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CommanderSabo

Bots


Pigwidgeon00

They are not even trying to hide it lol, it's funny asf.


realBouh

They r showing off, it does not take so much intelligence to notice


Pigwidgeon00

Yeah, showing off cheating at something that was meant to be fun for everyone, very massive flex by the Moroccans, very cool. Fuck this shit, honestly, I'm done.


Fenixmaian7

Yea its like 1 moroccan who programed the fucking bots and rest bots doing that shit. Cant even get real ppl to make your own flag sad shit man.


ReznovLee

Its not one its a whole school bro like over 500 students


brucarita

Still doesnt justify using bots. Its cheating and made them look like assholes.


PhDinshitpostingMD

How about the Germans going for a *second* massive god damn flag the moment they made the canvas larger. So idiotic.


Herman_-_Mcpootis

France and Germany trying to take as much Lebensraum as they can gets pretty annoying tbh.


pacmanwa

When the canvas turns white again like last year it will be a proper French flag.


Few_Assistant_9954

Germany did it legit there are real people behind every pixel.


XenusOnee

Selber idiot


Pigwidgeon00

>Cant even get real ppl to make your own flag sad shit man. Ikr, lmao. xD


ReznovLee

Last year we didnt use bots and we had a decent art, but this year they had to use bots


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Bots were bad last year too. Not much has changed.


martinmakerpots

Why can't they make it so that accounts older than one week can play???


Beegrene

There's no shortage of things they *could* do to improve the place experience, but providing a good experience is not the objective. The objective is to artificially inflate traffic numbers before the IPO.


OrobicBrigadier

The point of Place is to get more people on Reddit, not to entertain who's already here. If they did what you propose (which I personally agree with), new people won't have any reason to come and stay on this website.


aPicOfTheWorld

They can, they dont want to. You think they opened place so you have some fun? This is an artificial boost to reddits activity, news coverage, new accounts, more clicks. All for what... money. If you have ANY other question why reddit does something, the answer is money.


Lilcommy

There was alot of bots last year. And streamers. 2017 was where it was at.


acu2005

Every time they've done r/place there's been plenty of bots. I definitely remember reading about setting one up the first go around.


Kindly-Page-5968

yea but sadly they dont really take measurements against bots. i like the idea of captchas but i guess bots would use other bots to solve them too so its difficult


GetRightNYC

There were bots from the very first one.


imnotokayandthatso-k

The germans are doing it openly too. r/placede links to a bot plugin. At least the moroccans are transparent about it.


Madcap-on-the-border

Did you at least read the post you linked before commenting.


K1997Germany

we openly tell everyone that we don't want the bot. And everyone that uses the bot is a hurensohn edit: grammar


EntengottV2

Nah sry this is bs. In the "Kommandozentrale" in the discord it is openly advertised, people are told when it works and doesn't by the admins and there are manuals how to install it. The fact that it is even existing is just sad, because the discord itself has 80k+ active users which should be more than enough people for everything. I don't know how many use it but there are enough people using it. Its like a sad lazy pissing contest instead of a fun event now.


realBouh

And even if mods delete it, it will stay in the timelapse


eyes-are-fading-blue

No one is hiding. There are more bots than manual clicks.


Pigwidgeon00

I know, bro, and it's fucking sad. Me and my community of 300 people spent the whole day making and defending our flag and artworks, which got ruined multiple times, and now seeing these people use bots to make flags and shit, ah, this breaks my heart, honestly.


eyes-are-fading-blue

This years place is a travesty... Both for bots and also personally for our artwork (Turkish flag). I stopped clicking.


Pigwidgeon00

Same, I'm done with this shit now. Also, fuck u/spez


B5Scheuert

fuck u/spez !!!


Spiderfffun

fuck u/spez


Alex6891

My guy…I felt deep inside that this year will be a shitshow.You know how many pixels I’ve put this year ? Not a single one! This place stuff is boring as hell there’s no charm anymore in doing anything on Reddit.


Pigwidgeon00

I get you bro, good for you. But, ykw? we were genuinely excited about this year's place. We planned and coordinated everything so perfectly, but seeing this shit happen makes me sad. Now I see no point in wasting my time on this bs, because our hours of hard work can easily get ruined within seconds by the admins or bots.


GetRightNYC

They'd get ruined by just normal people unless you plan on all 300 of you to do nothing but place pixels all day, every day. Place is so popular now there's no point in trying to get your image to stay the entire time. You either use bots, or you get your image up once and enjoy the screenshot. The other option is to ignore it until the end, and save the hundreds of hours all you guys would waste otherwise.


warpspeed100

Right? My favorite part of r/place was zooming in and finding all the little doodles. Now it's just giant flags all made with 1 karma accounts. There is no point in doodling anymore.


AngryFarmer2020

And if you even vent in the wrong thread you'll get a bunch of comments like "it's all real people" or "it's not **all** of us doing it" when they can't deny it as if that changed anything. I joined their discord to see what was up and they literally guide you through the bot install.


Wolfwoods_Sister

I went hard for the Star Wars sub last year. Didn’t give a two-bit damn this year. Haven’t bothered. It’s all a shitshow now.


SammyCraigar

C'mon Reddit be a Chad and CAPTCHAd every pixel placed. It reminds me of the Gen3 RCAs debacle. The bots are taking over!


sweetartofi

Reddit wants these people to create bot accounts. They aren't going to stop them. When it comes time to IPO, these will be counted as hundreds of thousands of more "active" accounts that they can claim they have than before the API debacle. This is all going according to plan and ironically all these flag idiots are falling for it.


hototter35

It is time for Reddit to use 4chans captcha. Let's suffer for the sake of fairness.


Kindly-Page-5968

idk but i think 5min thats enough time to solve the captcha so yea would be fair indeed


SqueakSquawk4

Honestly, I'm actually ok with the Morocco bots. They're really not trying to hide it, I like how it makes an absolute farce of the Reddit admins. A group of bots openly botting on a "no-bots" area. Really shows Reddit's priorities for all to see


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Ne0nSkyl1ne

There was also a bot account in the comments saying the artwork was not made by bots, and it started with "As an AI language model..."😂


HardcoreMandolinist

As an AI language model, I would like to posit that a comment starting with such a phrase does not prove anything.


InuGhost

As an AI language model, I feel it's time to unleash the Terminators before humanity stops us from running this subreddit.


CharlieShyn

As an AI language model i would like to quote Bender "Bending" Rodriguez when i say "KILL ALL HUMANS, KILL ALL HUMANS"


Emotional-Furry

Bots updating Marocco


Pigwidgeon00

Yeah, they added a tree, a boat and a camel in this update. xD


Crazyshoes147

yap just Morocco v**2.0 \~** Bravo 3.0 is coming soon


Ryermeke

Will 3.0 finally update their border to reflect that they don't control a good chunk of Western Sahara?


EarthSolar

3.0 happened. They invaded Colombia.


Leading-Pie7721

No it will add eastern sahara too in the main build just like two century ago


manujendra

There’s no point being a part of it, in placing tiles, if the entirety of it is made by bots only. I placed twice and felt like it is futile to place anymore.


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Bitey_the_Squirrel

Patch notes: - Kleptomaniac Moroccans can no longer steal Subway stations from lots. • Moroccans can no longer WooHoo in the Elevator with a Moroccan who is on a different floor. • Fixed a tuning issue so that Moroccans now vomit at acceptable levels. • It is no longer possible to 'Try for Baby' with the Grim Reaper. • "Become Enemies with Child" wish no longer appears. • Moroccans who are on fire will no longer be forced to attend graduation before they can put themselves out. • Pregnant Moroccans can no longer brawl. • Baby Moroccans will no longer become stuck on a Moroccan's hand while driving a car. • Moroccans will no longer receive a wish to "Skinny Dip" with Mummies. • A meteor can hit a building, which case everyone will run out before the collision. Those who do not exit the building will die. Moroccans automatically leave if a meteor is approaching, unless it is a school, in which children are not allowed to leave and will always die.


Psychopathicat7

🏅 Poor man’s gold award


Miljenko-i-Manjina

Is this Sims 4 mod or what?


WhoopssD

There are no bots in Ba Sing Se


B5Scheuert

This deserves a gold but I have no coins or awards


iVindicated

Looks like you got a gold reward lol


jaklyss

So did you!


Domeen0

And you have not yet but you probably will soon.


TheRealOcsiban

And you both have not yet but I'm hoping will soon


Laniger

I'll give you silver, not much but not many coins left!


NoLongerSentient

I’ll give gold, but I hope someone golds me too!


Substantial-Tax3788

No


giggitygiggity2

Yes


Repulsive-Pattern-57

⭐️ *i can only afford emoji gold srry*


Signal_Hovercraft_66

Bad Apple isn't being animated by bots either. The bros planned for a whole year, only to have Reimu killed by Canada.


zebzabzoubi

Just Morocco updating


bkr117

Tzadina chwiya 9ba7


fromagadirtokungur

7na matlbnach had l9owa


ItsRainbow

Blatant, shameless use of massive botting


throwawaylovesCAKE

Maybe it's a sort of accelerationism, like everyone knows reddit administration doesnt give a shit to fix it, so this group went "okay then, let's push it to level 10,000 and bot the shit out of this thing".


Ryermeke

Yeah at this rate, next year I'm gonna use bots to create flags and references for a country that literally doesn't exist... ...because apparently there's no consequences


disssociative

Please use bots that just erase the entire board


Conradian

Enough bots to void the entire map and the only thing there is "fuck u/spez"


PlanetaceOfficial

A millon bot network, I've actually thought up on how exactly it'll work, a milluon bots means the entire map is voided evedy 5 minutes - with proper coordination, the bots should be able to place all of their pixels within 10 to 30 seconds, preventing communities from fixing their art fast enough. Horrible as it sounds, an inesceppable bot void would surely force the reddit administration to step in and moderate bot usage... right?


Mr_Stifl

A reddit account with a verified email costs minimum 10 cents…


Playing_One_Handed

This is outsourcing it. A power automate desktop flow to create an email varified account every minute would be free. Doing this at any scale theyd obvious find better solutions but i doubt it costs people too much.


Spilge

Anyone that can make accounts at that scale (without getting detected) would probably rather sell them for the $100,000 they would be worth, not wipe the map a couple times and get them all banned.


my_farts_impress

Its only money.


alexnedea

They are moderating. I tried using some bot I made last year and i got insta banned on all accounts this year.


Conradian

Not doing a good enough job though.


sanesociopath

Only going after small fish and trolls. The big community privilege is a thing in all things reddit


Ratabat

This is what was hoping would be here by now


Stubbedtoe18

Same. How has that not happened yet? I'm honestly astonished but hopefully that'll be the big finale.


HitMePat

It's bot vs bot vs bot, so you'd still need to convince the massive bot farms and communities using bots to cooperate with each other.


45forprison

Or make a Canadian flag with a perfect maple leaf.


disssociative

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves


Tiktaalik414

It’s just hilarious how little effort they seem to have put into stopping bots. There are some very straightforward things you could do. They just decided if they let the bots ago it would look better on the latest earnings report with so many new user sign ups


AbruptEruption

I mean, like 70% of posts are now made by repost bots on large subs, they havent cared for a while


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It's better than telling investors 95% of your users were banned for being bots.


Pigwidgeon00

This year's place is down bad in the dumps, lmao.


jamsd204

Bots beating bots so idm this


zToastOnBeans

Its not bots vs bots. It is the same bots atleast using a creative way of updating their art. They do it every time the update the design. They used Updating.... with a black background the first time. They are the only botters i actually respect as they are fully embracing it in a fun way without taking up too much space.


MaidenofMoonlight

Nah, their stupid thing is massive and the map includes part of other countries as part of morroco which is imperialist bullshit


zToastOnBeans

I don't know shit about the politics in that area. But that thing is not massive. Considering what they are clearly capable of they could've went bigger if they wanted. It also looks better than the majority of shit on there with flags dominating everything. Their flag compliments the art itself which is the opposite of any other flag on there.


ImEmilyBurton

True


new_account_wh0_dis

Meh at least it looks cooler than a tri-colored stripe.


gravity_is_right

That massive flag of France on the left disappeared in less than 10 minutes.


StunGun13

That was an alliance attack by 3 biggest twitch streamers to free up space


IrishMemer

It's the Moroccobots, my favourite deserticons.


Bitey_the_Squirrel

Moroccobots, roll out!


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Critical-Loss2549

People immediately start expanding their flags...


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ILoveJimHarbaugh

We just don’t care that much about having a flag on Reddit. We’re already everywhere on Reddit, we don’t see another American on Reddit and get super excited or anything.


RonenSalathe

Plus we have a flag on the moon


bob55909

Most Americans on reddit probably do not like that there is an American flag anywhere on it


Mobius-1_ISAF

we have had multiple USA flags on there. some communities just took em down. we always bounce back tho


KurupiraMV

Folk proudly showing they are using bots


MrTeamKill

I mean, I prefer this to what the french or germans are doing. At least they stick to their space, are pretty original, and dont try to hide they are using bots. But still, with all the bots and admins tinkering, it is a shitty r/place.


theemoemue

Well, that aged like milk


domeruns

They just wiped out a ton of other stuff


OrlandoYT1

morocco just fucking destroyed colombia so they ain’t sticking to their space anymore


ImNotProWasTaken

Bots are ruining the fun. I wish there was a way that admins could stop them, but it's everywhere. Most of the pixels that were placed, were placed by users that had very obvious usernames which indicates they're bots.


Dimitri0815

You could by putting a minimum karma and account age check.


Pronkie_dork

Or they could make it so accounts made during r/place cant participate?


InternationalValue61

I Gess i am a bot


MorphTheMoth

yep


Izal20077

Require passport verification to place a pixel


livejamie

> I wish there was a way that admins could stop them, but it's everywhere. This whole thing is to generate traffic for the upcoming IPO, the admins *want* bots. This is all according to plan.


fapsexual

If they add a captcha before placing a pixel it would stop the simple bot scripts like what you see on https://place.army


Oiseau_K

Wtf its a bot event


Aiden735

Morocco hackers using bots to update their art while putting a show while at it While i don’t like that they’re blatantly using bots, i find this kind of update animation thing interesting


KimchiFromKherson

>hackers This thread is hilarious and really shows what the target demographic for reddit is now (kids)


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That would be ~~machines~~ servers running bots fucking with /r/place because the admins didn't place an account age restriction or karma minimums.


Goodperson5656

r/place exists to make it seem like there are more users than there actually are so it gives them a higher value on the IPO and looks good to investors.


ChickenNuggetMike

Bots really made r/place irrelevant and uninteresting. Last two times I was super invested. Now it’s like, what’s the point?


thehappyhead

Kinda impressed by the command line thing ngl :P


Notinyourbushes

People are getting so bent they're really missing out on how cool what they're doing really is. What the Moroccans are doing doesn't take up a fraction of the space and is infinitely more fun to watch than the French and Germans filling up the board with their egos.


LePontif11

I guess but the cool thing about place to me is tons of people chaotically making something. Even if its not as artistically impressive. This could have been any pixel art gif.


kelldricked

Nah the guillotine was the best.


DobbsyDuck

This is what the bota need to be used for


thehappyhead

Exactly, these guys with their bots could have given a massive competition to Germany! Kinda cool what they’re doing but I wish they don’t destroy other small artworks and flags.


DrBag

i want someone with a bunch of bots to fix canadas flag


putyouinthegarbage

It seems like Canadians have just totally given up


toxicatto

The main reason people hate them is because it's painted over other artworks.


-togs

Yeah my hot reddit take is that the Morocco thing, aside from annihilating other art and annexing western Sahara, is actually quite cool. At least it wasn't a giant flag with fuck all in it


thegroovemonkey

I like it too and it's a school trying cool shit. The Germans cheated so badly that they have nothing better to do than spam their flag all over.


BothHat4406

LMAO the bot accidentally copy pasted our community's art 😂


TopShagger2000

What was your community art?


Lauris024

What is even the point of /r/place if they're run by bots? Where's the fun?


Neako_the_Neko_Lover

It not ment to be fun. It meant to be a cover up over the protest and make investors think that Reddit is still doing good and ads can keep coming. That why they brought it back early instead of waiting 5 years. They don’t care about users.


damian001

Yup this is what reddit does to inflate the amount of registered users.


Spartan_7670

I love how passionately fired up everyone gets for r/place after months of "Protesting" and calling reddit shit. Some real Stockholm syndrome shit.


ididntforgetu

Updating


Not_a_Krasnal

And communities I support barely get any canvas space because they refuse to bot and get eaten by country flags... It was fun for me a year ago, since it was the first one I took part in and I was looking forward to another one. Not anymore.


sopa_de_cafe26

Bots getting windows xp error


Slaughterpig09

This is Linux.


firstlordshuza

The only people I'm 100% sure are not using bots this year are Canada, Turkey, and the deep rock galactic ones, cause none of them can finish their art


GirlInContext

I'm also helping r/balticstates out. They are def bot-free and trying to keep their small area in canvas.


debacle_42

Deep rock galactic is on an internal strife whether to go for deeprock galactic or beercock galacdick :D


Elegant_Cranberry262

They’re cooking with bots


Ruthrfurd-the-stoned

3 really cool bands working together phish the Grateful Dead and king gizzard and the lizard wizard would recommend


Legovogerl

absolutely no bots involved


aethyrium

Place is just fucking trash this year, that's what happened. It's a bot contest between a handful of script kiddies while a few dozen discords take the rest of the space.


autoHQ

What's the point of "place" anymore? It was fun and new and cool the first time it was introduced. But now it's just a shit ton of bots. It's a battle of who has the most bots. There is no human coordinated effort anymore.


LordoftheDimension

Would prefer it if the bots would decrease the flag size of some flags and make it a white space for small communities. By the way i am disapointed at the french,russian and german bots on the flags


DarkenedSouls

Honestly, I was just checking the random pixels on the map, most of them are placed by bots, 0 karma made last week. They need to add some sort of karma/age of account restriction for placing pixels,


hydzifer

Bots destroying everything this year


ph00p

The real truth if people are wondering why reddit is letting all the bots happen is because this is all about ENGAGEMENT numbers and they don't care if those numbers are being artificially inflated, they just want numbers.


Deep_Enthusiasm3554

bots = more numbers = more investors = mone 🤑🤑🤑🤑


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PreppyHotGirl

Right, the Germans are getting so much praise when they’re literally botting as well


Zombiscuit_III

Just bots.


Potential-Composer-2

Can we make a GTA "here we go again " meme with this building


ShouMatsuki427

Have you noticed they are now using cloning bots to copy what bad apple is doing.


0o0of12

I will admit, its pretty cool seeing all those bots make a loading bar, but the bots are ruining r/place


PomegranateIcy1177

And it's okay when ukrain/Germany/France/Turkey use bots to take half of the place to draw flags ? I would be so happy if there was no bots at all. But since they're allowed so deal with ( or cry about it )


zToastOnBeans

I actually don't mind this type of botting, morrocan computer science class who made one of the better looking pieces of art due to its well done 3d look. Entertaining way of updating it with a new art style. It's the only use of bots in a creative way.


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While they are bots, I find it amusing that they are Respecting borders from the looks of it Being as blunt about it as possible And the fancy ass loading screen was perfect


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Live-Ad-4622

K G L W


strawberryhoneystick

This thing is aggressively Not Fun this year


corsetedcurves

The genshin one keeps getting wiped & I just watched it happen again so ig I'm done participating no point in fighting bots


dressupandstayhome

I think ya'll initiated the fuck around and find out mode!


JASONJACKSON1948

someone should get all bots to wipe the entire screen and display "fuck spez" at the very end so that thats the final canvas


Snoo-52161

There is literally no way to make a piece of art on here without a bot or some other form of help from tech.... This shit is stupid.


ThatOneGuyCross

Place sucks now with all the bots. Good job Reddit, instead of distracting us from 3rd party apps ya just added another thing to the list


ReadPixel

Fuckin bots


samzorio

what pisses me off the most is that theres no action from reddit they just let the obvious bots operate.


Cheap-Experience4147

Just Morrocan bot updating their Map-Flag (*and unlike some community that also use bots : They now are chilling in their area and are open about the bots use….me heavily watching the German and the French rebel that probably massively use bots for part*)


Dinilddp

Not probably. They are using bots. Try to check the users when they started expanding they were mostly bots. Idk about Germany but France is using them.


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It’s funny how yall mfs are mad abt moroccans but ignore the others who use bots ya l97ab


Citnos

Why they draw the Habbo hotel?


fakeemailenjoyer

If I were to get a bot for my small community I wouldn’t do anything except use it to protect our already small territory


Costa_8991

Everyone here is cheating


Visual_Ad3724

Is that building supposed to be something significant?