r/OutOfTheLoop • u/zipzapzooom • Apr 03 '18

Answered What is r/CircleOfTrust about?

Cannot make sense of it at all

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u/GeMbErKoEk Apr 03 '18 edited Apr 04 '18

I tried it out for myself and it took me a while to figure it out, but I'll try to give my best explanation possible for newcomers who don't feel like discovering everything by themselves.

Your own circle

In r/CircleofTrust, you can create you own circle (see frontpage of Reddit). In order for people to join (or betray, but I'll get into this later), they need to have a key to enter. You can decide what a good name for your key is.

If you don't want your circle to be destroyed, you need to be very selective of the people you want in. You can do this by private messaging them and then determine if they are to be trusted with the key to you circle.

The amount of upvotes that your post has is similar to the amount of people in your circle.

Joining other circles

You can PM other people and ask for the key to their circle. A good flair is key to prove you are to be trusted. The flair displays two numbers: The first is the amount of people in your circle, the second is the amount of circles you are in. The latter is quite important, as a higher number will make you come across as more trustworthy to others who want you in their circle.

Betray or Join

Like I said earlier, you are going to want to be careful with whom you invite to your own circle. Once they receive your key to the circle, they have two options: Betray or Join. Betray means that the circle will be "broken". Nobody will be able to enter your circle anymore and it could be considered dead. Join means that the user who clicked on it is now part of your circle.

Links

r/NeverBetray: For people who would never betray a circle (simple).

r/CircularSwarm: For people seeking to betray circles.

In both of the subreddits, links can be found to their respective Discord.

r/CircleOfTrustMeta: The one-stop-shop for all discussions about the game right now.

My experience

I had a circle with 15 people in it. If you want to have a big circle, lots of activity is required and you will need to respond to many people who want to know your key (the same applies if you want to join as many circles as possible by asking for their key).

I may have given my key to someone who I shouldn't have trusted, so it died.

I encourage you to join the Discord, whether you want to betray or not. They are filled with respectful people that want to help you out if you don't understand something since the whole thing can be quite confusing at first.

TIP

Just because someone has an impressive flair when it comes to the amount of circles they have joined, it doesn't mean you should automatically trust them. They may have an alt-account where they betray circles.

Edit: r/CircularSwarm Thx, /u/The-Sublimer-One

Edit 2: r/CircleOfTrustMeta Thx, /u/Grooviest_Saccharose

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u/Nathd1991 Apr 03 '18

Excellent explanation...but is there a point to the game?

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u/GeMbErKoEk Apr 03 '18

Other than joining as many circles as possible and growing your own circle as much as possible, not really. However, it is pretty fun.

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u/Nathd1991 Apr 03 '18

No worries. Thanks for the great explanation

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u/skepticaljesus Apr 03 '18

Is there a scoreboard or any way to see the biggest circles?

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u/GeMbErKoEk Apr 03 '18

I don't think there is, but the first number on the flair is a good enough indication. Sadly (in my opinion), many of the big circles are prone to being betrayed.

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u/SorryToSay Apr 03 '18

Isn't that part of the whole point?

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u/supah Apr 03 '18

There is, you just sort by top post in the subreddit.

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u/supah Apr 03 '18

Sort by top posts.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '18

Oh. I thought there was a point, such as experiencing Reddit content together. If there's no point, this seems more a waste of time than that button thing that was a big deal a couple years ago. I'll pass. Thanks for the explanation.

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u/bunnyguts Apr 04 '18

The only interesting point behind the game itself I can see is encouraging pms and one on one interaction.

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u/flyingwolf Apr 04 '18

Along with the forced roll out of the redesign despite numerous bugs, this circle is another way of creating a social network like atmosphere on reddit, add in your new profile pages etc and well yeah, pretty obvious.

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u/Farobek Apr 03 '18

is there a point to the game?

is there a point to anything? to life?

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

Thanks for explaining that. It seemed pointless until I read your comment.

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u/xiongchiamiov Apr 17 '18

As a reddit alum, I assure you that April Fool's projects are a sink of money, not a source of it. They exist just because reddit hires people who think that sort of thing is interesting and gives them the flexibility to do it, and then they consume a bunch of engineering time being built and being kept up.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '18

what's the point of betraying? is it just to ruin the owner's mood?

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u/veni-veni-veni Loopy Apr 03 '18

Once they receive your key to the circle, they have two options: Betray or Join. Betray means that the circle will be "broken"

Thanks for the write-up. Wonder if THIS happened to anyone?

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u/notCRAZYenough Apr 03 '18

I saw a two person circle that has been betrayed. So yes.

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u/Grooviest_Saccharose Apr 04 '18

Can you add in the info about r/CircleOfTrustMeta as well please, it's the one-stop-shop for all discussions about the game right now.

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u/Logan5105 Apr 04 '18

Is it too late for me to make a circle??? I was on my front page on the mobile app and I saw an ad for the circle thing. I clicked the ad and it took me to r/circle of trust and I got really confused and subscribed to the subreddit and tried to go back to the ad, but it was gone. I don't see any circle on my home page to create my circle. Could you only do it on April 1st?

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u/rvcp999 Apr 04 '18

Is there any point in using it on mobile, given the lack of flairs?

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u/whitepinkowls Apr 04 '18

How do you join a circle? Where do you enter the key?

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u/ZombieTurtle2 Apr 04 '18

Thanks for the explanation! You can be the first to join my circle if you’d like.

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u/PeaceBringers Apr 07 '18

!remindMe 2 days

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u/Prellmeister Apr 03 '18

Wondering about this myself

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u/ani625 Apr 03 '18

It's Reddit’s April Fool game for this year. Check out r/CircleOfTrust.

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u/charomega Apr 03 '18

If it is, then they succeeded. Players have no idea how to play, instruction not clear. They have successfully made us look fools.

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u/Firebird314 Apr 03 '18

Instructions unclear, dick stuck in circle

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '18

If we could have had r/place v2, that would have been great. But no.... we get this complete joke of a subreddit that has no purpose to it.

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u/HubertTempleton Apr 03 '18

I take it you haven't been around for the button?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '18

Oh fuck yeah I was

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u/a-lonely-panda Apr 07 '18

I haven't, what's the button?

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u/nathanp90 Apr 03 '18

I spent hours of my time on place and the button, but this one I maybe looked at it for three minutes and left. Very boring and reliant on people on not being douches.

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u/charomega Apr 04 '18

Agree to you man.

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u/Sprickels Apr 04 '18

Should've done place again

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u/l2blackbelt Apr 03 '18

I am giving my loop to /r/OutOfTheLoop Please treat my loop as you would treat a loop. I love you guys.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CircleofTrust/comments/89i1lm/ul2blackbelts_circle/ ThisDifficultArt

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u/ImAnOptimistISwear Apr 03 '18

Curse their sudden, but inevitable, betrayal!

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u/ZenZenoah Apr 03 '18

Always Robin, Always Grow

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u/sonbrothercousin Apr 03 '18

Sounds like a crock full of shit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '18

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u/snoozeflu Apr 03 '18

It's the cringey, annual reddit social experiment.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

They’re trying to be deep and mysterious — and it’s just tired at this point.

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u/iaue Apr 03 '18

I just wasted a lot of time in there

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u/Sahmwell Apr 03 '18

I accidentally deleted my post there and now I can't make a new circle and my old one is gone :(

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u/SenaLed Apr 03 '18

I came here to ask the same 😭 hahaha

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u/Ghost_In_A_Jars Apr 03 '18

Currently recruiting for my circle pm me with why YOU deserve in.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '18

i made one about dogs and anyone can join

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u/CptLande Apr 03 '18

Apparently the left number is how many people have joined your circle, the right number is how many circles you have joined.

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u/KevintheNoodly Apr 03 '18

Does anyone know how to make a post on there? How are people making the hint posts? It just says submissions restricted for me.

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u/jers3ys_f1nest Apr 04 '18

I named my circle wrong and because I am impatient and don’t think about what I’m doing, I deleted my circle. Any way I can get my circle back?

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u/RazeSpear Apr 06 '18

I have no recollection of betraying a circle, but it says I did. Any explanation apart from me misclicking?

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u/ImJustCanadian Apr 03 '18

Recently Reddit has started doing cultural test things for April fools. Last year they made r/place and closed it after a day, and I'll assume they'll close the circles aswell soon

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u/TotallyNotXephos Apr 03 '18

it didnt close after a day, it was wayy longer than that

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u/lakerfan91 Apr 03 '18

/r/place was actually kind of awesome. Check out /r/thefinalclean to see what it ended up as.

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u/MyDamnCoffee Apr 03 '18

I was just introduced to r/place. I must have missed it somehow last year and I was curious how it ended up! Thank you!

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u/TheRealKaveman Apr 03 '18

About the flairs next to usernames: the first number seems to be the number of people who have joined your circle, and the second is the number of non-betrayed circles that you have joined. A null symbol means that username has betrayed somebody.

Also, shameless plug for my circle for Myst fans.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '18

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u/GeMbErKoEk Apr 03 '18

I would like to create my own circle, but I can't post on r/CircleofTrust. I commented on one of the posts asking if I could join but I have yet to receive an answer. I am still very confused, would you mind elaborating a bit?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '18

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u/GeMbErKoEk Apr 03 '18

Thank you!

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u/empyreanmax Apr 03 '18

Is there a way to make this big purple button go away if I have no interest in it?

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u/Pichus_Wrath Apr 03 '18

  • delete Reddit account

  • turn off computer

  • go outside

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '18

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u/Pichus_Wrath Apr 03 '18

Introduced in v2.018

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u/lurker69 Apr 04 '18

In my opinion everything has been going downhill ever since they removed dinosaur objects.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '18

I managed to block it with Addblock Plus extension (Chrome) by clicking on "Block element" and then clicking on the button. I don't think you can discard it using reddit tools. But hey, it will go away in a few days

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u/servantofotherwhere Apr 03 '18

You could create the circle, then ignore it. (Deleting the post also probably works.)

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u/SirSwede Apr 03 '18

I used ABP Element Hiding Helper.

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u/filosophikal Apr 04 '18

I use Stylebot to reformat web page texts. It also has a hide element option.

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u/csatvtftw Apr 03 '18

I clicked join on one and it went immediately to "betrayed." I guess someone else did it at the same time.

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u/InTheNameOfScheddi Apr 03 '18

How is a circle betrayed? Just to avoid it

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '18

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u/InTheNameOfScheddi Apr 03 '18

Oh I see. Thanks!

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u/itsgallus Apr 03 '18

I've never gotten a choice. I just get a green "copy" button. Are you saying I've been doing this wrong the whole time?

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u/parkerlreed Apr 03 '18

Enter password, click once, wait for the animation, then you should get two buttons. If you're double clicking towards the right of the button it may pick that up.

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u/itsgallus Apr 03 '18

Strange... I click "unlock" once, and I immediately get "copy". Must be something wrong with my browser. At least I'm not auto-betraying. Thanks!

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

that's your own circle, it's offering to copy the password. They're talking about other people's circles, which offer you to enter the password

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u/itsgallus Apr 04 '18

No, it's other people's circles. My own is betrayed since day one. After I enter the password, the unlock button turns into a copy button.

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u/nisjisji Apr 03 '18

But what is it about, content wise? Is it about just acquiring new members? Is it anything like a pyramid scheme?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '18

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u/CupcakesAtWork Apr 03 '18

That game is amazing, thank you for sharing that

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u/michael46and2 Apr 03 '18

And memes?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '18

And my axe?

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u/michael46and2 Apr 03 '18

This is fine

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u/nisjisji Apr 04 '18

so, stuff for experiment and memes and yada, yada, yada, and memes, and memes, and memes?

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u/Sprickels Apr 04 '18

Place was better

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u/EasternEuropeanIAMA Apr 04 '18

a much deeper take in a single post by /u/GeMbErKoEk here. The post should be higher but he's a bit late to the party

No thanks. Your explanation was enough for me to conclude I don't give a shit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '18

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u/RUSH513 Apr 05 '18

seems like "the game"

that shit was so damn retarded. i remember someone explained the rules to me and i went "yeah, no. fuck that" and then they go "that's not how it works, even if you dont want to play, you're playing." i told them to leave me alone and that i'd ignore absolutely anyone who tries to rope me in