[haskaalo]

During the first version of /r/place, there was some mechanism in place to reduce the use of bots such as a CAPTCHA and not allowing newly created accounts to place pixels.

However, this year I feel like they gave up on all of that simply to gain more users.

[blamazon]

Notably, Reddit is planning to IPO this year. [1]

[1] https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-announces-confidential...

[toper-centage]

That explains why they allowed new accounts to participate. There were probably hundreds of thousands of new bot accounts created over the weekend.

[yreg]

Also hundreds of thousands human accounts as well to be fair. Whether they will stick around remains to be seen.

[MonkeyIsNull]

oh no.

[KennyBlanken]

There was a reddit admin using both their admin power (no cooldown) and a bot.

The whole thing jumped the shark, big time.