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Re:How We Built r/Place (2017) by haskaalo on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:09AM (#30919174)
During the first version of /r/place, there was some mechanism in place to reduce the use of bots such as a CAPTCHA and not allowing newly created accounts to place pixels.

However, this year I feel like they gave up on all of that simply to gain more users.

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Re:How We Built r/Place (2017) by blamazon on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:15AM (#30919237)
Notably, Reddit is planning to IPO this year. [1]

[1] https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-announces-confidential...

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Re:How We Built r/Place (2017) by toper-centage on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @11:17AM (#30920113)
That explains why they allowed new accounts to participate. There were probably hundreds of thousands of new bot accounts created over the weekend.
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Re:How We Built r/Place (2017) by yreg on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @11:48AM (#30920496)
Also hundreds of thousands human accounts as well to be fair. Whether they will stick around remains to be seen.
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Re:How We Built r/Place (2017) by MonkeyIsNull on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @11:15AM (#30920085)
oh no.
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Re:How We Built r/Place (2017) by KennyBlanken on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @11:10AM (#30920016)
There was a reddit admin using both their admin power (no cooldown) and a bot.

The whole thing jumped the shark, big time.

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