arionmiles/infinitygauntlet

Bring balance to /r/thanosdidnothingwrong

infinitygauntlet's Issues

Proposal: Ban half of the subscribers and half of the non-subscribers

So that the subscribers count appear halved and the final result is the same.

Proposal for new method of selecting Ill Fated.

Hey guys i was just wondering if you'd considered alternative methods for selecting those to be banned? My concern is you have to enter the amount to be banned and theoretically this process will take a few days (as the bot will be rate limited). The obvious problem here is that we won't achieve a perfect balancing.

I propose the following solution, we completely remove the random sampling. I've created a python script to show that you can simply use random in python to achieve a perfect balancing. Over 10 trials of 200,000 runs per trial i have shown that random.randint(0, 1) achieves a perfect 50/50 split.

I propose a pull request whereby we run my script to populate an arbitrarily large list, 300,000 or so but larger than the subscriber population. This list is simply 0s and 1s, even or odd. Then something like this should work with a change to the ban method where it now takes a user to be banned and simply bans.

for fate, user in zip(ban_list, user_data):
    if fate == 0: ban(user)

The list is space inefficient and creating it is time inefficient but traversing the list with zip is o(1) in python 3. This should also prevent any sort of failing under load or anything like this. Creation of the lists happens elsewhere and the bot slowly iterates through the lists destroying as it travels.

Script is uploaded as .txt because github is annoying.
fate_selector (change me back to .py)

Update: Admins are making the bot.