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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 thi

• sqeaky 10y ago
  For something like this the level of organization is tiny. I added to tux, and all I need was the picture of tux. I barely needed that because I just refilled pixels people poked into him.
  • rhizome 10y ago
    Does it make sense that you'd really only need about 300 people, one for every second in 5min? After that, the group can pretty much add squares constantly, one per second. Maybe that wouldn't be fast enough, but it's a good head start on offense, and I'm obvs not accounting for defense.
  • greenhatman 10y ago
    /r/place made me realize that I care about Linux than my country.
• rmccoy6435 10y ago
  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.