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how online games are shaped by the communities that use them

  • Written by Timothy Williams, PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne
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In 2015, well before the first iteration of r/place – a celebration of the collaborative chaos of online spaces – Reddit ran another curious experiment called r/thebutton.

The now inactive page once hosted a large red button at the top of its feed next to a 60-second countdown timer. Each individual user could only...

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