We’re taking a number of actions on bots and scripts to open more space for everyone to participate. While we did anticipate bots, this year a lot of the action is actually script assisted real users and they are frustratingly difficult to detect. We will continue to work on mitigating usage.

As a reminder, using a script to automate your participation in Place is against our first rule about automated activity. A simple overlay is fine, but using automated clicks is an unfair advantage and can prevent people from making new contributions. It’s natural for a collaborative, active project like r/place to change and evolve over time. Take a moment to read our canvas rules here or below:

• r/place is for human collaboration. Automated activity is subject to removal.
• Be creative, have fun, and give everyone room to create on the canvas.
• Participate in good faith. r/place is a SFW community and comments, posts, and pixels should add to the overall experience, not to subtract from it.
• Remember the human by abiding by r/place’s community rules and following Reddit’s Content Policy. Targeted hate or harassment of private individuals and protected groups are violations of our policy (Rule 1) and will be removed. In addition, posts, comments, and imagery that are hateful, graphic, sexually-explicit, and/or offensive are violations of our policy (Rule 6) and will be removed.

And finally, to top this pixel placing announcement off, the canvas has been expanded again.