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comment by btcprox
btcprox  ·  3527 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do you think of this Button then?

What I've seen in /r/thebutton so far:

- People quickly dividing into pressers and non-pressers thanks to the flairs

- Non-pressers holding firmly to their abstinence, wanting to see what happens when the timer runs out

- Pressers urging to-be future pressers to not press so early, or the number of valid user accounts who can push it will run out

- Other pressers boasting how low of a timer they got before they pressed ("Hey lookatme I'm a 50s-er")

- Some curious folks wondering what the button actually does by peeking into the code

- Some other curious folks actually logging down the timer refreshes for science

- Many speculating on these button shenanigans

All in all I think reddit just proved that the community can rally behind even imaginary causes - or at least they're very good at playing the roles.

Oh and that there will be people who would do everything to get to the bottom of even a seemingly silly thing like a button with a timer.