Bounceounce
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I think Moot wants complete separation from 4chan at this point.
Especially with his new job at Google.
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Especially with his new job at Google.
they would invade downwards, not up. end up at 8chan like gamergate did
No shit. My point is: Moot never told Hiro the entire story of why he wanted out. He was getting tired of having to foot the bill for 4chan. It's been known to old-school 4channer's that the bills were exploding in terms of cost and how many servers were needed for the constantly increasing userbase. Moot has to be commended for balancing that, but he never told Hiro and Hiro figured (with his 2chan experience) he could keep it afloat but western users are totally different than Japanese users.
WHOOSH goes my point over your head.
People are going "DELETE /pol/! NOTHING OF VALUE LOST!" when the point is: They'd go to /b/ or /v/ or /tv/ and post threads there to the point that mods can't keep up. Got nothing to do with splinter channels.
SenorArdilla
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if mods can't keep up, then you get more mods
Waddle Dee
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It'd be for the best if the whole site evaporated...
MidgarBlowedUp
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4chan is a double edged sword. It is free speech, to an extent, you just have to wade through the 90% of trash to find anything worth reading.
I learned more about investing in a month browsing /biz/ than I did a year on Reddit. I assume it's because how places like Reddit are so badly moderated.
But yes, we don't need a lot of the 4chan boards, but I wouldn't remove everything. Again there is some value in 4chan. Lurk Moar.
I learned more about investing in a month browsing /biz/ than I did a year on Reddit. I assume it's because how places like Reddit are so badly moderated.
But yes, we don't need a lot of the 4chan boards, but I wouldn't remove everything. Again there is some value in 4chan. Lurk Moar.
Pop-O-Matic
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Shkreli is basically the hero 4chan deserves: A young sociopath who cares about nothing besides his own entertainment, and will ruin the lives of countless others just to amuse himself. The only thing that separates him from an average 4chan user is his fat stacks of cash.
Coreda
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There are some occasional gems. It's funny how various creations/clips will be posted here without mentioning they originate from 4chan and will be enjoyed yet people will still post how the board is nothing but trash. And not the obvious 4chan style stuff, either, sometimes just humorous things someone has clipped that no one else has noticed. The rest of the junk is what comes with being an anonymous, barely moderated, image board but there is still value in anonymity.
BTW Shkreli copying spreadsheet data by hand in Excel is something else. Was linked to it on Hacker News.
The people in charge of internet message boards all go absentee or sell out due to the stresses and drama and hopeless daily battles against entropy, and no one manages to keep them financially stable while preserving community identity, growth, usability and effective moderation.
Probably just an impossible proposal from the start, though. I mean, the internet has all those anonymous mean people with high expectations, no one wants to spend money or even allow ads to load, and there are so many complex social dynamics to understand and shape, technical challenges...golly. Where would you even start?
Probably just an impossible proposal from the start, though. I mean, the internet has all those anonymous mean people with high expectations, no one wants to spend money or even allow ads to load, and there are so many complex social dynamics to understand and shape, technical challenges...golly. Where would you even start?
Brutalitops
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Buy 4chan pls
Pinko Marx
Banned
Evi you can #Make4ChanGreatAgain.
I believe in you.
Systolique
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Joyful
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somethingawful route, charge for membership,avatars,etc
edit: also ghost song looks like a really cool game
Permanently A
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I'm pretty sure /v/ would lose its collective shit if you were to buy 4chan. They fucking HATE this place.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
/pol/ is not containment. It is an organization for those people. Take it away and they have no place to organize raiding other boards. There was far less cuck shit, racist shit, and Jewish conspiracy shit on 4chan before /pol/ was brought back.
Brutalitops
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4chan has tons of awesome communities. Their tech, food and science boards are amazing for this, and their automotive board helped me decide to pursue a motorbike licence.
Frozenprince
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/r9k/ used to be a more fun /b/. Idk where it went wrong
It stopped being funny absurdist stories and started being about people with profound mental health issues.
AcademicSaucer
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I remember the "me too" thread on neogaf too, man that shit was embarrassing, people being total creeps posting social network photos of the dudes from the treehouse.
I can get my CV up to date, maybe do some volunteer work and organize a few charity fundraisers, you know, demonstrate the necessary values and standards for leading a high profile community website visited by millions of people worldwide like 4chan, but even if I were to manage all that convincingly and get through the door, how would buying 4chan work? What do I get paid for buying 4chan?
Can I ask for regular additions to my Encyclopedia Dramatica article? What about a weekly meme creation event using my latest photo ops, preferably incorporating Hitler or even a rotation of notable authoritarian villains? Or would that kind of stuff be too vain and presumptuous to bring up? Help me out here, GAF. I get pretty nervous in high pressure situations and don't want to fuck up my chances against that HIV medication profiteer.
Pinko Marx
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My question is where and how did the shift happen.
Pinko Marx
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Consider it charity and helping the internet at large by cleaning up one of its historic sites. 🙃
In return those that are left on 4chan and aren't completely repulsed by yoi will love and worship you forever. Look where it got m00t. What could go wrong?
Brutalitops
Banned
Yeah I don't know why they don't try this. The NEETs gotta spend their hard earned bux on something.
pelicansurf
Needs a Holiday on Gallifrey
So many memes.
FantasticMrSnake
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So, what happen with Shkreli? was he serious? who is it? never hear of him before.
Led_Zeppelin
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Well seeing how Google failed to launch a social network that isn't crap or a desert, I would guess Moot is only working there because of his experience with 4Chan. But then again I doubt he truly understand why 4Chan thrived so much over the years while other boards of similar nature that also copied Futaba never survived beyond a year, with some exceptions.
Just remove the gif boards, that content can be found elsewhere and are the most resource heavy ones.
And for the people that hate 4chan, I think you hate the general concept of what it means and what it has become in some places, but evading the shitposting and trolling you have some of the best boards on the web.
For example there is no better place to discuss Mecha on the whole Internet than /m/, if 4chan were to shut down theres not a substitute out there. And I suppose the same happens with other boards.
And for the people that hate 4chan, I think you hate the general concept of what it means and what it has become in some places, but evading the shitposting and trolling you have some of the best boards on the web.
For example there is no better place to discuss Mecha on the whole Internet than /m/, if 4chan were to shut down theres not a substitute out there. And I suppose the same happens with other boards.
Deft Beck
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Cleaning up 4chan is completely impossible.
They're creating the meme bubble that has kept the internet alive.
KO Traveling Hobo
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You'd get your very own moeblob avatar with accompanying fanart.
What more could anyone want?
What? That's the only decent board on the whole site.
Herbspiceguy
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Dude sure knows how to stay in the spotlights.
chaobreaker
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/pol/ and post-gamergate /v/ drove me away from 4chan and got me to register on GAF but I still hold a small torch for /a/ and /vg/.
Martin Shkreli starts Twitter feuds with Patton Oswalt and Stephen Colbert and calls them libtards. He's an unhinged dork always looking for his extra fifteen minutes of fame. Would make for a terrible owner.
Martin Shkreli starts Twitter feuds with Patton Oswalt and Stephen Colbert and calls them libtards. He's an unhinged dork always looking for his extra fifteen minutes of fame. Would make for a terrible owner.
Zelenogorsk
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Life without /tv/ would be suffering.
Bounceounce
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This sounds incredibly salty.
Are you bitter about the way Moots tenure on 4chan ended up?
chaobreaker
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Ugh
Gormless Noodle
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It's practically the womb of the Alt-Right, it's RIDICULOUS how much influence they actually have. So I would definitely say they "matter", even if it's for some of the worst things this political season.
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