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View submission: r/Place: The Recap (Part 1)
There's a persistent *rumor* that some users or communities used scripts or bots to automate tile placement across a wide range of secondary or extra "alt" accounts.
What's Reddit's stance on this, especially the theory that bot accounts were used to participate in r/place in an unfair manner that's not within what was assumed to be good faith participation?
Comment by N1cknamed at 07/04/2022 at 19:16 UTC
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It can hardly be called a rumour, a lot of communities are completely open about having used pixel-placing scripts (though I've personally not seen a lot of alt-account being employed in the ones I've visited). Scripts were among many external tools used to gain an advantage.
Anarchy was the point of place, and if reddit really wanted to restrict bots/scripting they could have very easily done so. They didn't, so I assume they do not have a problem with it at all. If anything it added another dynamic to the canvas.
Comment by crowd__pleaser at 07/04/2022 at 19:21 UTC
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Reddit’s safety systems detected and neutralized hundreds of thousands of coordinated and programmatic, inorganic activity occurring on the canvas. There are a lot of success stories for us to be proud of but we also intend to dig into the data to better understand where our improvements fell short. We do, however, owe a great deal of gratitude to all the pixel droppers fighting the good fight by reporting sus af areas.