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From the BBC article:

> A five-second rule was introduced at one stage to try to bring some order as several players typed commands at the same time. Whichever command was typed the most over a five-second period was carried out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26240191

Unsure what happened to it, though.

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People were generally opposed because it felt like "cheating". I'm sort of on this side -- I think the "anarchy" experiment is pretty fun to watch, though I do think a "democracy" experiment would be interesting to run separately.

The stream can now vote between the two modes and it'll switch if one receives enough votes.

The voting interval made the game too slow to be enjoyable, so players rebelled by spamming the start button until the creator rolled back the change.

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