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Overview

Robin is a week-long social experiment centered around the titular web chat interface launched by Reddit on April Fools' Day in 2016. The ongoing experiment, which allows Redditors to participate in a massively multiplayer, real-time through an IRC-style web chat client, is set to end on April 8th, 2016.

Features

When joining a Robin for the first time, Reddit users a placed in a chat session with one other person and given the chance to vote "Abandon," "Stay" or "Grow" within a specified time limit. If the majority of users in a room vote to "Grow," the chat session is merged with another room that voted to "Grow." If the majority of users vote to "Stay," a subreddit is then created with an abbreviated amalgamation of the chat user's names. When voting "Abandon," the user is removed from the chat session.

chat in benma-w353 8:42:19 AM [robin] Welcome to robin. Please type /help or Icommands for more information 8:42:19 AM Voting will end soon 8:42-19 AM [robin connecting 8:42:19 AM [robin] connected 8:42:21 AM [robin] Welcome to Robin. 8:42:22 AM Be sure to use the buttons in the sidebar to vote on the future of the room before the polls are closed 8:42:22 AM Non-votes and abstentions will be counted as votes to abandon 8:42:22 AM 8:42:25 AM /vote abandon - vote to abandon 8:42:25 AM vote stay - vote to stay 8:42:25 AM vote grow-vote to grow 8:42:25 AM /whois <user in room> - provide information about <user in room> Abandon Stay Grow We do hope vo abstentionr vote We do hope yo Allow desktop notification:s u enjoy the discussion benmangold e anon-W353 report a rule violation 842.31 AM benmangold is present and has voted to INCREASE Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy (updated).© 2016 reddit inc. All rights reserved. REDDIT and the ALIEN Logo are registered trademarks of reddit inc. π Rendered by PID 22176 on app-170 at 2016-04-01 15:42:31 .459900+00:00 running 26b0b45 country code: US

Background

The Button

On April 1st, 2015, Reddit unveiled /r/thebutton, a mysterious subreddit featuring an automatic timer that counts down from 60 seconds, accompanied by a button that any Redditor who signed up prior to the launch date can click to reset the countdown.

the button Posted by the reddit admins at 09:00 ◆4866 points) Labels: activate, bear down on, depress, operate, press, squeeze dramatization reddit When this post is 10 minutes old, a button and timer will become active at /r/thebutton. The timer will count down from 60 seconds. If the button is pressed the timer will reset to 60 seconds and continue counting down. Only users logged into accounts created before 2015-04-01 can press the button. You may only press the button once. We can't tell you what to do from here on out. The choice is yours. visit Ir/thebutton

Robin

On April 1st, 2016, the official Reddit blog[1] published a post titled “Robin,” featuring a cryptic message and a link to the site reddit.com/robin,[8] which directs users to a page containing a button with a red robin logo. Upon pressing the button, users are taken into a chat session and allowed to vote.

Notable Developments

That same day, the /r/joinrobin[3] subreddit was made public for discussions about the chat client, gathering upwards of 14,300 subscribers in the next 72 hours. Shortly after the chat was launched, Redditor iamhungrybox submitted a "Bernie or Hillary" image macro in which Sanders votes to “Grow” and Clinton votes to “Abandon” (shown below). In 72 hours, the post received more than 3,000 votes (80% upvoted) on /r/joinrobin.[4]

Online Presence

Shortly after the chat was launched, Redditor iamhungrybox submitted a Bernie or Hillary image macro in which Sanders votes to "Grow" and Clinton votes to "Abandon" (shown below). In 72 hours, the post received more than 3,000 votes (80% upvoted) on /r/joinrobin.[4]

Bernie or Hillary? Be informed. Compare them on the issues that matter. Issue: obin GROWABANDON imgfip.com

That day, Business Insider[2] published an article about the chat titled "Reddit's 'Robin' is a Brilliant Social Experiment That Pits Millions of Internet Users Against Each Other." Also on April 1st, a post asking about Robin was submitted to /r/OutOfTheLoop.[6] On April 3rd, YouTuber Aissurteivos uploaded footage of a chat session with 3,856 users (shown below).

The same day, Redditor Unicormfarts submitted a post titled "How's your Robin experience going so far, Reddit?" to /r/AskReddit,[5] where it gainved over 900 votes (76% upvoted) and 360 comments within 24 hours. Also on April 3rd, a graph showing the growth of the soKukunelits Robin chatroom was posted on /r/dataisbeautiful[7] (shown below).

Reddit Robin Users in "soKukunelits" 100000 Actual Users 10000 856 2072 O 1000 798 483 270 100 183 108 39 31 10 8 1 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Tier

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Overview

Robin is a week-long social experiment centered around the titular web chat interface launched by Reddit on April Fools' Day in 2016. The ongoing experiment, which allows Redditors to participate in a massively multiplayer, real-time through an IRC-style web chat client, is set to end on April 8th, 2016.

Features

When joining a Robin for the first time, Reddit users a placed in a chat session with one other person and given the chance to vote "Abandon," "Stay" or "Grow" within a specified time limit. If the majority of users in a room vote to "Grow," the chat session is merged with another room that voted to "Grow." If the majority of users vote to "Stay," a subreddit is then created with an abbreviated amalgamation of the chat user's names. When voting "Abandon," the user is removed from the chat session.


chat in benma-w353 8:42:19 AM [robin] Welcome to robin. Please type /help or Icommands for more information 8:42:19 AM Voting will end soon 8:42-19 AM [robin connecting 8:42:19 AM [robin] connected 8:42:21 AM [robin] Welcome to Robin. 8:42:22 AM Be sure to use the buttons in the sidebar to vote on the future of the room before the polls are closed 8:42:22 AM Non-votes and abstentions will be counted as votes to abandon 8:42:22 AM 8:42:25 AM /vote abandon - vote to abandon 8:42:25 AM vote stay - vote to stay 8:42:25 AM vote grow-vote to grow 8:42:25 AM /whois <user in room> - provide information about <user in room> Abandon Stay Grow We do hope vo abstentionr vote We do hope yo Allow desktop notification:s u enjoy the discussion benmangold e anon-W353 report a rule violation 842.31 AM benmangold is present and has voted to INCREASE Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy (updated).© 2016 reddit inc. All rights reserved. REDDIT and the ALIEN Logo are registered trademarks of reddit inc. π Rendered by PID 22176 on app-170 at 2016-04-01 15:42:31 .459900+00:00 running 26b0b45 country code: US

Background

The Button

On April 1st, 2015, Reddit unveiled /r/thebutton, a mysterious subreddit featuring an automatic timer that counts down from 60 seconds, accompanied by a button that any Redditor who signed up prior to the launch date can click to reset the countdown.


the button Posted by the reddit admins at 09:00 ◆4866 points) Labels: activate, bear down on, depress, operate, press, squeeze dramatization reddit When this post is 10 minutes old, a button and timer will become active at /r/thebutton. The timer will count down from 60 seconds. If the button is pressed the timer will reset to 60 seconds and continue counting down. Only users logged into accounts created before 2015-04-01 can press the button. You may only press the button once. We can't tell you what to do from here on out. The choice is yours. visit Ir/thebutton

Robin

On April 1st, 2016, the official Reddit blog[1] published a post titled “Robin,” featuring a cryptic message and a link to the site reddit.com/robin,[8] which directs users to a page containing a button with a red robin logo. Upon pressing the button, users are taken into a chat session and allowed to vote.

Notable Developments

That same day, the /r/joinrobin[3] subreddit was made public for discussions about the chat client, gathering upwards of 14,300 subscribers in the next 72 hours. Shortly after the chat was launched, Redditor iamhungrybox submitted a "Bernie or Hillary" image macro in which Sanders votes to “Grow” and Clinton votes to “Abandon” (shown below). In 72 hours, the post received more than 3,000 votes (80% upvoted) on /r/joinrobin.[4]

Online Presence

Shortly after the chat was launched, Redditor iamhungrybox submitted a Bernie or Hillary image macro in which Sanders votes to "Grow" and Clinton votes to "Abandon" (shown below). In 72 hours, the post received more than 3,000 votes (80% upvoted) on /r/joinrobin.[4]


Bernie or Hillary? Be informed. Compare them on the issues that matter. Issue: obin GROWABANDON imgfip.com

That day, Business Insider[2] published an article about the chat titled "Reddit's 'Robin' is a Brilliant Social Experiment That Pits Millions of Internet Users Against Each Other." Also on April 1st, a post asking about Robin was submitted to /r/OutOfTheLoop.[6] On April 3rd, YouTuber Aissurteivos uploaded footage of a chat session with 3,856 users (shown below).



The same day, Redditor Unicormfarts submitted a post titled "How's your Robin experience going so far, Reddit?" to /r/AskReddit,[5] where it gainved over 900 votes (76% upvoted) and 360 comments within 24 hours. Also on April 3rd, a graph showing the growth of the soKukunelits Robin chatroom was posted on /r/dataisbeautiful[7] (shown below).


Reddit Robin Users in "soKukunelits" 100000 Actual Users 10000 856 2072 O 1000 798 483 270 100 183 108 39 31 10 8 1 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Tier

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