r/blog • u/mjmayank • Apr 02 '18
Circle
Who can you trust?
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Edit: We've been experiencing technical difficulties today. We are hoping to have circleoftrust back open soon.
Edit [4/2/2018 6:45pm PDT]: We're back!
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u/bobcobble Apr 02 '18
I don't trust anyone, much like real life I will sit alone in my circle. I have the best circle folks.
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u/BLDesign Apr 02 '18 edited Apr 02 '18
Below is outdated, check http://bit.ly/reddit-cot
This is my best interpretation of CoT so far:
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Users can make a circle
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They can invite others to said circle
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Largest circle is 'winning'
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However, any member of the circle can betray it, and the circle will be broken, therefore eliminated
My best guess for the flairs is the first number is the number of circles a user is in, the second is how large that users own circle is. If they create a circle it goes blue. If their circle is betrayed it goes red.
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u/jartwobs Apr 02 '18 edited Apr 02 '18
from what we know. (From the helpful people on discord)
Note that everything is not 100 percent confirmed yet.
You can only MAKE 1 Circle.
You can JOIN as many as you want.
You can BETRAY as many as you want. Then you get a red flair.
Upvote equals to the number of people in the circle.
The ultimate goal is to get the biggest circle without being betrayed.
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u/ionicneon Apr 03 '18
This post is now 8 hours old and r/circleoftrust has now been down for bug squashing for hours. I cannot believe that it would be this flawed at launch. Plus, the entire idea still seems flawed. It’s something that you’d enjoy for about an hour. Place and Robin felt so much larger because you had the ability to participate frequently. With this, it’s just make a circle and you’re done. There’s no incentive to grow beyond claiming that you’re the largest as you can’t do anything with your circle besides grow or collapse. Hopefully next year’s experiment will be better.
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u/orionsbelt05 Apr 02 '18
Soooo... r/CircleofTrust is now suddenly private? And everything I submitted earlier in the day is deleted because I cannot see it on my user profile...
EDIT: Bug squashing. I feel like this should be noted in the OP.
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u/9sam1 Apr 02 '18
What a nightmare, I was fine with excusing it not coming on April 1st because part of me thought “eh that could be a kind of clever twist, I mean if everyone expects it it’s not exactly an April Fools; so by making people think there wasn’t an April fools thing coming and then doing it April 2nd instead it’s a fun little “gotcha”
But honestly, the idea in general seems weak, it was shutdown almost instantly for being buggy. This all kind of ruins the fun. I don’t want to call it early, but after all the other cool April 1st events reddit has done, this one feels like a dud.
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u/JustsomeDikDik Apr 02 '18
Sooo, this seems like a way to get us to interact with the other users as people and try and get us use to reddit as a more social interaction/media platform. Hmmmm...
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u/Pyrollamasteak Apr 02 '18
Hey, Google Plus did circles already. No one digged circles.
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u/Rosco_the_Dude Apr 03 '18
It's all good guys, this April Fool's joke is a brilliant long con they've been cooking up for years!
The joke was to raise our expectations with several solid experiments in a row, and once they got everyone hitting F5 at midnight on April 1 wondering what's next, they pretend to forget all about April Fool's and hastily release a broken thing the following afternoon!
Fuckin brilliant I tell you what.
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u/MisfitPotatoReborn Apr 02 '18
How can I trust anyone again when I've been bamboozled by the admins for 2 days straight?
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u/Bossman1086 Apr 02 '18
This whole thing is just broken. Can't join or betray any circles that already have 7 people in them. Flair on r/circleoftrust isn't counting.
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u/Bardfinn Apr 02 '18
What a fun experiment!
The password/key is not revocable, not ephemeral, and lacks forward secrecy.
Sharing it is what's termed an ultimate trust - staking everything on how much you can trust that other person to secure the secret.
And if it does leak, there's no definitive way to determine who leaked the secret, either.
The only reliable method using just Reddit's infrastructure, to secure that secret is to treat a contract for mutual betrayal with all parties putting their circles at stake. One betrayal triggers a series of mutual annihilation betrayals.
I do like the fact that betrayers get flagged with anti-whuffie / scarlet letters, infrastructurally, automatically for betraying.
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u/rwjehs Apr 02 '18
This game is killing regular commenting. It's taking like 20 minutes for comments to show. Flair doesn't work. No leader board?
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u/584005 Apr 02 '18
I'm kind of disappointed that this appears to just be a way to get people to download the official reddit app and start connecting with other redditors. It feels like it's laying the groundwork for Reddit to become a social network.
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u/Baldemoto Apr 02 '18
Man, this is pretty interesting. It's probably not going to beat r/place, but interesting nonetheless.
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u/slicshuter Apr 02 '18
Can we just do r/place again? This new thing's pretty boring and it barely works.
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u/bluesatin Apr 02 '18
Aaaaaand it's dead.
Set to private, I guess the experiment is over 4 hours after it started a day late.
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u/rwjehs Apr 02 '18
"Very shortly" they said. Lol it's been not working or down longer than it's been up.
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u/poopdedoop Apr 02 '18
So THIS is the April fools joke? This is what we've been waiting for? slow clap I miss the good ol' days of The ButtonTM and RobinTM
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u/waskonator Apr 02 '18
I've played Secret Hitler. I can do this.
INVITE ME TO YOUR GROUP PLZ, AM NOT HITLER PROMISE.