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A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by ivarious »

kakarot wrote: post #48
ivarious wrote: post #29

It's rather disappointing that the authors didn't talk about the biggest thing that has reshaped discussion in 4chan since years. The reply indicator. For people who don't go to 4chan, you can read it on http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-here-s-your-you . Basically, if someone else replied to your post, the post pointer will show a (You) word, showing that the poster replied to a post that you wrote. Moreover, the po…

Posts linking their replies in the header has been a feature for a very, very long time. This doesn't have the negative impact you think it does. It's not a post rating system, and only trolls and candyasses pay attention to the number of replies on your post. There isn't any kind of long-term karma game like on other sites. 4chan is still content-heavy and shit posts are still looked down upon by the larger communit…

>Posts linking their replies in the header has been a feature for a very, very long time.

Before, that was add-on/userscript feature. Since moot adopted them into 4chan's codebase, everyone has it.

>only trolls and candyasses pay attention to the number of replies on your post

Exactly. This feature encourages and rewards trolls and people who fish for replies.

>There isn't any kind of long-term karma game like on other sites. 4chan is still content-heavy and shit posts are still looked down upon by the larger community.

The dynamic of the discussion changes though. Even a slight nod matters in a long run considering that 4chan's culture evolves in a very rapid pace, thanks to its ephemerality and anonymity.

>

Come on.

Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by Paul_S »

bhaumik wrote: post #44
SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This means every one is simply judged by what ideas they create and I think thats a beautiful thing. And it drives higher quality content because of it. Most people do not realize that a lot of the popular memes and internet jokes shared on more mainstream platforms originally came from the "chan" culture. To your point though the high quality content is often difficult to find in the cesspool of low-quality spam on…

Besides memes and internet jokes, what are examples of high quality content created (or originating) from the "chan" culture?

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Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by nv-vn »

NietTim wrote: post #5

Can someone explain to me why they keep focussing on 4chan and not 'chans' in general? AFAIK 8chan's /pol/ has had a bigger impact this time around because they censor less. (Not censoring doxx information and such)

All the chans have pretty different culture. For example, 8chan seems to have a higher rate of reddit cross-posting. Lainchan, as another example, is meant to be closer to older 4chan culture and has very few users who are "new" to chans.

Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by NotaSockPuppet8 »

Joeboy wrote: post #41
Senji wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was that one time when posters from the Syria general thread helped by looking up images on google earth and had an artillery strike directed.

Can you (or somebody) explain this? It sounds interesting but I don't understand exactly what that sentence means.

It appears I can only find a version that has experienced some jpeg rot, but it should still be good enough to do the explaining:

https://my.mixtape.moe/lnuyms.jpg

Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by dogma1138 »

douche wrote: post #39
dogma1138 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rare Pepe is the "name" of the meme as far as the subject specific custom pepe images/shops go. But I still can't believe that there is a research paper out there where there is a section which describes the researcher's "collection" of rare pepe memes with visual aide samples.

I can't believe that a presidential candidate prominently featured a page on their website attacking a stupid internet meme. I think the Aztecs fudged their calculations somehow, and it was really supposed to be 2016...

Or maybe they knew all along http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/077/485/576...

Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by Kristine1975 »

bhaumik wrote: post #44
SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This means every one is simply judged by what ideas they create and I think thats a beautiful thing. And it drives higher quality content because of it. Most people do not realize that a lot of the popular memes and internet jokes shared on more mainstream platforms originally came from the "chan" culture. To your point though the high quality content is often difficult to find in the cesspool of low-quality spam on…

Besides memes and internet jokes, what are examples of high quality content created (or originating) from the "chan" culture?

The visual novel (think "Choose your own adventure with graphics") Katawa Shoujo, while not made by anons, has its origins on 4chan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katawa_Shoujo#Creation

Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by 3dk »

Joeboy wrote: post #41
Senji wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was that one time when posters from the Syria general thread helped by looking up images on google earth and had an artillery strike directed.

Can you (or somebody) explain this? It sounds interesting but I don't understand exactly what that sentence means.

Here you go: http://imgur.com/gallery/5P1N1GI

Summary: 4 chan users identified a training site of ISIS and pinpointed it on google maps. One of the users knows a friend of the Russian Minister of Defense and sent him the information, resulting in an air strike.

Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by flgr »

ivarious wrote: post #29

It's rather disappointing that the authors didn't talk about the biggest thing that has reshaped discussion in 4chan since years. The reply indicator. For people who don't go to 4chan, you can read it on http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-here-s-your-you . Basically, if someone else replied to your post, the post pointer will show a (You) word, showing that the poster replied to a post that you wrote. Moreover, the po…

Interestingly, Facebook's algorithms also reward activity which has the effect of bubbling up group posts with a lot of drama.
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