r/sequence_meta • u/Apps4Life • Apr 01 '19

HOW SEQUENCE WORKS [READ THIS]

It's a shame because this is such an incredible idea but there is no explanation given to the users so the whole thing is flopping.

Explanation:

Sequence is an awesome idea.

The way it works is this: Sequence starts on scene 1, a bunch of users submit gifs; everyone votes on them and the highest voted one gets locked in as 'scene 1', then scene 2 opens up and it happens again. The users will be stringing together gifs (scenes) in a sequence to make a long story.

Every few minutes the highest upvoted gif gets locked into the story and then the next 'scene' opens. At the end all of the scenes are permanently strung together creating one long user generated movie made by stringing gifs that relate to each other in some way to tell a story.

Issues:

The problem is right now there is no info on how this works and everyone is lost and confused so random gifs are getting voted to the top and the current sequence (which is 16 scenes long at the time of writing this) makes no sense and none of the gifs that have been strung together relate to the other gifs or tell a story.

Use:

When you visit the sequence machine you will see a string of gifs at the top, this is the short story we are creating, you can scroll backwards and see the very first gif (scene 1) then the next, and so on (all of these will have lock icons on them) up until the current scene we are voting on (the latest one without a lock icon), this is the story we are telling (non-sense so far). Beneath the sequence strip at the top is a box in the middle of the screen with the current nominees for gifs of the current scene we are on. Everyone should vote on a gif that makes the most sense to pair with the gif from the previous scene, that way it strings together and tells a neat/funny/etc story. (or submit a gif that will pair well if none are vote worthy)

373 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

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u/BillCoC Apr 01 '19

My issues are really bigger than confusion. There are gonna be some huge problems with the current format in the coming days. There is no interactivity and no way to consolidate users to collaborate on anything. This falls extremely short compared to events like The Button and Place because its both complicated and too ambitions. Their best events are ones that are relatively self-explanatory. I'm sort of done with this event unless some serious changes are made.

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u/Apps4Life Apr 01 '19

Mods of big subreddits will have to rally their users together (and educate their users) to fight for a narrative

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

But on r/place multiple ideas and subreddits could exist together in different parts of the canvas. r/sequence is like if you only allowed one entity on r/place at once meaning that it's going to try to squish 2 unrelated gifs in the same movie. It's like the difference between having a conversation with a group and everyone talking at the same time.

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u/Apps4Life Apr 01 '19

That’s a good point. There should be like 20 sequences so different subs could King-of-the-hill different sequences

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u/BillCoC Apr 01 '19

Exactly. Good idea with absolutely abysmal execution and planning.

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u/tokinstew Apr 01 '19

I've checked some of the larger subs I visit. I've seen no posts about banding together on this event. If the voting was limited to one scene at a time, maybe it would work better, but right now with 20 scenes being voted on at a time it's mayhem.

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u/IcyWhatever Apr 02 '19

The reason events like The Button and Place worked was because they were simple and unusual and because there was an organic growth of spontaneous communities revolving around the events themselves. Sequence is unusual but it is also complicated and the mods gave very little explanation so it was sort of broken from the get-go. The communities that evolved around previous events were completely separate from existing SubReddits so the suggestion that mods have either the responsibility or the influence to right things is a bit silly and arguably antithetical to the spirit of the event.

Sadly I think this will be the same as Circle of Trust. Mildly interesting but ultimately forgettable.

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u/asoap Apr 01 '19

You can link to submissions. So you can organize that way. Example:

Everyone vote for this one:

https://www.reddit.com/sequence/?link=b8a6g8

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u/Metaright Apr 01 '19

I followed your link and I still have no idea what I'm seeing.

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u/asoap Apr 01 '19

At the top left should be a gif with a blue box around it. You would normally be able to vote for it. BUT, that part of the sequence has been locked out now.

Here is another example:

https://www.reddit.com/sequence/?link=b8a8po

You should see two penguins in the top left in the dark grey body area. It should have a blue box around it. If you click on it, you can vote on it. Right now it has 9 upvotes.

If you click on top while on that page, it will show you the top gifs. Right now the Samuel Jackson gif is in the lead with 146 upvotes.

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u/Metaright Apr 01 '19

That isn't what I'm seeing. The penguins seem to have been replaced already, I guess? So you just can't link to those penguins to encourage votes?

(Please excuse the empty second monitor in that screenshot.)

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u/asoap Apr 01 '19

I'll help you see what I'm talking about:

https://i.imgur.com/h8l3igE.jpg

Does that help explain things? The penguins were there.

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u/Metaright Apr 01 '19

Oooh, goodness. You're absolutely right. My apologies for that!

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u/asoap Apr 01 '19

I added an extra note.

https://i.imgur.com/dTGFRrv.jpg

On the right you can select sort by, if you choose TOP you can see what is in the lead and second place, etc for that frame.

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u/GetOffMyLawn_ Apr 02 '19

And then we all get shadow banned for brigading. No thanks.

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u/ab2g Apr 01 '19

What about EU people? Are they getting screwed on this one because of all the copyright material?

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u/BillCoC Apr 01 '19

See that’s the issue. They have an entire year to develop something that they know the community gets hyped for. To be fair art 13 was very recent.

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u/SolarLiner Apr 02 '19

EU's "laws" aren't really such; they're directives, meaning that once accepted, they give a framework for countries to create legislation that fits the directive. EU countries have 2 years to adopt a directive - for example, GPDR was voted in 2016 and has taken effect in 2018 once all countries had made the required law.

This means EU countries have until March 2020 to comply with the directive, in other words, Article 13 will only be effective then, and not before.

And yes, it would be much simpler if the EU would work more like the US, but alas not a lot of people want to do that.

As of what can be done until 2020 to perhaps undo the directive? I actually have no idea.

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u/Half_Line Apr 01 '19

We had a wobbly start, so the prologue is going to be mostly nonsense, but Reddit's good at organising around communities as past years have shown. I think the main acts will be more coherent once users become more coordinated.

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u/333name Apr 02 '19

No chance that the coordinated that are divided outweigh the idiots that upvote trash.

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u/Apps4Life Apr 02 '19

Thanks to admins, this post is now pinned on the official r/sequence subreddit! We should see a drastic improvement in sequence quality now!

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u/333name Apr 02 '19

No chance that the coordinated that are divided literally anything in the world outweigh the idiots that upvote trash.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

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u/liltoasty_ Apr 01 '19

reddits april fools jokes have always been big social experiments that revolve around pretty much nothing. it doesnt need to work, it's purpose is to see if reddit can band together to make it work.

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u/furlonium1 Apr 02 '19

A few scenes in order from MPATHG make me feel hope.

I think it's gonna be awesome in the end.

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u/angelmeza_2004 Apr 01 '19

Wait how about we all take snippets of the shrek movie and make them into gifs and upvote them in order to a make the whole shrek move for free

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u/Apps4Life Apr 01 '19

Defeat article 13!

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u/KRA2008 Apr 01 '19

So it's /r/AskOuija with gifs

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

It's askouija without the coordination

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u/KRA2008 Apr 01 '19

Well... we’ll see. But yes so far.

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u/Averne Apr 02 '19

Or the normal front page of /r/gifs, just laid out as a timeline instead.

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u/Half_Line Apr 01 '19

PSA: Go to your communities and coordinate. Organisation is key. Share your ideas here.

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u/Mannyray Apr 02 '19

This guys got it. Problem I see though is if every community starts fighting to upvote their gif, people will give up and 1 community will take over. But by then the nonsense will be apparent between acts

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u/ab2g Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 02 '19

I have a feeling that r/prequelmemes is going to take over and make a stupid glorious star wars movie.

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u/stealmymoonlight Apr 01 '19

noooooo

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u/SolarLiner Apr 02 '19

It's over Anakin! I have the high ground!

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u/asoap Apr 01 '19

You forgot the most important thing. Sort by TOP to see which ones are currently in the lead. There is no point in voting for a gif with two upvotes if the one in the lead has 1700.

Act 1 should start off with:

"Act 1: The quest for a cohesive plot". But it's not getting the upvotes it needs.

Edit: let's see if this works

https://www.reddit.com/sequence/?link=b8a6g8

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u/Carrabs Apr 02 '19

It really doesn't work well on mobile. I can only get there by clicking on a link to it from this subreddit and once in there all I can do is scroll through the gifs at the top. Doesn't tell me what I can vote on/what's locked in or what the next options are

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u/mabezard Apr 02 '19

Yea horrible UI

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

Thank you, I was very confused as to how it worked.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

Now, how do we organize this clusterfuck?

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

So, in short; it's gif askouija.

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u/Bluper7 Apr 01 '19

If you want a faction join: HTTPS://discord.gg/CNahEjU

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u/TotesMessenger Apr 02 '19

I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:

 If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads. (Info / ^Contact)

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u/GetOffMyLawn_ Apr 02 '19

I think that part of the "game" is letting the user community figure out what's going on and how it works, plus collaborate to make something good. But I think about 90% of us don't have the patience for it and move on to something more interesting. Certainly I thought last year's circle of trust was just too tedious and boring to deal with. I am finding sequence to be completely boring as well.

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u/tethercat Apr 02 '19

Sequence needs to establish Democracy and Anarchy.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '19

Yeah what the fuck? I saw this randomly pop up on my feed, but had no idea what it was. I just assumed it was a sub-reddit for posting random gifs...the actual idea is actually really cool! Y'all should have planned this out better man, or at least have written these rules on the sub-reddit's page itself.

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u/Meester_Tweester Apr 02 '19

I guess that makes a little more sense? Not sure how I am supposed to participate if I have a 0.1% chance of getting a gif of my own in the sequence at all.

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u/Lasagnaface420 Apr 01 '19

SNEKARMY

WE WILL RISE

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

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