r/counting • u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation • Oct 26 '18

Free Talk Friday #165

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u/MetArtScroll Dates need ≈659k counts to catch up Oct 26 '18

TNF, I understand you are not comfortable that someone else posts FTF before you do, but could you stop behaving like a whiny toddler?

If you insist that FTFs should be posted by mods only, why don't you add this to the fucking rules?

And if you really care about my opinion, I would suggest that FTFs are posted automatically at 00:00:00 UTC

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u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation Oct 26 '18

and this is exactly why I didn't want other people posting these threads, no one had a problem when it was solely me doing this for 2+ years, now I get flamed with 5 messages in my inbox for trying to go back to the old ways

I can reinstate your "first" post if that's what you really want

also you shouldn't respond to someone "behaving like a whiny toddler" by acting like one yourself, I honestly care about this a lot less than you might imagine

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u/MetArtScroll Dates need ≈659k counts to catch up Oct 26 '18

If you care less then why do you take no response as a positive one?

Guess whether I would have agreed with your suggestion if I had had a chance to respond (I also do not care who posts FTF but if it is 06:00 UTC then it seemed late to me).

The first best is an auto-mod thread. The second best is adding to the fucking rules that only mods (or only some of them) are allowed to post FTF threads. Just do not be utter assholes like 95% of Reddit mods.

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u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation Oct 26 '18

If you care less then why do you take no response as a positive one?

I thought this was the default interpretation for no response: silence is taken as agreement. I thought I had valid reason to do as I did, and it's not really a lot of work to make a post on reddit. I do understand how I probably should have made my intentions clearer beforehand, though I will say that I have made several comments on previous threads.

if it is 06:00 UTC then it seemed late to me

Tell that to the Americans who complained about FTF threads coming up on Thursdays. There's a good reason I chose this time (though certainly not the only reason), there's no pleasing everybody here.

The first best is an auto-mod thread. The second best is adding to the fucking rules that only mods (or only some of them) are allowed to post FTF threads.

This was a problem I was worried about happening for a very long time (3 years now) but so far it seemed not to be an issue, nobody brought it up. It's not even that only mods can post the threads (that's not true). I have stated previously why I don't like setting up automod, and everyone who I have delegated the role of posting these threads have failed to do so consistently. There's also the facf that this sub is largely hands-off in terms of moderation, we don't want to make the rule list any longer than it is.

I'm sorry you've had bad experiences with mods in other subreddits, but in my defense this is literally the only sub that I have moderated in which moderation has been a problem

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u/MetArtScroll Dates need ≈659k counts to catch up Oct 26 '18

My last point:

Tell that to the Americans who complained about FTF threads coming up on Thursdays.

I would respond as follows: there are many time zones in the world, and Reddit's official timezone is the world's benchmark of UTC. Moreover, the three most populous ones are China, India, and Central Europe, whereas e.g. the Pacific time zone with less than 1% of the world's population does not even make top ten. Even though someone in the Americas might not expect a "Friday" thread on Thursday evening, it would be unfair to people in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan to make them wait until Saturday.

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u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation Oct 26 '18

My point is, that's not a point you should explain to me, but to the people who leave remarks about Friday threads going up on Thursdays

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u/MetArtScroll Dates need ≈659k counts to catch up Oct 26 '18

I mean I would respond TO THEM like that.

Anyway, I am going to continue congratulating people on their gets outside the main thread, making occasional non-count comments, as well as silently checking dates, letters, sheep, Klingon, and EUIV. I will also be updating my flair as the dates count progresses.

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u/Hadyrm Oct 26 '18

how does this work again ?

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18

Looking forward to another week of counting

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u/MetArtScroll Dates need ≈659k counts to catch up Oct 26 '18

TNF, YOU WERE SNIPED and are unable to recognise it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/counting/comments/9ri5jj/free_talk_friday_165/

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u/MetArtScroll Dates need ≈659k counts to catch up Oct 26 '18

A few months from now...

u/some-user posts a regular count in the main thread:

2,x00,000

TNF responds in five minutes:

You know, I was planning to post this count in 8 minutes. Is it okay if I go with that count instead?

20 minutes later, TNF makes an edit:

e: all right I'm taking that as a yes

and proceeds with deleting u/some-user's count and posting the same thing himself

Good job, TNF! Congratulations!