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- soared 11y agoAssuming they have stellar data collection, they'll have answers to some interesting questions: 1) How many random people does it take for a chat room to turn into spam/shitposting/etc? 2) Does a persons reddit commenting behavior match their chatroom behavior? (discussion topics, spamming, shitposting, etc) 3) How long do people participate, how long till they go afk? 4) Does comment frequency, karma, subreddit participation correlate with any Robin behavior? Ex. People on r/TrueGaming stay in a room longer due to gamification.
- themagician 11y ago1) Two. 2) No. 3) Until they are done shitposting. 4) Undetermined.
- spyspy 11y agoI actually was in a chat room with /u/powerlanguage (the admin that submitted the original announcement) and I pressed him for stats. All he said was that people love to grow. xNotch was also in the room. That was tons of fun.
- famfamfam 11y agoI was also in this room, merged in from powerlanguage's side into Notch's group. The group ended up convincing about 40-50 members to vote to Stay, and when the vote passed it created a private subreddit for the group with random members as admins (including Notch). This was before auto-vote scripts and bots became common. The subreddit is currently coming up with a theme for itself (based on part of the name that was automatically generated for us), and has seen users sharing spare copies of games and introducing themselves. Unfortunately /u/powerlanguage chose to grow on without us.
- mintplant 11y agoThat sounds like a lot of fun! I ended up in a group of four, of whom two were initially inactive. One of them eventually started chatting (apparently the desktop notifications hadn't worked) and we voted 3/4 to grow again. The next batch of people to join us started slinging slurs around, at which point I closed the tab. I'll have to have another go at this tomorrow, if it's still up.
- dorfsmay 11y ago> All he said was that people love to grow. A lot of people took it as a game. You can grow, rumours of big rooms (100s even 1000s), how big can we grow to? Few people were interested in chatting beyond trying to convince others to grow.
- PaulRobinson 11y agoPurely anecdotally. 1) In my experience, it's correlated to the Dunbar number. Seriously, once you get close to 150, it starts to break down, over that number, it's lost. 2) To my knowledge, nobody is looking them up. At least nobody I encountered is. 3) Most people seem committed to at least 4 rounds, and then once it gets to 31 minutes/round it trails off 4) A lot of people who seem really into it seem to also be really into COD or Hitler memes. No joke.
- isaacremuant 11y agoThe problem with this experiment, from my own experience, is that you really have no reason to be there other than the novelty of it. There's nothing binding your "community" other than finding out about the robin or something like that. You're entering a chat room to chat about the chat. It predictably becomes "spammy" absolutely fast with few people because they're going to be trying to entertain themselves somehow. It's too meta to be of much use to the outside world, imho.
- xg15 11y agoCould anyone give a short description what this is about? Right now neither the submission title nor the page is very informative.
- apeace 11y agoIt seems Reddit has been intentionally vague as to what this is all about. Theories abound in /r/joinrobin[1] Interesting to note the icon is a red bird, right after Reddit removed its NSL canary[2] (yellow bird), and joined an amicus brief in support of Twitter[3] (blue bird). [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/joinrobin https://www.reddit.com/r/joinrobin [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11400112 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11400112 [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4cqyia/for_your_reading_pleasure_our_2015_transparency/ https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4cqyia/for_y... Edit: formatting
- randycupertino 11y ago> It seems Reddit has been intentionally vague as to what this is all about. Their standard MO.
- CamperBob2 11y agoThe icon reminds me of one of the Egyptian glyphs that would show up in LOST whenever someone failed to reset the Apple II in the hatch every so often. Ergo, it's probably some kind of Skinnerian behavior experiment.
- levesque 11y agoIf you click on the robin, and again on the next page, you'll get in a chatroom with a random stranger. Everyonce in a while, you will get to vote for either growing the chatroom to include more people, abandoning the chatroom, or keeping it like it is. Seems to be reddit's social experiment of the year.
- traek 11y ago> When you press the button, it leads you to a page with a button that says "participate". Pressing this button puts you in an IRC chat with another user. Along with being able to chat, there are three buttons to press. These are Abandon, Stay, and Grow. This is actually a voting system. When joining a room, a small text will be output by the server saying how long you have to vote, calculated by 2level - 1 and output in minutes. The vote runs on majority rule. > When the timer runs out: > If you voted Abandon, you will be kicked from the room. You can hit the participate button again to start from the beginning. > If the majority voted Abandon, everyone is kicked from the room. > If the majority voted Stay, the room is closed and a new subreddit is created, with the name of the chat room being the sub name. Up to 5 random people in the room are granted moderator permissions in this sub. It should be noted that the chat room name is a mashup of the current room users. > If the majority voted Grow, they will be merged with another group of about the same size in a new chat room. You can vote again from there. Every time it grows, the "level" variable from earlier goes up by one. From https://m.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/4cwi9o/whats_up_with_the_robin_button_on_rall/d1m1dvc https://m.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/4cwi9o/whats_up.... Basically it's another Reddit social experiment.
- monkmartinez 11y agoRoom I am in is up to 4... YYYUUUGGGEEE!
- maxpert 11y agoAlready growing :D
- Implicated 11y agoI had enough attention span to make it to a room of 4 before I bailed. Even after we had all voted we had to wait out the ballot timeout.
- lowglow 11y agoChat roulette for reddit?
- 7373737373 11y agoAn incredible idea. This is memetics in action. As with the button last year, people set up factions, appoint leaders and then abandon them as fast as they are created. But now, every time a majority in a room votes to GROW, two microcultures clash together. In most cases, they merge and grow further, which makes it difficult to retrace how some memes and behaviours originated. It also shows how the quality of the conversation decreases as more and more random people join in. Hours since Robin was published, scripts for automation were made - pressing buttons, counting people, ignoring spammers. By now there are all kinds of bots, doing quizzes and creating word clouds, but mostly spamming. Some people started drawing on other websites, created new subreddits or wrote down their name and history in shared documents. This was an eye opening experience for me, because it shows what may be possible with VR and what might happen once BCIs are perfected.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoWhat's a BCI, and how does VR affect this?
- iyn 11y agoI'd assume that in this context, BCI stands for Brain Computer Interface.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoIn that case, what it shows about BCI and VR interfaces is terrifying.
- 7373737373 11y agoExactly. To me, this experiment made it clear that the speed with which information is exchanged, new ideas are formed and behaviours adapted will increase drastically the more people are intimately connected to the internet. Not even half of the world population are connected yet. Virtual reality will remove further barriers, BCIs may completely remove them. Looking back, the experience seems remarkably alien, but in the moment of action, you were part of a hivemind. In large rooms, only powerful ideas could propagate, no matter how meaningful they were. I'm reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
- mianosm 11y agoThere is a pi symbol on the bottom right of every page. It stinks of dynamic demand, or elastic compute... ...hopefully it helps in their quest to continue serving the drooling masses and being the 'front page' of the Internet.
- kordless 11y agoBRUSH DID 911. CLEVE THE MEME.
- riffic 11y agoPretty sure that this was named and inspired by Robin Dunbar, of Dunbar's Number fame - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Dunbar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Dunbar
- draw_down 11y agoSeems like another one of their abstract experiment things. I was taken to a sort of chat room where I had three buttons which all did nothing. Umm, fascinating.
- neals 11y agoI don't like it. I liked the Button from last year A LOT. I really followed that. But this is too isolated, you can't really see what's going on elsewhere, just your own boring little room. You need a massive volume for anything extraordinary good to emerge and you need the whole internet to judge.
- forlorn 11y agoYesterday I managed to stay in group PrictsGo (since I abandoned they grew to #1 with more than 200 participants), it took me about 8 hours. When we were like 20 or 30 a member from another merged group suggested to play 20 Questions and that was really fun. The conversation was very vivid until we grew to about 100 users and were joined by people with scripts. I still dont understand the 140-symbols limit and a Twitter-like bird as a logo.
- tychuz 11y agoSo, wait 1 hour (while channel grows) to get twitch chat? 'so gud Kappa'