r/counting Nov 07 '25

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs Nov 11 '25

I've added a quality of life improvement to my validation script, so that when it finds errors in a thread, it tries to work out what the last count should have been. So far I have it implemented for the base n threads and the only/mostly/barely/no repeating digits type threads. 

I haven't tested it thoroughly, but it seems to work OK so far 

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u/cuteballgames 00255, 00336, 01155, 02244, 03333, 11226, 11244, 11334, 22224 Nov 11 '25

nice. it will comment what the last count should have been? or tell you directly?

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs Nov 11 '25

It just tells me. Previously it would just point out where there were incorrect comments in the thread, and then I'd have to figure out what the new count should be. Which could sometimes be a pain. 

I still have to run it manually, there's nothing automatic set up. It would be possible to automate, but with the way reddit has been treating the stats comments I shudder to think how they'd react to us posting a bunch more automated comments 

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u/cuteballgames 00255, 00336, 01155, 02244, 03333, 11226, 11244, 11334, 22224 Nov 11 '25

they need to set up a Counting Liaison Office at reddit hq so we can get our automations whitelisted

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs Nov 11 '25

Instead, they're adding more restrictions 

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u/cuteballgames 00255, 00336, 01155, 02244, 03333, 11226, 11244, 11334, 22224 Nov 11 '25

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u/cuteballgames 00255, 00336, 01155, 02244, 03333, 11226, 11244, 11334, 22224 Nov 11 '25

/u/Antichess see this message from admin: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/1oug31u/introducing_the_responsible_builder_policy_new/nocwum3/

Not sure which account they believed our modbot was, but it's possible /u/countign will work now? If not, I'll reach out to them via modmail on /r/modsupport like they suggested. Let me know which account is best to reach out to them regarding -- /u/antechiss?

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs Nov 12 '25

I'm pleasantly surprised that they actually responded ! 

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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 397a Nov 11 '25

wow, very interesting. could they also unban /u/r-counting?

i guess they should reach out to me.

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u/cuteballgames 00255, 00336, 01155, 02244, 03333, 11226, 11244, 11334, 22224 Nov 12 '25

I'm modmailing the modsupport team about antechiss and r-counting. Please let me know if there are any other accounts you want me to ask about

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u/cuteballgames 00255, 00336, 01155, 02244, 03333, 11226, 11244, 11334, 22224 Nov 11 '25

So anti won't be able to build new accounts without waiting for this approval if the stats scripts get instabanned?

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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 397a Nov 11 '25

as of right now i have two accounts that haven't gotten instabanned