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

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Post by astrange »

jsavimbi wrote: post #9

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 $…

As far as I'm aware 4chan has not needed $40M to provide a more useful and socially relevant service than Color or whatever Path is. Don't people just use Twitpic anyway? Or Instagram if their photos are too boring without being colored brown.

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

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Post by jsavimbi »

astrange wrote: post #11
jsavimbi wrote: post #9

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 $…

As far as I'm aware 4chan has not needed $40M to provide a more useful and socially relevant service than Color or whatever Path is. Don't people just use Twitpic anyway? Or Instagram if their photos are too boring without being colored brown.

My pictures aren't boring. I use the Gotham filter. Also, nobody needs $41M to provide anything more useful or socially relevant if one is to believe that investors were taking a stake in the future potential of the Color team vs. its current offering.

The fact remains that Mr. Poole has been unable to monetize his current user base on the seven-year old 4chan, build a medium-term scalable solution, attract talent or serious investment nor can he be arsed to explain just what exactly canv.as is and why we should take him seriously. Moot aside, I think I'll adopt the position stated in his AMA/recruitment pitch:

"Yes, instead of treating him like the creator of 4chan, let's treat him like the developer of a new website in closed beta that none of us have used. That will be fascinating."

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

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Post by TimothyFitz »

jsavimbi wrote: post #9

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 $…

It might sound old school, but we're waiting until we can show success with a seed round before raising an A or B round!

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

#15

Post by trotsky »

Q: How many people does 4chan employ?

A: None. It's just me, a volunteer part-time developer, and a handful of volunteer moderators and janitors. The volunteers all do an incredible job, and don't get nearly enough credit for their hard work. Hats off to them!

That reminded me of several extended IM logs between moot and a server admin/scripter. Suffice it to say that they both come out sounding like total douchebags and it's difficult to tell who you'd dread working with more. The moral of the story is that he'd be way better off paying his volunteers and acting like a boss.

It's quite long and gets somewhat tedious, once you get the jist it's not really worth stick with. But it is interesting to get a peek inside the mind of a new founder:

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Talk:Moot#thoughts_on_image...

(note that page is SFW, but I wouldn't go to the main moot page unless 'shopped gay porn is cool with you)

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

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Post by cryptoz »

trotsky wrote: post #15

Q: How many people does 4chan employ? A: None. It's just me, a volunteer part-time developer, and a handful of volunteer moderators and janitors. The volunteers all do an incredible job, and don't get nearly enough credit for their hard work. Hats off to them! That reminded me of several extended IM logs between moot and a server admin/scripter. Suffice it to say that they both come out sounding like total douchebags…

> The moral of the story is that he'd be way better off paying his volunteers and acting like a boss.

How do you define "better off"? Do you run a site as popular as 4chan? moot isn't trying to make money or be a kickass, cool, boss. He's just having fun. I think it's a bit presumptuous of you to say you know what's best for moot. 4chan has been running smoothly for years and is extremely popular.

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

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Post by JeremyBanks »

shii wrote: post #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.

Is he trolling the courts as well? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/08/11/prose...

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

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Post by saurik »

citricsquid wrote: post #5
cryptoz wrote: 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.

If you were really going to do that, you almost certainly would clear the metadata for the username first (or like, attach the username to a different underlying "account").

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

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Post by pln »

trotsky wrote: post #15

Q: How many people does 4chan employ? A: None. It's just me, a volunteer part-time developer, and a handful of volunteer moderators and janitors. The volunteers all do an incredible job, and don't get nearly enough credit for their hard work. Hats off to them! That reminded me of several extended IM logs between moot and a server admin/scripter. Suffice it to say that they both come out sounding like total douchebags…

I'm sure Chris has matured a lot in the past few years, and I'm sure he's treating canvas in a very different manner. Does it do good to rehash this old drama?

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

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Post by trotsky »

cryptoz wrote: post #16
trotsky wrote: post #15

Q: How many people does 4chan employ? A: None. It's just me, a volunteer part-time developer, and a handful of volunteer moderators and janitors. The volunteers all do an incredible job, and don't get nearly enough credit for their hard work. Hats off to them! That reminded me of several extended IM logs between moot and a server admin/scripter. Suffice it to say that they both come out sounding like total douchebags…

> The moral of the story is that he'd be way better off paying his volunteers and acting like a boss. How do you define "better off"? Do you run a site as popular as 4chan? moot isn't trying to make money or be a kickass, cool, boss. He's just having fun. I think it's a bit presumptuous of you to say you know what's best for moot. 4chan has been running smoothly for years and is extremely popular.

I guess I should have said my takeaway is, instead of the moral of the story. I struggled for what I wanted to write there. If bickering for hours with your dev staff is doing what he wants and having fun then more power to him, but something tells me he'll be managing things differently at canv.as.
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