If you won't make a new thread, I will. Welcome back for another round of autism and shitposting. pt. 1 pt. 2 pt. 3 pt. 4 pt. 5 pt. 6 pt. 7 pt. 8 >How is my team assigned? Team is based on last two octets of public IPv4 address. team = (second_to_last_octet + last_octet) % 5
where 0 = Peep 1 = Chocolate 2 = Creme 3 = Peanut Butter 4 = Mini
>How are the points calculated? Multiple theories exist: -EGG-Gets (00 dubs) -server to connect to (Jow Forums has five; one per team) -mods are just blatant creme fags -IT'S OBVIOUSLY JUST RANDOM
the points gained vary too much, when the number of posts would be relatively consistent
Isaiah Jackson
as if most posts here were ever anygood, at least they get to be fun
Grayson Flores
If its random them the deviations between team points should be within an order unity * sqrt(N) of course that doesn't rule out the possibility that its stochastic but with a slight predetermined bias towards some teams If it's completely random it's a testable hypothesis. I'm sure someone has already looked at this already though.
Jose Collins
Please order by team's overall score.
Ryan Howard
We had update periods with just a single point for Mini and Creme. It's nothing a simple as posts, (You)s, images etc. Chances that it's just random within in a range are really high.
Landon Johnson
WERE BACK IN THIS BOYS
Lucas Lewis
It won't end in with tie like you guys predicted we minilets are definitely set to lose
Elijah Howard
We're second lads!
Evan Allen
Maybe it's just something really stupid and random like posts ending with a specific number E.G an Easter egg
Julian Garcia
let's spam /qa/ until someone says sothing
Aaron Nguyen
>inb4 its the number of reports users on teams make
Caleb Brown
PEEPS 5TH TO 1ST STILL ON
Michael Allen
Much too low. It could be unique IP addresses joining for each team, since that's the only thing anyone can think of where it could genuinely be a different number from 1 to 400 every ten minutes. But if it was that, then surely it would balance out a lot more than it does.
The main theory, I think, is that there is some algorithm which generates random numbers so they all converge on the same number, and that is what's being used, and all our scores will ultimately be a tie.
By the way, has anyone tried to set a name here? I'm trying and it's just listing me as Anonymous because of the team.
Robert Hernandez
Creme is barely getting any points now what is going on?
there's a sixth team called neapolitan, and OP's pic hints of trips/dubs, but dubs and trips are common enough that it should be more consistent across different teams, and quints appear to be worthless
Ryan Scott
How anyone can doubt that it is a convergence and will end in a tie is beyond me. Just look at the numbers. A few hours ago, PB was getting +8s and +12s and now they are raking in +250s. The exact opposite was true for >le unstoppable creme. It has completely turned.
Elijah Brown
I did the analysis if the teams are incremented randomly then each should approximate the (unknown) expectation value at the present time. Since then the average of each count is effectively a sample mean approximating the current expectation value you would expect the average deviation from the average to be the standard sample mean, which is here ~170. Compare to what we expect by random chance, ~120. This is pretty much consistent with what we would expect with points being randomly allocated to each time. This does not prove that that is the case since if it is something like a particular post number incrementing the score then that would also be consistent with random allocation.
if one board had to be picked, it would have to be /s4s/
Joshua Howard
actually turns out I used the biased estimator for the standard sample mean which was wrong. using the unbiased estimator puts the standard sample error as 140, even closer to what we expect by chance.
I unironically second this >mods are just blatant creme fags first they have stickies on /a/. Now that these are finally removed, giant gifs are popping out ( like this one > ) or simple point adds for "heheh funny jokes xddd". We told you, this game is rigged guise.
Kayden Foster
Nah mini is done for
Nathaniel Mitchell
I still don't think it's post count. How would you explain the +1 and +4?
Joseph Gutierrez
>team mixing disgusting degeneracy
Dylan Taylor
But Consider the following: The teams were randomly decided so really any system based on the site will end up with the points being distributed in a random manner.
yup, that's absolutely the case. hence why I was only testing the hypothesis, not proving it. I haven't refuted it, but it suggests it's not something like mods giving out points based on the quality of team memes they see, since since some teams are more memeable than others.
Adrian Hill
>peanut butter bros are catching up you can do it
Adrian Richardson
Or maybe that is just underage mods being edgy for the sake of baiting...
Aiden Edwards
hidden pattern like X#X#X like the oreo cookie?
Jack Butler
That colour looks more like penut butter than it does creme.
I'm going to guess it's an RNG with some kind of catchup algorithm to go with it. Mods can tune it on the fly to let a falling behind "team" catch up. It would be too boring to just let a team take and hold the lead, but seeing two teams duke it out or let a team catch up would be more fun. I bet Peeps are being pushed up for that Astolfo thread on /a/.
Mason Edwards
Thanks Team Chocolate (+1, hopefully). NEGRO ALLIANCE will persist til death.
>Points gained=number of images posted divided by 20 Opinions on this?
Owen Wilson
Alright, so here is what I am thinking. FIrst, I would like to dispel with the idea that this is random. It is not, it is somehow related to the post frequency. From 12:00AM MST to 8:00AM MST, the score increased on average around 4000 points per team. From 8:00AM MST to 4:00PM today, the increase per team was almost 8,000 points average. This means that the increase is somehow related to frequency at which people are posting. Because the frequency was lower over night in the US, the points increased accordingly.
Or something stupid like how many time posters in each team typed specific characters. Or maybe it's just a dice roll for every poster that's why points wary so much.
Xavier Howard
There was a theory earlier that the 5 teams correspond to the 5 Jow Forums servers. Conveniently the IPs of those servers would assign each one of them to a different team. Supposing there is some load balancing going on this theory would also explain the convergence.
Angel Clark
Or Hiro decided it was increasing too slowly and tweaked the formula to double the speed.
Jordan Price
Now Peanut Butter is growing like crazy
Jayden Foster
Anyone got the math on the total points given out each update? Whats the upper and lower bounds on that?
Though they're probably baiting. Eitherway, i don't like how they're blatantly "helping" Cr*me. Giant gifs, sticky threads... Wow, very balanced game indeed. I'll come back tomorrow when there's less redditry here
Dylan Price
It is just mods handing out points like Hogwarts
Aaron Butler
I believe in the convergence theory
Alexander Sullivan
Whu
Daniel Rodriguez
I think it has already been pretty well established that teems are assigned by adding the last two octets of your IP address, and then %5. That algorithm works for me at the very least. My current thoughts is that it is something more specific than this. My reasoning behind this is that is that there is a relatively large disparity between teams. If it was something trivial/random, you would expect consistently close scores, but we have seen a consistent trend of team creme being in the lead and team pepe and mini being close to the bottom. This leads me to believe that there are a few more teams that have specific members that are performing certain actions differently or at a different rate than other teams.
Justin Ross
If we get a HOWEVER moment in the last five minutes where PB and Mini are suddenly tied winners I'll laugh for five minutes straight
Cameron Wright
>Team Mini - 13787 (+266) >+266
It's converging. Posts and shitposting is meaningless.
