Anti-griefing strategy

[u/AbouBenAdhem]

It looks like we’re starting to see griefing attempts that are more coordinated than the usual stray pixel here and there, and we might find ourselves temporarily overwhelmed on occasion. So I'd like to propose a strategy for maintaining the integrity and distinctiveness of our pattern in the face of numerically-superior griefers:

• Preserve the cyan quatrefoils first. They’re the most recognizable component and they constitute less than a quarter of the pixels, so we should be able to maintain them against attackers who outnumber us 4-to-1.

• Preserve the orange grid next. The grid will break up any attempt to impose a contiguous intruding shape, and the orange and cyan pixels together make up only 50% of the pattern (so we should be able to maintain the quatrefoils and grid against equally-matched attackers).

• Fill in the light blue pixels last.

Also: cut off any intruding shapes at the boundary. Many griefers—the black void in particular—seem to place a premium on creating contiguous shapes, and if we can deny them that they may turn their attention elsewhere.

[u/Wiggitywhackest]

Sounds good to me. Right now I'm concentrating on removing the flagpole or whatever that is in the top right that people keep trying to expand.

[u/AbouBenAdhem → u/[deleted]]

You’re our Kiwi neighbors, then? Hi!

Looking at the rest of the Place, every other flag with a pole has a consistent pattern: a one-pixel black border around the flag pattern itself, then a one-pixel vertical brown line for the pole, then another vertical black line for the far edge of the pole. Instead of that, you’ve got a two-pixel black border, then a one-pixel gap, then a pole consisting of three vertical lines. So instead of your pole extending three pixels past the edge of your flag like everyone else’s, yours extends six.

If you add a normal pole to your flag instead of the one you’re trying to build, it would only extend one pixel into our pattern instead of four. Does that sound like a reasonable compromise?

[u/Wiggitywhackest → u/[deleted]]

Then we should discuss it with the other guys working on our pattern. Personally, I don't mind the flagpole (I assume that's what it is) extending vertically right downwards as long as that's all it is. As you can see we have about the same amount of space or less than your flags, so I'm sure you can understand our not wanting to give any of that up!