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Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by punchclockhero »

obviouslynotme wrote: post #102
tomatotomato37 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd even take an imageboard with reddit or HN moderation over the reddit-style of social media sites we have today. I'd even allow mandatory registration if the posts themselves are still anonymous to other users Anonymous posting prevents weird popularity cliches from taking over, and post linking via ID allows multiple conversations to flow much smoother than reddit's tree-structured comments. I'd also say that seq…

I think 4chan with only slight moderation would be amazing. Get rid of all porn and illegal stuff. Keep the rest. You could advertise and keep the FBI participation to a minimum.

There's always been moderation for illegal content and the janitors do a good job deleting porn from the worksafe boards.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by faeriechangling »

russdpale wrote: post #17

Literal definition of failing upwards. He isn't a boy genuis, he copied code from japanese websites and then fostered one of the most toxic communities in human history. At google, he took a job from someone who was almost certainly way more qualified, both technically and morally.

What does qualified mean to you? If he received "formal education".

Moot for better or for worse held together one of the larger sites on the internet while managing a team of mods and the simple fact that 4chsn was never shut down is in itself an achievement. I have a hard trouble not seeing him as having serious management chops. He frankly is probably more qualified than many people who got into Google for little reason other than excellence at math puzzles and formal education which are hilariously mediocre qualifiers.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by at_a_remove »

jandrese wrote: post #71
zamadatix wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Google hired Poole in 2016 to work on the company's doomed social media project, Google+... After Google+, Poole apparently joined Google's experimental "Area 120" group and eventually moved on to be a product manager for Google Maps."

An uncharitable opinion might be that Google hired someone with previous social media experience in a last ditch effort to figure out a way to make Google+ a success.

M00t did have a greatly contrasting view to The Zuck. The Zuck -- one identity, one you. M00t talked about "facets," a face you show, just one plane out of the multihedron of You. It's a bit more than Billy Joel's "The Stranger," is the "you" that you bring to work, or maybe just the one you show your boss. The Zuck just had everything all out there for everyone. M00t's insight is that people really really did not want to do that, everything from your personal political leanings to not wanting your grandmother to know about your fursona.

It is a smart hire in that aspect, but Google+ was going to be an also-ran and I don't think M00t alone could save it.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by okareaman »

superflit wrote: post #94
okareaman wrote: post #77

I've spent a fair amount of time on 4chan/pol/ for over a decade and my opinion is moot is a decent guy who sold it after he tried to reign in GamerGate and was loudly criticized on the site for it. I don't think Google would have hired him if it weren't for that redeeming quality. I'm fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations. It's anonymous so people around the world can express themsel…

Welcome to /pol/ you will never leave.

It's more interesting now for a couple of reasons. The board was raided by "social justice warriors" during GamerGate and many stayed to keep arguing. Another reason is 4chan/pol/ is tamer that it used to be. The worst kind of uninteresting stuff moved to 8chan after GamerGate.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by vmception »

weird article, who cares? I care enough to point out the following:

like literally what is the point of this to lead people to talk about unrelated aspects of 4chan and maybe how that influenced his time at Google

but the article describes an extremely normal and extremely extended time at Google

what...?

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by bumblelad »

okareaman wrote: post #77

I've spent a fair amount of time on 4chan/pol/ for over a decade and my opinion is moot is a decent guy who sold it after he tried to reign in GamerGate and was loudly criticized on the site for it. I don't think Google would have hired him if it weren't for that redeeming quality. I'm fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations. It's anonymous so people around the world can express themsel…

>I'm fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations.

Always fascinating how they refer to themselves.

You have n-words.

Then potato n-words for the irish (and lithuatians)

Pasta n-words for italians

Bongs for the british

Leafs for canadians

Burgers and Amerimutts

Toothpaste for the netherlands

Gypsy for hungarians and romanians (who are at a perpetual shitposting war against each other)

Hohols for the ukranians

Finngolians

The usual suspects for anyone of any asian country, extra special hate towards the chinese and Xi's internet army.

and on and on

No matter what nation of the world you are from, they will find an insult for you. It's endearing in a way really.

Oh and also there's someone shitposting from a research facility in Antarctica.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by selimthegrim »

moate wrote: post #75
slackfan wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For as much as I disagree with this comment, it also isn't really wrong.

I think this is a real Columbus Egg situation. There was no Reddit when 4chan popped up. It was 2003. As much as /b/ was an ocean of piss, so much of what we now consider "internet culture" consolidated or spawned there. Of course parts of it were absolutely terrible then, but to distill it down solely to OP's post is a lot of selective editing.

Let's not let Lowtax off scot-free here, even if he is a documented horrible human being SA deserves some share of the credit.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by moate »

moksly wrote: post #89
moate wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1- who the hell is "Moot"? 2- Back in the moot-run days of 4chan, it really was a completely different world. All the weird meme-culture we have now started there. /b/ was both the greatest and worst thing simultaneously. You had literal nazis and neckbeards working together to dox pedos. It was just a completely different place from what it's become all these years later.

I think the internet is just different. Content creation has become something people do in pursuit of profit rather than something they do out of interest or just the lulz. People don’t spend 9 days creating the perfect YTMND thing because they can spend that time on Instagram, YouTube or whatever in pursuit of enough fame to create a career out of it. The only reason we still have so many memes and so many (less tha…

I completely agree. The internet is a completely different space from where it was 20 years ago. Tech ate everything, so everything is the internet now.

Back then we cheered when "legit" tech appreciated those of us from the backwater meme-world by hiring our "leader". Now it seems like tons of people get into things with that as the goal.

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