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4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong

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Re: 4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong

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Post by gbog »

benbscholz wrote: post #8
jarin wrote: post #6

As someone who used to post a lot on forums, I agree that being able to have multiple pseudonyms is great. On the other hand, I also appreciate the value of enforcing real names in online discussions. If you've ever read the comments on news articles on Facebook (MSNBC/Breaking News/etc.), it's amazing the hateful, racist, bigoted shit people will post under their REAL NAMES. I can only imagine how bad it would be if…

You may want to visit Mr. Poole's first website, 4chan, which requires anonymous posting on some areas but allows a limited identity in others (through tripcodes). The effect of anonymous posting on content quality is immediately apparent.

AH,good, someone in his own mind here. OP is pure wind, 4chan is full of shit, Google, FB, etc will never want this kind of content. I was on Usenet long time ago, you have some idle guys who would spend a lot of time turning all discussions into shit, allowing pure anon is giving them all latitude to do so.

Re: 4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong

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Post by jeffool »

jarin wrote: post #6

As someone who used to post a lot on forums, I agree that being able to have multiple pseudonyms is great. On the other hand, I also appreciate the value of enforcing real names in online discussions. If you've ever read the comments on news articles on Facebook (MSNBC/Breaking News/etc.), it's amazing the hateful, racist, bigoted shit people will post under their REAL NAMES. I can only imagine how bad it would be if…

As someone who, until recently, worked at a local news TV station, it was downright embarrassing the vocal minority of people who are actively spewing their hate. We even had a few people who regularly would write in to race-bait black reporters and slam people in general. And you're right, it's under their real name, and they're very proud.

Re: 4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong

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Post by grandalf »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #22
ianl wrote: post #14

You can find the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbPASJiAfu4

For the record, they got his Twitter handle wrong in the info slide - it's not @moot69, it's just @moot

A character assassination attempt surely!

Re: 4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong

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Post by skymt »

mey wrote: post #9

They may be doing it wrong from a psychology perspective, but seem to be doing fine from a business perspective.

I think moot's observation is less psychological and more sociological. If he's right, then Facebook and G+ are unsuited to their goal of becoming the hub for social interaction on the Internet, and they'll inevitably burn out when their networks become too large and dense for users to sustain a single identity.

Re: 4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong

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Post by brigade »

benbscholz wrote: post #8
jarin wrote: post #6

As someone who used to post a lot on forums, I agree that being able to have multiple pseudonyms is great. On the other hand, I also appreciate the value of enforcing real names in online discussions. If you've ever read the comments on news articles on Facebook (MSNBC/Breaking News/etc.), it's amazing the hateful, racist, bigoted shit people will post under their REAL NAMES. I can only imagine how bad it would be if…

You may want to visit Mr. Poole's first website, 4chan, which requires anonymous posting on some areas but allows a limited identity in others (through tripcodes). The effect of anonymous posting on content quality is immediately apparent.

Not particularly. If anything, it's a case study in how the older / more popular an online public community gets, the worse the average content quality gets.

Also, pretty sure there hasn't been forced anonymous in years.

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Post by runn1ng »

jeffool wrote: post #20
runn1ng wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

4chan doesn't dissallow tripcodes anywhere. edit: they apparently do that in /soc/. Oh well. I wouldn't say that the discussion there is that terrible (of course if you don't go to /b/, the "everything goes" board). Yes, for example for technology, /g/ board is unreadable, full of mindless hatred and the same type of discussions over and over (absolutely incomparable with Hacker News). The same for /v/. /int/ is just…

Actually they do disallow tripcodes on /soc/, which is hilarious. Doubly funny though, is how people there still use the name field, and rarely troll with it. The honor system largely works.

Oh. I didn't know that. I don't visit /soc/ at all.

Re: 4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong

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Post by jeffool »

ianl wrote: post #14

You can find the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbPASJiAfu4

Ahhh, thanks for the link!

"It took me four hours to pick my AOL screenname."

Same here. And I've been using it ever since. I'm not sure what, if anything, that says about me. But yeah, it's the name I've chosen to associate with.

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