LordHosk
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Wait, no now the other team is in the lead by a few thousand points
Dec 26, 2024 4:27 PM
LordHosk
61208
3465
58
Wait, no now the other team is in the lead by a few thousand points
Fyrebaugh
Is there a keyboard shortcut for the snowball?
opentokix
That is the best type of competition
gablestout
RandallKavanaugh
I don't think our tribalism is a net benefit in the modern world.
samanthadlcruz
the gap was never more than about 2000 points for the first ~5million+ votes. they only let it get larger because it was just too f'n obvious before
pennypoohbear
I still don't understand the snowballs. Is it a good thing? Is it a bad thing? I missed the memo
guardian19d
Yeah. I got thrown into this fight. My team was losing and now winning. I didn't even do anything but still winning. You're welcome team pinecone.
guardian19d
Wait hold on. We're losing now. Ignore my comment.
LordHosk
Nope, you are winning now... because its been a few hours so now its Pinecones turn to be winning, because thats how the game was programed.
SarcasticComment
if anything it's so imgur can advertise artificial engagement numbers
taez555
To be fair, I wasn't on Imgur much yesterday.
idonthaveauser
Of course it's fake. The losing team would be demotivated and their score would tank, demotivating them even further.
idonthaveauser
That's why is many game(show)s next rounds award more points so can still win, even when behind.
johnvilnis
That sounds like something an acorn lover would say. #team_pinecone
bleepbloopbleep33
No guys cmon be real. These taps on my phone have meaning!
sirbartonslady
Fuck you, have some snowballs
TechnOkami
I was assigned team Acorn and I just, genuinely don't care. I wasn't even given the option to opt into it, so why pretend to be invested in something I had no choice in being arbitrarily assigned to?
cloverleafbane
This…but say it about race and gender.
RandallKavanaugh
I was assigned race and gender and I just, genuinely don't care. I wasn't even given the option to opt into it, so why pretend to be invested in something I had no choice in being arbitrarily assigned to?
ackererg
Forced enthusiasm is exhausting. It's okay to acknowledge the lack of autonomy and not fake excitement. Maybe express your concerns to the assigner and see if there's room for change or compromise?
LicRosas
Here from the phone app, I don't have snowball to throw, and I don't know which team I'm in neither
alleyslut1223
Fake engagement? Nah, I'm just really passionate about arbitrary team assignments
ChrisYourself
When will it be over?
Richels
Yeah let's do a test and only team pinecone place votes for the next 72 hours. Let's see if that changes the number. We need verifiable results.
lastmanonearthbutidroppedmyglasses
It wouldn’t be verifiable because you couldn’t get everyone on team acorn to agree.
NarratesTheDarkerStory
Hey! Come on, acorns (felt the comma was necessary)! Lets be honest, now. M'kay? Let the pinecones win. For science.
Bmgm4u
Yeah but I think I got a trophy, so maybe I got that going for me.
rokucitymayor
I am old enough to remember when Imgur was for funny memes. Now it’s a political echo chamber that caters to advertisers over users.
RandallKavanaugh
You see ads? Firefox and AdBlocker = No Ads
rokucitymayor
I’m on my phone
nickwinters
My team is winning
gentlemanmouser
corymProblemKing
Seems to be a bit of a confusion between the numbers at the top and the numbers that it's showing me.
Cobalt1
100% simulated data
Jaqdakloun
...so, I've been throwing pinecones at people on the street for nothing ?
imnotarealgiraffe
I don't have any snowballs to click
WellWhatTheHeck
Yeah, I have no idea what everybody is on about. I'm guessing it's a desktop-only thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
imnotarealgiraffe
Sadness
WellWhatTheHeck
I call it delightful cluelessness.
imnotarealgiraffe
Hahaha
Solo761
Nope, mobile, new icon in like/dislike toolbar at the bottom.
ImScaredToGiveYouMyRealName
Not on mine
starTouchedElf
Update you app?
WellWhatTheHeck
Nope! None of the above. Android issue perhaps. Anyway, I aint pissed about it.
WeatherWiz
Still annoyed I can’t trade in my points for something. Almost 800k and nothing to show for it :/
Sheldonian
There is a prize for the top 50 people or something, I didn't really pay much attention but there is a post explaining there is actually a prize in the form of the accolades thingy. Looks like most people didn't see that post
WeatherWiz
Im def not in the top 50. But do you know where this post lives?
Sheldonian
It appears if you tap the imgur logo on the app. So it's for top 50 + 50 more at random for the winning team and 25 for the top participants of the losing team "Fortify your Igloos for Imgur's Snowball Fight!" /gallery/Eq05W7f
AlienJeffries81
You have eternal disdain.
NSFWfrontpage2
Don't you get free emerald?
WeatherWiz
ElbowDeep
But is it lifetime or just a month of it, they didn't specify lol
glioblastomaargh
I must have been assigned team acorn but I identify as a pinecone. I have a special affinity for pinecones. Can I change teams ?
H13a
There is absolutely no way anybody actually gives a fuck about this anymore. First day was cute/fun, but now it's tedious shit. The front page posts have to be bots.
LordHosk
Everyone in the comments is talking about how they aren't doing it and how its all BS... AND YET...
The numbers keep going up at the exact same rate, and the team in the lead keeps switching and going up by 10-20K every couple hours.
Almost like we aren't the ones throwing the snowballs or impacting the count.
BrayerIncognito
Yeah, I'm beginning to think that the points are totally BS. Earlier today Pinecones were 18k ahead and are now magically 5k behind
OnFridaysWeWearBeskar
I think the best way to determine this is to have team Pinecone stop submitting any snowballs and we'll see what happens with the score.
LordHosk
I watched the upvotes on this post.
I would get 1 upvote, then a few seconds later 4 snowballs appeared. 3 upvotes 12 snowballs.
It was a perfect 4-1 ratio until it hit 200 upvotes, with the snowballs lagging behind by 3-5 seconds... as much as a minute, but always catching up to the exact 4-1 ratio until 200-800 then it switched some upvotes would be 3 some would be 4. Like it was preprogramed.
Ryebread91
Don't underestimate us acorns
n0d2ablindh0rs3
zytedcross12
Yeah totally bugged. If it was accurate pinecone never would have been ahead at all.
Zanzetuken
Really? I've seen pinecones trailing by a few thousand all day, since 9AM-ish CST
Efreeti
I got Team Acorn and at no point has the thing said anything other than "Your team is on top!" forme.
FromTheVortex
Acorn is back in the lead, and i assume it's because people saw they were lagging behind and just started hauling. I know i did. Keep going Acorns, we're nuts!
Sheldonian
I mean, maybe, but it's also very possible that people from both teams are pushing the snow button at similar rates with one side getting ahead from a little while and then the other one, and the counter takes some time to update
Einbrecher
That's incredibly wishful thinking. There's no way it's legitimately this balanced.
mineoc
Rule of large numbers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers
Einbrecher
Very clearly doesn't apply here. I mean, seriously, just read the first sentence of that - none of those assumptions fit to this "game." Participation isn't random (or even pseudo random), it's not capped, it's not independent, and the scores represent a sum total - not averages. And that's before getting to the "Limitations" section which gives a bunch more reasons why it's not applicable.
Zeboku
If you switch the view: every snow ball thrown is either from a pinecone or an acorn. The teams are randomly assigned and we have no reason to believe that the throws aren't mostly independent, hence we can assume that the scores are random and (mostly) independent. The scores represent a mean as well as a sum; the sum is just the total number of snow balls thrown.
The only assumption I think is doubtful, is the independence, but that is often accepted in reality when it's nearly independent.
fformulaa
Front page posts garner a couple of hundred likes so (200 likes x 5 snowballs x 50% participation) + 250 tossed balls of people that didn't like the post but still tossed them balls is about ~750k balls a post? Depending on the number of "rando" team members and the posts, coupled with how many posts are created in usersub per hour we can safely deduce that pete silvia is creating this chaos but for what reason?
Righteousdew
Pepe.
PosthumousExile
I can't believe Pete would do this
bestlaidmind
CAN I TALK TO YA ABOUT THE MAIL?!
Morg729
I theory is while the snowballs are tallied, they get randomly assigned to a team regardless of who is throwing them to keep the scores close and seemingly competitive to encourage engagement
Definitelygoingtohell
Much easier to write the code for that too!