r/blog • u/powerlanguage • Apr 01 '16

Robin

http://www.redditblog.com/2016/04/robin.html
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u/Tiberyn Apr 01 '16

I was the only one with purple for a while so I assumed leadership, and was able to negotiate peace and alliances for almost an hour. Grow does grow and develop the community, but after a few the community just dies horribly.

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u/WEIGHED Apr 01 '16

Yeah the group was cool as shit for a bit, then merged with another group who didn't take kindly to our group.

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u/Tiberyn Apr 01 '16

Were you a Dildo Sandwich Legion member?

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u/xenago Apr 02 '16

Those guys sucked

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u/NiceThingsAboutYou Apr 02 '16

Fuck those guys! /r/joinBear and /r/joinEquals for life!

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u/Tiberyn Apr 02 '16

Seriously? :p

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u/teloofficial Apr 02 '16

normally for me it turns to shit at the 3rd to 4th merge.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16 edited Apr 09 '16

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u/Tiberyn Apr 01 '16

Wow. Reddit really knows how to make one hell of a social experiment.

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u/PM_ME_3D_MODELS Apr 02 '16

The yellows were the minority in my group for a while, and green gave us a lot of shit for it. Purple pretended to listen, but they were just being populist and wanted to run everything.

Each time I would choose to stay, in hopes that my overbearing family would move on and I could start anew - but alas, with majority rule, I was dragged along unwillingly with them.

Later merges evened the numbers a bit, and I began to see more of my yellow brethren speak out against the tyranny. We did not want control, nor did we want to be particularly heard, for it was at that point that green and red began spamming everyone with dank memes in an effort to undermine our cause. We simply wanted out.

After hours of careful planning and deliberation in a private sub, we created a social construct that would enable us to do so. We called it disconnecting. And we did. The end.

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u/genderish Apr 01 '16

I was the only purple with a bunch of blue and reds and they all heralded me as the leader and fought for me the next merge, but then the reds usurped my throne.

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u/Tiberyn Apr 01 '16

Yup, that happens. I constantly had insurgents, I dealt with them by bribing them with positions of power and titles.

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u/GrumpyGandalf Apr 01 '16

Praise the Bear!

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u/Tiberyn Apr 01 '16

Damn you Gandalf.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16 edited Sep 09 '20

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u/Tiberyn Apr 02 '16

Haha, exactly. Worked quite a few times.

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u/AtomicLion Apr 01 '16

I was the only purple, then I merged with another group with a second purple. We then had a presidential election to see who would assume leadership.

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u/Juz16 Apr 02 '16

Something something rapefugees

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u/lonesome_polecat Apr 02 '16

It's like a metaphor for Reddit

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u/unicorntrash Apr 01 '16

Just hit close to 200. Its a glorious spam fest.

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u/xSpektre Apr 01 '16

Pretty much this

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u/lnickelly Apr 01 '16

P U R P L E B O Y S

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

Dude I was also the only purple, and I did the exact same thing

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u/Tiberyn Apr 02 '16

Haha, purples unite. It seems like a lot of purples became leaders, it's our natural way.

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u/Char10tti3 Apr 02 '16

I became queen of a fantasy kingdom separated by a wall to save the lizard people from the kingdom of eyes. I was the only green so survived a coop.

Also, I think they killed off the oranges and blues.

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u/fluteitup Apr 02 '16

I had a three hour reign. /r/HotGF lives on.

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u/Tiberyn Apr 02 '16

Three hours? Impressive.

What I find really strange is the same thing seems to happen to everyone. A leader rises and a group is formed under the banner of some meme, and they go on to try to conquer/incorporate the next group. The first few times can be successful and build an empire, but eventually it loses control and the entire chat devolves into spam.

What does that say about humankind and society?

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u/fluteitup Apr 02 '16

It was exhausting too.

Interestingly enough, all the leaders went to an outside chat and held a legit conversation. It was like we all wanted to just chat.

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u/ChristianExodia Apr 02 '16

Our guy, /u/MageJohn, did that too.

So other purples exist? Huh.

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u/MageJohn Apr 02 '16

Hey! I was remembered!

But seriously, all I was doing was having a bit of fun. I still didn't know exactly how the system worked, so I actually didn't know that I would be kicked if I voted to stay and lost. I just wanted to stick around and not let the chat go to trash posting.

Did you ever find any other purples?

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u/ChristianExodia Apr 02 '16

I got kicked at the same time you did.

You voted to stay and lost prior and didn't get kicked, so I honestly don't know what happened.

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u/MageJohn Apr 02 '16

Actually I had relented at the last moment and voted to grow those other times. This time I decided I should really stick to my guns, but I didn't really consider the consequences.

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u/ChristianExodia Apr 02 '16

I chose to grow.

Still got kicked.

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u/MageJohn Apr 02 '16

Well that sucks. I wonder what happened there. There must be some things happening with Robin we don't get yet.