• Odusei@lemmy.world
    48·
    1 year ago

    Yes, but also no.

    At the end of a r/Place event the palette changes, and you can only place white pixels.

    So yes, you could use a bot to write it again; but no, in reality you wouldn’t be writing anything.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      15·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t that a good thing, though? We’re not all being worked to death? (I mean people are in some places, I’m just talking about Lemmy here.)

      • GONADS125@lemmy.world
        13·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, as someone who almost died from covid + pneumonia (and my doc thinks also comorbid RSV) from rampant exposure in various residential care facilities, someone who was over-worked, exploited in a toxic work environment, burned out, and then forced out of a job from long-covid…

        People acting like having free time is a bad thing/that it’s admirable having work/productivity consume every waking minute can shut the hell up… That’s not healthy or a good thing. I don’t get how they think it’s bragging to boast about how much of their limited lifespan has been given away to their employer rather than spent on something they have chosen to do out of desire.

        I am proud of the hard work I did and the people I helped as a caseworker for adults with severe mental illness. But if I could go back in time, I would not have been killing myself for all those years. It’s given me a new perspective on life, and I intend not to waste the rest of it.

      • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        Isn’t that a good thing, though? We’re not all being worked to death?

        No, it’s not a good thing. You’re making a false dichotomy. Reality should ideally fall somewhere in between.

    • Dougas@lemmy.world
      97·
      1 year ago

      I am not following this year’s place, but last year, in the end, they removed all colours but white and so everyone was placing white. I assume this is what’s happening here. And it so happened to coincide with the appearance of the huge fuck spez message

      Edit: Just opened Reddit and checked place, it’s as I said. Only white colour left.

      • Nepenthe@kbin.social
        22·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know whether I’d call that intentional. Mods Admins still retain and already utilized the power to wipe whatever they wish. They left the other renditions before this more or less alone (to my knowledge), to be overwritten by users during the natural course of things.

        If he were that concerned about what was being written, I doubt he would wait to be certain the very last image of the finished r/place was a giant fuck-you billboard. He’d either wipe every fuck or try to end it after this one is gone so he can pretend it ended on a good note.

          • Nepenthe@kbin.social
            4·
            1 year ago

            Fair enough. I think I’ve had so much ire for so long over identical behavior from both groups that they’ve melded together in my mind

            • hoodatninja@kbin.social
              2·
              1 year ago

              Well, one group gets paid to put up with you and the other group doesn’t, so maybe disentangle that a tad lol

              • Nepenthe@kbin.social
                1·
                1 year ago

                I honestly don’t think mutual respect should be predicated on whether one is being paid or not, so…I’m not sure I’m going to do that. Or at least, very loudly for reason of grammatical accuracy instead of that one.

                You’d be suggesting u/awkwardtheturtle — an unstable, camping powermod with a habit of pinning their own wildly sexist comments to the top of every thread and then insta-banning anyone who had a problem, whose shittiness caused a whole petition about it — should be ok, actually, because they’re not (officially) paid, and that I should do whatever strikes my fancy here as well.

                If any person doesn’t want the stress of abiding by the social contract, they really shouldn’t be interacting with others, but instead they deliberately accepted a position of power.

                • hoodatninja@kbin.social
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  I honestly don’t think mutual respect should be predicated on whether one is being paid or not, so…I’m not sure I’m going to do that.

                  I’m not sure where respect vs. disrespect figures in this discussion. Are you saying that removing comments/banning is inherently disrespectful?

                  You’d be suggesting u/awkward the turtle — a user whose habit of pinning their own wildly sexist comments to the top of every thread and then insta-banning anyone who had a problem caused a whole petition about it — should be ok, actually, because they’re not (officially) paid, and that I should do whatever strikes my fancy here as well.

                  I did not say or suggest anything of the sort. Please show me where you are getting that idea.

                  If any person doesn’t want the stress of abiding by the social contract, they really shouldn’t be interacting with others, but instead they deliberately accepted a position of power.

                  I don’t even know what we’re talking about anymore. Being a mod or an admin is not about “the social contract.” It’s about enforcing rules either as a paid employee of the site or as an unpaid community volunteer. Being a jerk is just being a jerk, regardless of what position you’re in as you act like a jerk. I just don’t see the relevance here unless you’re trying to claim every action taken by mods/admins against a user (such as removals/bans) is somehow violating the social contract. But seeing as that is a ridiculous assertion I’m going to assume that is not what you’re saying.

        • brianorca@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          They removed all colors but white from the selection, so the massive number of bots would try to update something, but only paint white instead, doing the wipe for them.

        • chaogomu@kbin.social
          18·
          1 year ago

          This is how /r/place always ends. Reddit takes a snapshot of the final canvas, then switches everyone over to placing only white tiles.

            • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
              7·
              1 year ago

              Oh it’ll make all the news. Spez’s attempt to distract (and drive traffic) is just going to attract more attention to the issue.

            • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              I don’t think investors care if the image says “fuck spez”. I mean, whoever is dumb enough to “invest” in reddit probably doesn’t know that spez is the same dude trying to sell them the idea of investing in reddit.

              • KairuByte@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                I’m willing to bet they’ll care. When your community is vocal enough about such an issue to crowd out others? Yeah, that’s not a good sign for their investment. And it’s all directed at a single person.

    • ultimate_question@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      I’m sure they’ve been spending the last week thinking of a way to recap this without showing the full thing, such as just focusing on specific sections instead of showing a time-lapse of the the entire canvas. Similarly I’d be surprised if they released the pixel placement data set this time without major edits

      • CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi
        2·
        1 year ago

        Some people say the canvas is bigger this year. Idk if that’s true (I honestly can’t remember what happened in 2022), but if it is that’s probably their plan - make the canvas big enough so the details don’t show up (or aren’t obvious) when showing the entire thing.

        If that’s not true, well, please don’t shoot me.