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An academic study of anonymity and ephemerality in 4chan /b/ [pdf]

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Post by shii »

drew wrote: post #8
shii wrote: post #7

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Minor correction, there is very little cp posted on /b/ anymore. You'll find that stuff more freely on other spinoff chans, but rarely on /b/ specifically anymore. It's a lot more tame tbh.

The thing is, cp includes self shots of people under 18. There is TONS of that on /b/, of both genders. It's awfully hard to tell 19 from 17 when you're taking a topless picture of yourself in the mirror.

Meh, I don't really consider all the camwhores on /b/ and the new /soc/ to be cp really. It's when they start to have really small or no tits and larger head to body ratio sizes - 12ish and under - that you're in cp territory. This is true cp, and what the real btards on places like 7chan indulge in. The current race on /b/ is full of the last waves of summerfag and other general newfag cancer. There was a time a lot of actual cp was posted on /b/, but that times' long gone.

Re: An academic study of anonymity and ephemerality in 4chan /b/ [pdf]

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Post by redthrowaway »

drew wrote: post #8
shii wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Minor correction, there is very little cp posted on /b/ anymore. You'll find that stuff more freely on other spinoff chans, but rarely on /b/ specifically anymore. It's a lot more tame tbh.

The thing is, cp includes self shots of people under 18. There is TONS of that on /b/, of both genders. It's awfully hard to tell 19 from 17 when you're taking a topless picture of yourself in the mirror.

Nobody, mods included, cares about the borderline cases where the subject may or may not be 18. They care about the pictures of intercourse with 9 year olds.

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Post by jsavimbi »

redthrowaway wrote: post #6
throwaway32 wrote: post #4

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I think one of the barriers to "monetization" is that the user base finds the concept offensive. A community does not need to be making its creators money hand over fist, or indeed making money at all to be successful in terms of what the users expect/want from it.

You've touched upon a very important point. There is huge antipathy on the part of /b/tards towards sites like icanhascheezburger, knowyourmeme, and others that profit off of content created on 4chan and shared for free with its users. /b/ is mostly shit, but there are nuggets of gold there and most /b/tards browse in order to witness their creation. /b/tards generally lament memes that go mainstream. Rickrolling bec…

> /b/tards have left in droves over far milder insults than trying to make money off them.

do you have any evidence supporting this claim?

The captchas have mitigated the cp, but I still run into it whenever I visit the board, an activity in decline.

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Post by drew »

shii wrote: post #11
drew wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing is, cp includes self shots of people under 18. There is TONS of that on /b/, of both genders. It's awfully hard to tell 19 from 17 when you're taking a topless picture of yourself in the mirror.

Meh, I don't really consider all the camwhores on /b/ and the new /soc/ to be cp really. It's when they start to have really small or no tits and larger head to body ratio sizes - 12ish and under - that you're in cp territory. This is true cp, and what the real btards on places like 7chan indulge in. The current race on /b/ is full of the last waves of summerfag and other general newfag cancer. There was a time a lot…

Unfortunately, this isn't just a question of interpretation. Legally, there's no differentiation between those two categories. One is more ethically problematic than the other for sure, but you're just as screwed having either on your computer. You can see this most clearly in sexting cases against high school students. You can still get on the sex offender registry for sending a picture of yourself to your boyfriend or girlfriend and there's tons of stuff like that on /b/.

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Post by redthrowaway »

jsavimbi wrote: post #13
redthrowaway wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've touched upon a very important point. There is huge antipathy on the part of /b/tards towards sites like icanhascheezburger, knowyourmeme, and others that profit off of content created on 4chan and shared for free with its users. /b/ is mostly shit, but there are nuggets of gold there and most /b/tards browse in order to witness their creation. /b/tards generally lament memes that go mainstream. Rickrolling bec…

> /b/tards have left in droves over far milder insults than trying to make money off them. do you have any evidence supporting this claim? The captchas have mitigated the cp, but I still run into it whenever I visit the board, an activity in decline.

I was mostly thinking of /b/ day and the exodus to 7chan.

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Post by jsavimbi »

redthrowaway wrote: post #15
jsavimbi wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> /b/tards have left in droves over far milder insults than trying to make money off them. do you have any evidence supporting this claim? The captchas have mitigated the cp, but I still run into it whenever I visit the board, an activity in decline.

I was mostly thinking of /b/ day and the exodus to 7chan.

true, outright banning does tend to lead people elsewhere.

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Post by redthrowaway »

jsavimbi wrote: post #17
redthrowaway wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was mostly thinking of /b/ day and the exodus to 7chan.

true, outright banning does tend to lead people elsewhere.

Those who left for 7chan were a superset of those who were banned.
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