Hacker News new | comments | show | ask | jobs | submit login The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy (vox.com) 382 points by prawn 12 hours ago | 175 comments diminoten 0 minutes ago Diabolical idea: "First 10,000 people to give reddit gold to people in /r/thebutton are allowed to press the button a second time." Dunno if folks would tolerate that, but I get the sense it'd work. reply georgehotelling 2 hours ago One faction known as the Knights of the Button created a Chrome extension called Squire to coordinate button presses in order to keep the timer running for as long as possible. The craziest thing I've seen so far is that another group known as the Assassins created a fork of that extension that would claim they would press the button, but in fact wouldn't so that the timer would run out. There are groups sabotaging other groups' code based on their goals for...