Anarchy and Blaseball and Community Development
summary
Blaseball is a web app at blaseball.com that the Game Band designs to co-create with its community, backed by a large Discord, a wiki, and GitHub projects; Core Mechanics’ Discord lists about 814 players in Core Mechanics Discord and the ecosystem produces 42 Bandcamp albums and fan art. The community builds tools (Society for Internet Baseball Research on GitHub), runs ranked choice voting and opt-in spoilers, uses a temp-check bot with reactions to enforce safety, and channels merch sales to charity (over 90,000 CAD donated since season 5).
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:22What is Blaseball
- 7:45Anarchy in Blaseball
- 10:55Paradox of Tolerance
- 13:02Community Safety Tools
- 16:10Team Organization
- 17:57League Collaboration
- 20:12Season 13 Story
- 22:20Unions and Community Power
- 23:46Call to Action
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