> When you press the button, it leads you to a page with a button that says "participate". Pressing this button puts you in an IRC chat with another user. Along with being able to chat, there are three buttons to press. These are Abandon, Stay, and Grow. This is actually a voting system. When joining a room, a small text will be output by the server saying how long you have to vote, calculated by 2level - 1 and output in minutes. The vote runs on majority rule.

> When the timer runs out:

> If you voted Abandon, you will be kicked from the room. You can hit the participate button again to start from the beginning.

> If the majority voted Abandon, everyone is kicked from the room.

> If the majority voted Stay, the room is closed and a new subreddit is created, with the name of the chat room being the sub name. Up to 5 random people in the room are granted moderator permissions in this sub. It should be noted that the chat room name is a mashup of the current room users.

> If the majority voted Grow, they will be merged with another group of about the same size in a new chat room. You can vote again from there. Every time it grows, the "level" variable from earlier goes up by one.

From https://m.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/4cwi9o/whats_up....

Basically it's another Reddit social experiment.