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View submission: Sequence - Recapping The Fools of April
Did you stick around past the prologue? The prologue was a lot of experimentation as people were trying to figure out how it worked. But bots were written, Discord communities were formed and a small group of redditors abused the system to force a plotline they wanted. I think Sequence had a lot of promise if not for the sheer randomness and maybe silliness that came from it once the community generally understood what was going on, but we were never really given that chance.
Comment by Mithent at 09/05/2019 at 11:45 UTC
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I'm not sure if I'd call it abuse as much one group getting organised and other people losing interest, such that they were easily able to get their signal through the noise. The linear nature of the sequence and the winner takes all voting meant that it was difficult for anything emergent to take hold or for there to be meaningfully competing groups. Trying to compete against the dominant group would have no visible effect unless you could beat them entirely. Maybe sequence forking and culling could have helped, but it would potentially have made it even more confusing.
Comment by [deleted] at 08/05/2019 at 23:11 UTC
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I didn't even try, because I didn't understand what was happening and it was down when I first heard about it.
Comment by therealflinchy at 09/05/2019 at 14:46 UTC
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Yeah the issue is it was basically a no participation event for most Redditors unless you were willing to become part of a collective hive of Redditors wanting to achieve a common goal
Not like, let's keep bringing it up, place.. where that was MY pixel.