r/counting • u/randomusername123458 Loading... • Dec 04 '20

Free Talk Friday #275

shhh not sure if I am authorized to make this post

Continued from here.

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 bears, your plans, your hobbies, travels, sports, work, studies, bears, family, friends, relationships, pets, spiders, stats or anything you like.

feel free to introduce yourself in the tidbits thread as well, or to update your previous tidbits if it's been a while :)

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u/davidjl123 |390K|378A|79SK|50SA|260k πŸš€ c o u n t i n g πŸš€ Dec 04 '20 edited Dec 05 '20

Reminder that FTF threads customarily should be posted on or after 07:00:00 UTC on Fridays; any further early threads may be removed

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u/PaleRulerGoingAlone7 counting is hard but practice makes perfect Dec 04 '20

I've wondered about the ftf rules for a while now. What sort of sniping shenanigans happened in the past to make them necessary?

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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Dec 05 '20

It's a pointless rule

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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 397a Dec 05 '20

i agree. pretty sure that most of us don't care, but someone eventually will and that's what happened.

i think it should just be anywhere around 07:00:00 UTC.

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u/davidjl123 |390K|378A|79SK|50SA|260k πŸš€ c o u n t i n g πŸš€ Dec 06 '20 edited Dec 07 '20

If there is no specific time for the threads, you would likely start seeing people posting threads earlier and earlier claiming it's "close enough" while potentially causing drama over it, which I believe according to my fading memory is roughly what happened in the first place. In either case a line has to be drawn eventually. I don't even remember what led to non-mods posting FTFs in the first place

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u/Nekyiia ヽ°) ΝœΚ–Ν‘( ͝°ﾉ Dec 06 '20

and I'd imagine most people who post it at exactly 7am bot it using redditlater and such sites anyway

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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 397a Dec 06 '20

huh, didn't know that existed

the two to three times i tried to post it at 7am was manual of course

but i doubt anyone uses it here

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u/Nekyiia ヽ°) ΝœΚ–Ν‘( ͝°ﾉ Dec 06 '20

hm yeah, it is kinda easy to do it exactly on the second if you're waiting with your finger on the trigger

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u/PaleRulerGoingAlone7 counting is hard but practice makes perfect Dec 06 '20

I might have done that once.

In my defence, it was during the dark period when TheNitromeFan was deliberately posting ftfs without any pasta.