Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by skizm on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:20PM (#14035084)

I still cannot believe how large and clean that /r/PrequelMemes logo came out. It was a lot of text too, which made it all the more impressive.

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by pkamb on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @06:07PM (#14037691)

I don't understand why that was what a group of people put serious time and thought into creating.

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by skizm on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @06:58PM (#14038054)

I thought about that also. My conclusion: 1) Not political (or really controversial at all), 2) Meme is newish so not over done yet, 3) who doesn't like star wars? 4) Everyone on the sub knew right away what they wanted to post, so there was no lag time between designing a "logo" and rallying the troops.

I'm still impressed all things considered.

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by dccoolgai on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @06:58PM (#14038050)

Bless you. Don't ever go to reddit.com

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by pkamb on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:14PM (#14038535)

I get the fun of /r/place. I get the flags. I get the characters. I don't get the big block of text from Revenge of the Sith, and (mainly) how supporters of that beat out other communities.

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by dccoolgai on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @09:25AM (#14041888)

Unsurprising. It's not the kind of thing the readers of _hacker news_ would ever upvote...

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by Nomentatus on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:57PM (#14039307)

See Albert Camus' "Sissyphus", I guess.

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by Normal_gaussian on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @03:41PM (#14036448)

It was also cleaned up fairly early, I was just disappointed they didn't add full justification.

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