Yeah, r/place generated so many miniature dramas it was wild. The US flag drama was also an interesting lesson in coordination. Obviously it drew a lot of atta

Yeah, r/place generated so many miniature dramas it was wild. The US flag drama was also an interesting lesson in coordination. Obviously it drew a lot of attack / defense, beefs, etc, but a lot of the early support was uncoordinated and also hindered bringing the artwork to the next level. The hivemind was good at local fixes but bad at global fixes -- our equivalent of the merple leaf was that the flag would always tend towards 100 stars in a grid instead of 50 stars in staggered rows. Attempts to add artwork or remove & fix stars were rejected by the hivemind trying to defend the flag. I'm embarrassed to admit that I may have put 2 or 3 reverts against what, in hindsight, was an attempt to add Iwo Jima to the lower left. In the end, what rallied the troops was a retreat. https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tvhtgv/american_flag_discord_100_person_call_moment_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tvhtgv/american_flag... After seeing the US flag disappear, supporters flocked to the subreddit and the discord. This tipped the balance away from self-sabotaging hivemind and towards coordination. There was a dynamic of "minimum viable change," where the hivemind would stop fighting artwork only once it could recognize it, so the key was to organize enough people on discord to push out an identifiable chunk (say, the space shuttle) in a single wave. I'm sure this dynamic played out in hundreds of communities, but in the end good art and organization won: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmericanFlaginPlace/comments/twg11p/gg_guys_we_won/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AmericanFlaginPlace/comments/twg11p... I'd love to hear the French story. They rotated through a few designs and look heavily contested on the heatmap: https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/twryzd/frequency_of_color_change_on_canvas/ https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/twryzd/frequency_of_...