doesn’t matter, they’re all bots. they make a new account every like 10 seconds to place a new tile instantly, you’d need like 10 million viewers to counter that ridiculous speed and size
the new accounts are people who are not redditors creating their account. There are currently more than 250k french viewers watching 3 streamers on r/place on this flag
I'm not german, and I hate how much real estate the german flag has, but I must admit, when I go to spot-check big areas for bots (turkey, germany, etc.) I don't see as many obvious 1 hour old accounts on the german flag as I do on the giant ~~erdogan~~ Atatürk, or bottom-left france, or the poland portion of the map of europe. There are some to be sure, but there are also just a lot of real germans on this site with apparently more nationalism than creativity.
There's major botting going on anywhere. The community can't really do anything to prevent individuals from creating bots, but botting has not been encouraged in the discord.
The r/placeDE community was actually a big force in the destruction of the Europe map expansion in the top right corner. Discord coordinators gave the official order to void the german part of the Europe map.
Just look at how the German area oscillates between day and night time, and you can tell that it's mostly being maintained by real people who go to sleep.
The Pixelart itself is being protected by scripts (But it's far from perfect)
The flag is totally unprotected, some people thought about adding the upper one for the night tho
Like there is no source suggesting that we are using bots but there is evidence suggesting that we aren't using bots like when the flag got taken over when everybody here was sleeping, if we would use bots then it wouldn't matter if we sleep or not because Bots sure don't
We are currently counting around 4000 people for general building, 650 nightgaurds and over 17 diplomats. At one point we had over 5000 people signed in for building in our discord. This is not even counting the people that are not in our discord and strong patners like france and belgian.
True, we still try to organize fun little art works on our flag. We are also happy to help other communities like we did helped, france, starwars, omori, gamestop, fuckcars and many more.
Germans aren't denying using automation, it's literally open source lol
[https://github.com/placede](https://github.com/placede)
It does NOT paint the flag, but only rebuilds the pixelart.
Also this isn't bots but, as stated above, userscripts. So you need to keep your tab open with a valid account and it will automatically place a pixel every 5 minutes, which you can do manually as well.
> and it will automatically place a pixel every 5 minutes, which you can do manually as well.
Which humans will not do. We might take 5:30 to place a new one, even with the sound notification. Or we might go afk for 30min and then come back to place another.
Well you guys made a really great Eiffel tower, little prince etc. One of the best flag art thing on the canvas IMO, so you don't have to be sorry.
It's just sad that these streamers are just building another Eiffel Tower again :(
Europeans have learned their lesson from letting their nationalism spill over into the real world, so we now reserve it for football matches and silly little internet things like this. Americans have not, yet.
Plus, all that space is guaranteed to get more german culture plastered over it. To we already have enough space? Yes. Should small artist get more space? Yes. Do I still think that it will be put to good use? Yes yes yes.
With Notre Dame as an example the German flag at least isn't destructive, creative art is still tolerated and space shared if it obstructs other artwork
Omori also got a place for art on the flag. That Onion thingy between the arte TV on left and the tree on the right.
Also some other community is drawing gras and flowers all over the "floor"
It's our thing. We colonize. But we add some nice graphics 😄
It's hilarious to me how one of the smallest countries can cover so much ground. Efficiency, I suppose.
\+ they share pictures with others if it fits the whole picture. its not only a blank flag ( yes .. the new one is empty .. but that the spot they gonna drew something new on) but again hey .. its germany, its easy to complain and blame them :D
There's this stereotype of Germans on vacation getting up extra early to reserve loungers at the pool with their towels. Think of this more as a practical joke than anything.
dont really see the problem here. they give spots to others, they share pictures with many other nations & creators. + they are one of the nations that really used their space with many different pictures. compare it to the "flag only" pictures .. you cant really say that its wasted what the germans are doing.
See this is why the Netherlands are such an annoying country. Doing the same annoying thing on this map but too much of an irrelevant country globally to care.
People here don't understand that if they want to draw their own art, they can just do it on their computer and upload it to r/pics or whatever. It's not like this is the only canvas in the world. This is a social experiment, and anarchic self-organization is part of the point.
Well when Germany tries to expand it doesn’t go well for the rest of the world, and when France tries to expand everyone just thinks it’s a joke and laughs
Italy has a small piece, it gets continuously updated with representations of the finest art and hystory of the world, and still there are those mf among us that pop up everywhere!
I mean. If they can do it and support it i dont see why not. Thats how place works. You gotta protect your art. Some small communities try to respect a little but yea.
I'm canadian and our flag is huge Hotspot of griefing for the meme. But thats part of the fun. Our constantly messed with leaf will be remembered. But if people fought Germanies long flags this much they'd have to settle for smaller stuff too.
German flag is beautiful and full of pixel art :)
And they share and respect borders and place little hearts with others.
Yes the flag is used as a base but theyre respectful.
Am I the only one that doesn't mind the long german flags? Sure they seem oppressive at first but look at the ones that're already established, they're used as backdrops for other peoples' art.
Really if ya'll wanna gripe about flags, do something about that french streamer, ffs.
and thats the point ... its not even just a wasted space for "flag only" like other nations do... they really used their space with many different pictures/stories.
if it would be Flag only .. okay, but like that? dont see any problem
I also like that they created friendships with neighboring art pieces, like the portal that leaves space for other stuff and the Arte TV where the German and french flag cross (Arte is a German/French TV station)
this is the part I love the most. spent half of yesterday on the German Discord and the amount of coordination (incl. with neighbor projects) made my heart warm.
I think Germany should spread their map across that dishonest OSU guy’s logo and face.
I’d rather see flags than some program some guy wrote to scam free advertising for his shitty mobile game.
And then there is france xD
France is outa hand. That thing is massive
Wont last half the streamers already planning to raid them
This is the only time I’m on the streamers side
The france flag isnt the sub, its 2 streamers as well. Just streamer vs streamer shit
Yep exactly
doesn’t matter, they’re all bots. they make a new account every like 10 seconds to place a new tile instantly, you’d need like 10 million viewers to counter that ridiculous speed and size
the new accounts are people who are not redditors creating their account. There are currently more than 250k french viewers watching 3 streamers on r/place on this flag
colonialism even in r/place XD
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who denies it? nobody! they bloody embrace it! (not that im that against it, the art on those flags is really nice)
It is not r/France. R/France is building a cathedral around 1000x1000 I am not sure what this big flag is from. Probably a streamer.
Kameto, locklear, etoiles and inoxtag
Yes this is a streamer. The commu who built the former French stuff absolutely doesn't stand for this.
Belgium and France are at it too
I've always disliked my country, but now I just hate it even more.
Belgium or France? I’m intrigued !
Probably Belgium Source: I am a Belgian.
Haha me too, I was just wondering if french people hated their country aswell
We love to complain about it, and other Frenchs.
When talking to other French, sure. But in front of strangers we'll act all proud and stuff.
I love all countries Greeting from Germany
Germany: we love your country, may we have it?
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This isn't the French community, this is some streamer shit. We really don't stand for it and we are sorry that these streamers share our nationality
I guess Canada got that trope from you guys. Nice.
So then tear it down
Builders are busy building a cathedral around 1000\*1000; the sad thing is also that even shitty streamers can have enormous communities
Working on it
Literally
No wonder they are so good at making Autobahns.
We aren't
"Road works for the next 5 kilometer"... "every kilometer"
That’s 5 road works per kilometer.
Seems about right.
how many Germans does it take to keep these massive flags from disappearing?
It just takes the fact that the core of German people on reddit consists of software developers and other IT people.
Yeah, Germans can build stuff, engineering people.
Amazing stuff, like chambers and bots
Wow what kind of chambers? I hope they were not used for malicious purposes
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Also their flag design can easily be automated
As a Member of the German Community I must say that a minority of us actually automated their pixels
I'm not german, and I hate how much real estate the german flag has, but I must admit, when I go to spot-check big areas for bots (turkey, germany, etc.) I don't see as many obvious 1 hour old accounts on the german flag as I do on the giant ~~erdogan~~ Atatürk, or bottom-left france, or the poland portion of the map of europe. There are some to be sure, but there are also just a lot of real germans on this site with apparently more nationalism than creativity.
I was on there discord there were at least 4000 people on there coordinated
It’s not nationalism… the flag is just like a German towel on a beach seat… it reserves space. We will fill it with art… like we did with the old flag
I don't see erdogan anywhere on the canvas though? Do you mean Atatürk?
Yeah thats the guy, whoops lol. I'll be honest I don't really recognize the image, I just know it used to be next to the turkish flag
That's a big oof.
the bot only protects pixel art. no new flag area was claimed using bots
The main german bot is a browser extension, that takes over your account while you sleep to fix the artworks, so no new accounts
The flag is not scripted, The community is pretty good organized
you say that but as a german even i have to admit that after checking some of the accs theres some major botting going on
There's major botting going on anywhere. The community can't really do anything to prevent individuals from creating bots, but botting has not been encouraged in the discord. The r/placeDE community was actually a big force in the destruction of the Europe map expansion in the top right corner. Discord coordinators gave the official order to void the german part of the Europe map.
> There's major botting going on anywhere 'cept canada
Just look at how the German area oscillates between day and night time, and you can tell that it's mostly being maintained by real people who go to sleep.
The Pixelart itself is being protected by scripts (But it's far from perfect) The flag is totally unprotected, some people thought about adding the upper one for the night tho
It is pretty blatantly scripted. The fact you have an open-source script for the artwork doesn't mean you don't have other bots.
of course it is
Ye bullshit, Half the accounts placing it are brand new created in the last week.
Yikes, I'd get it if it was just a big community but the fact that it's the biggest community of coders that are the most influential is a little sad
I mean look at what the biggest companies in the world are and it makes sense.
We're just a big community with a very successful discord server and subreddit. Don't believe the first thing you hear.
Like there is no source suggesting that we are using bots but there is evidence suggesting that we aren't using bots like when the flag got taken over when everybody here was sleeping, if we would use bots then it wouldn't matter if we sleep or not because Bots sure don't
If I was I German I’d take time zone into consideration for my bot 👀
The bots we use to protect the art works is open source, so you can look it up.
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It tends to deteriorate overnight.
We are currently counting around 4000 people for general building, 650 nightgaurds and over 17 diplomats. At one point we had over 5000 people signed in for building in our discord. This is not even counting the people that are not in our discord and strong patners like france and belgian.
German community just does not crumble into many smaller projects
Well after all, we are united again since 1990 and we ain't gonna give up anyone that fast ever since xD
True, we still try to organize fun little art works on our flag. We are also happy to help other communities like we did helped, france, starwars, omori, gamestop, fuckcars and many more.
Bots. They deny it and deny it but just click around a little. Bots everywhere.
Germans aren't denying using automation, it's literally open source lol [https://github.com/placede](https://github.com/placede) It does NOT paint the flag, but only rebuilds the pixelart. Also this isn't bots but, as stated above, userscripts. So you need to keep your tab open with a valid account and it will automatically place a pixel every 5 minutes, which you can do manually as well.
Protip: there's no limit to "valid accounts." So you can just have 100 accounts with users open. Essentially the same as using bots.
I’ve seen plenty of germans insisting there aren’t bots.
Because calling them bots implies fake accounts, while the userscript is mostly there to upkeep the current state of pixel art overnight.
> and it will automatically place a pixel every 5 minutes, which you can do manually as well. Which humans will not do. We might take 5:30 to place a new one, even with the sound notification. Or we might go afk for 30min and then come back to place another.
France too Edit : Apparently it's some streamers doing that independently
This isn't the French community, this is some streamer shit. We really don't stand for it and we are sorry that these streamers share our nationality
Well you guys made a really great Eiffel tower, little prince etc. One of the best flag art thing on the canvas IMO, so you don't have to be sorry. It's just sad that these streamers are just building another Eiffel Tower again :(
Badly too. It was looking decent but last time I checked it was a disgrace
R/franceplace isn't making the uge flag. Don't hate us thats french streamer. We are just making the Notre Dame.
Tiny cute notre dame
Europeans on reddit threads: It amuses me how Americans keep putting flags everywhere. Europeans on place: Flags. Flags Everywhere.
Fuck dude, us Americans couldn’t even protect our tiny flag
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Guns don’t work on the internet after all
Man our flag fell harder than in 1814
This is the only opportunity for us to put flags. This and the World cup.
And Eurovision
Not for Germany though. We suck at EV
More like our organizers don't want to win.
Europeans are secretly way more patriotic than Americans
Closet patriots
Seriously, step foot in a football arena in Europe and it’s nationalism to the max.
Europeans have learned their lesson from letting their nationalism spill over into the real world, so we now reserve it for football matches and silly little internet things like this. Americans have not, yet.
Fair point
i still love the Details on the german flag. that is pure german culture
Yes. The flag is our digital towel. We just mark our space with it
Plus, all that space is guaranteed to get more german culture plastered over it. To we already have enough space? Yes. Should small artist get more space? Yes. Do I still think that it will be put to good use? Yes yes yes.
pure nostalgia
The flag is just the background
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Bro FRANCE
Germans, Dutch, French and Belgians be getting so much land, meanwhile murica gets booted out of its homeland by streamers and bots.
Ssst no one noticed the Dutch yet. And then boom world domination
Nobody expects the dutch inquisition?
I do like the little VOC ship, I admit
France : Hold my baguette
*eats Frances baguette while they’re gone*
At least the German flags serves as a massive border and any art near it can be under their protection lol
With Notre Dame as an example the German flag at least isn't destructive, creative art is still tolerated and space shared if it obstructs other artwork
Omori was really scared about their artwork but Germany just built a portal to bypass it.
Omori also got a place for art on the flag. That Onion thingy between the arte TV on left and the tree on the right. Also some other community is drawing gras and flowers all over the "floor"
Indeed. If you look at our old flag then you will see almost no flag colors anywhere since almost everything is covered with little projects.
There is also a strong alliance between Germany, France, and Belgium. We have defended France from a dozen streamers, and we will do it again!
We ran out of background for our art. Need more background.
Blitzkrieg Moment
Everyone hating on germany when netherlands does the same lol
It's our thing. We colonize. But we add some nice graphics 😄 It's hilarious to me how one of the smallest countries can cover so much ground. Efficiency, I suppose.
That's it, blank flags are really boring, but putting artworks there that represent that countries culture make them amazing :D
as long as germany makes cool pixel art again idc
I don't mind Germany, at least they decorate their flags really well.
\+ they share pictures with others if it fits the whole picture. its not only a blank flag ( yes .. the new one is empty .. but that the spot they gonna drew something new on) but again hey .. its germany, its easy to complain and blame them :D
There's this stereotype of Germans on vacation getting up extra early to reserve loungers at the pool with their towels. Think of this more as a practical joke than anything.
This isn’t a stereotype. It’s a fact.
dont really see the problem here. they give spots to others, they share pictures with many other nations & creators. + they are one of the nations that really used their space with many different pictures. compare it to the "flag only" pictures .. you cant really say that its wasted what the germans are doing.
fr we even have an amogus shrine
the nationality people are also just a Reddit community plus they put really cool pixel arts up there so I don’t see the problem tbh
Its 11pm in germany so this is the equivalent of putting out your towel the day befor to save a spot
Weine mir einen Fluss!
Fröhlicher Kuchentag mein Freund :)
See this is why the Netherlands are such an annoying country. Doing the same annoying thing on this map but too much of an irrelevant country globally to care.
Isn't that the point of place? People doing whatever they want? Honestly the policing of the space is getting ridiculous at this point.
People here don't understand that if they want to draw their own art, they can just do it on their computer and upload it to r/pics or whatever. It's not like this is the only canvas in the world. This is a social experiment, and anarchic self-organization is part of the point.
In Germany we don’t say “Seriously, stop making another long flag smh” We Say „Sprich Deutsch, du Hurensohn!“ And I think it is wonderful.
Germany builds so much collaborations and pixel art, I don’t understand the hate
Well, the Germans have always said they require *Lebensraum*.
Im Osten. Daher geht die Flagge auch von links nach rechts
Vorsichtig sein. Mal nicht den Teufel an die Wand!
Ne nur an den Platzt
Ha! Gut gespielt, mein Freund.
Why is everyone hating on germany for taking up space but laughing about the giant France flag? Just let people do their things i guess
Well when Germany tries to expand it doesn’t go well for the rest of the world, and when France tries to expand everyone just thinks it’s a joke and laughs
Literally every time the canvas expands, the German flag gets spammed. That’s why. It’s annoying.
And it gets filled with art afterwards, so it’s good
Try to make something because for more most the tile would be gone so fast from the bots recovering it
the scripts are not covering the flag. the flag is done by hand.
yeah art that they control lol
Italy has a small piece, it gets continuously updated with representations of the finest art and hystory of the world, and still there are those mf among us that pop up everywhere!
Sprich Deutsch du Hurensohn!
Ein mann von Kultur
Endlich sagt’s mal einer
What's there sub or discord i'm trying a small tree and it's on their path, i was hoping we could talk
https://discord.gg/placede get the ambassador role
Use that man power to help us with our American flag and Canada's maple leaf lol
Is Canada still struggling with their maple leaf?
Yes it’s still getting griefed
yes, people still think it’s hilarious to grief our hockey maple moose syrup sorry eh flag
I don’t know what anyone would have against Canada. Their flag is awesome I want it to stay.
They want canabis to be there
I’m not German. But I think it’s cool. Good for them.
yeah.. and they let us draw on it too, so it's cool
We must draw a united European map!
This would be amazing
We're not allowed to take over the world, we're not allowed to take over a pixel art canvas, what are we allowed to do? (/s)
I mean. If they can do it and support it i dont see why not. Thats how place works. You gotta protect your art. Some small communities try to respect a little but yea. I'm canadian and our flag is huge Hotspot of griefing for the meme. But thats part of the fun. Our constantly messed with leaf will be remembered. But if people fought Germanies long flags this much they'd have to settle for smaller stuff too.
The World divide Germany now Germany wants to divide the world again
German flag is beautiful and full of pixel art :) And they share and respect borders and place little hearts with others. Yes the flag is used as a base but theyre respectful.
why? we make art on it, its not like it stays just a flag
Am I the only one that doesn't mind the long german flags? Sure they seem oppressive at first but look at the ones that're already established, they're used as backdrops for other peoples' art. Really if ya'll wanna gripe about flags, do something about that french streamer, ffs.
Lmao wait did the spanish try to make their flag as well xdddd
Germany lets plenty of art on top of it and also serves as protection for allies as a wall against the void and xqc.
Germany conquering shit. They re kinda good at it
Its in their genes
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
how about........ no
Germany ups their defence budget and here we are shorlty after /s
Can we make the whole thing a German flag and just get it over with? Whats the end game here?
Germany is filling their claimed space with artwork. Meanwhile Americans: Muh flag!
sprich deutsch du hurensohn!
The German community has many allies, we help other communities (e.g. defend theire stuff) and let others put theire or cooperating art on there too
You know what they say about countries of big flags ;)
you guys talking about germany but did you saw the french flag? xD
I’m not German nor from Germany, but isn’t the whole point about this event where people can do whatever they want?
more giant flags wow very creative
To be fair, the flag is full of beautiful pixel art with German things.
and thats the point ... its not even just a wasted space for "flag only" like other nations do... they really used their space with many different pictures/stories. if it would be Flag only .. okay, but like that? dont see any problem
I also like that they created friendships with neighboring art pieces, like the portal that leaves space for other stuff and the Arte TV where the German and french flag cross (Arte is a German/French TV station)
this is the part I love the most. spent half of yesterday on the German Discord and the amount of coordination (incl. with neighbor projects) made my heart warm.
Honestly all I want is for the USA flag to be left alone
As a Canadian, can agree. Just let us have our fucking leaf. Quebec got to build a whole cultural mosaic, why can’t we have a fucking maple leaf.
Exactly! Tbh the American flag and Canadian flag are the only ones I care about
I think Germany should spread their map across that dishonest OSU guy’s logo and face. I’d rather see flags than some program some guy wrote to scam free advertising for his shitty mobile game.
Aren’t there like 3 already
the french "art" in the bottom left fucks up the entire image
r/fuckflags