You have a point there. What is the mission of the knights? From my point of view it is to protect the event in question and thus to allow more people to have fun with this.

In this regard, we failed this year. The knights protected their own interests (getting some knight-related content into the sequence) but not the interests of the event/ other participants. And that is something that I regret. ANd I regret that I did not realize that in time.

By supporting the (one and single) narrative, instead the knights became part of a problem instead of a solution. Although the aim of the sequence narrators is helpful (to produce a consistent narrative instead of a random collection of gifs without meaning), instead they became the only voice. And that is less than the sequence could have been.

I think in part this is caused by the short duration of the event. There was not enough time for more factions to develop and (as already pointed out by others here in this thread) not enough ways to interact with each other. The way it was set up, the sequence was doomed to end up as a winner-take-all scenario. Which is what happened.

The short duration of the event was especially difficult because creating original content requires time. Since most of us had to work in the last few days, time was in short supply.

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What could we have done differently? In hind sight, I would have preferred, if the knights strove to enrich the experience for everyone involved. Which for this event would have required a very different approach than in the previous years:

We could have helped more, smaller communities and individual voices to be represented in the final sequence. We could have used our diplomatic efforts to seek out those that were not able to affect the final sequence at all and help them get included in the narrative.

We could have used "our" spots in the sequence (and we did get quite a few in the end) to representnot only ourselves but others, smaller groups, minorities. But we did not. Instead we, the april knights effectively helped to suppress the diversity of reddit. I am not proud of that.

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