It was neat how we at /r/archlinux were able to eventually come to an agreement with /r/sweden not to deface each other's logo, so that we had one less border to worry about :-)
Thanks /r/sweden!
Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment
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#122france tried to invade bitcoin but r/bitcoin fought them off after much struggle lol
very interesting social experiment!
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#123Although I don't see it as much here on HN, but in real life and in other areas. I have seen some criticism that many felt it hard to believe that people could collaborate on this so well and they believe it was almost entirely bot driven or somehow belitte the effort. While I know towards the very end there were a growing number of bots and scripts that did start taking hold more.
Anyone who was part of it, even more so if they were engaged in discord or other more active channels than just subreddits, easily saw the hundreds of people collaborating, community, alliances, discussing ideas, and more. All of this together helped make it what it was.
I truly believe it was mostly done as a direct result of a lot of peoples' hard work and persistence. I participated in some large pieces; as well as helped promote/start a very small piece myself. All of it came together quite beautifully.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that's an interesting conversation to have. I didn't know there were anarchist flags on there, could you link me to some of them, I'm curious to see. As for the LGBT flags, I don't view those as political but rather as communities within reddit that together make up a large userbase who were committed to protecting each other's art and flags.
> as communities within reddit that together make up a large userbase who were committed to protecting each other's art and flags. What is this if not politics? Politics isn't a dirty word you know...
To clarify: I do not view orientation or sexual identity as politics.
In the sense of /r/place and their arrangements: that is politics, or more so rather diplomacy. They have common grounds and worked together, that's all.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It got annoying going to certain subreddits that I subscribe to for content started getting flooded with "Man the decks, we need to defend this!" that's awesome! The whole thing became a territory war :)
I, too, thought that was a big part of the fun! I liked the competition of it all. I'm a bit surprised to learn this wasn't a popular sentiment.
Depends on what you get out of Reddit. Are you there for the content aggregation or the communities? I imagine those wanting to enjoy content weren't all that happy with the tangent. We've known for years though that community websites become useless on April Fools anyway.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I, too, thought that was a big part of the fun! I liked the competition of it all. I'm a bit surprised to learn this wasn't a popular sentiment.
I go to reddit for two very different reasons. To unwind and just read interesting and unexpected stuff for a bit or to get into thoughtful and interesting debates. If I am in an unwinding mood I wouldn't want to deal with the /r/place debates. If I want to debate it would be awesome. Then there are people who live their whole lives in places more extreme than either of the moods I described.
When the stuff was confined to /r/place, I was definitely fine with it. Bus as I said to someone below about /r/2007scape, I go there for OSRS content, not /r/Place content, which is what that subreddit devolved into. There was even a fairly popular thread about getting a filter for /r/Place content. I'm not devaluing the idea of /r/Place content, I just wish it would have been contained elsewhere.
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This defines the word "political" to be so broad as to render it essentially meaningless. I can't like Star Trek without "buying into a box of propositions"? Really ? First, you're going to have to tell me why I like Star Trek.
What I am saying is that politics is an externalization rather than an internalization--which is very far from meaningless. Your why doesn't matter (and it's one reason why the right wing's "but I didn't support the Republicans because of racism" is so hollow). Your what matters. And it matters to other people. It's inescapably political because you live in a polity and your decisions impact other people. See, for ex…
>Your what matters. And it matters to other people. It's inescapably political because you live in a polity and your decisions impact other people.
By the same standard, then, I can safely write off BlackLivesMatter as a group whose members are inherently racist, and in some cases engage in literal terrorism (definition: violence applied for political goals) with the sanction of the larger group?
Why or why not?
You are your impact on other people and every impact on everyone else is inescapably, inextricably, definitionally "political".
Except most of these definitions of yours, that are entirely yours as far as I can see, don't have anything to do with the actual definition of the word political. To wit:
relating to the government or the public affairs of a country.
Where's the connection to government and public affairs and Star Trek? You did make that connection, and I'm curious to see how you go about defending it, especially since you called out this division of political vs not as a rhetorical device used to avoid defending things.
On that same note, humans "draw lines to segment off topics" because that is literally the only way human reason about things. Your definition of politics implies that I can't watch a Goddamned fictional series about spaceships without a bunch of other ill-defined ideological baggage attached to it. I don't see the practical or metaphorical usefulness of this definition, and up to this point, you have not demonstrated it.
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#129Ah, the ample parallels you could draw with this and freedom.
Please expand?
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's actually a really interesting thought. I hadn't even considered that. I don't currently have the time to find all of the analytics about pixel placement, but I would assume there were tens of thousands of users who aligned with some 'faction' and had more than 20 pixel placements in the entire 72 hours (I would say that is a large enough number to identify people who actively participated), which is by no mean…
it wouldn't have been very hard to get one of the larger political subreddits to get something on the board and maintain it for the weekend I'm not so sure this is actually true. Have you ever tried to organize a large number of people?
Organizing groups of people for something as menial as this isn't a hard task. Many subreddits had a pixel template they posted for the content they wanted that made it to those communities front page, and users generated it. Upkeep after that wasn't much of an issue unless they were being raided.