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Re: Chris Poole

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Post by pervycreeper »

bhaumik wrote: post #99
pervycreeper wrote: post #69

>And he’s come out the other side with his soul and his spirit intact. I have trouble believing this one. Poole has stated that the controversies 4chan was involved in in September had a big negative personal impact, principally dealing with legal threats from celebrities who had their photos leaked on the site. Two other events, which he conspicuously hasn't commented on would have unquestionably left scars on his e…

Poole's situation did not give rise to the 'cuck' meme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cuck

No, but that's when it reached critical mass, IMO.

Re: Chris Poole

#102

Post by dang »

angersock wrote: post #18

Good points, but a minor pet peeve: It's moot, not Chris. Maybe Chris Poole, but again, probably moot. Has been moot. Always will be moot. Are you friends with him? Do you have lunch with him? Do you work with him? In all odds, no. It's really quite annoying seeing people refer to people by the first names like they actually are familiar with them. Were you a fan of Steve? Ever go on walks with Zuck? Seriously, it's…

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10267960 and marked it off-topic.

Re: Chris Poole

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Post by AgentME »

pervycreeper wrote: post #69

>And he’s come out the other side with his soul and his spirit intact. I have trouble believing this one. Poole has stated that the controversies 4chan was involved in in September had a big negative personal impact, principally dealing with legal threats from celebrities who had their photos leaked on the site. Two other events, which he conspicuously hasn't commented on would have unquestionably left scars on his e…

There have been many 4chan spin-offs. 8chan is not the first or the last. If a google trends comparison means anything, it doesn't look like there's any fear about 4chan ever being surpassed soon.

>he responded to repeated questions about 8chan by talking about just about every other 'chan'-style site on the internet, making the omission very obvious, and indicating it was something he took personally.

Perhaps he didn't want to feed the trolls in his farewell.

Re: Chris Poole

#105

Post by ZoF »

cjslep wrote: post #70
janny_throwaway wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlike reddit, 4chan is not a popularity contest. There are no likes or upvotes that dictate what you see; everyone in a thread sees the same content. Furthermore, there are no persistent identities, so you have no way of gauging the value of someone's post other than by examining its content. I think this dynamic is what made 4chan such a creative force: the only way for a post to "live" longer than one thread was t…

> What I really like about 4chan nowadays is the pace. I think the pace varies from board to board, and can appeal to people and their particular tastes at the time. Using myself as an example: today I enjoy /wg/'s backgrounds and eye-candy setups, but not /b/. A decade ago, I ignored anything not /b/. There's nothing wrong with that, but I do think the notoriety of /b/ makes people stay away from the other boards.

/fit/ here, haven't interacted with /b/ once.

Re: Chris Poole

#106

Post by Crito »

dmerrick wrote: post #87
austenallred wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people think 4chan is /b/, because that's where all the worst stuff happens. Imagine if reddit had an "anything legal goes" subreddit - it would be pretty messed up. Other boards can be pretty tame.

Reddit actually does have a number of these. I'm not sure I want to link any, though.

Reddit has subreddits dedicated to the foulest stuff that you'll ever occasionally see on 4chan. That has historically included borderline illegal content, with literally illegal content mixed in.

Reddit's reputation of being better than 4chan is entirely undeserved.

Re: Chris Poole

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Post by JesperRavn »

irl_zebra wrote: post #19
janny_throwaway wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>primarily due to seeing the kind of place you get when the barrier for entry is non existent. you think reddit's bad, try 4chan! I was 4chan "janitor" (lesser-mod) for 18 months or so and I agree, these sorts of positions really twist your perception of the community you're moderating. When you're buried in reports -- and these are 4chan reports, which means not just spam, but gore, cp, raids, etc. -- it becomes all…

"not just spam, but gore, cp, raids, etc." (I'm assuming cp means children) "The good news is that I've recently returned to 4chan as a regular, anonymous user, and I'm really enjoying it." I've never visited the site, and really don't want to. So maybe I'm missing something, but why would you want to associate yourself with a place like that? It seems like even spending time there as an anonymous user would change y…

4chan (and it's successor 8chan) mix two tendencies. One is to post horrible or strange things for the sake of it. The other is to post things that have some validity or purpose, but would be censored in other places. Now clearly what things one puts in what categories are very subjective, but there are certainly people who claim to belong largely to one or the other group (as well as neither). But so far there hasn't been an approach to allow the second category but not the first, so people who have views that don't fit into the mainstream (mostly on the political right) tend to congregate at this sort of place.

Re: Chris Poole

#108

Post by nyolfen »

pervycreeper wrote: post #94
monaway wrote: post #89

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>Hiroyuki Nishimura's past doesn't really suggest the same sort of community-mindedness. That's putting it lightly. http://www.anonymous-japan.org/fake2ch/ Japanese netizens absolutely loathe him on a level that makes westerners' mixed feelings toward moot seem glowing in comparison. https://imgur.com/a/o8ruh Here's what the current lead developer of 2ch (@CodeMonkeyZ) thinks Hiroyuki's plans for 4chan are: http://pa…

To be fair, most of the major internet companies intend to monetize your data. This doesn't sound much worse, even if these allegations are true.

running a deep state culture-sculpting psyop in addition to monetizing user info is a little bit more than generic ad profiling

Re: Chris Poole

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Post by hluska »

moistgorilla wrote: post #93
Natsu wrote: post #88

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> Good times only exist because bad times exist to weigh them against. Good times would merely be "times" without bad times. That sounds very poetic, but I honestly don't think that any of the horrible things that have happened to me have made me enjoy life more.

Really? Horrible things happened to you because of 4chan? It's honestly laughable.

The parent did not mention 4chan.

Re: Chris Poole

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Post by ascendant »

irl_zebra wrote: post #19
janny_throwaway wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>primarily due to seeing the kind of place you get when the barrier for entry is non existent. you think reddit's bad, try 4chan! I was 4chan "janitor" (lesser-mod) for 18 months or so and I agree, these sorts of positions really twist your perception of the community you're moderating. When you're buried in reports -- and these are 4chan reports, which means not just spam, but gore, cp, raids, etc. -- it becomes all…

"not just spam, but gore, cp, raids, etc." (I'm assuming cp means children) "The good news is that I've recently returned to 4chan as a regular, anonymous user, and I'm really enjoying it." I've never visited the site, and really don't want to. So maybe I'm missing something, but why would you want to associate yourself with a place like that? It seems like even spending time there as an anonymous user would change y…

As with most things, the truly terrible stuff is a minority of users. There are lots of areas on 4chan that are completely harmless and people just discussing mundane, boring stuff that they deem interesting.
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