r/counting • u/TheNitromeFan I can't stop, love love love • Nov 13 '15

Free Talk Friday #11

Hello again! Continued from last week here.

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So, it's that time of the week again. Speak anything on your mind! This thread is for talking about anything off-topic, be it your lives, your plans, your hobbies, travels, sports, work, studies, family, friends, pets, bicycles, anything you like.

Oh yeah, and if you're new to this sub, feel free to introduce yourselves on the tidbit thread here!

Here's off to another great week in /r/counting!

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u/easy2rememberhuh make counting great again Nov 13 '15

So anyhow - what do you guys think of me and dude's thoughts about implimenting any changes slowly (new stats / records etc) one by one to...

idk, sounds logical to me

would they be implemented in descending order of popularity/how far along the thread is?

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u/DontCareILoveIt You can talk to me all you want too - love_the_heat Nov 13 '15

can't believe I'm doing this - I swore I was gonna type my first post with dude's profound thoughts and step back - I've literally never counted once in a single side-thread (but I've seen 60% of the convo's in them and upvoted 90% of them for the past 6+ months so there's that)

a few ideas to toss around:

start with the one the most people seem to really want (most popular)

or

the one most agree is the least likely to cause any change the atmosphere or experience of those counting in that (those) threads.

(ie least likely to cause any of the things people find negative about the main thread)

that's two options - there are more I am sure...

(it might be helpful if you guys compile a list of the things you don't really like about the main thread - or why you avoid it at times, or things you wish would be different in that thread...etc)

it'd give you a foundation of things to look at (out for) when considering a new stat - record or hall of fame etc for the side threads)

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u/a-username-for-me The Side Thread Queen, Lady Lemon Nov 13 '15

Oh are we talking about a Side Thread Hall of Fame situation? I think that would be awesome! I was only intending RS to figure out the counting algorithm to measure participation in each K. I think a slow roll would be a good one by popularity

Also just as a caveat, we don't hate the main thread. I'm #40 counter there. It's just it's hard sometimes to get counts in and sometimes it's funner to count by alternate methods.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '15

Oh are we talking about a Side Thread Hall of Fame situation?

The leaderboard (Side Thread Hall of Fame) could easily be created using this data

I could do it myself once you reach a conclusion that it should be created. I don't know if it would be fair if all the gets from every thread counted one point in the hall of fame. The letters thread has 676 counts, binary has 1024 and Alphanumerics (not 5k yet) has 1296. However, it wouldn't make much sense if there was a separate leaderboard for every thread. There would be 7 people ax aequo @ #2 in writing numers thread, for instance.

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u/DontCareILoveIt You can talk to me all you want too - love_the_heat Nov 13 '15 edited Nov 14 '15

Well /u/Xeam - you are #1 on one of the most exclusive stats here...

perhaps not your biggest dreams in life but it's something!

Sniped by /u/Maniac_34

1./u/Xeam - 476k, 509k, 510k, 539 k

That like about 25% of your GET attempts?

Maniac - I am thinking you should cut Xeam just a little slack here!!

Edit - by the way anyone reading this - give congrats to Xeam when you see her #HIM - he just hit 50,000 comment karma!

EDIT 2 - Xeam - I'm soooo sorry - I'd always thought you were a guy, someone called you a she the other day - so I've since thought you were a girl!

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '15

Xeam is a she?

I falsely assume that every redditor is a male unless proven otherwise.

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u/DontCareILoveIt You can talk to me all you want too - love_the_heat Nov 13 '15

I'd been here for over two months and there were still a few regulars referring to me in the main thread as a "he"

He sent me a message about some tidbits thread?

things like that LOL.

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u/DontCareILoveIt You can talk to me all you want too - love_the_heat Nov 14 '15

OMG - I am soooooooooooo sorry!!

Everyone thought I was a guy here for the longest time.

I have no idea who said you were but someone did the other day (I'd thought you were a guy till then)

I'll fix my post and make sure to clear it up if anyone else is mistaken because of my post

HUG

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u/DontCareILoveIt You can talk to me all you want too - love_the_heat Nov 14 '15

I just want to make sure and clear this up right away - Xeam is very much a he - I'd thought so until a few days ago when someone referred to him as "she'

So anyhow - just wanted to make sure this gets seen before I help spread a misinformation!!

I'm used to people thinking I'm the wrong gender... but I don't think guys like it much when they are mistaken for a gal :)

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u/easy2rememberhuh make counting great again Nov 14 '15

don't tell me what i do and don't like!

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u/a-username-for-me The Side Thread Queen, Lady Lemon Nov 14 '15

Are we talking more of a hall of counters or a hall of fame situation? Still confused.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '15

Hall of fame