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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 Mikeb85 »

hyperdunc wrote: post #47
douche wrote: post #39

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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...

Was it not the Mayans who predicted some kind of cataclysm? But yeah, I agree it's ridiculous how the Clinton campaign took the bait and now apparently a cartoon frog is a "hate symbol".

Well, they also think 4chan is a person... ("The hacker known as 4chan" - which has become a meme on its own)

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

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Post by rconti »

acqq wrote: post #95
rhaps0dy wrote: post #32

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I think the money was totally worth it, just for the fun we all had. It's a lot of people having fun. Although maybe the people who don't know about this (thus couldn't have fun) shouldn't have paid for it :\

So was it really financed from the tax money of Europeans? If it was, I am really sad. Then the authors shouldn't be proud of such an "achievement." If it was generated by the 4chan regulars with their own money, then at least it's not worth discussing it more here...

It makes me sad that every time any kind of research is done, someone has to denigrate it as a waste of money.

While I don't care about "chan" culture (never visited one of the sites, don't need that in my life), I fully support research into things I may or may not like. Let the Universities decide where to spend their research budgets. You never know what will come out of it.

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

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Post by nv-vn »

qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #62
nv-vn wrote: post #54

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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.

Lainchan actually seems like a genuinely interesting site, with a better signal:noise ration than 4chan. Thanks for the link.

It's very nice, however much too inactive for most people to use regularly.

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

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Post by coldpie »

dylanfw wrote: post #49
hacker42 wrote: post #23

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Remember that arXiv is just pre-print and the last page if not the entire paper is probably nothing more than a lame/distasteful joke. Remember that any nutbag who knows a little English and LaTeX can publish on arXiv. It will likely not make it into a journal.

Seeing "LaTeX" (lay-tech) and "arXiv" together in your sentence made me finally realize that arXiv is pronounced "archive". I've been reading it as "arx-iv" for years.

Took me a long time to figure out that NGINX is not supposed to be spelled out.

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

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Post by coldpie »

vidarh wrote: post #81
dylanfw wrote: post #49

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Seeing "LaTeX" (lay-tech) and "arXiv" together in your sentence made me finally realize that arXiv is pronounced "archive". I've been reading it as "arx-iv" for years.

Archive is spelled "arkiv" in several languages, and the etymology goes back (via latin) to the Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon), so it's a quite clever name.

Where "clever" is a synonym for "needlessly unintuitive." Not that I'm complaining.

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

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Post by totony »

acqq wrote: post #95
rhaps0dy wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the money was totally worth it, just for the fun we all had. It's a lot of people having fun. Although maybe the people who don't know about this (thus couldn't have fun) shouldn't have paid for it :\

So was it really financed from the tax money of Europeans? If it was, I am really sad. Then the authors shouldn't be proud of such an "achievement." If it was generated by the 4chan regulars with their own money, then at least it's not worth discussing it more here...

Or Europe should stop giving away their taxpayers money :)

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

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Post by gragas »

colordrops wrote: post #80
jmcgough wrote: post #74

I've been really surprised how influential /pol/ has been this election, which has been really weird and a little scary. It's not uncommon to post something on 4chan stating that you have inside information on events that are going to happen over the next few days (which is fiction 99.9% of the time). Posts like this in /pol/ have been getting screenshotted and spread elsewhere on the web, where alt-right conspiracy…

/pol/ uncovered the Paul Combetta posts on Reddit. So it's not all bullshit. Its crazy that they had enough of an effect to get the head of the FBI grilled by a house committee.

I was in the original thread and got screens of Combetta's history before he deleted it. I see /pol/ as one of the last bastions of political discussion that's not flooded with liberal propaganda, though that has been changing lately with CTR.

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

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Post by sotojuan »

Pigo wrote: post #43
the8472 wrote: post #37

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I speculate that the ban on raids had a much bigger impact. Before that they were used for all kinds of things, mostly to cause mischief, occasionally even for a good purpose, e.g. op chanology. So this might have tied up and channeled a lot of the mischievous energy of the more active users. Now that it's banned we get more informal, less organized hit-and-run harassment.

I miss the BattleToads threads, especially when they would record their calls to the Pawn Stars and GameStop stores. Or just visiting 4chanarchive to watch drama unfold in some previously massive thread. There just isn't anything like it on the Internet still, as far as I'm aware. Unless you enjoy a 'LIK DIS IF YOU CRY EVERTIM' Facebook post.

Last thing I remember being like that was the Baneposting raid on a Reddit AMA.
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