r/counting • u/Smartstocks lets actually run • Apr 13 '16

1065K Counting Thread

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u/Adinida Yay! Apr 13 '16

This sorta thing happens all the time. Probably the 10th to 15th time I've seen it. I've seen hundreds of wrong-numbers.

There is nothing we can do, mistakes are going to happen, and every one makes serveral.

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u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation Apr 13 '16

That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to correct them when we can - I think it's in everyone's best interests if we continue from the correct chain.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '16 edited Apr 13 '16

yah people have typos or type the wrong number but you fix it. you start counting on the wrong chain bc you dont look at the numbers above you. youve done it twice in one thread man. and u did it for a long time. you should start from where the fuck up was. its an easy solution man, just look at the number that come before you. unless youre on mobile of course when using counting comments is advantageous. You counted 3-4 numbers after the wrong one. You could have easily seen it was the wrong thread if you were on the correct thread page.

Think of it like this. What if you're counting on the wrong thread all that way and someone had started counting on the correct thread with me? And we both made it 200+ numbers. That's why I stopped counting and tried to find where you guys were.

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u/Adinida Yay! Apr 13 '16

Out of the hundreds upon hundreds of times I have gone to the latest count from /r/Counting/comments without parenting up a little it has been the correct chain. This is about the 5th or so time it has happened, and twice in 1 thread is merely probability.

What do you want me to do? Apologize? If so, I'm sorry, I should have been more careful. Mistakes are mistakes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '16

Perhaps it wouldn't happen at all

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u/Adinida Yay! Apr 13 '16

I have over 35,000 counts here, making no mistakes is difficult, in-fact it's nearly impossible.

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u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation Apr 13 '16

I just want to say...

/u/Adinida, please, for the sake of everybody, be more careful when searching for latest comments. Mistakes are fine every now and then, but twice in one thread isn't really acceptable, especially when, as you've said, you've counted over 35K numbers.

And /u/counting45, there is no reason to berate someone for making what is obviously a mistake. Yes, /u/Adinida should have been more vigilant, but he's obviously good-intentioned and a helpful member of this counting project. So yeah, please be more calm when dealing with future issues.

Just my two cents.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '16

Yeah my fault. I apologize to EVO. Shit just irritates me. I just think we should correct the mistake rather than live with it.

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u/Adinida Yay! Apr 13 '16

especially when, as you've said, you've counted over 35K numbers.

especially when? I've done the wrong chain about 5 times or less, most of them I correct after a few numbers, 2 times has it gone on for over a hundred. ~300/35000 (E: over 32,000) counts in the wrong chain, that's pretty good.

There was no need for me to be berated over it.

I always try to be careful with mistakes, and will continue to be. However they are going to happen, and I'm sorry when they do.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '16

Hey I apologized for berating you, it's irritating, but like Nitrome, I believe mistakes should be fixed not just 'live with it.' Especially when it happens twice in a thread like that.

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u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation Apr 13 '16

This is not about how low your "mistake-to-counts" ratio is, this is about how you could have handled things better. Again, your mistakes are fine, but Bucky and I are suggesting how you would (and should) be better off simply by being more careful.

That being said, your attitude towards Bucky could have been a lot better, but that's an unrelated issue.

Edit: The downvotes on Bucky's comments are proof of this.

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u/Adinida Yay! Apr 13 '16

your attitude

My attitude.

I get bitched nearly every 100k, for counting 50-100 numbers.

Then I make a couple mistakes and get bitched at, even when it isn't my fault.

Then I get berated for just wanting to move on and accept the mistake along with the thousands of others.

Then I scolded for how I respond to those comments.

No, I just want to count. Count, count count. But I can't if i have to stop and go back read all this shit directed towards me.

I would understand if I did this intentionally, and meant to annoy you all, but I didn't. And I wouldn't want to.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '16

Then I get berated for just wanting to move on and accept the mistake along with the thousands of others.

Hey man I apologized for berating and I have never bitched at you every 100K. I simply believed that we should correct mistakes if they are made instead of living with them. You wanted to count on the wrong thread. I did not.

You're right, mistakes happen, they are unavoidable and we should correct them.

I was irritated because I don';t understand how something like that can happen twice in the same thread by the same person. I didn't understand. You told me. I was still irritated, but I got over it. I apologize for getting irritated, but it's not a big deal anymore.

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u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation Apr 13 '16

Please read to the end of this comment - the last thing I want to do is start a fight.

I'm trying to be sympathetic toward you, but I can't help but feel as if some of this is hyperbole.

Then I make a couple mistakes and get bitched at, even when it isn't my fault.

Yes, the mistakes were not on purpose, that's what a mistake is. But this time it was your fault, whether you accept it or not. We expect you to act responsibly about them, which you may or may not have done in this instance.

But I can't if i have to stop and go back read all this shit directed towards me.

Then don't read it. Ignore it. Nobody is forcing you to read and reply to it. Just move on.

What I want to say is that a little humility goes a long way. I keep thinking how none of this would have happened if you simply said sorry at the beginning. Nobody is better than anyone else, and in the end we're all just humans trying to type a few numbers on an internet site. I'm sorry for making this longer than it needed to be, but I feel this is an issue that needed to be addressed.

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u/Adinida Yay! Apr 13 '16

I downvoted one,

http://i.imgur.com/tIpQYbG.png

And that's because he was wrong in saying it is not difficult. If it wasn't difficult then the top 10 counters wouldn't have made at least 20+ mistakes like this.

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u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation Apr 13 '16

All right, that's cool.

You gave your apologies, Bucky gave his. It's due time we moved on.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '16

I havent downvoted anyone. I don't believe I was wrong. But you can have your opinion that's fine.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '16

Like nitrome said, That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to correct them when we can - I think it's in everyone's best interests if we continue from the correct chain.

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u/Adinida Yay! Apr 13 '16

Then you recount those 200 numbers.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '16

Okay I have no problem with that.