Lets Count: Difference between revisions

Started by [[Shelli Selby]], "Lets Count" was a thread in which people (mostly) counted up (the original thread started at one (presumably- I will not be verifying this))<ref>It did start at one, unless my memory absolutely fails me. I watched it for a while, and then got involved around 400. -[[Owen Behrens|Owen]]</ref> and counting one number per message, with no person going twice in a row. (mostly)  

After quite a few messages, (I don't remember how many, exactly, but it was a few thousand) the original thread started to get very laggy. If you went to notifications in teams, and the top one was a reply in the counting thread, it would crash teams, if not your whole computer. So, Shelli created a new thread called "Lets Count: CONTINUED"<ref>(I think the "continued" was in all caps? someone fact-check me on this)</ref> After another few thousand messages, however, that thread experienced the same problem with lag. Since Shelli Selby left NSA, [[Hallie Griffin]] took up the mantle and created a thread called "Lets Count: CONTINUED: Continued."

the participants have together counted from one to seven thousand, six hundred, and forty-three.<ref>as of November 20, 2023, at 9:48am CST, reported by Samuel Grady.</ref> The current thread (made October 15th) has had 36 respondents (over the course of the almost 1100 messages).  

(I do believe that they began counting backwards at some point around two thousand- I don't know if that is true or if it is when they turned around again and started going forwards, but as of right now it's at 7643 and increasing)<ref>Confirmed by [[Samuel Grady]]: After 2082, [[Keene Elkins]] jumped to 2100. [[Sunda Schwertfeger]] then proceeded to count backwards (probably to correct the jump). Then, after a few hundred backwards-counting messages, the counting continued forwards as normal (is there anything normal at northstar?), with some mild confusion to those who saw this afterward.</ref>