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It was nice to have it back, though I hope they will stick to that 5 year gap. On day 2, the streaming community at large caught up with the project and there w
by skilled 5y ago
It was nice to have it back, though I hope they will stick to that 5 year gap. On day 2, the streaming community at large caught up with the project and there were a lot of "wars" happening for space. If you are a small Reddit community, you don't stand a chance against 300,000 people using Tampermonkey to recreate a gigantic drawing in 10 seconds.
Having said that, I also hope that the next time it does happen - Reddit developers will implement at least some protection against this kind of brigading. I wouldn't be surprised it was also the reason they decided to wipe out the whole thing in the end.
- haskaalo 5y agoDuring the first version of /r/place, there was some mechanism in place to reduce the use of bots such as a CAPTCHA and not allowing newly created accounts to place pixels. However, this year I feel like they gave up on all of that simply to gain more users.
- blamazon 5y agoNotably, Reddit is planning to IPO this year. [1] [1] https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-announces-confidential-submission-of-draft-registration-statement-related-to-proposed-public-offering https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-announces-confidential...
- MonkeyIsNull 5y agooh no.
- toper-centage 5y agoThat explains why they allowed new accounts to participate. There were probably hundreds of thousands of new bot accounts created over the weekend.
- yreg 5y agoAlso hundreds of thousands human accounts as well to be fair. Whether they will stick around remains to be seen.
- KennyBlanken 5y agoThere was a reddit admin using both their admin power (no cooldown) and a bot. The whole thing jumped the shark, big time.