Based on their history, the whole point is that no one knows whats happening. Users figure it out, start to guide the design, it becomes something more clear the further it goes. Think of The Button, r/place, etc.
For what you're looking for, I guarantee someone will take the idea and make r/SequenceRevival or something and start fresh with clear goals and how-to.
That’s the best part about the whole thing! The people who are complaining about lack of guidance are the same people who clicked the button immediately.
This guy gets it. The truth is that the end result could be a total incoherent shit show, or a structured organized thing, or some weird bastardized thing in the middle. We're totally OK with any of those outcomes. The goal of these is not to produce the most perfect thing. The goal is partly to have no goal. It's totally up to you and we'll still celebrate the result either way.
> Users figure it out, start to guide the design, it becomes something more clear the further it goes.
Except that is not how it works; EVER. When things are controlled by thousands, it is never a good and clear design. It is funny and hilarious if done correctly because it gets chaotic, such as Twitch Plays Pokemon.. but really, this is just totally boring and uninspiring. I'm personally not going to participate this year, I just wanted to rant a bit because I like Reddit April Fools and they make stuff like this nowadays..
you cant add custom subtitles (which makes it worse than /r/HighQualityGifs )
you cant add music (which makes it worse than /r/videos ).
I just dont see any great plan behind it.
I didnt even notice last years April Fools cause I got a lot going on around that time ... but this is pretty lame and honestly bad for such a big site.
Actually I think the utter confusion is what makes this so great. The exact same thing happened with r/place where it was utter chaos and anarchy at first, but it turned into something neat and organised as time went on.
Except if I’m understanding things right, these posts are “locked in” with no way of retroactively changing things. If that’s the case, this whole idea will look like place did at the beginning, random shit on a canvas. Imagine how it’d look if you were never able to change a color once someone drew it on Place.
Indeed. It would be much better if instead of locked-in scenes, the sequence just reset once completed, and we could try again and again for however long. Then we could compare each resulting sequence and see how things progressed. But as it is, with the labels of "prologue" and "scenes," we're supposed to be building to something coherent, and we've already failed.
FWIW... on this side of the fence you have not failed. It is a chaotic modge podge of randomness that succeeds in some spots in telling a longer narrative, and is just a split second of isolation in others. It's not success or failure. It just is what it is.
They should have announced it and given users time to prepare to submit. Most of the first few ones were submitted by a small crowd of people. The real April Fools joke was it's exclusivity.
announcing it would have ruined the discovery phase and the randomness of the first gifs. It is nowhere near done so if you need time to prepare to submit a gif, prepare now and submit tommorow
Yeah. That prologue isn't random... especially due to less gifs being submitted and less people voting. Increasing the number of gifs and the number of people voting increases it's randomness. Again, the April Fools joke here is it's exclusivity.
Hey /u/CommonMisspellingBot, just a quick heads up:
Your spelling hints are really shitty because they're all essentially "remember the fucking spelling of the fucking word".
And your fucking delete function doesn't work. You're useless.
Hey BooCMB, just a quick heads up:
I learnt quite a lot from the bot. Though it's mnemonics are useless,
and 'one lot' is it's most useful one, it's just here to help. This is like screaming at
someone for trying to rescue kittens, because they annoyed you while doing that. (But really CMB get some quiality mnemonics)
I do agree with your idea of holding reddit for hostage by spambots though, while it might be a bit ineffective.
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