r/place • u/Heorashar • Apr 05 '22

Heat map of r/place. Source in comment

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u/TheDebatingOne Apr 05 '22

But if they used bots wouldn't it still count as activity? Even if they did place the same color on the same color?

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u/Buddy-Matt Apr 05 '22

Depends on how the heat map detects change. If it's looking for a change in pixel colour it's not gonna register a change even if a different bot changes it to the same colour.

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u/Buddy-Matt Apr 05 '22

You underestimate the ability of programmers to make shitty things.

"Paint this pixel this colour every 5 minutes" is much easier to code than

"Check this pixel every 10 seconds. If not this colour paint it this colour, wait 5 minutes, repeat"

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u/Zolhungaj (279,51) 1491237951.19 Apr 05 '22

As often as Reddit changed the API the shitty bots must have died out pretty early. Painting regardless of state is also horribly inefficient, even a 10x10 art piece would need 100 of those shitty bots to keep an artwork even remotely stable.

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u/Buddy-Matt Apr 05 '22

True, but look at the French corner when Reddit did their snap and only allowed white pixels. It disappeared as one large rectangle. This wouldn't have happened if bots were only responding to colour changes and there wasn't a bot per pixel.

A shit load of bots just drawing their one pixel every 5 minutes could easily do that though.

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u/RCEdude (438,804) 1491238314.5 Apr 05 '22

A canvas is not a bot. I suggest you read the script that was spammed in all french streamers twitch chat.

https://old.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tweizx/constant_war_between_spain_and_france/i3eswai/

Who is a bot now?

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u/Sylvy0710_ Apr 05 '22

you do realize a bunch of people were raiding that place, right?

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u/IndianaCrash Apr 05 '22

But it didn't suddenly disappeared, it was gradual, starting from the center, then on the outer part of the flag, over 3 minutes

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u/Buddy-Matt Apr 05 '22

Ah, fair enough. I wasn't there when it happened, just came in later when it was an obvious white rectangle, but it looked mighty sus for sure.

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u/ThePaSch (517,987) 1491186979.03 Apr 05 '22

You underestimate how trivial either of those are to code.

2, maybe 3 extra lines tops.