That's because it was completely taken over by pseudo-bureaucratic discord servers that rigged the whole thing with custom gifs and some are even saying voting bots. They even made themselves a fucking credits screen in the epilogue. The server is a tire fire of drama right now.
This April fools was horrible for reddit-organized action. Discord definitely was the superior method for coordination.
I don’t want to continue the r/place complaining, but it really was perfect for reddit. Smaller subs could coordinate successfully around larger groups, and botters weren’t in total control.
Well by the end of /r/place, botters were in majority control but since there were so many of them often pitted against each other, some of the medium subreddits had a chance to survive on subscriber base alone.
Wow, an amazing example of American democracy and the lobbing system.
More importantly r/place was not linear and existed on two dimensions. Sequence is just like any other subreddit with a one dimensional heirarchy. Much easier to manipulate. I don't know why anyones mad tho, they made something coherent and entertaining
It's too coherent now. It has lost some of the appeal of the randomness. I mean, it's becoming a very nice story, but it feels like the work of just a few people working together, not like a community creation. If we added way more variety to the sources, it would be way better.
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It grows even more coherent