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Re:To Celebrate April Fools' Day, Slashdot Wears Hacker News... by yoodenvranx on Saturday April 01, 2017 @02:57PM (#14013548)
The best April Fools event this year is reddits drawing canvas. I am already watching it the whole day and it's very interesting to see how the different "groups" interact, e.g. the current "war" between the German and French flag.

You can see a timelapse here: http://spacescience.tech/place/

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Re:To Celebrate April Fools' Day, Slashdot Wears Hacker News... by tempestn on Saturday April 01, 2017 @03:43PM (#14013770)
I hadn't even heard of this until now! https://www.reddit.com/r/place/

Someone should seriously do a PhD thesis on this thing. Such a wealth of human interaction.

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Re:To Celebrate April Fools' Day, Slashdot Wears Hacker News... by yoodenvranx on Saturday April 01, 2017 @04:48PM (#14014091)
> Someone should seriously do a PhD thesis on this thing. Such a wealth of human interaction.

Yes, all the subreddits/factions/projects created for this subs and their interaction between each other is highly fascinating. If I were in social/behavioral science I would be very tempted to do research and write about it.

I guess you could at least write one paper just about the blue corner in the bottom left. It started very strong but then somehow it lost steam and people left for other projects.

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Re:To Celebrate April Fools' Day, Slashdot Wears Hacker News... by artursapek on Saturday April 01, 2017 @03:39PM (#14013750)
Wow, I just went back to look at it after ~18 hours and the entire thing has changed. It's much more structured now.
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