r/place A fruit fly for organization science

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Figure specification

Target length: under 1,300 words. The controller draws the figure from the unchanged typed model and propositions. No hand-edited drawing is an analytical source.

Boxes and scope

Eight elements remain because separating goal adoption, specification, entry questions, exposure response, retrospective value, capacity assessment, fixed closure and a participant outcome report prevents unsupported mergers. This is a partial relational process model, not one connected causal chain. There is no empirically grounded loop or universal middle-stage mediator.

P01 (process): Proposing and explicitly accepting a common White Bear undertaking. Range: Initial goal proposal and acceptance in E-02; not a settled final design, inherited goal or all subreddit members.

P02 (process): Making the proposed work joinable through small designs, shared patterns and locations. Range: E-02 specifications and E-05 conditional scale debate; not execution or an optimal design.

P03 (process): Asking where and how to join the existing work. Range: Location and maintenance-entry requests in E-02 and E-05; no guarantee of reply or contribution.

P04 (process): Distinguishing overlap to accommodate from interference to resist or contact. Range: E-03 rainbow proposals and E-05 purple/contact reports; counterparts' agreement and resulting survival not verified.

P05 (process): Claiming final contributions and valuing making despite remembered losses. Range: Retrospective accounts in E-07; not all aftermath speech, prospective reward or proven durable memory.

K01 (condition): Participants describe too few helpers or too much maintenance for larger ambitions. Range: Stated capacity assessments in E-02/E-05, not an independently measured workforce.

K02 (condition): Original r/place placement is no longer available at closure. Range: Independent H73 boundary plus retrospective interruption testimony; new venues remain possible.

C01 (claim): Private contact is reported to stop addressed vandals while random purple placement continues. Range: A single participant's bounded report in E-05, not verified causal effect or complete cessation.

Arrows, instances and propositions

A01: K01 to P02, carried by N01. co-occurrence, fair, codes-read. Mechanism: Making upkeep and helper limits explicit restricts what size participants recommend or treat as feasible. Scope: Participant-level assessments of feasible plans, not a demonstrated optimal scale or subsequent uptake. Instance: "EDIT2: I added a much smaller version of this picture, with its measurements, underneath the larger image. I think that one will still be visible, and be far easier to make and maintain." (c0014, item dfoxud5, thread 62s5if, oHVsyeaY/1c+HArySkXaDsD14gM=, H22.275, cite6734). "Once we clear a large enough area maybe write r/blackmirror so people can help with the phone? Until then, I'm not sure how effective 3 folks will be aside from making small ones." (c0029, item dfp25cs, thread 62s5if, K8FrAKwjV0LGh2qPhrmDrMLXHZc=, H24.073055555555555, cite5746). "Yeah that seems like a good idea, we'd need larger numbers though. We're struggling to maintain what we have at the moment." (c0051, item dfq9cbo, thread 62zxr8, HvV9clLEkhXnU09KzzP8rTOgqQc=, H46.93083333333333, cite6736).

A02: P03 to P02, carried by N02. transition, fair, codes-read. Mechanism: An explicit entry question gives another contributor a concrete occasion to restate where and what the shared work is. Scope: Observed answered requests in E-02 only; asking does not guarantee that someone answers or joins. Instance: "I'm willing to help, where is the official logo going to go?" (c0031, item dfp38tw, thread 62s5if, CUNg/rRwlRuk5rtFj2KQBsvCXhU=, H24.504166666666666, cite6738). "I think the plan right now is to start out with a group of logos in this area." (c0032, item dfp3wra, thread 62s5if, K8FrAKwjV0LGh2qPhrmDrMLXHZc=, H24.77027777777778, cite5750).

A03: P04 to C01, carried by N03. transition, thin, coder-stated. Mechanism: Addressing particular identifiable vandals privately is reported to interrupt those vandals' interference, without reaching other placers. Scope: The private-contact mode of P04 and the addressed vandals only; one uncorroborated participant attribution. Instance: "Vandals overnight, I PM'd them and they've stopped. Randoms are still pushing the purple though." (c0052, item dfq9oq4, thread 62zxr8, HvV9clLEkhXnU09KzzP8rTOgqQc=, H47.081944444444446, cite6744).

A04: K02 to P05, carried by N04. order, fair, codes-read. Mechanism: Losing the ability to place makes that attempt terminal on the original canvas; later testimony accounts for it as completed participation. Scope: Original-canvas placement and the observed retrospective sequence only, not all organizing or the cause of enjoyment. Instance: "I did that. Got a message "you can place a tile" went to place some more black and couldn't get on the site. Then seconds later place was over." (c0057, item dfssjhw, thread 63ahf5, id5388uDDIYiP5TXVudiwsxxk+4=, H82.55194444444444, cite6750). "Edit- not bragging just found r/place so much fun. The white bear logo was looking good, then next time I got on half were purple. So I started working on fixing some. That was late here at night (est). Woke up, checked it out, everything was gone. Looked like someone was writing "salami". Tried again making logos around the three black lines under the salami "I" and kept getting overtaken. Tried that corner it's in and started moving along and was slapped in my face with "it's over". Hope r/place comes along again!" (c0058, item dfssjhw, thread 63ahf5, id5388uDDIYiP5TXVudiwsxxk+4=, H82.55194444444444, cite6754). "I had a good time doing it too! :D" (c0061, item dfsyng9, thread 63ahf5, K8FrAKwjV0LGh2qPhrmDrMLXHZc=, H85.04555555555555, cite5780).

The H73 imposed terminus is K02, original placement no longer available. A04 is order plus stated interruption, not closure causing pleasure or ending action elsewhere. A03 carries one participant's attribution and must retain its thin status; the diagram cannot convert it to a verified intervention. Every retained arrow has a proposition and an exact coded quote. None uses a support_transition record. All theorised flags are false, so the controller's with-theorised and without-theorised variants should be identical.

What the figure leaves out

No arrow connects P01 to all later conduct. Guidance-to-uptake, maintenance-to-survival, pleasure-to-earlier-labor and collective repair feedback remain ungrounded. No arrow was dropped for lack of a proposition. The unpicked t01, t05 and t08 remain in the data structure and account. The figure omits joking and evaluative register that a topic label alone could hide. It does not display new-venue referral as a counterexample to original-canvas terminality. There is no community carrying-rate count on its arrows: this room's nonfrequency relations travel on the stated episodes and words under the room's count rule; episode units are not a prevalence denominator.

Reading the controller image

The generated image is a two-column relational lattice with tagged arrows, not a connected mediating process or a full process cycle. Its disconnected P01 records local adoption without a licensed outgoing relation. K02 is the imposed H73 terminus; the renderer prints closure rather than the numeric hour inside that box, so this caption belongs with the image. All lines are visually solid: line appearance does not grade evidence. A03/N03 remains thin participant attribution, while A04/N04 remains bounded order. The eight boxes and four connections agree with the typed sources. The controller supplied one source-bound PNG; its variant pair has no substantive difference because no proposition is theorised. No separately drawn variant or independent reader score is claimed.