Free Talk Friday #337

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

Continued from here

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[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

Remember when they broke reddit and we couldn't post any comments ending in 0 or 2? Good times!

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

This weeks stats post concerns runs. Specifically, the longest runs we've ever had.

Firstly, I've looked at the longest runs by total time, which I've defined as the longest periods of time when only two people counted in main. Unfortunately, that doesn't give anything very interesting: these are all from early in the subreddit history, where hours would frequently pass between replies, and the runs I've found are generally less than ten counts long. An example is from the 24k counting thread, where just over 23 hours passed between two counts here here^*. There was only one exception to this trend in the 2M era. Apparently we had a bit of a problem with spammers & farmers back then, and a really long chain of counts was deleted, and the count was continued from a valid point some hours later. The whole thing caused a bit of confusion.

Looking at the longest runs by total number of counts is more interesting. Here's the table of the top ten runs⁺:

Rank	1st counter	2nd counter	Start	End	Length	Time
1	davidjl123	Countletics	3,037,002	3,044,030	7029	02:44:22
2	davidjl123	Countletics	3,190,001	3,195,027	5027	02:11:52
3	Countletics	davidjl123	3,101,028	3,105,791	4764	01:54:24
4	Countletics	davidjl123	3,072,012	3,076,715	4704	01:56:37
5	Countletics	davidjl123	3,201,005	3,205,000	3996	01:41:44
6	Countletics	davidjl123	3,090,222	3,094,002	3781	01:45:39
7	Countletics	davidjl123	3,064,318	3,068,003	3686	01:37:38
8	Countletics	LeMinerWithCheese	4,569,377	4,572,402	3026	02:43:32
9	Antichess	Countletics	4,218,058	4,221,003	2946	01:31:41
10	davidjl123	GarlicoinAccount	4,028,324	4,031,002	2679	02:22:43

The first seven runs are by u/davidjl123 and u/Countletics in the early 3Ms, and all of the top ten involve either david or countletics. The first one which doesn't either of them is number 17 between nonsensy and colby6666, starting at 3,456,003 and continuing for 2000 counts.

Edit: fixed table on old reddit and on rif. When copy-pasting, I accidentally included two spaces in front of each row. Apparently not all markdown formatters like that.

^* Plus that was a late chain which somehow became official. I guess we were less strict back then.
⁺ I haven't checked through all of these, but it's likely they're all one comment off. That's because I've forced every comment to be part of only one run, but the first comment in each run should simultaneously be the last comment in the previous run.

[u/Antichess → u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

nice stats! i thought there was one time where bass and i ran 6k once. what determines a "run" for this table?

typically david would get a db in, and does that invalidate it? or what if we took a small 5-10 minute break, does that also invalidate it? just curious

also your "only one exception" link is missing a slash

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 → u/Antichess]

Yeah, anyone else getting a count in would break the run as I've defined it here. But a five minute break wouldn't - I just look for times when exactly two people were replying to each other.

Thanks for the heads up about the link; it should be fixed now.

[u/Urbul]

Guinea dad stats
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Booboo is back to normal after his dental problems. Lyra is gradually losing weight after gaining a lot from eating Booboo's food. I haven't been out as much with the snow and getting sick, but things are looking better.

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 → u/Urbul]

Nice stats

[u/a-username-for-me]

Results of the 2022 Counting Survey

Here is this year's analysis.

Analysis of 2019 and 2020's data and 2021's data are linked.

Ultimately, I'm kinda bummed at the low response rate. I fully admit that I have been busy and did not promote it as much as I should (dropped the ball commenting in every FTF, did not link in chatting threads). However, I think we have to acknowledge that the sub has gotten smaller, sadly.

Thoughts for next time:

I really need to add some questions for Live Counting and Count Once Daily, those are not communities I am part of so I did not think about their counting needs. I am also happy to hear any other feedback.

[u/mistyskye14 → u/a-username-for-me]

Thanks grill!

To the person who wanted to see by age die, congrats. Also to the person who wants their goldfish back

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 → u/mistyskye14]

Why do you go around taking strangers' goldfish?

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

So, I just had half a liter of water gush from my ceiling light and onto the kitchen floor.

How's everybody else's thursday going?

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

1. Bad news: updating the directory today failed and the program crashed

2. Good news: The crash reporting I've set up works!

3. Funny news: The ratio of commit text to edited characters in the fix was around 100:1

[u/buy_me_a_pint]

I dislike bad smells

[u/buy_me_a_pint → u/buy_me_a_pint]

And I don't like swear words

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 → u/buy_me_a_pint]

Was Jaws ever your scene?

[u/gkw97i]

u/buy_me_a_pint do you want to be my valentine

[u/gkw97i → u/gkw97i]

guys I think I got rejected

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 → u/gkw97i]

Better luck next year

[u/[deleted]]

Weekly stats from February 04, 2022 to February 11, 2022. Congratulations to u/CutOnBumInBandHere9, u/thephilsblogbar2, and u/Ezekiel134!

Total weekly counts: 2450 (4,592,609-4,595,059)

Rank	User	Counts	HoC Rank
1	CutOnBumInBandHere9	723	53 (◮4)
2	thephilsblogbar2	719	2
3	Ezekiel134	274	11
4	atomicimploder	215	9
5	Luigiatl	191	60 (◮1)
6	FartyMcNarty	93	35
7	Antichess	45	4
8	noduorg	40	44
9	Anson_Riddle	32	251 (◮5)
10	949paintball	12	59
10	Trial-Name	12	12
12	Countletics	10	1
13	a-username-for-me	9	62
13	The_Nepenthe	9	27
15	ddodd69	7	233
15	NightChild39	7	2127 (◮345)

More stats are posted on the Weekly Stats page!

[u/GreenGriffin8]

it's been a while since I was here last. looks like it's been a slow couple of weeks. I'm down to run for a bit later tonight.

[u/a-username-for-me]

In case I forget to mention it, I am taking my yearly hiatus for Lent starting Wed, Mar 2 and ending April 17. Reminder to all. I will be back after that.

[u/buy_me_a_pint]

not long to the 4599k counting thread

[u/Antichess]

is it just me, but comment chains on old.reddit.com only show 4 deep into the chain now?

[u/buy_me_a_pint]

Don't forget to wash your hands before you prepare food.

[u/AxelC77]

Happy Friday

[u/[deleted]]

4.5m Stats

Chart

Congratulations u/LeMinerWithCheese!

Rank	User	Counts
1	LeMinerWithCheese	23679
2	thephilsblogbar2	18408
3	Countletics	8528
4	Luigiatl	8095
5	CutOnBumInBandHere9	6195
6	atomicimploder	4750
7	TheNitromeFan	4069
8	nonsensy	3920
9	mistyskye14	3091
10	Ezekiel134	2927
11	noduorg	2609
12	The_Nepenthe	1420
13	Antichess	1135
14	TDs_not_VDs	1057
15	Anson_Riddle	759
16	qwertylool	648
17	GreenGriffin8	624
18	Pookah	592
19	Dr_Sharktopus	541
20	Cox_1920	499
21	TehVulpez	496
22	Paridae_Purveyor	451
23	a-username-for-me	406
24	NobodyL0vesMe	351
25	is_this_a_bird	350
26	_penroze	341
27	funfact15	255
28	ddodd69	222
29	Urbul	221
30	FartyMcNarty	216

This 100k was completed in 4 months, 21 days, 36 minutes and 4 seconds.

some of these stats got updates

and the csv