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4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by makomk »

_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…

Media reporting on anything involving 4chan has always been terrible. I remember a story about, I think, Emma Watson that turned out to be literally fake news - as in, it came from an already documented fake news site run by a known serial hoaxer, was laundered into legitimacy by increasingly reputable publications, and eventually ended up being reported as true everywhere including places like the BBC.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by pcbro141 »

filoleg wrote: post #205
pcbro141 wrote: post #157

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In order list of threads from browsing /pol/ for people who want to know how 'diverse' it is without visiting: - Anti-vax - Anti-gay parents - Goose - Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of "i hope all ni**rs die" - Praising George Floyd mural vandalism - Anti-transgender - Praising white nationalism/white ethnostate - Praising 'national rape day' - Anti-Islam - Anti-race mixing - I…

>almost surely disproportionately posted by young white men. Aside from the fact that you pretty much took the bait with /pol/ there, you should take a look at their irl meetups and compare them to average reddit meetups. You would be wildly surprised by how non-white the average 4chan meetups are.

I didn't 'take the bait', what you're doing is gaslighting.

It's not that I'm a 'snowflake' or 'I don't understand chan humor', what they're doing is actually fucked up and dangerous even if they justify it as 'trolling' or 'irony' that should be ignored.

There is nothing normal about that boards pre-occupation with calling for racial extermination. I don't give a damn if they're posting that 'ironically', there is nothing normal about that type of constant, obsessive 'joking' about mass murder behavior to that degree, and repeating those things so much can lead to people truly becoming obsessed with those ideas, then justifying and actually carrying those actions out (like the Christchurch racial terror attack).

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Post by SyzygistSix »

krapp wrote: post #72
formerly_proven wrote: post #54

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Claiming 4chan is a uniform community is like saying Reddit users form a coherent community.

>like saying Reddit users form a coherent community Which, let's be fair, people do all the time, especially here. Also, plenty of people who frequent 4chan and defend it against criticism often speak of its culture and how outsiders don't understand its quirks, so clearly it does have something of a coherent community.

To the extent that the medium is the message, forums do encourage certain types and qualities of interaction. In that way, many, many subreddits are alike and there is a single culture to it.

Also the larger a community gets, the more mediocre and average it becomes and the more the culture that is reinforced by the medium comes to the fore.

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Post by solosoyokaze »

seriousquestion wrote: post #207
pcbro141 wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In order list of threads from browsing /pol/ for people who want to know how 'diverse' it is without visiting: - Anti-vax - Anti-gay parents - Goose - Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of "i hope all ni**rs die" - Praising George Floyd mural vandalism - Anti-transgender - Praising white nationalism/white ethnostate - Praising 'national rape day' - Anti-Islam - Anti-race mixing - I…

They are agitators and trolls, and you took the bait.

Are the posters in this thread arguing that George Floyd was a junkie, trolls too? There is a ton of legitimate white supremacy here masked by "trolling". It's just a convenient cover, but the beliefs are authentically held.

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Post by andyxor »

jrsj wrote: post #183
the_benno wrote: post #169

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Cops aren't allowed to murder people on sight -- "junkie" or otherwise. Never understood why people seem to think this is a compelling argument.

There is an argument being made by many on the right that the overdose was his actual cause of death because he spoke of not being able to breath etc before he was restrained & had a large amount of fentanyl in his system. That being said, the initial autopsy said this was only one factor and most people with this view are misreading that autopsy, which still stated the primary cause of death was compression of the n…

the autopsy report said he had a heart failure "complicating" restraint.

When asked to clarify coroner said he meant in medical sense, as in "heart failure complicating leg surgery", i.e. his death was not expected from restraint itself

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Post by Graffur »

ericbarrett wrote: post #21

Chris Poole visited the Facebook campus in 2011, while he was still running 4chan, for an hour-long talk and some questions. About thirty engineers attended. The Anonymous hacks had been all over the news for the last year or so, so a couple of jokers showed up in Guy Fawkes masks, and kept them on for the whole thing. During the Q&A, Poole answered a question from one of the masked employees. After his answer, he as…

Sorry but that story does not scream 'smart'

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Post by watwut »

at_a_remove wrote: post #149
watwut wrote: post #142

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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,…

There is literally no wonder they "closed ranks" given crap that was going on. And I know, because I personally seen that crap. The level of asshollery going on in general absolutely makes understandable that someone would go trigger happy.

And no, the whole issue was not about quality of single indie twine game. That is just nonsense.

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Post by Graffur »

xtracto wrote: post #148
techsupporter wrote: post #29

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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.

So you never stick around to see your production code?

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Post by pcbro141 »

vorpalhex wrote: post #208
pcbro141 wrote: post #181

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> The 4chan shibboleth attacks everyone I see plenty of posts attacking and calling for the killing and complete extermination of non-Whites, Jews, homosexuals, and women all over the place but 0 posts attacking straight white males for being straight white males. Gee, I wonder why that is? I really wonder who is posting all these white nationalist talking points, it's truly a mystery. Could be anyone.

People don't self identify as "Straight White Male", it's not really a good insult base. You want to insult their country of origin (Ireland, Canada), their hobbies (anime, weightlifting, smoking pot) or their inability to get laid. "White people have poor taste in food!" isn't very punchy, is it?

"British people have shitty food can't get laid" is kinda different from "all k*kes and ni**rs need to legit be exterminated", isn't it?

They tell jokes about white ethnicities, but don't speak unironically, constantly, and at length about why whites should be racially exterminated like they do towards non-Whites, Jews, Muslims.

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