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

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Post by gonehome »

flgr wrote: post #60
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.

I think this is just how stories get more attention naturally.

For a more detailed explanation: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/

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Post by astrodust »

niftich wrote: post #120
astrodust wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Giving military "intel" from 4chan is absolutely insane. These were the same people that thought they'd conclusively identified the Boston Marathon bomber, but were totally wrong.

I'm pretty sure that was Reddit [1] [1] http://wayback.archive-it.org/3649/20130422194045/http://www...

I'm sure 4chan is held to a higher standard.

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Post by AvenueIngres »

astrodust wrote: post #118
AvenueIngres wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I occasionally lurk on 4chan (in particular /sg/ since they aggregate lots of data regarding the Syrian civil war) and I witnessed this one particular event first hand. Now I understand that this is not a verifiable source but I found this as well, that sums-up the whole thing: http://2static.fjcdn.com/pictures/4chan+pol+sg+orders+an+air... I don't think you will be able to find anything better than that to "prove" i…

Giving military "intel" from 4chan is absolutely insane. These were the same people that thought they'd conclusively identified the Boston Marathon bomber, but were totally wrong.

It's not like they could send UAVs to verify if the claims are legit? It's literally written on the screenshot that the Russians sent drones; and Ivan is obviously a Russian intelligence officer. Breathe!

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Post by dhimes »

verandaguy wrote: post #89
eclyps19 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really not pronounced "lay-tecks"? Damn, I've been pronouncing that incorrectly for years, then.

Originally, a TeX user would've been called a TeXnician, which, according to Don Knuth, would be pronounced the same as "technician."

Yes- it comes from the same root.

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Post by AvenueIngres »

astrodust wrote: post #119
3dk wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is disturbing to say the least. Which group of "rebels" is this? There's a lot of factions here in play, some of which are downright scary, but others of which are just fighting to survive. Not that 4chan cares about these things. They just want to see people blown up.

>Not that 4chan cares about these things. They just want to see people blown up.

You understand 4chan isn't a single hive mind right? Each board has its own culture, and even moreso: each general thread has it own subculture. /sg/ (Syria General) is one of the best place to get data on the Syrian civil war. The folks there aggregate data from a massive set of sources and include people who actually live in Syria or can speak arabic.

So you know, instead of parroting the same spam all around this thread. Maybe you should take two seconds to appreciate that you neither understand nor are willing to make an attempt at understanding what goes on there.

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Post by saint_fiasco »

lake99 wrote: post #115

Figure 15 with heat map of hate speech per post puts India, Pakistan, Thailand, Belarus, Zimbabwe, and South Korea as the leaders of the pack. In my limited experience on /pol, this paints a very misleading picture. I hardly ever see people from these countries posting there. (See Figure 4.) They can't just leave the figure as-is, without further explanation. The posters on 4chan (see dogma1138's post) are as surpris…

If you are in the US, keep in mind that those countries are in distant timezones. Because 4chan threads are so ephemeral, they could have entire threads to themselves while you are asleep and you wouldn't notice.

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Post by antisthenes »

pmyteh wrote: post #15
trevelyan wrote: post #8

How does it take eight people to write this paper?

Two people collected the data, two did the analysis and wrote the paper, three helped a bit, one got the grant which funded the lab. Or something similar. The incentives for giving credit to everyone who participated even a bit are quite strong: in most academic disciplines you get more than an eighth of a paper's worth of 'credit' for an eight-author paper.

Three people out of 8 to collect the rare pepes.

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Post by lake99 »

saint_fiasco wrote: post #126
lake99 wrote: post #115

Figure 15 with heat map of hate speech per post puts India, Pakistan, Thailand, Belarus, Zimbabwe, and South Korea as the leaders of the pack. In my limited experience on /pol, this paints a very misleading picture. I hardly ever see people from these countries posting there. (See Figure 4.) They can't just leave the figure as-is, without further explanation. The posters on 4chan (see dogma1138's post) are as surpris…

If you are in the US, keep in mind that those countries are in distant timezones. Because 4chan threads are so ephemeral, they could have entire threads to themselves while you are asleep and you wouldn't notice.

I'm in India at the moment, but I have lived in other timezones too. I must add that I'm not a regular there. I only go there when some promiment thread makes the nwes... like Tay, or Operation Google, or this. Other than that, my source for 4chan stuff is /r/4chan.

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Post by Tsugumo »

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…

In the words of one /pol/ poster:

"/pol/ is winning because it's funnier than the people that despise it, it's that simple. Being authoritarian isn't funny. Tumblr, leddit, they're funny like a commercial is funny, they can be clever, they can be witty, but they'll never be gut-laugh, -holy shit- funny, because they never confront anything they're not supposed to, they never color outside the lines. They talk like they're resisting something, but all they do is agree with each other. They slay the sacred cows they've been conditioned to hate, and they ignore the elephants in the room they're conditioned not to see, and they'll always be like that because they're clever, educated pussies.

/pol/ is full of angry racist conspiracy theorists, but it's fucking hilarious. /pol/ might not always tell you the truth, but it will tell you the closest thing to an honest truth it can see, and it will laugh at you for being offended by it. The fact that /pol/ is starting to influence 4chan in general means that the sacred cows we're slaying are actually sacred, and people are laughing in spite of themselves. It's stupid and weird and it's too simplistic and old-fashioned to be true, but you're laughing anyways.

That's how it begins."

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Post by angersock »

nv-vn wrote: post #103
qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Which is good. Fuck most people. They can stay here and on Le Reddit
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