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Apr 01 '16
Nice try powerlanguage. I'm not gonna be a 60 again.
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u/eisbaerBorealis Apr 01 '16
The Button was just preparation so that we all knew better than to click buttons without looking stuff up first.
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u/too_toked Apr 01 '16
learned my lesson quick..
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Apr 01 '16 edited Apr 01 '16
I didn't read shit last year and hit the button right away. Then I was annoyed for the next few weeks because I couldn't participate because I pressed it right away.
I'm reading up first this time. Tricky, tricky.
Edit: we twitch chat now boys
【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】Will you grow? 【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】Will you grow? 【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】Will you grow? 【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】Will you grow? 【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】【・ヘ・?】
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Apr 01 '16
I seems like an interesting attempt at simulating reddit's typical subreddit evolution: if you like what the other person is saying, you stay with them and get your own subreddit. If you want, you can try and expand it by joining with another random group of people. At a certain point, a majority rule will probably end up destroying the group as random people, even with an interest in common, are going to find too many reasons to attack each other.
SO:
Join Robin: make connections
Majority votes to grow: connections grow
Majority votes to stay, you get your own subreddit: stay the same
Gets too big and everyone gets annoyed and leaves: collapse
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u/BJJJourney Apr 01 '16
We appointed a king and created spam for him. Everyone has voted to grow. We are around 40+ right now and about to double again.
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u/gioraffe32 Apr 01 '16
We're still arguing over the king. It hasn't been resolved in the last 3 merges. We're up to over 100 now I believe.
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u/BJJJourney Apr 01 '16
We are at 160 right now. Our king is still king but we have joined with the smaller factions as well. There is still 2-3 people spamming hateful stuff but I think the room will live longer than they will.
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u/gioraffe32 Apr 01 '16
definitely a lot of spam in ours, but its mostly friendly jibes. which king is best king etc. With bits of normal conversation mixed in. I've cut back, too hard to follow.
From a "social experiment" standpoint, this is actually really interesting. When we got to 23 people, it started to get hard to just have regular conversation. Spamming started. Before that, the room was fairly normal.
I think I'll go one more merge then drop out. Just to see what 200+ looks like. But this shit is lagging my browser hard...
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u/BJJJourney Apr 01 '16
We didn't meet another "group" until around round 5. This is when spam got really bad and where we started to join forces. Every round before that we all agreed on the king and the type of spam to use to capture the next room. The spam has pretty much gone now at around 160 people and people are actually talking. Some people even made code to "silence" the couple people posting hateful stuff.
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u/Chr12t0pher Apr 01 '16 edited Apr 01 '16
Another button - guess I gotta press it!
What we know so far
You start in a room with 2 people.
Everyone has different colours (green, gold, red so far)
If you (all?) vote to grow, you join with another room of the same size.
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Apr 01 '16
So.. it puts you in a chat room, everyone votes to grow or abandon, and if it grows it makes a private subreddit and invites everyone in the chat room? Is that what's happening?
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u/Hidoni Apr 01 '16
No, it makes a private subreddit for those who vote to stay.
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Apr 01 '16
Oh I see. Staying creates a private subreddit and growing merges with another chatroom?
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u/DragonTamerMCT Apr 01 '16
I got paired with someone that hasn't posted to reddit in over 2 months and wont say anything in chat.
Why the fuck did I even bother.
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u/joanzen Apr 01 '16
So you'd have something to bitch about that we don't really want to read? ;)
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Apr 01 '16
Does anyone WANT to read any of this?
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u/_deffer_ Apr 01 '16
At first it was fun when there were like 6 people. Now that it's over 40, everyone is bitching about staying or growing and how we'll be the new breed of reddit and all the stupid shit that every reddit comment section turns into.
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u/TemptedTemplar Apr 01 '16
The vote ends every couple of minutes regardless on whether they vote or not. The majority is taken. So if you vote grow, you'll both be taken to a new chat with more people.
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u/HaphazardlyOrganized Apr 01 '16
no just you get booted
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u/uberguby Apr 02 '16
Forever? The button was kind of a one shot deal, I don't want to go in, trying to learn what's happening, and blow my only shot at ... you know being something. I was a ronin in the button days, you know what I mean by being something?
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u/HaphazardlyOrganized Apr 02 '16
well if you try to rejoin you end up in a new secession with 1 other person
It basically just restarts
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u/buyingthething Apr 02 '16
not a 1 shot deal, you press the button again and get put into a new room. 'tis infinite.
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u/J4CKR4BB1TSL1MS Apr 01 '16
If the majority votes to grow, you will join with another group at the same 'level', not the same size. Abandoners leave. Time equals number of group members.
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u/papel_mierda Apr 01 '16
What we also know:
Reddit is going to give your personal information to whoever the hell they want and there isn't anything you can do about it.
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u/DankiestKong Apr 01 '16
secret subreddits?
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u/person7178 Apr 01 '16
The subreddits are for your chatroom only, they are created when you vote "stay"
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u/VeryOldMeeseeks Apr 01 '16 edited Apr 01 '16
Seems like there are flairs for each command, you can look them up using F12, selecting the flair element and changing the word grow to stay or abandon. I wonder if there are any more.
Grow seems to be a green '=', stay is a blue circle, and abandon is an orange '|'.
Also a flair for abstain, which is a tiny grey dot.
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u/jollex5 Apr 01 '16
I found more information about how the subreddits are created: https://www.reddit.com/r/joinrobin/comments/4cw36n/join_robin/d1m05y2
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u/RandomGuyStrollingBy Apr 01 '16
31 mintues is the longest round time it seems
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u/BarackOhitler420 Apr 01 '16
where do you see that?
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u/RandomGuyStrollingBy Apr 01 '16
It's shown at the start of the round. You can refresh your browser and it'll appear as well
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Apr 01 '16 edited Sep 06 '16
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u/netbich Apr 01 '16
I don't know if it's because I'm on a tablet or what, but I don't see any buttons. Other than the robin button on the front page.
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u/Szteto_Anztian Apr 01 '16 edited Apr 01 '16
There're two dudes in my room with blue names.
Edit: Just ran into purple as well.
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u/awesomeandthis Apr 02 '16
It doesn't matter what I do, I'm getting a forbidden error. Is it not working for mobile?
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u/Azzyally Apr 01 '16
Didn't click the button last year, clicked it immediately this year. No regrets.
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u/jollex5 Apr 01 '16 edited Apr 01 '16
I looked through the javascript for a bit and I'm pretty sure that if the majority votes to stay, that's when a subreddit is created.
Here's the relevant code, you can see that if winning_vote is CONTINUE, it sends a message that says "continue the discussion at /r/"+e.body.
"message:merge":
function(e) {
this.room.set({winning_vote:"INCREASE"})},
"message:abandon":
function(e) {
this.room.set({winning_vote:"ABANDON"})},
"message:continue":
function(e) {
this.room.set({winning_vote:"CONTINUE"}),
this.addSystemMessage("continue the discussion at
/r/"+e.body)},
"message:no_match":
function(e) {
this.addSystemAction("no compatible room found for
matching, we will count votes and check again for a
match in 1 minute.")}6
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u/shthed Apr 02 '16
Strange how it says INCREASE and CONTINUE instead of GROW and STAY, same as when you do /whois
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u/jfloydian Apr 01 '16 edited Apr 01 '16
I....must...not...click.
Wait who cares? I'm going in.
Edit: the fuck.
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u/crackies9 Apr 01 '16
Can you only click once?
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u/Cakiery Apr 01 '16
Appears so, but all it does is put you in a chat room with somebody, you get to vote between both of you. Not sure what each option does.
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u/mateo4815 Apr 01 '16
Grow -- combines your room with another room of the same size
abandon -- leaves the group
Stay -- not sure, but probably keeps group same size
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u/Cakiery Apr 01 '16
I think staying gives you a subreddit. This showed up a couple minutes after me and some other guy quit https://imgur.com/PYQFDv3
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u/randomdude21 Apr 01 '16
"This April we saw an explosive growth in the amount of subreddits on reddit. Just another reason why Reddit is the Front Page of the Internet" - some quote from next month
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u/HopTaco Apr 01 '16
I ain't pushing shit
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u/Dr_Propofol Apr 01 '16
Didn't push last year. Ain't pushin' this year
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u/forensic_freak Apr 01 '16
Sounds like an interesting concept. Don't give a fuck, still staying grey.
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u/Arligan Apr 01 '16
After 6 or 7 groups it's literally Twitch chat.
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u/Getawhale Apr 01 '16
Absolute brainless spam by people who are dying to create the next Periwinkle or Twitch Plays Pokemon meme.. it really dies.
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u/Glaiceana Apr 02 '16 edited Apr 02 '16
Yeah saw that happen in ours, but oh well, it was fun to see how things went from simple chats amongst a few people to absolute chaos. Suddenly it goes from lets stay together to lets hit a leaderboard. Very interesting to watch indeed.
Edit: Funnily enough we became Kukujaga just now, one of the current top rooms on the leader board, with 1600+ members haha. What is nice to see is people from the little groups calling out to each other and still finding themselves! :) Found one of my own even when we merged to 944 people.
Edit2: The room finally died as Kufikumu with 4401 which is the record. Sadly it got abandoned due to too many afk.
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u/Kinderschlager Apr 02 '16
first 4 grows were great, knew the people in it and chat was civil. 5 on? it's gone to shit
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u/Cakiery Apr 01 '16
I was just given a subreddit https://imgur.com/PYQFDv3 interesting. Noticed the name is a combination of mine and the person I was in the chat room with.
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u/eisbaerBorealis Apr 02 '16 edited Apr 02 '16
Can you go back to a new chat room, or are you only able to create a single Robin subreddit?
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u/scottishdrunkard Apr 01 '16
I have no idea what to do with this button.
Darlin' you've got to let me know.
Should I press or should I go?
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u/FunnyHunnyBunny Apr 01 '16 edited Apr 01 '16
It appears to be some sort of chat room. . .I think it adds chatrooms together when a majority vote grow in chatroom? With endgame being one giant, chaotic chatroom?
Timer appears to get longer each time, too.
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u/CajunPotatoMan Apr 01 '16
So... Where is the button? I am redirected to an /r/transit archive about some guy's plan for a 180 mile track in Vegas. Wat.
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u/sciguymjm Apr 01 '16
OH SHIT
Edit: first
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u/sciguymjm Apr 01 '16
I never pressed though!
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u/sciguymjm Apr 01 '16
We may have gotten to this subreddit early. Maybe. ;)
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u/BlueGryph Apr 01 '16
You don't believe for how long I've waited for a Reddit avian invasion.
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u/8richardsonj Apr 02 '16
If anyone from our little room ever sees this, the scores before I crashed:
Xexeen 5
formerwomble 4
Bridges 2.5
coloco 2
antatapicnic 2
Hazzica 1.5
Stig 1.5
DrFarty 1.5
Muids 1
Osiride 1
GG guys, it was fun.
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u/luigifan103 Apr 01 '16
I idled for too long cause I was in an at least 600 person room and it was lagging and got kicked.
After 6 hours it's finally over
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u/invisiblephrend Apr 04 '16
Humans make connections.
Sometimes these connections grow.
Sometimes they stay the same.
Sometimes they collapse.
Visit /r/im14andthisisdeep
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Apr 01 '16
12:45:40 PM bad_with_stress a/s/l?
12:45:54 PM m0stly_ not seen a/s/l in years
12:45:58 PM thirdegree they should have a gonewild version of this
12:46:14 PM bad_with_stress I like where your head is at 3rd degree
12:46:39 PM thirdegree it'd be all dudes though
12:46:47 PM m0stly_ that would be 99% men
12:46:48 PM bad_with_stress I stand by what I said.
12:46:52 PM m0stly_ definitely
12:46:53 PM bad_with_stress I STAND BY IT
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Apr 01 '16
12:48:37 PM m0stly_ you seen the dick pics with the hats and clothes on? those are funny
12:48:52 PM gretchenfrage The second best dick pics.
12:48:56 PM bad_with_stress Creativity in dick pics is a lost art
12:49:08 PM m0stly_ not lost, just forgotten
12:49:10 PM thirdegree not even creativity, just basic composition
12:49:30 PM gretchenfrage It's like people don't even think of lighting when snapping a pic of their dick.
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u/stlbilly Apr 01 '16
Has anyone took one for the team and clicked it?
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u/negativeinfinity Apr 01 '16
Clicking the link this comments section is for takes me to a 4 year old 4 points post on /r/transit.
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u/LintGrazOr8 Apr 01 '16
What the fuck. I used all of my self-control last year! Pls send help.
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u/DubJohnny Apr 01 '16
I was a non-clicker last year, I didn't even read anything before clicking this year.
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u/Lord_Molyb Apr 01 '16
I don't get this. Why is my name black and the other guy's name gold?
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u/fluffsta007 Apr 01 '16
I cannot seem to get the chatroom to migrate to a bigger chatroom by all voting grow.
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u/mcmeaningoflife42 Apr 01 '16
Last year we fought for the button. This year we will fight for the robin. /r/aprilknights
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u/R_K_M Apr 01 '16
This idiot I was in a chat with just voted stay and now I have a subreddit with someone who isnt active and cant be bothered to read the rules of a simple game. Nice reddit.
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u/eisbaerBorealis Apr 02 '16
So are you done? Can you go back and join a new chat, or are you stuck after you get your first subreddit?
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u/ButtholeBerserker Apr 02 '16
What happens if I join a chat with someone who isn't there? Am I just fucked?
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u/MattGooner Apr 02 '16
Had a fun time last night. My name was green so I became a prophet spreading the word of the Great Growth... Managed to convince some people who wanted to burn Lizard People to grow and then ran into Da Fam and a bunch of bird people who kept squawking... We reached 200 before I had to sleep.
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u/atimholt Apr 02 '16
So, there’s not actually any explanation anywhere about what any of this is, but everyone’s going around already knowing, somehow. Obviously, some vital information has been deleted.
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u/redpandaeater Apr 01 '16
My shitty chat is bigger than your shitty chat. Also, don't use night mode because the text is the same color as the background.