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View submission: SEQUENCE - FINAL STITCH (THEATRICAL)
I feel like this was a problem near the end of /r/place as well, basically you either bot up or you were pushed out. It makes for a pretty picture but people by the end couldn't add anything when an army of scripts reverts any impact you could've made no matter how minute it is. If Place ever came back it wouldn't be nearly the same, the bots are already done and user friendly enough that most anyone could use them thanks to /r/place clones on the internet.
I honestly do not understand why the admins allow bots to so easily amass so much influence with these events, they are meant to be social experiments but you pretty much get the same social experence as trying to hold a conversation with an Amazon Alexa.
Comment by [deleted] at 07/04/2019 at 19:35 UTC
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That's why I loved the simplicity of The Button - user choice was as simple as Press or Don't, and yet we all had one collective responsibility: to not let the timer run down. Everything else that came out of that was organic. The artwork, the "teams," and it was great for the more introverted, not very active redditors to feel a sense of community with reddit as a whole. I am glad it was my first April Fool's spent on this site :)
Comment by Empty_Engie at 07/04/2019 at 23:24 UTC
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I personally feel that the bots that had overrun r/place were taken down by both scripts and people. No group could hold control, we saw that with the void. With this, the largest group held control the entire time to make a subpar plot.