it. Turns out purple is the color of cheaters so he pressed it when not connected to the socket. Not sure how that could have happened, but apparently it did. I will have my revenge.

Apr 14, 2015#15

PatrThom

Dave said:
Turns out I left my computer unlocked at work and a filthy, button-pressing dickhead "friend" pushed the button on my account. I am tainted. TAINTED!!

"Button: The MMORPG"
You are responsible for your account and any shenanigans committed by anyone using that account.
Tsk, tsk.

--Patrick

Apr 14, 2015#16

CrimsonSoul

Filthy button presser.

Apr 14, 2015#17

Jax

So everybody wants to know what happens at 0, and yet everybody keeps pressing it?

This started on April 1st right?

Apr 14, 2015#18

Dave

Jax said:
So everybody wants to know what happens at 0, and yet everybody keeps pressing it?

This started on April 1st right?

Yes.

Apr 14, 2015#19

PatrThom

And when it's done, they can publish the percentage of their user base that pushed the button, along with the heading, "Percentage of population which would need to die in order for anything to get accomplished."

--Patrick

Apr 16, 2015#20

GasBandit

Apr 17, 2015#21

doomdragon6

I don't understand colors, flair, or numbers, or anything you guys are talking about. Anything that can explain?

Apr 17, 2015#22

GasBandit

doomdragon6 said:
I don't understand colors, flair, or numbers, or anything you guys are talking about. Anything that can explain?

Flair, on reddit, is "decorative" stuff that goes next to your username wherever it's listed (like as the author of a post). What flair is available varies from subreddit to subreddit. On the "Button" subreddit, the flair is a colored dot. The colored dot indicates your status vis a vis the button. Whites are accounts created after April 1st, 2015, and thus are not allowed to push the button. Purples are accounts that pushed the button before it counted down to 50 seconds. Blue 40-50 seconds, green 30-40 seconds, yellow 20-29 seconds. Below that, since (last I heard) nobody had actually gotten that low, it is assumed that orange is 10-20 seconds and red is 1-10 seconds. I don't think it's actually been explicitly stated what happens if the button reaches 0, but my guess is it stops working. Greys are accounts that are eligible to click the button, but have not. You can only click the button once, and clicking the button resets it to 60 for everyone.

There's been a kind of wierd social conflict that grew up around this whole thing, particularly from what I've heard between the greys and the purples (hence the "Dirty Pressers!").

Apr 17, 2015#23

Charlie Don't Surf

every time someone presses the button, a woman gets a death threat on twitter

Apr 17, 2015#24

Dave

I think it's an awesome social experiment. When will it reach 0? It will have to eventually as each account can only push it once.

Apr 17, 2015#25

Dei

I have yet to see it drop below 31 personally, and it was usually around 50. All I can think about is all the wasted seconds.

Apr 17, 2015#26

CrimsonSoul

The lowest I've seen it is 27 and that's the lowest is ever been I think

Apr 19, 2015#27

redthirtyone

So - is there some sort of buffer for button presses? Say 0.25 seconds or something, where if someone else pressed the button a millisecond before you did, your button press doesn't count & you retain your press?

Because if not, then I would imagine that an extremely high percentage of the purples fall into this category.

Imagine you have the patience and, most importantly, the willpower to decide that you will not press the button until the timer reaches 02 seconds. You wait & wait until someday, in the distant future, the time comes. The timer is in the single digits. You wait. Surely someone else will give in before it reaches 02! 05... somebody? 04... helloooo? 03....... anybody home??

02 *sigh* <click>... but in the fractions of a second before you clicked the button, somebody in Poughkeepsie who decided on 03 seconds but has a slow connection actually clicked the button before you, thereby resetting the timer & thus registering your click at 59s.... thus labeling you a... filthy.... purple.... casual

:Leyla:

Apr 19, 2015#28

GasBandit

redthirtyone said:
So - is there some sort of buffer for button presses? Say 0.25 seconds or something, where if someone else pressed the button a millisecond before you did, your button press doesn't count & you retain your press?

Because if not, then I would imagine that an extremely high percentage of the purples fall into this category.

Imagine you have the patience and, most importantly, the willpower to decide that you will not press the button until the timer reaches 02 seconds. You wait & wait until someday, in the distant future, the time comes. The timer is in the single digits. You wait. Surely someone else will give in before it reaches 02! 05... somebody? 04... helloooo? 03....... anybody home??

02 *sigh* <click>... but in the fractions of a second before you clicked the button, somebody in Poughkeepsie who decided on 03 seconds but has a slow connection actually clicked the button before you, thereby resetting the timer & thus registering your click at 59s.... thus labeling you a... filthy.... purple.... casual

My inner programming cynic says the button applet probably doesn't crosscheck clicks on client vs server. The latency between the "somebody clicked" update and you clicking probably gets Superman 2'd off, and if your button instance says 02 when you click, you get 02. Now, of course, if your timing is just bad and your client instance DOES reset right as you're about to click, and your reflexes are too bad to catch it, then yes, I imagine you're a dirty purple presser.

Apr 19, 2015#29

CrimsonSoul

There is a time limit and everyone that clicks within the time all get registered with the same time, if your late then you're a filthy casual with a 60s click

Apr 19, 2015#30

redthirtyone

So you don't get labeled a purple presser, but you still lose your click... thpppt

Apr 19, 2015#31

CrimsonSoul

Oh if you press it at 60s you are a filthy purple any button press between 51.01 and 60s is purple

Apr 19, 2015#32

CrimsonSoul

Oh you mean if you click at the same time as someone else? Yeah you lose your click but you get whatever flair you're suppose to get (like orange for 21 seconds)

Apr 20, 2015#33

fade

GasBandit said:
My inner programming cynic says the button applet probably doesn't crosscheck clicks on client vs server. The latency between the "somebody clicked" update and you clicking probably gets Superman 2'd off, and if your button instance says 02 when you click, you get 02. Now, of course, if your timing is just bad and your client instance DOES reset right as you're about to click, and your reflexes are too bad to catch it, then yes, I imagine you're a dirty purple presser.

*Superman 3

Apr 20, 2015#34

GasBandit

Somebody got 18 seconds. With a very coincidental username.

http://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/comments/337wxt/yay_a_sexy_18/

Apr 30, 2015#35

PatrThom

--Patrick

Apr 30, 2015#36

PatrThom

What's interesting is that there's a heavy streak of people pushing just before green starts, but the other heavy streaks are just after the start of yellow or orange.

--Patrick

May 20, 2015#37

blotsfan

Finally pressed it. I wasn't gonna do it if I couldn't be red.

May 20, 2015#38

CrimsonSoul

blotsfan said:
Finally pressed it. I wasn't gonna do it if I couldn't be red.

Filthy presser

May 20, 2015#39

blotsfan

You're just jealous.

May 20, 2015#40

PatrThom

CrimsonSoul said:
Filthy presser

Filthy hypocrite.

--Patrick

May 20, 2015#41

CrimsonSoul

PatrThom said:
View attachment 18301

Filthy hypocrite.

--Patrick

No. That is just there to flush out the traitors to the filthy pressers

May 20, 2015#42

Emrys

Y'all are ultra-mega-super nerds.

May 20, 2015#43

PatrThom

Emrys said:
Y'all are ultra-mega-super nerds.

It's ok, you can still hang out with us.

--Patrick

May 20, 2015#44

Emrys

<squeee!>

I am not worthy!

Jun 6, 2015#45

blotsfan

Its over now with no real explanation as to what the point was.

Jun 8, 2015#46

Zappit

It went up April Fool's Day, and they tricked thousands into a pointless game for two months. That's a hell of a joke, and that was the whole point.

Jun 9, 2015#47

PatrThom

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/06/the-button-has-ended.html

--Patrick

Jun 10, 2015#48

Thread Necromancer

did the timer run out (no one pushed before 60 secs up) or did they just take it down?

Jun 10, 2015#49

Bowielee

Honestly, this data is fascinating and should be used in a good article about this phenomenon.

Jun 10, 2015#50

bhamv3

Thread Necromancer said:
did the timer run out (no one pushed before 60 secs up) or did they just take it down?

The timer ran to 0 multiple times before the Button was taken down. Apparently there were no consequences to letting the timer run out.

Jun 10, 2015#51

Bowielee

bhamv3 said:
The timer ran to 0 multiple times before the Button was taken down. Apparently there were no consequences to letting the timer run out.

that's the best part of all.

Jun 10, 2015#52

GasBandit

bhamv3 said:
The timer ran to 0 multiple times before the Button was taken down. Apparently there were no consequences to letting the timer run out.

Oh God that is hilarious.

Jun 10, 2015#53

PatrThom

What's the half-life of a furor on the Internet?
Now we know.

--Patrick

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