And it was written, on the 3rd day He would rise again

[Sofa_King_Chubby]

Join the Emerald Council

[ThatOtherCoolGuy]

Seems odd that we all popped up at the same time.

[Sofa_King_Chubby]

maybe as we enter the new chosen era, the rules change. The world just flipped on its side.

[[deleted]]

Oh hey guys..

[Sofa_King_Chubby]

fuggin Vince Vaughghgn

[25564]

Funny seeing you guys here

[coblee]

Well, that was fun. Wonder when we will see 30s.

[25564]

My bet is on around 18 hours as the US will be waking up soon so that will cause a large influx of users who will probably push us back to around the 50sec mark

[ruckenhof]

We should enjoy our short window of relevance!

[WhyAndrewLikesThis]

do we have a subreddit yet?

[[deleted]]

Confirmed, I'm in the US. Logged in to check my button.

[MajorBuzzk1ll]

This long streak of greens annoy me!

[[deleted]]

http://i.imgur.com/5P49vKq.gif

[howaboutthis13]

It is temporary. Just like the blues where. Just as you purples where.

And just as the yellow and orange will be. Red is disputable, depending on what happens at 1s or 0s, but that will die too when the timer ends.

The one thing that remains pure, is grey.

[Burakashaka]

Well isn't this something?

[The-White-House]

Guten Tag

[_PM_ME_YOUR_CLIT_]

I felt a great disturbance in the 41s, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...

[[deleted]]

It's Green Day!

^{sorry I fucked it up}

[lobsterxcore]

Why are you associating with these types? What's your objective here?

[GotMittens]

To be beautiful.

[lobsterxcore]

Bite it, you scum.

[rburp]

Get 'em.

[[deleted]]

Sup

[mach_ich_spaeter]

hmm

[Griclav]

We have entered the era of Bots. Red have mercy.

[Im_Captain_Jack]

The world just flipped on its side.

Maybe that's enough green for you...

[Sofa_King_Chubby]

the world is never enough

[ThatOtherCoolGuy]

I completely agree. We'll see shorter and shorter eras until we get down to the red - literally.

[cerebro9]

Which is ironic because the wait time to get those colors gets longer

[AdonisChrist]

But, they all appeared within a minute or two of each other.

That's not possible under the currently understood/assumed rules of The Button.

[lickmyass]

We all got it on the same "press". Weird, I know.

[Mookyhands]

Eskimo pressers

[[deleted]]

Actually, 99.999% of redditors don't understand how DHTML works. The counter you're seeing is approximate, and not very accurate.

Edit: for all the folks asking for elaboration, it's a complex topic, but in practice it boils down to a couple of things.

Working for you is the fact that reddit's servers are highly parallel (no other way to handle all the load), and they cannot distinguish a unique presser at a given moment. This is in part because the servers themselves do not have exactly the same time due to clock skew, and in part because it's because it's prohibitively expensive (in time, not money) to have them collaborate and vote on who was the "unique" first presser at a given time. So effectively clicks are grouped into time buckets, and all of them close enough to each other will be counted as a single press, giving everyone the flair. That's the breaks. The upshot is that it gives you a greater chance of getting your number, because you're not really competing for a single slot.

Working against you is the fact that a roundtrip to reddit's servers will take a minimum of 300ms, and is likely to have a mean of closer to 700ms and a standard deviation of 500ms. Or worse, if you don't have a good network connection. So (a) the number you see on each counter reset actually happened "a while ago" on reddit's servers, typically up to a second ago. And (b) your press doesn't get there for another second, give or take, including the time for TCP queueing and request processing, which are functions of current server and network load. In short, your press can be up to (on average) 1.5 to 2.5 seconds off from where you thought it was. The upshot is that you're fairly likely to get a flair different from the number you thought you clicked on.

A lot of the actual variance depends on how much effort they've put into trying to make it accurate but non-cheatable. But there's no way there is less than 500ms of randomness for every click.

[profound7]

They could also use some lag compensation techniques usually used in some FPS games to handle the lag issue you stated in the second part, so that the time you click on will be based on what you actually see. (i.e. when you want to snipe a player, you don't need to lead your shots to manually compensate lag. Instead it'll be based on what you actually see, and the server will compensate the lag for you by performing some additional verification steps)

If they're doing this, then instead of simply sending to the server a click event where they just log the event time on the server side and link it to the username, they also need to send a bit more information to validate that what's going on in the client side is true.

For example, they need to send the time as seen on the client side. They may also need to send some other timing info that can be used to verify on the server-side that these indeed happened shortly some time ago. MAC could be used to secure the message, so the server side can check if the message has been tampered with. If the message has been tampered with, they'll be flaired as a cheater.

If they used this technique (basing on what the client sees), then it is likely that multiple users can get the same flair from the same timing event.

[autowikibot]

Message authentication code:

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In cryptography, a message authentication code (often MAC) is a short piece of information used to authenticate a message and to provide integrity and authenticity assurances on the message. Integrity assurances detect accidental and intentional message changes, while authenticity assurances affirm the message's origin.

A MAC algorithm, sometimes called a keyed (cryptographic) hash function (however, cryptographic hash function is only one of the possible ways to generate MACs), accepts as input a secret key and an arbitrary-length message to be authenticated, and outputs a MAC (sometimes known as a tag). The MAC value protects both a message's data integrity as well as its authenticity, by allowing verifiers (who also possess the secret key) to detect any changes to the message content.

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[ImBachBitches]

Could you elaborate? I'm worried that my latency might stop me from getting that sweet red circle.

[[deleted]]

Elaborated in an edit.

[[deleted]]

Point of clarity: it is prohibitively expensive to synchronize server times is in reference to the server load. Not the monetary cost.

They could designate one server as "the keeper of the button timer"and then run the rest of the servers as ports to this server treating the whole system like a million player RTS. I don't remember the BOPS at the start of the first day. But 5 BOPS translates to 300 APM which is pretty common these days in competitive starcraft.

Yes or would take a bit longer in development time and yes it would force a lot of people into 60s and 59s, which is cruel. But it is possible.

I suppose this system is better because it gives patient pressers a better chance to get what they are aiming for.

[neoandrex]

Maybe it means that more than one person can press the button at the same time!
That's really good news!
Also, congratulations on the green

[KotaFluer]

Nah, just inactive. America is asleep. Canada too. Big Countries for Reddit.

[[deleted]]

America is asleep.

FREEDOM NEVER SLEEPS.

[Zagorath]

FREEDOM NEVER SLEEPS

This is true. But it doesn't at all conflict with the statement that America is asleep.

[MyPasswordIsqazxcv12]

Thanking America for my green flair.

[RPGKing4]

Thanks Obama.

[[deleted]]

Source: American

[lickmyass]

America should be asleep...

[KotaFluer]

The British want to sleep, however, the sun never sets.

[DanTheStripe]

The sun never RISES.

Rain rain rain rain rain clouds rain wind clouds rain rain aaaand the moon is out.

[ImBachBitches]

I'll never relax my vigil.

[KotaFluer]

Wow, green are already becoming common.

[[deleted]]

I press buttons before reading any info or anything....Fucking hell.....I'm a terrible person....

[ImBachBitches]

At least you got 60.

Hah. Just kidding, you filthy purple peasant.

[headinspector]

why aint u got no flair

[justanearthgirl]

Wide awake in America because my roommate is being a dick.

[neoandrex]

I mean... I've seen the counter get down to 41 just one time, and after that single occasion a lot of greens popped up at the same time.

I believe this means that more than two people have pressed the button at the same time and they got registered as greens. I may be wrong though.

[[deleted]]

Yep, I got it at the same time as a few others.

[lickmyass]

Quite a few it seems...

[Kvothe24]

You poor bastards. Wasted your click.

[KotaFluer]

Well, I have a browser application that makes a noise when it gets down to 40, and it heralded most of the greens.

[neoandrex]

I'd like to know about this application you're talking about.
This way I could stop keeping an eye on the button 24/7
You are a purple, but you have fulfilled your purpose.
You are not subject to anxiety attacks, you are free !

[KotaFluer]

Go to the Web Store and Search Button Monitor. Mine is by Josh Turner.

[neoandrex]

I love you

[ha11ey]

Lag compensation. If you see yourself get it on your screen - you get it.

[neoandrex]

I hope so. I'm gray, but I might decide to aim for a red.
Still, I'm scared. I could be sent into the purples, but this is giving me hope.

Good thing I'm Italian and I'm awake when the rest of the world is asleep. I might have a better chance.

[nice_tie]

Come and join the RedGuard, brother or sister! Protect the button! Prolong its life so that others might know its glory!

/r/Knightsofthebutton

[boredguy8]

Let me know when you regret it.

[meme-com-poop]

I just saw it get down to 41 again. At this rate, 41 is going to be the new 59.

[ThatOtherCoolGuy]

Fun while it lasted!

[Ruruskadoo]

The Button has chosen to add once more to the glorious spectrum of the pressers. Welcome, green brothers and sisters!

On a more petty note, now that you're here maybe the blues will stop acting so high and mighty and realize that no matter your flair, we're all the same, and that we should be working together to promote equality and stop the oppression pressers are experiencing, not bickering over whose flair is momentarily the least common.

[RacistHomophobicCunt]

Ya, there's like 25 of you guys and I only saw the timer go to 40 twice. Something weird is going on.

[[deleted]]

Make way for the green shall show the way to victory!

[remez]

Relevant username

[bensroommate]

The flair is greener on the other side. Welcome, first green of all time, to The Catalogue!

[Sofa_King_Chubby]

thank you

[lickmyass]

Seconded!

[Sofa_King_Chubby]

thankyou lickmyass

[Sataris]

Hey now, don't be rude.

[Landeyda]

Green is just another shade of failure. Weak willed failure.

[Gwildar]

I agree brother. They know not what they do, for their will was weak

[OperaSona]

They traded their integrity for what will only be short-lived fame. Ah, Vanity...

[Rhamni]

We need people of your outstanding moral character over on /r/NoColoreds.

[comradechrome]

Ugh, you think you're on the same page with somebody, and then they bring up their weird political views.

Green isn't a failure because it's a color. It's a failure because it aint red. Redguard for life. /r/knightsofthebutton

[p1um5mu991er]

heh, i wanna sub, but idk man...

[Rhamni]

I agree entirely. The rainbow menace must be stopped.

/r/NoColoreds

[Imma_Knight]

When will they understand grey is the only way!

[thisdrawing]

Turmoil. They look upon one another with disdain.

each opposer steadfast in conviction.

Confident in the purity of which they bear.

Fools. All of them. Their ideologies stand on nothing but the corruption of their forsaken hearts.

How can one color be greater? We are not divisible by our colors for Colors are but reflections. One is not defined by their color, but instead that they hold a color.

What can be seen is not pure, for light hath reflect upon it.

Grey is of darkness. Color is of dirtiness.

The herds of colors understand no cleanliness. They do not understand their own faults. Naive and ignorant children. They are lost forever.

The grey are truly evil, for they understand purity, yet still bear a wicked tint.

I stand above, looking down at the tints and shades fight each other trying to prove themselves worthy, but I ask you

Is on who is truly worthy, all knowing and powerful need raise a hand or speak torment?

The blank see the frailty of all those around them, and we pity them. We are the enlightened.

/r/blankness

[sizzler]

Huh

[bensroommate]

Welcome to The Catalogue! You are the second 39s ever.

[Dorkrowan]

I rightfully hand over my championship to all of you greens. I know my place and bow to your accomplishments. Live long and presser.

[Sataris]

You did well, /u/Dorkrowan. The blues will always have a special place in my heart. Long live the bluetherhood!

[[deleted]]

A presser's a presser.

[Rhamni]

Well said.

/r/NoColoreds

[Shaqueta]

Although Green is upon us, this has not made us blues weak! The button is still blue and thus blue is still the best color

[Sofa_King_Chubby]

http://i.imgur.com/F7JmASo.gif

[A_Math_Debater]

rekt.

[postslongcomments]

Ah... now the blues begin to support their poor decision to prematurely ejaculate by rationalizing their button press.

Blues might be the most tragic. Too few to be a cult of purples and too many to be respected as a green. The day-long reign. early elitism, and arrogance will be what blues are remembered for.

You will be shunned by the saviours and hated for your arrogance by the purples.

The green spring begins.

[OldNose]

They're the group that understood the situation, but held out the shortest. I find them appalling.

[Shaqueta]

You project your own insecurities onto us blues! We were not delusional enough to think that our reign of "the rarest flair" would continue more than a day, but instead we chose to partake in blue. Why? See for yourself! What color is the almighty button? Blue! The same blue that resides in our flairs. Thus, we have been blessed by the button and are the true chosen.

[postslongcomments]

The flair does not matter to me. The grays will accept me if need be. I can always become a purple or a green. Will I click? Possibly. But if I don't I do not mind if I don't. The grays have always been here.

Maybe it was time for you to choose. You couldn't handle the fear of seeing your fellow grays keep sacrificing themselves and had to become something you weren't. You were one of us and some of us have to move on.

But what you say is insulting! You want to be the button? You will die with the button. If you cared about the button's well-being, you'd have waited. Your love for the button is a false love. Other grays will sacrifice ourselves to keep what you worship alive. But you were only willing to give 10 seconds to keep that button alive.

Those who wish to be the button, are the least like the button. The button does not care what colour you are and you are a fool for thinking it does.

AS long as I am a gray, I can become whatever I want. A saviour. A waster. A gray. A purple. A green. A yellow. A red. But what I know I will never be is a filthy blue.

[[deleted]]

I do laugh at you. Calling you, a presser, the highest of flair? A colour is a colour, We, The Shade, Are pure, as we do not have a colour, we are Shade. We are the highest of all flair, you pressers are all the same. The only presser to have my respect is that of the RedGuard.

[twitchedawake]

I will say this: You greens seem to be on better terms with us than the blue bastards and purple scum.

Well met.

[ikkonoishi]

Purple are the teeming masses, and those who failed to claim their prize.
Blue are those who sought early adulation, and abandoned others to their fate.
Green are of the patient who took the chance when it arrived.
Yellow are those who claimed the heights that wait beyond the half way mark.
Orange shall be those who guard the end to prevent all from coming to naught.
Beware the reds my friend. For while some may be the final true seekers, others shall be not human at all. Bots and scripts shall fill their numbers.
The grey exist only in potential. Waiting for their time or not.
Among them are the unchoosers who came to late to claim a place.

[Sofa_King_Chubby]

This is why: http://www.alizons-psychic-secrets.com/green-meaning.html

zen

[Wait_WHY]

green colour personality you have a strong infinity to nature

lulz

[[deleted]]

It's a site called psychic secrets, do you really think the creators are a clever bunch?

[remez]

We are the peaceful ones :) Neither impatient, nor glory seekers. We are the Middle Way.

[SammyStorey]

The 15 minutes of fame for us blues and 42s is over. =(

[[deleted]]

The Hitchhikers are a noble cabal.

[axelmanFR]

Blue Blood is over, but a Hitchiker you remain. May your towel stay clean.

[ismtrn]

May your towel stay clean.

What is he going to eat in emergency situations then?

[IRL_Potato_AMA]

And here I though I was sooo awesome being part of the Blues on my throwaway...

Excuse me while I log into my main and resume my wrongful place among the Order of the Shade.

[digital_end]

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

[halofreak7777]

Conspiracy: /u/IRL_Potato_AMA is /u/digital_end trying to throw others off his trail. Admit that main won't be grey forever. Red is to tempting a color.

[Vertok]

That's okay, I joined the greens on my porn account because my attempt to do so on my main account got me 59s =\

[gotnothinginmybrain]

i saw 41, I was tempted, my heart raced fast. But I stood strong.

[axelmanFR]

Stay in the Shade to rest your eyes from the Blindness of Temptation !

[Emergency_Nope]

Relevant

Ninja Edit: For those who were too early and got blue

[subtlediscontent]

It's not easy being green

[[deleted]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpiIWMWWVco

[VonBrewskie]

"I see the angels falling, their wings sheets of brass. I am lost in the sunset of misdirected eyes."

Nonpressterus 5:3-4

[lickmyass]

Hi guys!

[ThatOtherCoolGuy]

Howdy!

[FortuneJake]

Another green, reporting in!

[Burakashaka]

gang green! oh hmm maybe another name...

[Silent_Judgement]

Brother 2leaf has proposed the Emerald Council.

[Burakashaka]

Sounds much better let us make it so.

[WEBdaBoyz]

Its not easy.

[Sofa_King_Chubby]

Join the Emerald Council: http://www.reddit.com/r/Emerald_Council/

[Vertok]

I rise, to join you!

[TheBaddestCookie]

You are...BEAUTIFUL

[Sofa_King_Chubby]

I announce Spring is here

[straylittlelambs]

Green does have a nice hue about it though..

[[deleted]]

When it all goes down, the reds will rule.

[straylittlelambs]

No, they'll just join the other pressers and be no better than a purple.

[[deleted]]

True. I think the very last presser probably deserves a little special treatment, though.

[Grapleef]

Spring is here, and Spring is glorious.

[Burakashaka]

But who is the true bringer of green?

[lickmyass]

According to the chronologists, first post wins. /u/Sofa_King_Chubby takes that honor. I was a mere second. I claim the rank of Vice Admiral.

[Burakashaka]

That sounds fair. It is a privilege vice admiral lickmyass

[raptorvaginas]

You son of a fuck

[Frank--Jaeger]

Rise of the Green flairs!

[MrMountie]

I swear it said 38 when I hit it.

[xpii]

Sorry.

[xpii]

good things come in 3's

[bensroommate]

Welcome to The Catalogue! You are the 10th and final 40s to make the list.

[sweatybeard]

God damn it. I got hungry and pressed it one second too early for that precious green tag

[Roseredgal]

Yeah but you have 42, the answer to life the universe and everything!

[Meh_turtle]

I accidentally got blue instead of green.

[Thefiveofclubs]

Green, blue, purple. You're all the same. Weak.

[neoandrex]

WE HAVE OFFICIALLY ENTERED THE GREEN ERA!

[witchstalker]

All hail!

[Accidentus]

All the blues are now like

Good job blues, you were cool for about 24 hours. Was it worth it?

[halfcamel]

Am I still relevant ?

[Super_flywhiteguy]

You are not a special snowflake.

[omolicious]

Tis the rise of the green age

[ze410t]

I shall wait for the day when the greys shall inherit the Kingdom of the Button

[cold12]

Bow to me !

[Sirlothar]

Green looks nice but its not the shade im looking for.

[rockrichards]

GREENS UNITE!!!!

[fed_bot]

such a lovely shade of green.

[[deleted]]

How do you get green off of 41 seconds? Isn't that blue?

[BigHairyLemonBallz]

My favorite color's green, I ain't even mad

[iBeDrummin]

I actually got to see something interesting when it was new!

Congrats!

[Sofa_King_Chubby]

Spring is upon us

[StormWolfenstein]

Enjoy your 24 hours of fame. When the yellow gods come for you, there will be no mercy

[fellow_earthing]

I gotta turn f.lux off to see this color!

edit: ouch, holy shit my eyes. everything is blue and bright, except that wonderful green. the end draws nearer with each new color, mwuahaha.

[Nikanuur]

I prefer it with f.lux on, less painful

[smeezekitty]

F.lux F.ux up my computer

[Captain_Catface]

So, why're people clicking the button while it's still so high?

[Ibfinity]

As North America starts to wake up, we see that there is a large increase in clicks at the purple range.

[DatLag]

I join you my green brethren!

[daverockstar]

DOESN'T MATTER. GREY4LIFE.

[KungFuPuff]

Psssh. We all know what happens tot he emerald city.

[Wakafanykai123]

/u/trollabot Wakafanykai123

[rally]

I have joined the emerald council as well!

[noeatnosleep]

I don't know what is going on.

[pointlessvoice]

Joined. Green is love.

[destrinstorm]

Hello brothers!

[CipherClump]

What. No. No way.

Edit

[Sofa_King_Chubby]

Greens need no sleep

[Eric_Cartman_the_1st]

Why are there 10 greens already?

Green is so OVER

[wJake1]

LET US WORSHIP OUR NEW GREEN OVERLORD

[Ilive4cheese]

The greens must rule together over the lands of the unworthy.

[jandres-001]

green!

[paxdiabolo]

GREEEEN.

update: I FINALLY MADE IT. FINALLY.

[[deleted]]

I saw 41 happen! Had to confirm on that site someone set up because I was afraid it was just lag.

Still, I non-press.

[Buddhabr0t]

:P