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Minecraft Griefers Demolish 1:1 scale model of Denmark

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Re: Minecraft Griefers Demolish 1:1 scale model of Denmark

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Hahaha, I'm sorry but that is a bit amuzing. I mean, what did they expect? Kind of thought that would happen when i read the Rules for being on the server.

Small countries like Denmark tend to have a much more well-behaved population than large countries. I.e. they queue nicer, they are more likely to return something they found, etc. (game-theoretic research suggests that such a culture is a symptom of having a high likelyhood of meeting again - thus offering more opportunities to punish bad behaviour). That background might explain their optimistic expectations.

Possibly right but unfortunately anonymity turns people into total dicks regardless of nationality.

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They didn't create a backup? Seriously?

Surely whatever program they used to create it could just be run again. It used data from maps etc so it must be able to run the same input again. Although if its >1tb of data thats gonna take a while...

The creator points out they only initially intend to restore Copenhagen. As the data they have are stored in 10×10 km blocks, this should be fairly trivial to do.

I think the real reason they have been hesitant with doing that is because it was supposed to be used for creation purposes, that were at least educational.

Re: Minecraft Griefers Demolish 1:1 scale model of Denmark

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Slightly OT, but the UK national mapping agency has created a minecraft model of the UK [1] (minus Northern Ireland). [1] http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/developers/minecraf...

I got the impression that the Danish model contained actual buildings and features, whereas the OS map of Britain contains just the geographical features.

The UK map is 1:50, so it cannot really contain buildings. The Danish map is 1:1.

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Hahaha, I'm sorry but that is a bit amuzing. I mean, what did they expect? Kind of thought that would happen when i read the Rules for being on the server.

Small countries like Denmark tend to have a much more well-behaved population than large countries. I.e. they queue nicer, they are more likely to return something they found, etc. (game-theoretic research suggests that such a culture is a symptom of having a high likelyhood of meeting again - thus offering more opportunities to punish bad behaviour). That background might explain their optimistic expectations.

Excuse me, but what is this based on? Do you perhaps mean small communities? Because I can tell you from my experience being Swedish in Sweden (~9M inhabitants), that your assumption seems to be false.

Re: Minecraft Griefers Demolish 1:1 scale model of Denmark

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This was never educational in so much as it's just a game. Kinda bored with people just making up pedagogy cause.

What's more boring and uneducational than a recreation of your country with a bunch of blocks. The attempts of the article to make it educational and fun for students are laughable.

What's fun, interesting and educational is messing around with it and seeing possibilities.

Personally I doubt anyone would have even visited if this hadn't happened. This kinda made it interesting and put it on the map so to speak.

And possibly this is exactly what the makers wanted, toss it out there, see what happens and go with it.

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This story was submitted[0] four days ago, but got no traction and sank without trace. The only comment[1] was mine, and I repeat it here: I know this is something of an internet meme, and hence somewhat out-of-place here on HN, but, in short: This is why we can't have nice things. It would be really cool if we didn't need passwords. It would be really cool if we could have globally editable documents that stored and…

Well... wikipedia. The essential idea is revertability.

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Things like this always bring to light a particular side of the internet population that is fascinating to watch but very frustrating to participate in an activity "against". These people immediately take an incredibly negative approach for their own short term enjoyment without any apparent thought of the longer term effect of their actions, and what people will do to counter that style of behavior generally making…

Have you never seen kids destroy each other's sand/Lego castles? Motives: curiousity, impulse, social exploration etc.

Re: Minecraft Griefers Demolish 1:1 scale model of Denmark

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This story was submitted[0] four days ago, but got no traction and sank without trace. The only comment[1] was mine, and I repeat it here: I know this is something of an internet meme, and hence somewhat out-of-place here on HN, but, in short: This is why we can't have nice things. It would be really cool if we didn't need passwords. It would be really cool if we could have globally editable documents that stored and…

Why complain about people being creative in a creative environment? Is there no place for fun?
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