<story><title>Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/in-memoriam-reddits-72-hour-live-graffiti-wall-as-a-social-experiment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CarVac</author><text>There was another fascinating aspect of politics that sprang up due to Place: inter-community politics.&lt;p&gt;My community (Madoka Magica) was continuously communicating with our neighbors on all sides, ranging from the gigantic PrequelMemes to our right, Canada to our south, Homestuck, the Greek and Turkish flags mentioned in the article (which really were warring for quite a time before the heart appeared), and even tiny little subreddits like the AEIROU who we had to relocate as part of negotiations for our expansion.&lt;p&gt;There was constant debate about where to expand, who to defend against, who was being a jerk and needed to be wiped out... it was like a game of Diplomacy more than anything else.</text></item><item><author>rmccoy6435</author><text>I think this was a pretty neat experiment. For the first 24 hours everything was chaos, then it settled down in the middle as communities formed, then at the end it was just annoying as every subreddit was trying to take over real-estate, and far too many people were taking it way too seriously. It got annoying going to certain subreddits that I subscribe to for content started getting flooded with &amp;quot;Man the decks, we need to defend this!&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The other thing this author tried to make this about was politics. I think the one thing this really showed was most people on reddit don&amp;#x27;t really care about politics, but the vocal minority on there makes it seem like it&amp;#x27;s the forefront of every issue. I don&amp;#x27;t think there is anything actually political on the final &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;place piece other than country flags. Maybe this was more about how disinterested the majority of redditors are with politics rather than how politics were being squashed out by other users?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nexxxeh</author><text>&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;wales and &amp;#x2F;faroeislands had a mutual defense pact, enabling both (small in terms of Reddit) communities to punch above their weight.&lt;p&gt;It was great fun, fighting off trolls and attempts by other subreddits to aquire further real estate for themselves.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2F;u&amp;#x2F;SCtester cleaned up the final image to fix up (ed: some of) the in-progress and rogue pixels and damage by the &amp;quot;void&amp;quot; group.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;7E3bAnE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;7E3bAnE.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are several errors in his fixup, &amp;quot;Hypercum&amp;quot; being an example. &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;Scotland got lucky at lock-time, they came closer to being Scatland.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/in-memoriam-reddits-72-hour-live-graffiti-wall-as-a-social-experiment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CarVac</author><text>There was another fascinating aspect of politics that sprang up due to Place: inter-community politics.&lt;p&gt;My community (Madoka Magica) was continuously communicating with our neighbors on all sides, ranging from the gigantic PrequelMemes to our right, Canada to our south, Homestuck, the Greek and Turkish flags mentioned in the article (which really were warring for quite a time before the heart appeared), and even tiny little subreddits like the AEIROU who we had to relocate as part of negotiations for our expansion.&lt;p&gt;There was constant debate about where to expand, who to defend against, who was being a jerk and needed to be wiped out... it was like a game of Diplomacy more than anything else.</text></item><item><author>rmccoy6435</author><text>I think this was a pretty neat experiment. For the first 24 hours everything was chaos, then it settled down in the middle as communities formed, then at the end it was just annoying as every subreddit was trying to take over real-estate, and far too many people were taking it way too seriously. It got annoying going to certain subreddits that I subscribe to for content started getting flooded with &amp;quot;Man the decks, we need to defend this!&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The other thing this author tried to make this about was politics. I think the one thing this really showed was most people on reddit don&amp;#x27;t really care about politics, but the vocal minority on there makes it seem like it&amp;#x27;s the forefront of every issue. I don&amp;#x27;t think there is anything actually political on the final &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;place piece other than country flags. Maybe this was more about how disinterested the majority of redditors are with politics rather than how politics were being squashed out by other users?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsamuels</author><text>&amp;gt; it was like a game of Diplomacy more than anything else.&lt;p&gt;Maybe that&amp;#x27;s why the EVE Online guys were able to hold their own so well against the larger and more popular games right next to their logo :)</text></comment>