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Re: Chris Poole

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> There aren’t many who understand the Internet like Chris. > (...) I am talking about the social architecture of > the Internet. I think i'm not the only one interested in how Chris understands the internet. Maybe he should write a book.

It would probably be the only book in existence to correctly explain what 'Anonymous' is. I'd read it.

Are there other books out now? Why do they fail at explaining it? I doubt that Poole is the only one in the world that really understands what 'Anonymous' is.

Re: Chris Poole

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Your comment is entirely speculative pessimism. Please leave the trolling to 4chan.

Out of consideration for all parties involved I only included enough detail to give a big picture sense of what those events entailed, but rest assured that they were pretty well documented at the time. Take home message is that the users got very personal at the end of moot's tenure.

>Take home message is that the users got very personal at the end of moot's tenure.

Yet, when he left, users from the most popular boards (and even separate imageboards!) made thousands of drawings, wrote songs and made videos to thank him and say farewell. I think the number of people that liked him vastly outnumbered those who legitimately hated him.

Re: Chris Poole

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I don't blame Chris for selling in the slightest and I'm happy that he's been able to let go, but I kind of wish he had found somebody a little more likeminded to take over the place. Chris has always been an excellent citizen of his own community, and always seemed to really "get" what made a lot of the community work. Other than one incident at the end of his tenure, "m00t" was always very well-loved (for somebody…

>Hiroyuki Nishimura's past doesn't really suggest the same sort of community-mindedness. That's putting it lightly. http://www.anonymous-japan.org/fake2ch/ Japanese netizens absolutely loathe him on a level that makes westerners' mixed feelings toward moot seem glowing in comparison. https://imgur.com/a/o8ruh Here's what the current lead developer of 2ch (@CodeMonkeyZ) thinks Hiroyuki's plans for 4chan are: http://pa…

Excuse my lack of knowledge but what kind of useful (valuable) data can one mine from an anonymous site? Why would anyone care about 4chans search statistics? Thanks

Re: Chris Poole

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post #116

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No, people think that because it's bigger than everything else put together, the fountainhead of the site's culture, and is the source of virtually everything notable that's ever happened there.

>everything notable cough gamergate started on /v/ cough But I get what you're saying. /b/ really is the largest board. In a way it's meant to be the containment board, or the moat around the castle. It's where all the shit goes, so it doesn't pollute the rest of the site. And oh boy, is the internet full of shit.

* raises hand *

What's /b/? Because I don't know 4chan and have been assiduously avoiding learning anything about it.

Re: Chris Poole

#155
Can someone explain the comments on the linked page? Is that a new sort of robots posting nonsense and replying to one another? OR is it an 4chan elaborate joke? That's the first time I see that.

Re: Chris Poole

#156
post #26

Good points, but a minor pet peeve: It's moot, not Chris. Maybe Chris Poole, but again, probably moot. Has been moot. Always will be moot. Are you friends with him? Do you have lunch with him? Do you work with him? In all odds, no. It's really quite annoying seeing people refer to people by the first names like they actually are familiar with them. Were you a fan of Steve? Ever go on walks with Zuck? Seriously, it's…

I bet that's something nobody on 4chan ever wasted a single thought on.

Actually someone did

>>Do you prefer Chris, Christopher, moot, mootykins, or some other nickname. (In public obviously).

>Chris IRL, moot online.

https://archive.moe/q/thread/176519/#177568 (Warning, may be very heavy to load.)

Re: Chris Poole

#157
post #62

Chris did a great job. Unrelated though, it will be interesting to see how the new owner handles 4chan. 2ch is almost entire run but pron ads and ads for very scammy looking companies.

Especially for people with 4chan pass, hope what happened to 2ch users won't happen to them - http://www.japancrush.com/2013/stories/huge-leak-of-2ch-user...

Right now the pass payments are processed by Stripe so I doubt the same could happen.

Re: Chris Poole

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>primarily due to seeing the kind of place you get when the barrier for entry is non existent. you think reddit's bad, try 4chan! I was 4chan "janitor" (lesser-mod) for 18 months or so and I agree, these sorts of positions really twist your perception of the community you're moderating. When you're buried in reports -- and these are 4chan reports, which means not just spam, but gore, cp, raids, etc. -- it becomes all…

> you think reddit's bad, try 4chan! I honestly don't think the two are even comparable. Moderating a large subreddit on reddit is infinitely harder and more complex than 4chan. Some of the larger subreddits see more pageviews than the entirety of 4chan. Moving beyond that, moderators on 4chan are completely anonymous unless they choose to be known. This isn't the case with reddit. Moderators often have to have a lon…

They'll still figure out who you are and harass you. It's an added dynamic that just doesn't exist with moderation on 4chan

No, 4chan just generates and targets harassment against other identifiable people instead, including those not on 4chan, and the moderators are complicit in this harassment by not removing threads organizing it.

Re: Chris Poole

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By "honesty", I think the GP meant that people get to act like assholes when they want to act like assholes, rather than feeling like they have to hold in their feelings based on how an outburst might affect their reputation. Those same people then go on to have perfectly friendly and nice conversations (or at least the bar-room-poking-fun equivalent) in other threads. To me, that seems pretty "honest": you get to se…

The culture on 4chan is such that people are actively encouraged to be assholes more frequently. They start to play their role. That’s not honesty, that’s performance. I think you are completely ignoring the impact culture has on behavior. This notion that people somehow hold it in if they are not mean to one another and that they would actually and in all honesty rather scream at each other – that’s such a foreign c…

It's true. But in a sense, everything is an act: the behaviors that might sometimes feel a little phony in adulthood, but are still easily maintained with only the barest hint of conscious thought, were completely unknown in infancy, but, as we witnessed them thousands to literal millions of times, were eventually engraved so thoroughly into our pattern recognition systems that we can no longer make any true conception of being without them. Indeed, phoniness marks the tip of the iceberg: nurture affects to some extent all morality, emotion, and logic, even those aspects that seem the most pure and natural; true, we can deduce from evidence like universality among cultures, the behavior of animals, evolutionary principles, etc. that some of it is truly hardcoded into our genes, but there are no sharp boundaries...

Not that any of that is a bad thing. But in a sense, 4chan is a simulation of what we could all really, honestly be like in a different environment - to the extent it's fueled by acting, it's just compensating for the fact that nobody is raised there from birth.

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