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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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It’s interesting to see how Moot gets the blame for the all the things that happened after he sold off 4chan.

Especially when you consider how anonymous and the occupy movements were all the rage among woke leftists a few years back, and they originated from 4chan.

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> 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…

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Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

Needs moar yellow van https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=128IR21ZQa0

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Depends on the company, I work in tech but for an old company, 5 years isn't very long and there isn't much room for any movement.

The fact that there's not room for movement is exactly why people leave companies, not a reason to stay.

True, but this is a company where when I logged on the other day there was an article about a guy retiring after 52 years as a delivery driver. Yes, that's right, fifty two years at one company, although I imagine he did small package delivery and feeder work (trailer loads). So not just one position, but pretty close.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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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.

I imagine Moot wasn't hired for technical skill exactly, but for his years of experience trying to shape a difficult community. I'd be interested in a breakdown of how Moot "fostered" the toxic aspects of 4chan. One could say that any anonymous community will be toxic and harmful to the general world, but that feels like a conclusion that is drawn after watching 4chan metastasize.

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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.

assuming this is in good faith, please take a look at this list of banned subreddits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...

though the world is probably better off without a lot of those, they are not all literal nazi subs.

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