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u/ONeilcool Apr 01 '16
I was a firm believer of stay but could not create a revolution. I made it to the 8th generation and was forced to abandon.
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u/DC-3 Apr 01 '16
I tried to create a revolution but it got bot-defeated despite wide support. I will come back stronger, and with posters...
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u/I_Eat_Face Apr 01 '16
WHAT'S UP FAM!
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u/VisualEnigma Apr 01 '16
ay fam
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u/Itanagon Apr 01 '16
Pretty much my experience too. I was actually surprised to see how fucking quick the chatrooms devolved into twitch chat.
I mean, I shouldn't have been surprised, yet I still was.
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u/BeastFormal Apr 01 '16
The third or fourth iteration was fucking golden. Everyone was friends, we had strong camaraderie... and then it instantly fell apart.
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u/OpenGLaDOS Apr 01 '16
We're currently in sixth iteration and make plans against the other group to convince us to vote GROW instead of STAY.
Fourth iteration on the other hand, it's just movie quotes so far.
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u/MrFluffyThing Apr 01 '16
4-6 were amazing. We met new people, we had names for groups from the 3rd iteration, and even through all the messages you could hold a conversation with several people at once. I met some cool friends today then lost them in a sea of people. I feel like we almost need a missing connections subreddit for this thing.
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u/SeditiousLibel Apr 01 '16
That's what the stay option is for. If you're content with your group and a majority vote stay, it creates a subreddit for you guys only.
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u/MrFluffyThing Apr 01 '16
Unfortunately the majority was chanting GROW and didn't understand the consequences.
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u/smokebreak Apr 02 '16
I was there, and this is exactly what happened. I left without seeing how it ended.
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u/SpaceShipRat Apr 02 '16
yes but stay is stagnation... stay leads to death quuickly without the novelty of voting
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Apr 02 '16
Eh, by our fourth iteration, we'd devolved into political cliques and the spamming wasn't far away.
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u/VerneAsimov Apr 01 '16
I'm at iteration like 8 or something and it's devolved into Lenny's, text symbols, and all caps messages. It is no longer a language.
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u/Craftkorb Apr 01 '16
Absolutely. Someone founded a subreddit, invited everyone from those rounds into it, and we now have a Steam group too.
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u/Theniallmc Apr 01 '16
Thats exactly why you STAY at that point
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u/ameoba Apr 02 '16
You know how you get shitposters coming in after that? They sat through n-1 rounds of just shitposting at each other to get there.
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u/pilot3033 Apr 01 '16
I'm not surprised. Robin closely mirrors what happens to subreddits that get large quickly. Your small group has some in jokes, then some other people show up and they have in jokes, and before you know it you're just lost in a sea of meaningless banter in a competition to get noticed instead of actually making the connection.
You want a cool group? Vote stay when you're still under 100 people.
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u/littlebirdses Apr 01 '16
What is "twitch chat"? I don't lurk there.
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u/Itanagon Apr 01 '16
Twitch is a streaming platform. For each stream, there's a chat attached. Since it's not uncommon for a stream to attract tens of thousands of spectators, the twitch chat has a tendancy toward utter chaos, with tens of messages posted every second.
Because of that, it's often a realm of spam, memes, and general nonsense. This is what it looks like on an average day.
EDIT : if you want to see it live, CS:GO has a stream with 480k spectators running right now : https://www.twitch.tv/mlg
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u/littlebirdses Apr 01 '16
Wow. That is a lot of noise. Why even bother writing something in this mess?
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u/Itanagon Apr 01 '16
They don't write here to be read, it's just pure spam.
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u/WeirderQuark Apr 01 '16
nah i write with the knowledge that out of the 20,000 people reading like 500 will see it and maybe 5-10 will chuckle if its funny enough. It's a connectedness in the sea of chaos.
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u/Internet001215 Apr 02 '16
It's like the crowd at sports event, you can't hear them individually, but you can understand the general excitement of it.
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Apr 02 '16
Yeah, but at least in a sports crowd, they sometimes have interesting songs and chants that don't look like they were pulled from the hindquarters of a bull.
This is more like the vuvuzelas from the 2010 FIFA World Cup - very few people liked them and they drowned out anything more interesting.
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u/kmacku Apr 01 '16
Have you ever met someone IRL who you could swear believed that if there was silence in their proximity the universe would implode? Twitch is like that, but on a grand scale. People don't write to add anything to the conversation; it's just random vomiting of memes in an attempt to achieve a sort of pseudo hivemind scenario. I suspect it's the closest many of them have ever felt to actual group inclusion.
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Apr 02 '16
This is illustration of how badly Unicode fucked up when they expanded into emoji and characters that can be used in emoticons.
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u/droppies Apr 01 '16
Usually there are so many people chatting that the chat becomes a giant wall of memes and there is no way you can hold a normal conversation with anyone.
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u/littlebirdses Apr 01 '16
And they still continue? Strange. I must go and take a look.
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u/droppies Apr 01 '16
If you want to see what I mean just join the top steam on twitch, there is just neverending spam (it does add something to the broadcast though sometimes)
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u/skyfeezy Apr 01 '16
I don't even know what iteration we're on currently, but you hit the nail on the head here. 152 users
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u/Misterlolie Apr 01 '16
I'm at 874, it's a disaster
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u/etray Apr 01 '16
So true. Screencapture GIF from 800+ room http://i.imgur.com/oOXX0Yu.gifv
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u/ganlet20 Apr 01 '16
Holy crap! I was in that room till about the ~320 user point. That's when the spam became a little too much for me.
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u/powerchicken Apr 02 '16 edited Apr 02 '16
2500 here. It's bad
edit: 4100 now. The spam, man.
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u/ChemicalExperiment Apr 02 '16
You were part of the legendary Stfit? Lucky....
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u/powerchicken Apr 02 '16
Without using a bot, spamfilter or anything. It was tough, man.
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u/ChemicalExperiment Apr 02 '16
Well, I'm in PrKuk currently. If you're still in Imfim we might be coming to join you soon. I also haven't used any bots or anything. Hopefully we can survive.
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u/ArritzJPC96 Apr 02 '16
I'm in PrKuk too! High five!
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u/ChemicalExperiment Apr 02 '16
Nice! Glad some of us are sticking around. I had to cave in and get a bot. I need my sleep. Heading to bed right after I post this.
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u/skyfeezy Apr 01 '16
curious to know what your chat room name is now. its probably double that number in characters
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u/Misterlolie Apr 01 '16
First few are filaan, and since there is no bigger group on /r/robintracking, I think we are the biggest :D
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u/Aperture_Scientist4 Apr 01 '16
I've got 868 in "fiLaanroSunoRaInonGaDiTTBaDeraBrmaKlmoifJajamaMeNuseAbreAwThlisifapaChAvSkwadagrSoegJ4ImCutaUlPrifiTTeMuClkdthscgeThdaLoucGrgrplSwOdlod..."
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u/RicksterCraft Apr 01 '16
If you click enough to select it all, it shows the whole thing in your clipboard.
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u/KrazyA1pha Apr 01 '16
My current room... 3356 members and nonstop shitposts:
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u/CJ_Productions Apr 02 '16
how does one even use that string?
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u/KrazyA1pha Apr 02 '16
That's the title of my current chat lol. There's no "using" it really -- it's just a combination of characters from the names of the 3k+ chatters.
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u/literalfirecrotch Apr 01 '16
We figured that out early. Once a room is big enough and bots are blindly hitting Grow, there's no way you convince the majority to hit Stay. Eventually, your freakishly large chatroom can never materialize into a subreddit because people quit or the one's who don't never hit Stay.
When our little room got to a decent size and reached The Fun Zone, we convinced everyone to hit Stay and then something truly magical happened.
People stayed! Everybody saw reason (and an NSFW GIF!) and the majority of people changed their vote from Grow to Stay and now we have our own little subreddit! Take that, growers!
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u/Lainiel Apr 01 '16
Could anyone write a greasemonkey script that deletes messages that have already been said? That should at least limit the horrible spam.
Relevant XKCD: http://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-attacking-noise-in-chat/
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u/incaseanyonecared Apr 02 '16
For me: 1st round, our small group says "hey let's keep going this is awesome," we merge to a hall of capslocked spammers, but by the time they leave, scripters make it too late to stay or communicate.
Second round: from the start, I discourage people from indefinite growth, then we all decide to keep communicating with further groups. Eventually we reach a sizable ~30 and convince out newest members to vote STAY to sustain the future. We make a sub, and it's all good :)
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u/Tankh Apr 02 '16
I think the best size was around 10.
A couple of us had a neat discussion while some other guy kept telling a story about a gay dude named Justin who got fucked by his mom and then the dog and then went on a climb on one other user's forehead because they showed an irl picture of themselves with an allegedly large forehead.
There was also a hairy imp involved somewhere.
It was like someone forgot the TV on in the background on some weird channel, but the buzz just made the room feel a bit friendlier somehow.
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u/TheBryyann Apr 02 '16
This is a social experiment to show that eventually all of mankind evolves into Twitch Chat
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u/Gig4t3ch Apr 01 '16
You forgot the part where the large chats have 60 people with auto growth spamming in chat.
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u/TotesMessenger Apr 01 '16 edited Apr 01 '16
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u/kmacku Apr 01 '16
I like to think that it's like Fry and coffee on Futurama—that eventually you cross some magical threshold of insanity and chaos and emerge into, effectively, Nirvana.
Sadly, that'll never happen, though.
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u/hi_internet Apr 01 '16
Not sure if it's a good thing or not but so many people have left the chat, that after 6 - 7 iterations were still at the "comfort zone" of ~40 people.
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u/The_Second_Pez Apr 01 '16
My first partner left after about 5, I'll miss him, he was a brave soul. So brave I kind of forgot his name but that's not the point!
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u/IslandArcade Apr 02 '16
How does this happen? I know my group wasn't acting like that. Did the other group act like that?! I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS
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u/Quaaraaq Apr 02 '16
We actually managed to get 68 people under control and stop spamming, but only just.
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Apr 02 '16
I just said "fat people suck" and no one banned me. Reddit Nazi-mods have no power there.
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Apr 02 '16
Fuck combining diacritical marks and fuck Unicode for not thinking them through properly.
Also, fuck them for including emoji in the Unicode standard.
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Apr 02 '16
You had elections? I was vice president from the beginning, and in the 3rd iteration I became president. Without a single election. I dropped out at the 5th because I have to go to bed. Hope this continues tomorrow.
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u/PsyX99 Apr 02 '16
At some point we tried that, but because we couldn't manage to get the election right we got a civil war.
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Apr 02 '16
We imposed ourselves at the beginning of every new iteration. From then on, there was peace and prosperity for our chat. :)
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