4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google • Hacker News Board

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by LinuxBender » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 5:17 PM UTC

_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…

I think it's also worth adding that the memes didn't even really start on 4chan. They mostly started on ytmnd and then 4chans beta site started on servers that belonged to ytmnd/max. 4chan did however lower the bar to entry for sharing memes. Making gifs/mp3's for ytmnd was a put-off to many.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by johngehrig » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 5:18 PM UTC

Long time HN lurker here -- I find the mention that he was a PM with Google Maps to be particularly interesting. In case it has gone unnoticed, "Google Maps" and Google's associated business product "Google My Business" appear to be silently being developed into Google's successor product for Google+. Google My Business now allows business owners to "post" updates to their Google Business listing which appear on Google Maps as posts "From the owner," and, once posted, users with Google Accounts can interact with and "share" these posts. Google My Business also appears to be replacing Google Beacon, a physical device once needed for location-based ad-targeting, now deprecated in favor of directing businesses to connect their Google My Business listing to their Google Ads (AdWords) account.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by phonethrowaway » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

yaacov wrote: post #28

rodolphoarruda wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "Him becoming a PM for Google Maps seems surprising to me considering his entrepreneurial background (...)" Yes. This is an extraordinary business case for strategic HCM discussions.

I don’t know what that means, can you elaborate?

human capital management

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by pavel_lishin » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 5:20 PM UTC

_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…

> I know there's very little expectations when it comes to reporting on web subcultures but come on, this is common knowledge

To you and I, maybe! But even arstechnica's readership may not be aware of all this stuff.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by base698 » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

_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…

Because articles are meant to sell ads through sensationalism not to inform?

Propaganda to teach that anything free is dirty/salacious to keep people in their walled gardens.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by HerbMcM » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

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.

Anyone admitting that they browse 4chan risks losing social cachet. Risk is too great either in an internet forum or news articles. The recent Q documentary on HBO was refreshing in that the person doing it actually knew how to explain things even if it feels like it's filler though. Then again that's someone on HBO who's been given permission to be edgy (try pausing some of the posts in the first few minutes).

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by yreg » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

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…

He was interviewed on TED around that time

https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_moot_poole_the_case_fo...

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by russdpale » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 5:23 PM UTC

chad_strategic wrote: post #25

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.

> At google, he took a job from someone who was almost certainly way more qualified, both technically and morally. Get the impression you work at google?

No, I don't work and google and wouldn't work at google, but I know a lot of people who do.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by Rompect » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 5:23 PM UTC

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 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.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by JeremyBanks » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 5:24 PM UTC

Rompect wrote: post #39

beaconstudios wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 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.

Without censorship... so you want a place with nazis? 'cause that's what happens.