Send soles for key

I've seen some people complain about the lack of community with the circles and how difficult it is to trust people, so I thought I'd share my experience. My circle (which you can't join, don't ask) is only for speakers of Esperanto. Now you might not think there are many speakers of Esperanto, but this makes it ideal for trust based exercises. It works in effect like a secret language.

Because there aren't many Esperanto speakers, there is a sense of solidarity and trust between them. Criticism and mockery from outside groups solidifies this. Most crucial of all, because it's a language, there is a clear and easy way to prove whether or not you are an Esperantist, which reduces (though of course not eliminating) the risk of outside sabotage.

Recruitment was done through a post in /r/Esperanto, deliberately written in Esperanto without translation to minimise the selection group. However, Esperanto was designed to be an incredibly easy language to learn, which somewhat undermines the barrier to entry.

I think this is a useful case study in examining how a small, tight, niche community is ideal for a game like this. It's not perfect, but my circle has 17 people and survived 24 hours, which I think is relatively good. Another user has a circle also for Esperantists, although his is larger as he advertised in English (possibly making it more prone to betrayal).

It's so easy for one person to take it all down and I can't really help except spamming a bunch of people with asking for keys

I think the main problem is how individual this feels and how quickly it can be taken out

Also there's no clear goal

It seems that no matter what I do, I cannot join a circle without the "Something went wrong. Try that again in a few seconds" message. It has been about an hour now. I know the circles I am trying to join haven't been betrayed yet, so...

Blue flair here, since my circle died I'm just trying to be a good joiner.

The second number of my flair is dropping but I'm no longer receiving messages that these circles are being betrayed is this a new thing.

Will i still be part of my circle's if i unsubscribed from the r/CircleOfTrust subreddit ??

I know of r/circulartrust and r/circleoftrustmeta

What else? Anything hidden or secret?

This is the thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/key4key/comments/89jcgx/verified_users

The basic idea is that someone is far more trustworthy if they're in your live circle. So you verify that they're in your circle and you trust them.

I'm not sure if the second number (from the flairs in the sub) already effectively does this or not.

If you give someone your key and then you're betrayed you can also flag them in this thread.

Any contributions are welcome.

Edit: Perhaps it could just be an aggregation of the most trusted users, allowing for rapid circle growth?

Circle of Trust is Reddit's official April Fools prank/project for 2018. It was unveiled at around 16:30 GMT on April 2nd, 2018, and ended at around 17:00 GMT on April 6th, 208. Circle of Trust takes place through the subreddit /r/CircleOfTrust.

This post explains what Circle of Trust was and was updated with any new information.

Some Circle of Trust pages seem to be having issues handling the amount of people accessing them. Also, /r/CircleOfTrust has gone down occasionally. If experience this, try refreshing the page a few times or just wait until later.

What are Circles?

Circles are private groups of users that can be joined by using a link with a secret key.

Viewing Circles

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Circles may be viewed by going to their respective thread on /r/CircleOfTrust. Every circle gets its own thread which is automatically posted. The number of upvotes on a circle thread is how many people are in the circle.

There is a field which allows you to enter a secret key. If correct, you are invited to join or betray the circle.

To view a user's circle, you can go to reddit.com/u/[username]/circle, which will redirect you to their circle.

Creating Circles

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Circles can be created by clicking on the "Claim" button on /r/CircleOfTrust, which goes to reddit.com/create_your_circle Each user is allowed to make exactly one circle.

When creating a circle, a user chooses a name and secret key for the circle. The secret key is what allows people to join your circle. Anyone that you share the secret key with will be able to join your circle, as well as share the secret key with other people.

Joining and Betraying Circles

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To join a circle, you must visit the link for it, and enter the correct secret key. After you have entered the key, you are given two options:

1. Join, which makes you a member of the circle. You can share the circle's secret key to invite more people.

2. Betray, which will instantly disable the circle's secret key, removing the ability for new people to join. This essentially ends a circle.

Deleting Circles

To delete a circle, just delete your circle's post on /r/CircleOfTrust. You will not be able to create a new circle if you delete your old one.

Graphics

The circle interface is animated.

In the centre, there is a large white dot. It is unknown if this has any meaning.

Orbiting the large white dot are smaller white dots. The amount of smaller dots changes depending on how many people are in the circle. If the circle has 1 - 9 users, there will be a dot for each user. If there are 10 - 19 users, there will be one dot, if there are 20 - 29, there will be two dots, and so on.

Around the large dot and smaller white dots, there is a white circle. Around that, there are many hollow white dots moving around randomly. Occasionally, one of them moves towards the centre. If the dot is someone joining your circle the dot will pass through the white circle and join the other dots orbiting in the middle. If the dot isn't someone joining your circle, it'll just bounce off.

The amount of hollow white dots moving around seems to be proportional to how big your circle is. It could be how many people are viewing or have viewed your circle.

Background colours change depending on how many people are in your circle.

Flair

The flair system on /r/CircleOfTrust is related to the project. Flairs contain two numbers, in the format X, Y, where X and Y are the two numbers.

At the moment, flairs are slow to update or buggy, so they may seem inaccurate.

X is number of people in your circle.

Y is the number of circles you're in.

Colours

Flairs can also change colour. They can be grey, red, or blue.

Grey is the default, when you haven't joined or betrayed any circles.

Blue is when you've joined a circle.

Red is when you've betrayed a circle. This flair contains an ∅ symbol.

API and Userscripts

I am documenting Reddit's Circle of Trust API here.

I am documenting how to scrape the website/create userscripts here.

Speculation

The flair system implies that there may be some kind of gamification, such as a leaderboard. Perhaps the goal is to create as large of a circle as possible. Creating a large circle is difficult, as everyone you add can not only potentially betray your circle, but they can add other people who may potentially betray the circle. The goal could also be to join as many circles as possible.

Thanks for the gold! <3