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How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by 8note »

kannanvijayan wrote: post #38
blamazon wrote: post #14

Highlight of /r/place this year for me was Canada narrative. Initially that community struggled to decide on cannabis leaf or maple leaf, just like 5 years ago, leading to inevitable griefing campaigns taking advantage of the internal volatility to successfully turn it into "Bananas" with a yellow flag and a banana in place of the leaf for a short time. But then the Canadians prevailed in the last hour, with Canada s…

I did not participate in the reddit place event, but I did witness this drama play out as I was browsing the site. The psychological response to this was also fittingly Canadian. Ultimately the chaotic symbol was dubbled the "merple lerf", and accepted in the good humour that it deserved to be. Now allow me to take 20-50 minutes to dissect what this event means to the Canadian identity, and how the chaotic aspect of…

sounds like an afternoon for crosscountry checkup

Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by 8note »

treesknees wrote: post #20

I didn't care for /r/place this time around. It felt like a lazy and uninspired move by Reddit to just copy the exact same idea from 5 years ago. As pointless as their other events were, like /r/the_button, at least they were unique. Not only that, it spoiled the treasured memory and experience of 2017. This year was so full of hate and fighting over flags, stream raids, bot scripts floating around, none of it felt g…

If anything is to be repeated, Reddit mold would be my first choice

Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by willis936 »

bombcar wrote: post #36

The botting makes it more boring, in my opinion, it's just a user count system at that point. It would be more interesting (in my opinion) if somehow you could get your OWN pixel by being the one who claims it, something like if you change a pixel, others can't change it for 5+x minutes where X increases each time you "defend" it or something.

A user count system sounds pretty in line with the spirit of r/place. What isn't in spirit is silent censorship. The entire premise of r/place is illegitimate.

Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by bwoodward »

zeven7 wrote: post #31
treesknees wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was divisive everywhere. I saw so many posts from folks arguing why X or Y shouldn't be on the board, or shouldn't use up so much space, or how flags were too boring. I stopped playing after the first day because of all the anger around it.

I saw a lot of people having fun and didn't see people getting really angry. Though I'm sure there were people actually getting angry, that happens with every game. Maybe those people should relax more, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I was part of a community maintaining a small logo that got attacked a few times, and we repaired it - part of the fun. I agree with the people who think a canvas full of flags is kind of boring and wis…

This was also my experience. I was jumping between F1 and Star Wars and had a great time maintaining and branching out.

I was really impressed by the level of detail as more shades were introduced.

Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by treesknees »

Marsey wrote: post #97
treesknees wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently the cat being overwritten here has been in use as a mascot by a group of folks who were banned from Reddit. So I'm not sure it's as simple as stating that admins wanted to control the board, there could have been some abuse going on that we don't know about. >The Admins are currently at war with r/drama's offsite forum, who have been brigading Reddit. Last week the Admins banned lots of them permanently. S…

Full details are here, and it's just an orange cat: https://twitter.com/MarseyCat/status/1510733817937547272 Reddit even tweeted a screenshot of it: https://twitter.com/Reddit/status/1509990348378058755

Sorry, you are misunderstanding me. I realize it's just an orange cat, but who placed the pixels on /r/place to create the cat image? That's what I'm referring to.

Reference to "everyone" on their sub being banned by admins: https://old.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/tty3fn/_/

If you go to their official site, you can clearly see (as of this comment) that they're using this cat as their mascot, and it's posted all over the place.

https://rdrama.net

So yes, it's "just a cat" except it's being used in a specific way.

And no, reddit didn't tweet an image of the cat. They responded to someone else's screenshot of /r/place.

Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by treesknees »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #81
istorical wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might be missing the point of those who disagree with your take, which is to call those who want to do different things on /r/Place than you 'trolls' or 'griefers' is itself just you projecting your own value judgment onto them, or acting as if you are the judge of what is right and wrong. From the perspective of someone who likes /r/theblackvoid, the pixel artists coloring over the void are just trolls and grief…

r/Place is inherently organized chaos, so anyone can leave their mark if they are able to. Unfortunately there's a sizable subset of people that don't want to leave a mark, and only want to vandalize other's marks, participating solely to draw funny eyes, broken teeth, penises, or simply erase whole sections. I'd go as far as to qualify people who practiced r/TheBlackVoid in the canvas as antisocial, since filling a…

The problem is it isn't your mark, maybe you feel differently because before you clicked the pixel it was white/blank. Or your group decided it would be yours. There is no ownership. There is no rule requiring cooperation or organization or socializing.

I'm not saying someone shouldn't be disappointed their art was overwritten. But again this gets back to my comment about the whole thing being divisive. You've demonstrated my entire point by saying /r/TheBlackVoid as using /r/place incorrectly.

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