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Re: Introducing the 4chan API

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Post by joethompson »

ANTSANTS wrote: post #50
Variance wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That really sounds like a job for a niche subreddit with a throwaway account, not a 4chan BBS.

I guess you kind of answered the question I had in mind. Most "western" people seem to see anonymity or even pseudoanonymity as something you use when you have something to hide, something you don't want traced back to you. Everything else, they don't seem to mind having their real name (or a pseudonym that they make little attempt to disguise) attached to. Or, on a different level, people believe that you need to ha…

Do you mean 2ch/2channel instead of 2chan/Futaba? They have similar names but are completely different sites.

Re: Introducing the 4chan API

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Post by ANTSANTS »

joethompson wrote: post #51
ANTSANTS wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess you kind of answered the question I had in mind. Most "western" people seem to see anonymity or even pseudoanonymity as something you use when you have something to hide, something you don't want traced back to you. Everything else, they don't seem to mind having their real name (or a pseudonym that they make little attempt to disguise) attached to. Or, on a different level, people believe that you need to ha…

Do you mean 2ch/2channel instead of 2chan/Futaba? They have similar names but are completely different sites.

Yeah, I'm aware. The problem stems from the fact that you can't type the unambiguous name "ni-channeru" without looking like an insufferable dork/weeaboo. 2ch and 2chan (.net) are the domain names of "ni-channeru" and Futaba Channel, respectively, but it's obviously very confusing to refer to them by their domains. Therefore, in English discussion, we tend to say 2chan or 2channel when we mean "ni-channeru", and Futaba when we mean Futaba Channel.

Re: Introducing the 4chan API

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Post by bootload »

"... The decision to release an API was partially out of necessity, but also because I'm curious to see how people will use it. ..."

And who. The API just made a group of intelligence hackers very happy indeed.

Re: Introducing the 4chan API

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Post by zevyoura »

ddod wrote: post #11

Could someone explain to me how this could be leveraged (or if it could be) to gather a sort of stream of messages, a la the Twitter streaming API or reddit.com/r/all/comments.json? I'd be interested in doing some language statistics and comparing them to the aforementioned networks.

Elsewhere in the comments here, moot said, "We'll have indexes and a catalog view soon." So for now, you need the thread id.

Re: Introducing the 4chan API

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Post by moistgorilla »

TillE wrote: post #47
nvmc wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is plenty of excellent content (consequently, statistics), you just have to look a little harder. I would hazard a guess that you've taken a quick glance and dismissed the entire community. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Let me know when, say, /tg/ stops casually tossing around f-g and f-ggot while pretending that's not at all homophobic. Garbage dump is entirely appropriate. I have no idea how anyone older than 20 can tolerate 4chan.

You do know that 4chan has a pretty large gay population right? In fact I would say roughly 70% of that site's viewers are bisexual.

Re: Introducing the 4chan API

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Post by hollerith »

nvmc wrote: post #49
TillE wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me know when, say, /tg/ stops casually tossing around f-g and f-ggot while pretending that's not at all homophobic. Garbage dump is entirely appropriate. I have no idea how anyone older than 20 can tolerate 4chan.

If you really think the use of fag and faggot reflects homophobia, you need to take a step back and look at where you are - the internet. Do you think that people posting gore do it because they enjoy the content? It's all shock value.

(Not really interested in whether 4chan's use of "fag" reflects homophobia. I am responding to your next sentence.)

>Do you think that people posting gore do it because they enjoy the content?

I think there are those who post gore because they get pleasure from grossing people out, outraging people or otherwise eliciting a strong emotional reaction (which is probably what you mean by "shock value") but I do not think that is all of it.

I think a significant fraction of the people posting gore do it because it will induce others to post gory pictures that the OP has not seen yet. And I think that they want that because they derive pleasure from seeing people and animals being harmed.

One of the reason I believe that is a book I read called Among the Thugs, in which a reporter spent some time hanging out with British football hooligans. He reported that after running with the hooligans a while, engaging in violence and contemplating engaging in violence became pleasurable. This and other things suggest to me that many people are capable of deriving pleasure from seeing people get fucked up once they've acquired a taste for it.

The main reservation I have about 4chan is that it seems to be enabling many to acquire a taste for it (and for other things like harassing people on Facebook).

Re: Introducing the 4chan API

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Post by nvmc »

moistgorilla wrote: post #56
TillE wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me know when, say, /tg/ stops casually tossing around f-g and f-ggot while pretending that's not at all homophobic. Garbage dump is entirely appropriate. I have no idea how anyone older than 20 can tolerate 4chan.

You do know that 4chan has a pretty large gay population right? In fact I would say roughly 70% of that site's viewers are bisexual.

Just a little bit of confirmation bias there, from my own experience. That notwithstanding, 4chan most definitely has a higher rate of homosexuals than the rest of the internet.

Re: Introducing the 4chan API

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Post by nvmc »

hollerith wrote: post #57
nvmc wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you really think the use of fag and faggot reflects homophobia, you need to take a step back and look at where you are - the internet. Do you think that people posting gore do it because they enjoy the content? It's all shock value.

(Not really interested in whether 4chan's use of "fag" reflects homophobia. I am responding to your next sentence.) >Do you think that people posting gore do it because they enjoy the content? I think there are those who post gore because they get pleasure from grossing people out, outraging people or otherwise eliciting a strong emotional reaction (which is probably what you mean by "shock value") but I do not think…

At least when I still browsed /b/, gore was almost entirely to dissuade people from browsing. The logic being that if you couldn't get over it, you weren't all that welcome.

Re: Introducing the 4chan API

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Post by Variance »

ANTSANTS wrote: post #52
joethompson wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean 2ch/2channel instead of 2chan/Futaba? They have similar names but are completely different sites.

Yeah, I'm aware. The problem stems from the fact that you can't type the unambiguous name "ni-channeru" without looking like an insufferable dork/weeaboo. 2ch and 2chan (.net) are the domain names of "ni-channeru" and Futaba Channel, respectively, but it's obviously very confusing to refer to them by their domains. Therefore, in English discussion, we tend to say 2chan or 2channel when we mean "ni-channeru", and Futa…

I've never had a problem with the distinction between 2ch and 2chan.
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