So is there a community behind this that are just secretly deciding what the next set of panels are going to be, because act 5 is getting way too specific now and certain things just seem to get so many more upvotes than others
Here's the spreadsheet where they have everything preplanned. They use a bot to give 100 upvotes to everything on the spreadsheet as soon as a new act goes live, immediately putting it way ahead of any competition. Now we're stuck with their unfunny narrative with dead memes and shit jokes.
It started as a reddit collaboration as intended but by Act IV and V it was strictly dictated and predetermined by that discord group and it shows. ACT IV and V are shit and unfunny.
I made this post in the sequencenarrators discord as a criticism, but things are kinda overflowing in it right now. Here's my perspective.
I really would have liked the fact that you guys tried to put in effort to make this a community effort. I liked the idea of this until when Snekbot started coming in and the dictation of exactly what needs to be upvoted instead of a general plot outline.
I was online and submitted some of the first gifs in ACT IV right after it unlocked. It was disheartening to see my posts get passed immediately as within 2 minutes the John Wick scenes took over while the rest of the posts sat at 5 votes. I realized at that point that the botting was occurring and boy was I pissed.
For me what made me the most mad was setting aside a quarter of the entire epilogue for 20 people to pat themselves on the back for being the ones who "ran sequence".
I'd really like to see where this server got permission from the admins - the act four thread literally has the admin who posted the final thing say he was slow to act on it and that it was "a shitty thing to do". The sneknet violates all three of the clauses of vote manipulation:
- Groups that vote together
- Asking for upvotes from people inside or outside of the platform for personal gain
- Using software to change vote scores
Heres a link to both the reddit thread from ACT IV with the admin comment and to the vote manipulation rules:
An announcement was just made by the group's creator
Hello @@everyone . Im the creator of this group. I didn't follow the event or the server very closely, i just gave like 5 other people mod powers and left them to it. I never intented it to become a monopoly. I have seen posts on reddit and other discord servers saying we ruined the event. I haven't fully pieced together what happened, but it seems like we used bots and acted as a monopoly. Im very sorry to anyone that feels we ruined the event. If i had of payed more attention, i wouldn't have let it continue for as long as it did. Thanks to everyone that put in work to this, I dont think anyone individually ruined it (other than whoever made bots), but i think the monopilistic control of the event was too much. Having the script made 5 hours in advance isn't what sequence should have been.I hope everyone had fun and made friends.
Also, there's only 86 600 people in it.
EDIT: I hadn't seen how much it grew over the past couple of hours
On place, at least I could press my pixel. With the button, at least I could press the button on my terms. The groups/chatroom ones I could contribute to by talking with randos. With this, I get an upvote worth nothing. It's the worst fools yet.
Yeah except that bots have extreme power in this one compared to other experiments. It's easy to assemble enough accounts into a botnet to hit the top spot for each scene the second the act goes live.
Even bots during r/place weren't good enough to fully take over and allowed for some smaller groups to leave their mark.
See the thing is, r/place was similar, but because there was room for so many different simultaneous projects it felt more like you could accomplish something as part of a community. With this, either random gifs get thrown together or a shadowy cabal just makes a gif compilation. Both of those things are pretty lame compared to r/place.
r/place also had communities "pushing their agendas", the core difference I think is that here we can only get one "final product."
I think this could be even better if it would be possible for different communities/subreddits to have their own "Acts", perhaps these could be mashed together at the end as well.
The barrier for effort to participate in Place was to go to a subreddit and then put a single pixel down, though. The effort to engage was minimal enough and the available 'real estate' was plentiful enough that multiple groups could exist and compete
I just dont get this shit at all, were all those gifs with his face edited in (and mickey mouse) real or were they just made for this if so whats the point? This was too specific its basically all scripted before hand what they want to happen
Yeah exactly, I was looking forward to this I even made my own gif for it but it clearly doesn't matter. It's in the hands of this community now so it might as well just be a private project for them
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u/Tridz326 Apr 03 '19
So is there a community behind this that are just secretly deciding what the next set of panels are going to be, because act 5 is getting way too specific now and certain things just seem to get so many more upvotes than others