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Hm. I agree the original title from the article was clickbait, but ... could it perhaps be titled something that emphasizes the cooperative nature? It's not rea
by camtarn 10y ago
Hm. I agree the original title from the article was clickbait, but ... could it perhaps be titled something that emphasizes the cooperative nature? It's not really an April Fools' gag as much as a social experiment.
- superkuh 10y agoAnd only the most recent, large scale, implementation of the concept. I recall these pixel wars pages being popular in the early 2000s. Back then you made perl scripts to automate it. Now they (r/place teams) use python. Not much has changed. And I don't know if the author of the ars piece was just ignoring them or not, but there were plenty of dongs and other typical vandalism throughout.
- dang 10y agoWe'll s/gag/experiment/ above.
- camtarn 10y agoCheers :)
- Ajedi32 10y agoEarlier I tried posting a timelapse video of the experiment with the title "Timelapse - Reddit users each place 1 pixel / 5 minutes on a 1000x1000 grid", but it got deduped to a post with a much less descriptive title which, as a result, never really took off.
- mhink 10y agoReddit's April Fools projects [1] have been social experiments for a few years now, and I really appreciate their willingness to actually build the kinds of interesting ideas which you can really only accomplish with such a large and engaged userbase. /r/thebutton was a lot of fun two years ago, and while I never really used /r/robin, I thought the concept was brilliant. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#April_Fools_subreddits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#April_Fools_subreddits