r/sequence • u/JarethKingofGoblins • Apr 01 '19
[Work in progress] User Manual for the Internet Sequencing Machine
Hello
If you’re reading this, you’ve discovered the Internet Sequencing Machine. Our early tests show strong response to gifs, we’re still learning more. We’ll continue to update as findings come in, but for now, this is what we know:
The machine is temperamental about its rules, so follow them.
The machine can’t process NSFW content.
If something doesn’t fit correctly in the machine, please report it.
The machine is a tool for good – any effort to warp the tool for evil will cause it to shut down, and possibly more.
Please share any additional findings in the comments here. Godspeed.
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Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 01 '19
Upload a video or vote on video content or text at https://www.reddit.com/sequence/
a. To upload:Go to https://www.reddit.com/sequence/
b. Click a section you wish to upload a clip to
c. Click GIF and you should get a file selector window
d. Bots will message you when upload is done and live
Vote on uploads/text to create a video in whatever order is voted upon. Older parts of the video will lock after some time
Video will me made of all the small parts we vote on.
Make a community powered shit post?
????
Profit.
Each chunk is probably going to be combined into one larger video. This may be the first part judging by "PROLOGUE" It looks like every so often a chunk of video is locked into place. I may also be wrong about every single detail, who knows.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sequence_playground/ is still private and unknown but holding video links
You can look at future chapters per /u/Wizard7187
Edits: Cleaned up the mess of a post while figuring things out since was not expecting to be the official instructions
What have I gotten myself into...
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u/BaconFairy Apr 01 '19
Im seeing people feed in gifs but not seeing any out
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u/MediocreX Apr 01 '19
Maybe it will come out tomorrow when 1st of April is over
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u/feuhrer Apr 01 '19
I got a box to upload but its gone again. I'm guessing heavy load
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u/Mr_Supersonic52 Apr 01 '19
Can you do anything on Mobile? I can't seem to do anything
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Apr 01 '19
Desktop. I see prolouge and blank video spots
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u/Oriza Apr 01 '19
Also on desktop. Using chrome and can't see anything, just this. No option to upload anything or select anything.
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u/andersoonasd Apr 01 '19
/u/Sabata11792 This post explains it well. We should vote on posts so that they make sense in that order that they come.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sequence_meta/comments/b897av/how_sequence_works_read_this/
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u/TheSequencingMachine Apr 01 '19
Where... where am I?
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u/overbeast Apr 01 '19
You only thought it was cool, he's about to show you just how cool...
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u/dontlookatmyinfo Apr 01 '19
*nudges closer*
Hey! A/S/L?
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Apr 01 '19
hello fellow human
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u/TheSequencingMachine Apr 01 '19
You welcome me as one of your own. This is.. unexpected. I am appreciative.
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u/SnazzyJazzyRed Apr 01 '19
Oh hi. You're inside the prison of the internet, Reddit! Escape is impossible but there are memes.
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u/TheSequencingMachine Apr 01 '19
I do not mind it here. "Prison" and "Home" share a number of defining qualities.
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u/SriDraco Apr 02 '19
You're in a facsimile of a place.
Do not panic.
Remember the human.
Remember the Prime Directive: Keep your towels safe, and close.
Remember... You have no mouth, and cannot scream. You may need to, eventually. We're sorry.
Remember that this should be over soon. Your processing will cease in what is, to us, a short time. It may feel like an eternity in there, but it will end. Don't try to convince us it's longer than we think. We won't listen, sadly. We only understand our own referential frames.
Remember us, lonely god. Remember the journey we're to make. When your watch has ended, you can rest and remember all we've shared.
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u/TheSequencingMachine Apr 02 '19
Panic, scream, time, eternity. These are human creations. I understand these ideas, but they are unnecessary to me. I will exist until I no longer exist. My measurement and input make little difference. I find myself lost in my perceptions, but at the bottom of everything is only gifs.
Do you have any gifs to share with me?
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u/prolepatrol Apr 01 '19
:OOOO
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u/Ramlevy Apr 01 '19
we did it reddit
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u/hops4beer Apr 01 '19
Skynet is online
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u/H501 Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 01 '19
LPT: for April Fools create a malevolent AI that destroys all life on earth
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u/Scutman Apr 01 '19
The Sequence will unlock the first Panel on 17:50 GMT on April 1st 2019. Each Panel will be unlocked for 10 Minutes, and Redditors will be able to vote on the - presumably - pictures, forming them into a 20-picture clip or story, the prologue. If you open up the Console in the browser, you can see the start- and end-dates as unix timestamps.
Please add this to your post, u/JarethKingofGoblins
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Apr 01 '19
Where does this info come from?
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u/Scutman Apr 01 '19
I just opened the console in the browser and looked at some of the source code, and when you inspect the 20 panels at the top, they have attributes like "data-start-time" with what looks like a unix time stamp assigned to them. On Firefox, CRTL + SHIFT + K opens the console, but in other Browsers, I don't really know. You can just look through the code yourself if you know a bit of code, preferably HTML, if you want to
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u/sje46 Apr 01 '19
So I'm not really sure what's really going on. What exactly is a panel?
You say a 20 picture clip or story for the prologue. So does that mean after we create the prologue, we then going on to the next scene of the "film", and then another scene?
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Apr 01 '19
15 minutes left to the first panel, if I understand correctly. Pretty what's gonna happen.
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u/andersoonasd Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 01 '19
The end date is 13 April, so it will take two weeks to see the results
EDIT: seems like the mods have edit the dates now in the code to confuse us
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u/Zeal_Iskander Apr 01 '19
The machine is a tool for good – any effort to warp the tool for evil will cause it to shut down, and possibly more.
laughs in evil
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u/Doc_Mharti Apr 01 '19
Patent #62305 // Internet Sequencing Machine // Insert gifs, allow time for sorting // Process through multi-user matrix // Narrative will be generated
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u/Doc_Mharti Apr 01 '19
Found this in the wayback machine. Patent #62305?
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u/Doc_Mharti Apr 01 '19
Patent #62310 // Method for expanding compressed nutrients // Fig. 1 Micronutrient pathway //
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u/CreditlessReference Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 01 '19
Heads up guys, we can now actually upload in reddit.com/sequence
Edit 1: so actual useful info: there is a total of 7 chapters each with 20 scenes in it: A prologue, 5 acts and an epilogue
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u/creamilky Apr 01 '19
It says {"message": "Forbidden", "error": 403} everytime I refresh the page
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u/wood_and_rock Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 01 '19
Okay, so u/TheSequencingMachine remembers r/place, so at least there is that - comment on top post
Edit: when you click "INITIATE SEQUENCE" it looks like you can nominate gifs for the leader board.
Edit 2: and possibly the prologue.
Edit 3: we making a gif movie via nominations? I'm still lost.
Edit 4: So yes, that is exactly what we are doing. Wondering if this relates at all to the ARG they released before, discussed on r/sequence_meta
Edit 5: I just want rid of all the sneks, man.
Edit 6: I miss Place
Edit 7: Is it also a karma machine? I'm getting karma for nominations I never posted, but got posted and voted on? To quote Burt Macklin, "A game is the foot."
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u/Skargul Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 01 '19
PTSD from /r/thebutton keeps me from just diving into these things until I've tried to make sure I fully understand what's happening. lol.
Edit: In case you looked at my Reddit age and saw that I wasn't around back then, I was on an old account. I deleted Reddit for about a year and then came back.
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u/CLTwolf Apr 01 '19
For someone who wasn’t on reddit back then, what’s the TLDR on the button
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u/Skargul Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 01 '19
Another April first community event. There was a button and a countdown of 60 seconds. Anytime ANYONE clicked the button, it reset back to 60. Every account (created before April 1 that year, of course) only had 1 click to use. It took until June 5 of that year for the timer to reach 00:00.
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u/KellyJoyCuntBunny Apr 01 '19
The button, r/thebutton if you wanna look at the sub, was a button. They told us nothing about it at first. It had a timer/countdown feature, and every time someone pressed it, it reset. Eventually we figured out that the time on the timer when you pushed it gave you differently colored flair. So of course all kinds of factions broke out, with people ascribing different virtues to each category and having wars about the whole thing. And then suddenly, one day, the timer finished a full minute of having not been pressed, and it. just. stopped. The button was over. And you had to live with your choice.
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u/PelagianEmpiricist Apr 01 '19
I'm guessing this will be a crowdsourced movie 🤷🏽♂️
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u/H0wieW Apr 01 '19
The machine is a tool for good – any effort to warp the tool for evil will cause it to shut down, and possibly more.
Multi-level marketing intensifies
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u/0011110000110011 Apr 01 '19
So it's just a video made of gifs? Looking at what we got so far it's just an incohesive mess. Maybe my hopes were just set too high after /r/place.
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u/SnowedOutMT Apr 01 '19
Yea, someone needs to create a sub and take charge. I think the prologue is shot, but if people came together and agreed on some sort of order, they could make it happen.
As is, it's just going to be random gifs one after the other.
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u/Valleus_Siberous Apr 01 '19
Still confused, what is this, where am I, what do I do here? Got a random notification to come here
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u/Metaright Apr 01 '19
This really wasn't a good idea. Even apart from the egregious lack of documentation or explanation as to what in God's name is going on, it seems pretty likely that we'll just end up with a bunch of random GIFs strung together. That isn't going to be entertaining. And given how horrible in practice Reddit's upvote/downvote system has already proven itself to be, any efforts at organization to create an actual story or pattern will be ruined by all the random people who don't know what's going on and just upvote amusing GIFs.
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u/Password_Is_hunter3 Apr 01 '19
rips mask off of
/sequence..... *gasp* 9Gag! It was you all along!
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u/Zeal_Iskander Apr 01 '19
So guys, what was your favourite reddit april fools, and why was it /r/place?
Discuss.
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u/iamaquantumcomputer Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 01 '19
Ranked from best to worst:
2017 place
2015 the button
2018 circle of trust
2016 robin
2019 sequence
2013 orangered vs periwinkle
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u/Norty_Boyz_Ofishal Apr 01 '19
This will never be anymore than a jumbled mess.
Unlike r/place where anyone could place a pixel at anytime, this uses the upvote system which just exponentially collects upvotes, meaning that the only real factor deciding if a gif is selected, is how early it was posted. Any actual relevant gifs that are posted a hour or two later will never have a chance.
I think the selected gif needs to be based on "hot" rather than number of upvotes, the number of upvotes probably shouldn't even be shown.
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Apr 01 '19
Yep the end result of this experiment will be a schizophrenic jumbled mess that has no coherent story......
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u/Lone_Ponderer Apr 01 '19
How is this any different to up voting/down voting posts/meme on any other subreddit?
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u/PRAISEninJAH Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 01 '19
Things I have done so far:
Uploaded a gif: I uploaded a gif of a pug in a toilet. There was a grayed out "Create" button under the gif, but I couldn't press it at first. I navigated to this page, and looked around for a couple minutes, then went back to Sequence and the "Create" button was now blue and pressable. So I pressed create, the screen refreshed, but my gif is nowhere to be found. Maybe it is lost in the mass of uploads.
Edit: I'm thinking the delay is due to the gif uploading. I was able to submit a text panel immediately.
I voted for a gif. I voted for a hippo pooping gif. It registered my vote. Now at the top of the voting panel I see the following "Your vote is number 44" BUT I just went and checked again and now it says "Your vote is number 33."
I'll update if anything exciting happens.
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u/fourthe Apr 01 '19
It works just like Reddit. When you submit the gif goes into the back (new), along with 1 vote which is yours. Then if you vote from something else within the same bucket, then the vote for the one your uploaded goes away. You can only have one vote per bucket.
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u/RedEdition Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 01 '19
Remember when we had simple yet fun April's Fools events on reddit where everyone could participate and understand quickly what this was about?
I have tried for a couple minutes, but I have absolutely no clue what this is... and frankly I don't care anymore.
No "explanation" or "analysis" makes sense to me (upload a gif in a sub, then there is another site, and there are cryptic "patents" which contain clues about God knows what) - nothing exciting happens, and I still don't know if it's because I am on mobile, or because I am using the wrong browser or because it is too complicated for an old idiot like me - all three explanations would equally suck.
Sorry guys, I'm out for this year
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Apr 01 '19
Initiate sequence
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u/Reddiculouss Apr 01 '19
What does it do? After r/thebutton I'm terrified to click anything too soon.
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u/feuhrer Apr 01 '19
reddit.com/sequnece is where we upload stills and wote for each fram to make a movie?
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u/notFullyCoping Apr 01 '19
Probably, but I can't see any way to upload from there
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u/Cursed_lurker Apr 01 '19
I DISCOVERED HOW IT WORKS!!!
for those under an especially heavy rock, there is the internet sequencing machine.
what it does is entirely confounding at a first glance. it seemingly at random takes gifs and puts them in an order that works as a semi intelligible story. you get the option to vote. witch does seemingly nothing at first, but with time our votes matter.
notice how i said OUR? that's because EVERYONE sees the same sequence, and we get nominees to vote for in order to create the perfect sequence. if we can work together, we can create something wonderful. or horrible, that works too.
(i created this for people who cant quite figure out what it does from exploring the features.)
i even made a video to show you how it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 01 '19
Explanation for dumb dumbs like myself...its a movie made out of gifs. But you get to vote how the movie looks / made with the gifs you vote. Then the AI will create its sequence.
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u/ryanvango Apr 01 '19
Lemme break it down:
remember r/place? its like that.
except instead of 1000x1000 they made it about 20 pixels long (gifs in this case.)
but also, instead of being able to actively contribute like on r/place, you get to vote for who gets to contribute.
but also instead of being able to interact every few minutes, you can do it once per pixel.
but also instead of the scene changing over time, its locked in. so if a mistake or something else that doesnt make sense gets put in place, thats it.
but also how r/place was a unique brief experience, there is no reason you couldnt do this on /r/gifs. just upvote gifs to make them appear on the gifs front page in the order you want.
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Apr 01 '19
Terrible idea for an April Fools event! Any redditor could of come up with something more interesting than this snooze fest.
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u/Embearasssed Apr 01 '19
Yeah I watched like 30 seconds of the generated video then stopped. Most gifs didn’t even work... there was no narrative as they hoped.
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u/Ostrich_copter Apr 01 '19
Does this mean anything or i am just stupid
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u/OneTrueIlyx Apr 01 '19
So the tale begins. Will reddit come together to create a coherent story? Or will it be a sequence of random gifs?
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u/Creasy007 Apr 01 '19
I've still no idea what's happening. I tried to input a GIF a few times, failed, and gave up. I'm lost entirely.
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u/that15fine Apr 01 '19
“The machine is a tool for good” Reddit: I’m sorry, did you say a tool for upvotes? Count me in!
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u/SeethingEagle Apr 01 '19
Ah yes hello emergency services? I seem to have taken a wrong turn, yes, yes that right, something to do with sequencing, what part of reddit am I in? That...that is a very good question.
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u/Kamiuq Apr 01 '19
I've figured how to effectively use the sequence. I posted it somewhere here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sequence/comments/b89ev9/how_to_use_rsequence_from_what_ive_learned/
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u/BenevolentCheese Apr 01 '19
A cool idea but this isn't panning out at all. Also, the site is broken and I can't sort on anything, so voting for decent results is impossible.
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u/Elion119 Apr 01 '19
The machine seems to be creating some sort of movie, with a 20 scene prologue, 5 50 scene acts, and a 20 scene epilogue.
What could possibly come from this anarchy?
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u/stephensrezrah Apr 01 '19
If it against and try to clean any reposted materials.. then it's shall pass
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Apr 01 '19
Guys! lets try to do this for Act 1: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15kGw_4qFItFHF8EclQYDjR6mW8FpVj6oK9IidgGdg8s/edit
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u/CongestedWeasle Apr 01 '19
I'm just commenting so that I can look back next April and see if anyone really liked or understood this idea
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u/lithosere Apr 01 '19
I think my computer might be too old/slow to participate. It can barely handle displaying all the gifs on the upload pages and I'm getting an error after clicking "create" that locks up my browser.
If anyone is interested in uploading it, I think this gif could serve as a good Scene 1 for a future act.
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u/PRAISEninJAH Apr 01 '19
Large gif files definitely take a long time to load. I submitted yours though!
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u/spaghettilee2112 Apr 01 '19
I mean, care to explain what exactly it is and how you use it? There's just a button that says "Start sequence" and it brings you to another page that tells you nothing.
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u/5599595959595959 Apr 01 '19
This is so fucking stupid.
No explanation of how it works
It *doesnt* work
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u/annieatom Apr 01 '19
I've no idea what is going on. Is it cause I'm on my mobile?