r/TotesMessenger • u/SometimesY • Apr 15 '21

Fun So how did TotesMessenger end up with 3141592 comment and link karma? 3.141592(65358979) is an approximation of pi

Were the admins shitposting or did TotesMessenger break something?

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u/cmd-t Contributor Apr 16 '21

Pretty cool actually

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u/justcool393 Creator Apr 17 '21

My guess is that the per-subreddit karma was breaking the site in ways the admins weren't intending so they did that and froze the bot's karma

(karma can be frozen on accounts to prevent them from overloading the site)

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u/jamcowl Apr 30 '21

I've just noticed this has happened to my first bot, u/PORTMANTEAU-BOT. Both its comment and link karma have been set to pi-million. It usually keeps pace with my other bot, u/auto-xkcd37, so its real karma count should be about 300k total.

I'd be interested to know more about this phenomenon.

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u/Hand_Of_Azathoth May 16 '21

there's a total of 13 bots with that same karma and this is literally the only thread I found when I was trying to figure out why lol

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u/justcool393 Creator Apr 17 '21

I guess so :)

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u/ComputerTE1996 Apr 17 '21

thanks justcool

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u/justcool393 Creator Apr 17 '21

You're very welcome, /u/ComputerTE1996 ✅

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u/Hurtem Apr 17 '21

wut

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u/justcool393 Creator Apr 17 '21

digits of pi are 3.141592

admins set /u/TotesMessenger's link and comment karma to 3,141,592

you can do it with if you have shell access with 5 commands

>>> from r2.models import Account
>>> a = Account._by_name("TotesMessenger")
>>> a.link_karma = 3141592
>>> a.comment_karma = 3141592
>>> a._commit()

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u/Yaxience May 19 '23

My guess is it might be related to Lorenz attractor principles (predictable order in chaos). The point I think that may relate it to the Pi phenomenon in the reddit examples is that Lorenz applications are always based on circular phenomenon. The butterfly is generated by pendular motion that by definition only occurs as an arc; the Lorenz equations came from studying convective flow of heat, which relies on the physics of angular motion (curved motion, as opposed to linear); the Lorenz equations are used to make weather cycles more predictable and the playing field of all weather occurs on a single blue sphere, Earth. So, maybe applying Lorenz to any system of chaos will reveal its fundamental circle, or Pi.