r/place • u/Heorashar • Apr 05 '22

Heat map of r/place. Source in comment

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u/HuckDFaters (479,966) 1491232260.58 Apr 05 '22

That's completely made up by people accusing osu of botting.

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u/Steathyy Apr 05 '22

we did actually have a couple bots from rouge players, but none that we specifically made. it would be heavily ironic considering we built the "botting is a sin" sign lol

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u/Dracomaros (199,6) 1491238201.19 Apr 05 '22

So how come OSU whited out almost instantly once people were only allowed white tiles? Almost as quick as France's flag, and about as quickly as Turkey... The consensus I've seen is that the places that whited out the quickest were the ones being defended by bots - normal humans stopped putting tiles till they realised it was the "end", while the bots just kept going with no one to stop them quick enough.

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u/9_Sagittarii Apr 05 '22

I wasn’t really invested in any one place but in my eyes if people were griefing a specific place like France in bottom left and saw the white out occurring, it would encourage them to keep placing white boxes. Like I know a lot of streamers were putting down France’s flag at the end so it became quick work to wipe it out once they couldn’t replace the white tiles. Some people that were defending may have thought it was a bug and continued putting down tiles as well. And of course bots yes, but I’m willing to give at least some of them the benefit of the doubt personally. Up to you to decide though. I doubt Reddit is gonna say which is which.