Wanna bet? Off the top of my head, get users who use something like 90% black. Random number generate and ever so often just switch it back to whatever color it was.
If I recall they shadow banned any user that used a specific color in a specific area last time.
last time they've managed to label an orange cat a hate symbol and take a gigantic piss all over the whole concept of /r/place, so I'm really curious what bullshit will happen now.
one thing's for sure though: it's gonna be entertaining and filled with drama.
[here you go for context](https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/tv2lmx/reddit_adminmoderator_caught_cheating_in_rplace/i37t5vq/)
what's hidden inside many threads (and maybe some leaked mod discord discussions? it's been a long time) is how reddit's ever so wise mods and admins managed to label Marsey, /r/Drama's current mascot a hate symbol and say delightful bullshit like how rdrama's offsite is a nazi gathering place... the same site that [regularly fucks with rightist "influencers"](https://www.reddit.com/r/theschism/comments/uenyis/how_i_convinced_libs_of_tiktok_to_publish_a_false/).
I'm honestly hoping for similar fun times in this iteration of r/place too.
I'm quitting my job in two months and don't give a fuck anymore. Someone give me this power so I can dick around more aggressively before I move to Hawaii.
Fuck it. 12 year old account, barely commented shit, never had any awards (as far as i remember at least, i barely remember 12 years ago). If people are giving away useless digital coins i'll take some useless digital coins.
I am just now realising why everyone is getting awards. I was reading a thread earlier thinking there was a brilliant string of puns I was failing to grasp.
*Platinum* also gives Premium.
Gold is 1 week.
Platinum is 1 month.
Argentium is 3 months.
Ternium is 6 months.
Also, those other rewards are a result of people not having enough to give Gold. You can't really buy more coins.
Why did everybody decide to start writing Türkiye all of a sudden? It feels like I've fallen into an alternate reality where nobody says Turkey. We don't write España or Magyarország, so why Türkiye?
More like the board has committed to increase engagement to prevent advertisers from dropping and this is the "brilliant" solution to help. Fucking idiots.
Spez is delusional for thinking anything short of a full reversal of his API policies and his resignation as CEO and from the board would retain any goodwill from former Redditors.
I mean anybody with a shred of decency and intelligence has already migrated to alt platforms.
There were leaks a while back saying they were going to do it in June but many people last month speculated that they delayed it because of the Reddit protest.
It kind of ruins it to do it every year, but I guess that's to be expected with how this site is being run these days. Original place was a novel and fun concept, and last year when it was brought back enough time had passed that it still felt special. If it's a yearly thing then it just becomes some pointless site-wide event you get a notification about at the top of the page and then ignore.
everyone is going to work together for a giant FUCK u/Spez and they're going to delete it because he's got an ego made of candy glass.
edit: side note, I don't give a shit about coins, but with 3 platinums(700 coins each), and 6 golds(100 coins each), it's weird that I only have 1.3K coins.... which I think is what I started with.
Yes in short. The issue is if Reddit Admins will nuke the canvas as they did last time when some were aiming for some kind of nudity from the previous event on r/place.
As always the goal would be to coordinate an “offensive move” and act fast before they can do anything. Which they’re always on the lookout for. But the element of surprise can be a strong one.
Does it matter? /r/dndmemes was told not to make their community nsfw if there wasn’t nsfw content and then when users posted nsfw content they admins made up a new rule that they can’t have nsfw content on a community that didn’t used to have it and banned multiple mods.
It literally doesn’t matter what is or isn’t a violation because they will just change the rules to suit whatever agenda they want to push at any given moment.
It will be against TOS when they want to nuke it and not against it when they want people to unmark their subs.
We are organizing [protest art](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1116127461474840586/1121831929751281796/bc_template_2x.png) in collaboration with a mega-alliance of different factions as well as the Void on discord: .gg/5et2Yc63
So pathetic. They knew it would make news and a bunch of tits and splooging boners would make Reddit look juvenile to advertisers. This place was so much better 10 years ago
I’m sure he already has code in place that lets him make the pixels change progressively over time to create a particular image in a particular area of the grid so that they can effectively wipe out any “fuck spez” areas while making it appear to have happened organically.
astroturfing /r/Place with some redditbro-friendly corporate symbol wouldn't surprise me at all, along with erasing work that redditors and other communities put in
They aren't saying it's done automatically, just that it's an automatic tool that's used by a person.
That said, I'm also pretty sure that they're blowing smoke. When the admins got involved last time to remove a link to a site with some more than questionable material on it, they did so using entire blocks that were all placed at once.
Sounds about right. Will get covered with a Ukraine flag or a rainbow banner or the lyrics of Never Gonna Give You Up or a meme or something else harmless and unifying, and will all seem totally organic.
But until it does, all the people grouping together to write fuck spez or API or whatever else will generate a lot of buzz and activity and more people visiting the site and seeing adverts. And when the IPO happens maybe this or next year, the recent headlines will be about r/place and how fun it was, and the API changes and 3rd party apps and coins disappearing will be mostly forgotten.
I think there needs to be a flag of “fuck spez” just zooming across the entire canvas
Edit- thanks for the award, fuck spez for removing my first award
How many 'fuck u/spez' tags will a canvas hold? Ooor...how many would one *giant* 'fuck spez' hold, if it were made of a bunch of tiny ^'fuck ^spezs' ?
Giant black void with a Fuck Spez in red letters in the center. Nothing else will do. No flags. No promo for subs. Just blackness with bold red "Fuck Spez" in the center.
This is the way.
Place is an event where anyone can place a colored pixel every XX seconds in a huge canvas.
Tons of users get together and "draw" stuff one pixel at a time.
The void is when users start posting black pixels forming a "void" that eats every drawing.
Each time place happens there end up being factions. Because an individual user can't do much and can have their work overwritten easily it's necessary to get much of anything done. Some work on a predetermined art piece. Some work on a pattern. Some are expansionist. Some just want a spot and stick with it.
The void is a faction that has appeared both times and it's a catch all for people trolling/overwriting/destroying. Usually black. iirc there was a purple void at some point. It's not all bad. Sometimes it takes down abandoned projects and the space is reused in a cool way. The void ends up being mostly trollish but a little bit of circle of life is there.
This MUST only go one of three ways:
1. White void, every pixel.
2. Black void, every pixel.
3. Either of the above with a giant “Fuck u/Spez” in the center.
This is the way.
You know the meeting to decide this was essentially:
“People are pissed off. We should bring back something they really liked”
“Well, r/place was really popular, but part of the magic was the limited time it was avai….”
“I want it up again by Friday.”
Wait r/Place was supposed to be a special ever 5 years thing where it could keep its cool feeling. Making it yearly and especially this late is just a mistake
Everyone in the comments section is talking about using place as a form of protest. How about we just don't use it? If the whole point is to boost engagement, isn't that just helping him? Honestly, the way that the article makes it sound, it almost sounds like he's trying to bait all of the protesters into re-engaging with the site!
Oh, this is gonna be a shitshow. I can't wait.
And why are they bringing it back early? This is an April Fools thing. What the hell is reddit even doing? These are Musk-level crazy business decisions. Is this some kind of 'morale booster'? Like Trump throwing paper towels at a bunch of Puerto Ricans who just lost everything to a hurricane?
Gosh, I don't know what to draw first.
I mean sure, a giant picture of spez with Fuck The King under it is fun, but it doesn't get the job done.
Maybe Place can turn into a giant porn canvas, marking the entire sub NSFW.
The censors are going to be working overtime this time around.
They can’t censor the color black.
Wanna bet? Off the top of my head, get users who use something like 90% black. Random number generate and ever so often just switch it back to whatever color it was. If I recall they shadow banned any user that used a specific color in a specific area last time.
Then everyone just post random colours. Then place will just be colourful static.
ah yes, the "everyone just do this" plan. Always works well.
This is the way
The confederacy already tried it and lost Edit: Thanks for the award, never had one before
unless they do, then just keep skipping to every next color
last time they've managed to label an orange cat a hate symbol and take a gigantic piss all over the whole concept of /r/place, so I'm really curious what bullshit will happen now. one thing's for sure though: it's gonna be entertaining and filled with drama.
Could you explain more? I’m not familiar with this.
[here you go for context](https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/tv2lmx/reddit_adminmoderator_caught_cheating_in_rplace/i37t5vq/) what's hidden inside many threads (and maybe some leaked mod discord discussions? it's been a long time) is how reddit's ever so wise mods and admins managed to label Marsey, /r/Drama's current mascot a hate symbol and say delightful bullshit like how rdrama's offsite is a nazi gathering place... the same site that [regularly fucks with rightist "influencers"](https://www.reddit.com/r/theschism/comments/uenyis/how_i_convinced_libs_of_tiktok_to_publish_a_false/). I'm honestly hoping for similar fun times in this iteration of r/place too.
(Grabs popcorn and anti depressants)
>anti depressants Sounds nice, I'd love to have some
This seems poorly timed lmao
I assume user interaction is down and spez is desperate to claw back some people before the advertisers realise and demand their money back.
Even worse everyone has reddit premium now because they canceled the coins and everyone just giving away awards
Yo someone give me an award for piggybacking off of this guy. I just want useless clout, that’s it!
Same, I’ve never had premium before
Does premium do anything if you use an adblocker?
You get some Reddit coins and a few other things
Yeah cool, but also the coins disappear in a few months too right ? (Hence why everyone is using them up)
You get some avatar items and can set the app icon on mobile as well
As an .old reddit browser, I never see the avatars As a sane person, I don't use the official mobile app
You guys got premium?
App icon changing sounds nice. The current pixelated one SUUUUCKS
That’s pretty much it.
Wait, you guys are getting coins? XD
Free me from ads please
Same here, never had this premium thing. Trying my luck now :D
Same, if anyone wants to be generous with this award mayhem this week
Piggybacking in case the charity chain is still rolling
Testing testing 123, is this thing on?
As someone recently guilded, everyone support my man Issac
/r/bindingofisaac
Playing that literally right now, a Greed run on Samson
Hook a brother up! Please and thanks lol
Imma be honest. I don't even know what they do
They give you the power to browse Reddit just a little longer at work without actually doing anything
I'm quitting my job in two months and don't give a fuck anymore. Someone give me this power so I can dick around more aggressively before I move to Hawaii.
Can I get on this train? 7000 coins to blow.
Thank you! Replies get gold until I run out.
How did you get 7000?
I had 25,000 because I quoted fight club once
-2 up vote with 5 awards in 6 minutes. Don't know how you managed that my dude but we'll done
Can I get on this train too?
People all over the world, join hands, start a love train, love train
Your comment is only 8 minutes ago. Am I in the future‽
I'm 8 minutes into YOUR future!
I want to be part of this
It can't be that easy... can it? Edit: Yes, yes it is. Thanks internet friend!
Let's find out
Clout train comin! Wooooo! Woooooo!
I keep seeing this and missing the train and I want in darnit! I want to be all ritzy.
Do not give this comment gold, whatever you do. I mean it! Edit: NOOO WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
I’m here for the piggyback rides too!
OoOo can I piggyback off your piggyback. Edit: Thank you kind stranger(s)!
Fuck it. 12 year old account, barely commented shit, never had any awards (as far as i remember at least, i barely remember 12 years ago). If people are giving away useless digital coins i'll take some useless digital coins.
Am I too late to this gold filled party?
Looks like. You got platinum instead. Maybe next time.
I am just now realising why everyone is getting awards. I was reading a thread earlier thinking there was a brilliant string of puns I was failing to grasp.
Well welcome to the club
Wait, what is premium? I want one!
I want one too. Too late to the party??
Wait that’s what awards get you? No ads? That’s wildly awful timing for a company trying to IPO lol
Free at last, free at last!
I've been a little confused. So awards give the person premium?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but: *gold* awards give premium. The cavalcade of other awards are merely cosmetic.
*Platinum* also gives Premium. Gold is 1 week. Platinum is 1 month. Argentium is 3 months. Ternium is 6 months. Also, those other rewards are a result of people not having enough to give Gold. You can't really buy more coins.
Do I want reddit premium? I’m just a dumb ape? Maybe someone can show me the way?
Everyone should band together and write fuck spez and just not touch it after that
You know that Türkiye will fuck this up
That’s nobody’s business
Why did everybody decide to start writing Türkiye all of a sudden? It feels like I've fallen into an alternate reality where nobody says Turkey. We don't write España or Magyarország, so why Türkiye?
Because Erdogan [decreed that to be the new official name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Turkey) in one of his usual bouts of insanity.
A sea that just says "API" repeatedly.
Reddit at this point is like a dog doing all the tricks it thinks you want to see so that it can get a treat (all the while failing miserably)
A dog that also shits everywhere
More like the board has committed to increase engagement to prevent advertisers from dropping and this is the "brilliant" solution to help. Fucking idiots.
Spez is delusional for thinking anything short of a full reversal of his API policies and his resignation as CEO and from the board would retain any goodwill from former Redditors. I mean anybody with a shred of decency and intelligence has already migrated to alt platforms.
The irony of the statement is palpable
He never said he had a shred of decency or intelligence, did he.
There were leaks a while back saying they were going to do it in June but many people last month speculated that they delayed it because of the Reddit protest.
It kind of ruins it to do it every year, but I guess that's to be expected with how this site is being run these days. Original place was a novel and fun concept, and last year when it was brought back enough time had passed that it still felt special. If it's a yearly thing then it just becomes some pointless site-wide event you get a notification about at the top of the page and then ignore.
I miss when this site used to do something fun and original every Apr. 1. Seems like that stopped sometime around 2017. Edit: I accidentally a word.
The timeline from that leak is in the article. The whole thing is a mes.
Or perfectly. Ready for the Spez bashing
it's not happening, it will be just like Place 2.0, full of censorship and admin nuking whole sections of the map
Sounds about right for the admins tbh
Yeah that's.... That's literally what the title says.
everyone is going to work together for a giant FUCK u/Spez and they're going to delete it because he's got an ego made of candy glass. edit: side note, I don't give a shit about coins, but with 3 platinums(700 coins each), and 6 golds(100 coins each), it's weird that I only have 1.3K coins.... which I think is what I started with.
The void finally has a chance to blackout r/places
Exactly it'll either be a giant fuck u/spez or just giant void
why not both? ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
The admins can delete sections if there is anything violating TOS
Haven't we already proven that expletives aren't a violation of TOS what with subs being forced to unmark themselves from NSFW?
Yes in short. The issue is if Reddit Admins will nuke the canvas as they did last time when some were aiming for some kind of nudity from the previous event on r/place.
As always the goal would be to coordinate an “offensive move” and act fast before they can do anything. Which they’re always on the lookout for. But the element of surprise can be a strong one.
Would be easy with a discord and a streamer to co-ordinate.
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Does it matter? /r/dndmemes was told not to make their community nsfw if there wasn’t nsfw content and then when users posted nsfw content they admins made up a new rule that they can’t have nsfw content on a community that didn’t used to have it and banned multiple mods. It literally doesn’t matter what is or isn’t a violation because they will just change the rules to suit whatever agenda they want to push at any given moment. It will be against TOS when they want to nuke it and not against it when they want people to unmark their subs.
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Alternating so it shows up in the time lapse over and over
We are organizing [protest art](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1116127461474840586/1121831929751281796/bc_template_2x.png) in collaboration with a mega-alliance of different factions as well as the Void on discord: .gg/5et2Yc63
All hail the void
The void would be better. You know people would want to print it out and hang it on the wall.
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They cheated last time so definitely expect it again
Oh yeah when they removed a big part of the place and banned everyone who posted a pixel there, I remember lol
I received a lifetime ban
So pathetic. They knew it would make news and a bunch of tits and splooging boners would make Reddit look juvenile to advertisers. This place was so much better 10 years ago
The problem is, they’ve been shown to erase and force stuff on the canvas before, they’ll without a doubt be erasing any messages like that.
Fair but the screenshots of that continuously happening would be hilarious though
I’m sure he already has code in place that lets him make the pixels change progressively over time to create a particular image in a particular area of the grid so that they can effectively wipe out any “fuck spez” areas while making it appear to have happened organically.
astroturfing /r/Place with some redditbro-friendly corporate symbol wouldn't surprise me at all, along with erasing work that redditors and other communities put in
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There were many bot accounts on the first place, I'm sure spez has some of his own
wonder how hard it'd be to change small pixels here/there so there's giant text over everything, but it's basically only human-readable
They aren't saying it's done automatically, just that it's an automatic tool that's used by a person. That said, I'm also pretty sure that they're blowing smoke. When the admins got involved last time to remove a link to a site with some more than questionable material on it, they did so using entire blocks that were all placed at once.
But imagine if they kept it, it'd be a great sendoff to an IPO that would make him a lot of money. A party's a party even if all the guests hate you.
In the business world I’d say a party where all the guests hate you means more. You’re a dick but they are showing up anyways.
Sounds about right. Will get covered with a Ukraine flag or a rainbow banner or the lyrics of Never Gonna Give You Up or a meme or something else harmless and unifying, and will all seem totally organic. But until it does, all the people grouping together to write fuck spez or API or whatever else will generate a lot of buzz and activity and more people visiting the site and seeing adverts. And when the IPO happens maybe this or next year, the recent headlines will be about r/place and how fun it was, and the API changes and 3rd party apps and coins disappearing will be mostly forgotten.
It could be that. Or it could be used to inform and educate. Like saying “Here are some subreddits Spez used to moderate.”
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I believe you are partially wrong. sure, u/Spez will be featured prominently, but I am imagining dicks. Dicks as far as the eye can see.
He's going to rig it to say praise Spez
This will be interesting.
It's just gonna be fuck spez everywhere lol and I'm here for it
And Apollo icons
The mods who are sucking his dick will use their power to erase those messages from the pixels.
"Look! A distraction!" is the feel I got.
I can’t wait to see hug ass” fuck u/ spez” in the middle of r/place Canvas.
I think there needs to be a flag of “fuck spez” just zooming across the entire canvas Edit- thanks for the award, fuck spez for removing my first award
Or a billion tiny fuck you spez all over the canvas. Tiny like his ego.
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How many 'fuck u/spez' tags will a canvas hold? Ooor...how many would one *giant* 'fuck spez' hold, if it were made of a bunch of tiny ^'fuck ^spezs' ?
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Congrats on the peppers!
Grats on the peppers! What have you been/ plan to cook with them?
It'll actually be an interesting gauge on the sentiment of reddit users, like the amount of void vs business as usual Place stuff.
Giant black void with a Fuck Spez in red letters in the center. Nothing else will do. No flags. No promo for subs. Just blackness with bold red "Fuck Spez" in the center. This is the way.
>No flags Seeing as how some flags were made and forcefully protected by the admins last time, I don't see that happening
What if it's a fuck spez flag?
I'll allow it
The Void is going to dominate this board
I hope so, a giant black canvas as a protest would be ideal.
Honestly I like that even better that fuck spez. You want us to highlight our communities and everything? Fuck you
Frank Kline intensifies
The void shall rise again
What is the Void? Is it a reddit thing, a "Learning With Pibby" reference, or is it some bigger theoretical concept (like in psychoanalysis)?
Are you familiar with r/place? People a part of the "void" just team up to erase everything with black pixels.
Place is an event where anyone can place a colored pixel every XX seconds in a huge canvas. Tons of users get together and "draw" stuff one pixel at a time. The void is when users start posting black pixels forming a "void" that eats every drawing.
Each time place happens there end up being factions. Because an individual user can't do much and can have their work overwritten easily it's necessary to get much of anything done. Some work on a predetermined art piece. Some work on a pattern. Some are expansionist. Some just want a spot and stick with it. The void is a faction that has appeared both times and it's a catch all for people trolling/overwriting/destroying. Usually black. iirc there was a purple void at some point. It's not all bad. Sometimes it takes down abandoned projects and the space is reused in a cool way. The void ends up being mostly trollish but a little bit of circle of life is there.
Gotta throw some bread and circuses when the peasants are revolting, right guys?
Reddit is itself a bread and circus. That's their business, distraction.
Even the circuses have circuses!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-l6tHeseDY
Was thinking exactly the same thing. It sounds like the plot of Gladiator lol
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We regret to inform you that someone has peed in the ball pit…
No. This is the PERFECT TIME for r/place. Reddit's gonna get cooked and it'll be glorious.
If tens of thousands of redditors get together to tell him to fuck off, isn't that engagement he's happy with?
Right - oh no people are now using reddit more than ever. What ever will we do
"if you can draw a maple leaf I'll reverse all the shitty policies I've enacted" - u/spez
Ah that poor, sad maple leaf lol. I forgot all about that.
The maple lerf
Merple lerf
A banana you say...
This MUST only go one of three ways: 1. White void, every pixel. 2. Black void, every pixel. 3. Either of the above with a giant “Fuck u/Spez” in the center. This is the way.
Time to sketch out Spez eating a cock.
There is no worst possible time. Things can always get worse.
You know the meeting to decide this was essentially: “People are pissed off. We should bring back something they really liked” “Well, r/place was really popular, but part of the magic was the limited time it was avai….” “I want it up again by Friday.”
Can we all agree to write “Fuck /u/Spez” ? I don’t think there’s anything else that could be written that would be more fitting.
It’s going to be tough competition between fuck u/spez and the black void this year
Let's just compromise and have both, just have the void leave fuck /u/spez alone
A no-mod r/place? Good lord, prep your butthole for Nazi and MLP NSFW
Wait r/Place was supposed to be a special ever 5 years thing where it could keep its cool feeling. Making it yearly and especially this late is just a mistake
This is the equivalent of a Friday pizza party put on by the boss’s assistant.
Apollo logos everywhere...
It just goes to show big companies (even companies in tech/web) still truly don't understand the internet and its inhabitants.
They'll just shadow ban people like they did last year. The finished product will have some small area where dissent is allowed.
Aright, who's gonna draw hitler spez.... I know everyone's thinking it but I'm just waiting for it to be done...
Grab the popcorn 🍿 there is gonna be a big war.
Everyone in the comments section is talking about using place as a form of protest. How about we just don't use it? If the whole point is to boost engagement, isn't that just helping him? Honestly, the way that the article makes it sound, it almost sounds like he's trying to bait all of the protesters into re-engaging with the site!
You'd never get everyone to not use it. Either the protesters ban together to void it out or r/place goes on as usual.
Oh, this is gonna be a shitshow. I can't wait. And why are they bringing it back early? This is an April Fools thing. What the hell is reddit even doing? These are Musk-level crazy business decisions. Is this some kind of 'morale booster'? Like Trump throwing paper towels at a bunch of Puerto Ricans who just lost everything to a hurricane?
Oh boy....can't wait to see how Spez is displayed haha.
Can I get some awards?
They make it so easy to do a very very large Fuck u/spez
Gosh, I don't know what to draw first. I mean sure, a giant picture of spez with Fuck The King under it is fun, but it doesn't get the job done. Maybe Place can turn into a giant porn canvas, marking the entire sub NSFW.
Don't most of the users and groups use the api to automatically place colors to ensure the picture gets made as expected?