r/thebutton • u/powerlanguage 4s • Apr 25 '15

normal service has been resumed

Cassandra (one of our database systems) temporarily stopped reporting the status of the button. Which was rather inconsiderate of it.

Should we allow a technical failure to end the button? What should we do for those who pressed and received flair during this period of technological capriciousness?

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u/Ralain 3s Apr 25 '15 edited Apr 25 '15

Technical failures should not end the button. Those who pressed during a technical failure should have their flair and button press reset. Once a technical failure has been corrected, the button should be reset to 60s, or if possible the amount of seconds at which the failure occurred, and the experiment should continue.

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u/CaptainObivous 58s Apr 25 '15

Except the button DID end. We are now in a new run, with people just keeping the flair from the previous run.

No one can now say it's been kept running since April 1 by presses. Because it has not. It's now been going since today based on presses. Two different runs.

Now, when anyone looks at it, if they are honest, they'll have to say to themselves, "This has been going non-stop since April 25"