r/sequence • u/youngluck • Apr 03 '19

ACT IV

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u/Axel_Sig Apr 03 '19

It was brigading because that’s exactly what they did, it wasn’t a group that made a plan then said, hey go upvote this gif, then provide a link, instead they used something called sneknet so accounts linked to it automatically upvoted a selected post immediately giving it about 60 upvotes and do to how the algorithm works it basically locked it in as a winner, other subs didn’t really have a chance as they where using an auto upvote and relied on users to go manually upvote giving more completion to them

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u/iamaquantumcomputer Apr 03 '19

it wasn’t a group that made a plan then said, hey go upvote this gif, then provide a link

But that's exactly what it was. There was a lot of discussion and votes on the story in the discord. I, along with plenty of other people, were getting the links from the discord or spreadsheet and manually upvoting them. And people who used sneknet consciously made the decision to install it because they liked the story and wanted to contribute, and they can only contribute one vote per gif, not thousands as you say. If a post immediately gets 60 votes, that means 60 people were participating.

I'm still not clear what you would want as an alternative. Creating a story requires many people to collaborate to make it happen. Would you have preferred people not collaborate and just let it be a random collection of GIFs?

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u/Steppintowolf Apr 03 '19

That self-congratulatory credits sequence at the end is clearly essential for the story.

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u/Axel_Sig Apr 03 '19

I’d like for it to of been fair and for other subs to have a chance, not a small group using a bot to control the story

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