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Christopher "moot" Poole, Founder of 4chan doing an AMA on Reddit

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Re: Christopher "moot" Poole, Founder of 4chan doing an AMA on Reddit

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Wow, he's had a reddit account for 5 years. That's pretty insane, especially since reddit wasn't big at all in those days. It's funny that people keep commenting that reddit's becoming 4chan, when in fact moot was probably one of the first redditors.

Re: Christopher "moot" Poole, Founder of 4chan doing an AMA on Reddit

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post #3

Wow, he's had a reddit account for 5 years. That's pretty insane, especially since reddit wasn't big at all in those days. It's funny that people keep commenting that reddit's becoming 4chan, when in fact moot was probably one of the first redditors.

He doesn't confirm it anywhere, it's possible (and likely maybe?) that the admins noticed the account "moot" was inactive and gave it to him, they were the ones who co-ordinated this, so it makes sense they would give it to him.

Re: Christopher "moot" Poole, Founder of 4chan doing an AMA on Reddit

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I didn't want to be one to pester in his AMA but I still have no clue about what he's up to with canv.as. Aside from providing a meeting place to internet vigilantes and meme spammers, his track record isn't that stellar in either technology or monetizations. I'm also unable to overlook the recent developments in the image-sharing space with Path and Color valued into the tens of millions with anywhere from $11M to $41M cash on hand, making his $625K investment seem more like a pittance than a serious attempt at making a run at the current front-runner.

The pussy-footing surrounding his handling of this canv.as thing is unbecoming.

Re: Christopher "moot" Poole, Founder of 4chan doing an AMA on Reddit

#10
I can't believe people still think his name is Christopher Poole. This has got to be the longest-running joke turned gospel on the Internet. Either that, or that thing about Glen Beck killing and raping a young girl in 1990, except people actually _know_/tounge-in-cheek that one.
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