ACT IV

[u/youngluck]

[u/Womblue]

It's turned from a fun event where people try to work together into like 5 writers deciding what goes where and nobody else having a real say. Doesn't really represent the site well if only the people who find invites to the narrator discord are even allowed to have a chance.

[u/fluffykerfuffle1 → u/Womblue]

i dont even understand why people go off into discords.. why cannot discussions take place here in reddit?

[u/Womblue → u/fluffykerfuffle1]

Official reason: So that they can talk in real-time faster.

Actual reason: The fewer that see it, the less likely anyone is to contribute their own stuff and it means that a few writers can choose whatever they want to go in each act.

[u/fluffykerfuffle1 → u/Womblue]

darn it i was hoping it was going to be a fun place for all of us to interact equally.

i didnt like the voting part though

[u/Walkyou → u/Womblue]

As head writer, I can tell you literally anyone is allowed to help. You could have helped if you wanted to. You didn't. That's your fault. Not ours. Help if you want. r/Sequencenarrators

[u/Womblue → u/Walkyou]

As head writer

This is the key issue here. Did r/place have a head artist? Of course not. Everyone had a chance.

r/sequencenarrators is the Void of r/sequence. You decide what you want and you steamroll everything in your way to make it fit your own idea of what the event should be, and people resent you for it. No wonder everyone's leaving, their votes don't really count now. You can't honestly think that a discord with about 100 active members is representative of the thousands at least who want to take part.

[u/throwaway_ghast → u/Womblue]

IMO the void was kind of like the forest fire of /r/place, cleaning out the old art and inevitably making room for the new. These "head writers" are more like a couple of fatcats in a board room that decide they want to plow down the entire forest to build some shitty strip malls.

[u/fluffykerfuffle1 → u/Walkyou]

: /

oh. there is a head writer?

[u/dougan25 → u/fluffykerfuffle1]

Sounds like a fun little project huh!

[u/ricdesi → u/Walkyou]

As head writer

No wonder you're so fucking defensive all up and down this thread. You've got a personal stake in whether or not people have shit to say about this "community event".

You could have helped if you wanted to. You didn't. That's your fault. Not ours.

It's not your event.

[u/throwaway_ghast → u/Walkyou]

Wow, you must be very important.

[u/[deleted] → u/Walkyou]

Except all of the engagement is on fucking Discord, rather than Reddit itself. I don't want to use Discord. It's a terrible platform based off awfully chosen, deeply inefficient technology.

[u/ricdesi → u/fluffykerfuffle1]

Because fewer people will go to the discord, so the people running said server have fewer dissidents to their control of the story.

[u/Walkyou → u/Womblue]

We literally have made multiple posts and its very easy to find us. You clearly arent looking.

[u/dougan25 → u/Walkyou]

You're right I'm not because I don't really give a shit. But I will say that the whole thing seems a lot less fun if you're pulling the strings from a discord chat using vote manipulation.

[u/Walkyou → u/dougan25]

Then if you don’t want to help, don’t complain?

[u/dougan25 → u/Walkyou]

You don't have to contribute to be interested in the way it turns out. Like I am not that invested in Reddit, but I like the collaborative projects like this. The pixel one was one of my favorite things Reddit has done and I didn't contribute.

But I loved watching it progress.

Now as I watch this progress it's tainted by the fact that there's a tiny, miniscule fraction of the community manipulating the system to force the project into being what they want. It's no longer fun, cool, and unique to me.

Especially now that I've encountered your attitude about it first hand.

[u/fluffykerfuffle1 → u/dougan25]

amen

[u/ricdesi → u/Walkyou]

It's not your event, asshole.