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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.
So explain somethingawful.com and the many other sites dedicated to the posting of gore and gruesome deaths?
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I don't know. Getting an API to 4chan is like getting a parking pass to the local garbage dump. What statistics are you actually mining here?
4chan represents a social cauldron unlike others. The first and foremost question I had hoped to find out was "What do people talk about when they don't have an identity to think of?" There is almost zero consequence in the case of failure. If you say something and no one responds, or everyone insults you, it is completely forgotten within a few minutes. You can say almost anything you want without fear of retributio…
BUT, be careful with the concept of 4chan and "no retribution". There have been countless examples of 4chan "reacting" to threads, I'm sure I don't need to go into detail here.
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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.
However, it does mean that people like you don't go there, so it's a pretty good thing that they have that slang.
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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.
Yes, it does.
> you need to take a step back and look at where you are - the internet. Well...
I suggest reading this introduction to the subject of "why second degree&ironic gay bashing work only if there is real homophobia somewhere": http://www.queerty.com/does-calling-someone-a-fag-really-mea... I have better articles about sexism and homophobia but there are written in french.
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create a markov chain 4chan slang generator. track usages of phrases over time. (thinking of the recent evolution of "rustled my jimmies" derivatives) See what topics are trending Fuck maybe I should build some of this...
do you have some more ideas? these are really good
de-anonymizer based on posting times, writing style, what baits them to respond, etc. The Thread-Local unique ID's would help, giving you more stuff that you knew came from same user. Don't know if this one is practical. Kindof scraping the bottom here...
That's it for now.