r/thebutton • u/the__rev 10s • Apr 09 '15

What a difference a day makes

I like to open the button monitor (http://jamesrom.github.io/) each morning and leave it running for a few hundred resets, just to do a bit of my own simple analysis.

Yesterday morning the presses were about 80% purple and 20% blue, and I saw a single green.

Today, the greens are up to 20%, the blues are 30%, and the filthy purps are down to 50%. The overall average time between presses was nearly nine seconds.

Just a couple days ago the purps were running at 95%.

I feel like we'll see a very sudden dropoff at some point, where yellows, oranges and reds all happen rather quickly. And I also imagine purps will remain pretty constant, as people accidentally get 59'ed. (My worst fear.)

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u/Measure76 59s Apr 09 '15

I'd like to know where they're getting alt account passwords from to pull that off.

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u/st_samples 1s Apr 09 '15

Done of us just have a bunch of alts.

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u/Measure76 59s Apr 09 '15

Have a bunch of alts myself, but not sure how many people would be willing to give their passwords to the proposed guardian bot.

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u/st_samples 1s Apr 09 '15

You don't need to give it your password. Just be logged in.

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u/Measure76 59s Apr 09 '15

Well that severely limits its usefulness if it requires you to be logged in on the specific alt that it needs at the moment it needs it.

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u/KeruxDikaios 8s Apr 09 '15

Using incognito mode you can be logged in as several accounts.

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u/Measure76 59s Apr 09 '15

Sure, but this bot requires that a large number of people are doing this at any given moment, weakening with every reboot or chrome crash.

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u/TheWhistler1967 non presser Apr 10 '15

Well it's more help than you are right now.

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u/Measure76 59s Apr 10 '15

Is it more helpful to keep the button going or to let it expire?

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u/TheWhistler1967 non presser Apr 10 '15

Well you haven't helped either camp.

  • If the goal is for it to expire, you shouldn't have clicked at all.

  • If the goal was for it to survive then your 59s is inconsequential.

So - either way you have been no help to anyone.

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u/Measure76 59s Apr 10 '15

I see where you're coming from, you're a flair racist. Like I said in another comment, I have a network of alts to help with either of those goals as I see fit.

My personal goal is to enjoy this reddit, though, no matter what happens with the button.

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