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4chan in trouble - Martin Shkreli wants to be the new moot
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andythinkpad
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Shkreli is the Crow's Eye of 4chan's Kingsmoot.
Shkreli buying 4chan would inevitably lead to him putting a paywall on it and thus 4chan dying.
It would be a really weird thing to assimilate.
Deleting /pol/ would seem like a nice option until you remember /pol/ is a quarantine board, kill it and the scum in it spreads to the other boards or worse to other sites.
Basically, it's the beginning of the end for 4chan. Also, remember, 4chan carries the weight of some of the most vile people in the net (ie, /b/ and /pol/), kill 4chan and you unleash them back into every other site in the net.
/co/, /m/, /tg/, i will miss you.
It would be a really weird thing to assimilate.
Deleting /pol/ would seem like a nice option until you remember /pol/ is a quarantine board, kill it and the scum in it spreads to the other boards or worse to other sites.
Basically, it's the beginning of the end for 4chan. Also, remember, 4chan carries the weight of some of the most vile people in the net (ie, /b/ and /pol/), kill 4chan and you unleash them back into every other site in the net.
/co/, /m/, /tg/, i will miss you.
The containment plan failed. /pol/ has long since escaped the confines of it's boundaries. Today's political climate and the Alt-Right is proof enough. At this point it's just better it's deleted.
Permanently A
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Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
This is how supervillain teams start.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
Oh god
hydragonwarrior
Member
Could Neogaf pool enough money to buy 4chan
It shouldn't really be surprising, a lot of sites have an us vs them culture but most of the times you'll find they share a lot of users.
4chan has a lot of shitty thing, but at the end of the day, you are just observing how a lot of people act once they are not under social pressure. (Even on a forum, you are not really anonymous)
Joyful
Member
id rather have shkreli tbh
theSlacker
Member
Mite b cool. Enough money to actually buy it and clearly doesn't care about social pressure to change it if he doesn't want to.
Not to mention that it is the place where the thing he made all of his money on gained it's original popularity.
Wishful thinking.
Tudor
Member
If Martin S buys it then it really will have hit rock bottom reputation wise. I would like to see a Future MootCraft 4chan, at least he would have the resources to not have to run it into the ground.
As long as /o/ and /g/ are still around after whatever consolidation occurs I won't be too dissapointed. We all need a fix of random barely moderated filth.
/pol/ still functions to some degree thankfully, the leakages are quickly quashed with a flood of other crap.
If you went off what you hear on the news and hadn't actually been to /b/ you would assume it was a much darker place than it really is. That isn't to say that it isn't a porn filled $#|+hole but it isn't the vile putrid hole of illegal filth and bomb threats that the 6 o'clock news would have most people believe.
As long as /o/ and /g/ are still around after whatever consolidation occurs I won't be too dissapointed. We all need a fix of random barely moderated filth.
/pol/ still functions to some degree thankfully, the leakages are quickly quashed with a flood of other crap.
If you went off what you hear on the news and hadn't actually been to /b/ you would assume it was a much darker place than it really is. That isn't to say that it isn't a porn filled $#|+hole but it isn't the vile putrid hole of illegal filth and bomb threats that the 6 o'clock news would have most people believe.
Battlechili
Banned
YES
I would totally be cool with this. He used to be a 4chan regular and used to discuss the development of Minecraft and get suggestions during its beginnings. It would be very fitting.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
If /m/ bites it, I'll cry bitch tears.
DICKS AHOY
Banned
I get people's issue with Notch here but I fail to see how he'd be even remotely as bad Shkreli.
Battlechili
Banned
It seems like he's still trolling.
The meme generation of entrepreneurs.
Ones a dick, the other is a harmful dick, no contest really
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
He'd be way more likely to just let 4chan be 4chan uninhibited. which is honestly the worst case scenario.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
br0ken_shad0w
Member
Yup I'll be sad if the site ceases to exist or completely changes. The little communities within the boards make it worth visiting from time to time.
DICKS AHOY
Banned
Going off his twitter he's proposing stricter moderation of certain talk for boards to stay on topic, while going off Shkreli's twitter behaviour he'd be more likely to encourage /pol/ shittery while trying to make a quick buck off them.
I'd take Notch if I'm forced to choose.
KO Traveling Hobo
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Containment is a meme. When you give bigots a platform to stand on and a community to gather in, they will only become emboldened while drawing in more of their kind.
I mean, for years, people across the internet have been talking about what a horrible place /pol/ is and the kind of people it is home to. That's like a huge neon sign telling scumbags where the party's at.
Hiro needs to start a donation drive and axe /pol/. Removing webm support seems like the best way to throttle data costs, but I'd be worried about the fallout.
I mean, for years, people across the internet have been talking about what a horrible place /pol/ is and the kind of people it is home to. That's like a huge neon sign telling scumbags where the party's at.
Hiro needs to start a donation drive and axe /pol/. Removing webm support seems like the best way to throttle data costs, but I'd be worried about the fallout.
CalamityPixel
Member
Notch really would be one of the best potential co-owners.
If it wasn't for /v/ Minecraft wouldn't be where it is today.
If it wasn't for /v/ Minecraft wouldn't be where it is today.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
install gentoo
God Dayumm
Banned
Porn is bad in 2016
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
I don't know anything about him other than that he created Minecraft. Has Notch always been a scumbag?
Yeah but he's only recently had the free time to be one publicly.
Subpar Spatula
Banned
I went to /b/ just now and the first thing I saw was "post pics of teens that make your dicks diamonds part 2"
Added to that is super casual homophobia, misogyny, racism, etc. and that makes it a vile board.
Battlechili
Banned
It appears Notch just deleted all his twitter posts from the past few days
EDIT: Make that months
EDIT: Make that months
Battlechili
Banned
The Undertale and Freedom Planet generals that used to be gave me the impression that the opposite holds true
Googly Eyes Dog
Banned
A shame Notch ain't doing it, he has literally billions sitting around. Paying for a site like 4chan would be mere pocket change to him. Plus /v/ is partially responsible for his success.
hydragonwarrior
Member
C'mon, just a bit more optimism. If we each pitched in a sixpence, we could at least buy a piece of 4chan.
Well, atleast the generals I look from time to time are good.
Mostly strategy games and jrpgs
Lionel Richie
Member
Used to browse /v/ a lot, for whatever reason I loved those friday threads about shit that you would do. It made me feel good that another week of work was done and it was time to relax. But god fucking damnit the people there are really angry all the time. It truly is a sight to behold being able to say whatever the shit you want without the risk of getting the living shit beaten out of you, and complete anonymity makes that even more extreme.
Anthropologically it's a very interesting place.
Anthropologically it's a very interesting place.
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