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.
Reddits "the Button" I love it
- Thread starter CrimsonSoul
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Grey to the end, brother!
The lowest I've seen it is 29
Dave
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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.
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.
"Button: The MMORPG"
You are responsible for your account and any shenanigans committed by anyone using that account.
Tsk, tsk.
--Patrick
Filthy button presser.
doomdragon6
Staff member
I don't understand colors, flair, or numbers, or anything you guys are talking about. Anything that can explain?
GasBandit
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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!").
every time someone presses the button, a woman gets a death threat on twitter
The lowest I've seen it is 27 and that's the lowest is ever been I think
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
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
GasBandit
Staff member
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.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
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
So you don't get labeled a purple presser, but you still lose your click... thpppt
Oh if you press it at 60s you are a filthy purple any button press between 51.01 and 60s is purple
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)
fade
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*Superman 3
GasBandit
Staff member
Somebody got 18 seconds. With a very coincidental username.
http://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/comments/337wxt/yay_a_sexy_18/
http://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/comments/337wxt/yay_a_sexy_18/
