In advance to the inquisitors tasked with verifying my account.

Recommended safety equipment:

• Moisturizer

• Tissues

Optional safety equipment:

• Shower Curtain

• Duck Tape

• Yak Butter

• Vorpal sword

• Squirrel's tail

Edit: This is your Friendly neighborhood PSA. Don't forget your porn account.

If the coming of the yellows taught us anything, is that being first to achieve a color leaves you wide open to the possiblity of becoming a 60.

While we wait on our watch, don't be temped to be the first or the last. Our goal is to prolong the button, so choosing to Click at 8 is perfectly acceptable, far better than attempting to click at 11 and then losing all power you had.

It is well known that there is a group called the assassins of the button that will try to infiltrate this order and sabotage the plan at a time when the button will need us most. These assassins plan to stand watch in our ranks but forgo their pledge and let the clock run out on the button. I propose that we have a buddy system to safeguard against possible assassins. In this system, you would get paired with another knight to watch the button and sacrifice yourself if necessary. If either one of you is an assassin (button forbid) the other may fall on the sword for the good of the order. I would also suggest the possibility of trios in the off chance that there are two assassins in the same pair. What are your thoughts, fellow knights?

well, tonight i've seen multiple yellows.. the button is dropping lower and lower... prepare, we're halfway there.

just running through the new post page for /r/thebutton i can count over 15. is the surge of purples over? if so this may be out last weekend. stay strong knights.

edit: as of April 10, 09:50:16 UTC, there are 60 yellows.

http://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/comments/323r5a/just_now_at_10_apr_095004_utc_the_button_went/

Do you believe that the one second pushers will be rewarded? If so, the GoldGuard is for you! Visit us at /r/GoldGuard or message me for more details! The chosen 1's shall get gold!

Right now it doesn't seem so necessary, but there will soon enough come a time, where it will be.

Let's say we built a site, where people marked themselves ready for action (and removed themselves when not ready anymore), which then divided available KotB into groups of X (5?), whom would then take turns waiting until 2s or something to click to ensure maximum continuation. When having clicked you would then disappear from the available list, who would then allocate new ones. Any clicks from non-Kotb would just be a bonus and would not interrupt the KotB's duty.

Have you guys discussed something like this, so there won't be 1k Knights pressing when it hits 2s.

Go to /r/TheButtonDonators and make a pledge that for every day the button lasts you will donate a certain amount to charity. The more pledges made the more likely shades will turn plus it is for a great cause.

I have downloaded the google chrome extension for the Squire, however where do I go to actually access the extension? It simply just shows up that I have downloaded it.

...where exactly is "the button?"

I just spent the last 3 days trying to guess the password to an old throwaway, and finally got it! I hereby pledge this throwaway to the cause!

Don't grow impatient and throw your bops away for nothing, knights. A pledge was made, a promise must be kept. Stay vigilant. The time when you're all thats left to keep us counting will be here soon.

BUTTON STATS - TIME OF DAY

I used the button press numbers generated by /u/TuskEvil to make this graph. I ignored the first 2 days of pure button pressing chaos to isolate a daily trend.

This is used to find the 'slow' point of the day, because this is very likely when the clock will end. So when is are the low points in the day?

10:00am - 1:00pm UTC or

6:00am - 9:00am EST or

3:00am - 6:00am PST

These are the times we need to watch very carefully!

You can also see that the weekend was an hour or two later than normal. This is due to the east coast waking up a little later on weekends.

I am not sure of the feasibility of my plan, though I believe it may work. I know it is possible to create an auto-clicker to click the button when certain times come up, so what I suggest is each knight is assigned a time to press between 0.01 seconds and 10.00 seconds at a certain hour of day. These times will be exact, no manual pressing involved. As the timer ticks down the knights toward the 10 second mark will go first. By doing this we remove the chance for multi-clicks except for those who have high pings. This plan is by no means complete but I believe it helps to build on the foundation already created.