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Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by ALittleLight »

batch12 wrote: post #52
Rompect wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish there was a mainstream site which has 4chan anonymity and fast pace + reddit thread format. Both become hardly usable with either elitism, censorship and people who think upvotes matter or an absolute cancer to follow conversations in threads.

I built this [1] and took it down when I quickly realized I would not have the time or desire to devote to keeping it going. Edit- it had live (think chat room) but threaded comments and was anonymous (temporary, randomized identites) I haven't had the heart to completely decommission it yet so I've stood it back up so you can see what I am talking about . [1] https://blahalla.com

This looks pretty neat. Two suggestions: show the room list on the home page and put the about stuff somewhere else. People will figure out what the site is by seeing or interacting and the faster they can the better.

Second, names could be more distinct. The fact they all begin with the prefix "user" (from what I saw) is redundant. Could you mix and match from a short-words list to create unique and memorable names? e.g. RedFoxFun.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

#142

Post by watwut »

at_a_remove wrote: post #90
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 have been on 4chan since at least '05, according to my files. The way people write about it is just ... such a Rorschach blot. Just as an example, that "redeeming" word you used, I would have said "damning." I watched the spin machine rev up like a centrifuge before that really hit the press, I read the ZoePost early on and thought Depression Quest was just awful before I knew word one about who wrote it. There's s…

Depression quest being good or not, being only for some kind of person or all is completely irrelevant. And should be irrelevant to anything that happened after.

Even if it would be the worst game in the world. Cause the really normal response to and small game you don't like is to not play it and maybe write a bad review. Not what happened.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

#143

Post by edrxty »

batch12 wrote: post #52
Rompect wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish there was a mainstream site which has 4chan anonymity and fast pace + reddit thread format. Both become hardly usable with either elitism, censorship and people who think upvotes matter or an absolute cancer to follow conversations in threads.

I built this [1] and took it down when I quickly realized I would not have the time or desire to devote to keeping it going. Edit- it had live (think chat room) but threaded comments and was anonymous (temporary, randomized identites) I haven't had the heart to completely decommission it yet so I've stood it back up so you can see what I am talking about . [1] https://blahalla.com

That name is beautiful

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

#145

Post by urthebiased1 »

pcbro141 wrote: post #136
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…

We're talking about this site? (NSFW): https://boards.4chan.org/pol Looks more like an international white supremacist convention than United Nations to me. And I'm not saying that just because they love using the n-word so much, but that is one of the reasons. Most posts on there don't seem to be from a diverse audience. They mostly seem to be from the perspective of a young racist white male audience, which is a ve…

You know there's plenty of antisemitism around the world, especially in places like Iran, which officially denies the Holocaust, that isn't coming from a "white supremacist" place, especially not in the context of American white supremacy.

Considering that we know for a fact that you don't know the ages, genders, nationality, or races of the people with these beliefs, and can only see their beliefs posted anonymously on 4chan, and then you think you have enough information to extrapolate that these people must be white, male, and young, says a lot more about YOUR prejudices than the people on 4chan, quite frankly.

You see hate and just assume the hateful are the gender, race, and age, that you perceive to be the enemy.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

#146

Post by watwut »

_etyf wrote: post #65
_lffv wrote: post #18

> Poole's 4chan is an anonymous, ephemeral imageboard that is often given the title "cesspool of the Internet." The site is broken up into boards of various topics, and some of the more lawless boards are home to all of the worst characters on the Internet, like school shooters, child pornographers, and racists. It's also the birthplace of a lot of Internet culture, like Rickrolling, lolcats, and, more recently, Pepe…

It's worth noting that the Pepe meme has continued to evolve, and is no longer associated solely or primarily with 4chan. The streamer community in particular has adopted, rehabiliated, and popularized Pepe as a mascot and chat emote. For example, here's Pepe and the "poggers" meme in a recent stream from Pokimane, a streamer with over 7 million followers who made Forbes' 2021 30 under 30 list: https://www.youtube.co…

The original author of Pepe put some work into deassociating it from Pepe The Meme. He hated the while thing.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by weeblewobble »

beaconstudios wrote: post #23
_lffv wrote: post #18

> Poole's 4chan is an anonymous, ephemeral imageboard that is often given the title "cesspool of the Internet." The site is broken up into boards of various topics, and some of the more lawless boards are home to all of the worst characters on the Internet, like school shooters, child pornographers, and racists. It's also the birthplace of a lot of Internet culture, like Rickrolling, lolcats, and, more recently, Pepe…

you'd think this would be common knowledge given 4chan is literally an open website, but I always hear these mythologised recountings of it like it's some kind of mysterious inaccessible cult. It's just reddit for people who hate reddit.

I haven't been on there in a long time, but I remember it being really really hard to use, especially for newcomers. Tons of random crap, no ranking or voting system to bubble up things that are worth reading, lots of gore (and worse), inside jokes, spam. That's why people think of it as mysterious and inaccessible.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

#148

Post by xtracto »

techsupporter wrote: post #29
blissofbeing wrote: post #3

"only five years" that's a long time in my opinion to be at one company.

Meanwhile, I've been at the same company for longer than a couple of my coworkers have been alive (though I've changed jobs twice in that time) so "only five years" sounds comparatively short to me.

My wife has been at her current company (large like freescale, flexctronics, jabil) for 8 solid years , and she is still going strong.

Meanwhile I've been at 4 startups, from seed to Series B . I just get bored so easy.. after 3 or so years I NEED a change. Or maybe is because startups dont care about w/l balance and drain you until you quit.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

#149

Post by at_a_remove »

watwut wrote: post #142
at_a_remove wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been on 4chan since at least '05, according to my files. The way people write about it is just ... such a Rorschach blot. Just as an example, that "redeeming" word you used, I would have said "damning." I watched the spin machine rev up like a centrifuge before that really hit the press, I read the ZoePost early on and thought Depression Quest was just awful before I knew word one about who wrote it. There's s…

Depression quest being good or not, being only for some kind of person or all is completely irrelevant. And should be irrelevant to anything that happened after. Even if it would be the worst game in the world. Cause the really normal response to and small game you don't like is to not play it and maybe write a bad review. Not what happened.

Correct, but also correct that afterward, you could not critique the game at all without being "a literal Nazi." The journos (as shown in their private mailing list) closed ranks amazingly quickly. I watched perfectly reasonable critiques get removed from comment sections before the comment sections were inevitably shut down "to promote better discourse."

As usual, it isn't the crime, it's the coverup that gets you, and GamerGate was a great example of that.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

#150

Post by [deleted] »

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.

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