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> he never made much money from You believe that? Dude banked on both the sale and takeover, plus the ad revenue when he was running the site. He had no alternative but to push the poverty myth (Kevin Rose@Digg also did this). Can you imagine what the users would do if he disclosed how much he was raking in? My guess? $10 million n/w post sale, most likely much more.
>My guess? $10 million n/w post sale, most likely much more. Any particular reasoning behind that guess?
Sale/takeover - Similar sites that sold, Reddit, myspace ($35m), Digg. 4chans value to particular buyers, potential with a pivot/reculture. It's a smoking hot site for PR if you can fool/fake the users, and right now it's election time.
What would you say 4chan is maximally worth to the buyer who can extract the most value from it? I can see someone dropping $40-$50m.
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> 4chan has always had a huge problem attracting advertisers due to the ahem nature of its content According to who? Remember how cheap the site is to run. It's like the Pirate Bay guys saying they made no money. Those ads paid big and they raked.
According to the guy who ran the site. If you think he's lying about that, please put forth some evidence.
Do you see the problem?
Can we get /prog/ back? <3
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So some research and it is easy to see the beginning of the GG movement was mainly a force to harass people like Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian.
The start of it, sure. This is all public record at this point. Judging what exists now by what existed over a year ago is hardly fair. People who actually harass people are now loudly shouted down wherever they're seen doing it.
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2ch also offered a paid post deletion service used by political parties when Nishimura was running it, after the 2ch coup he scraped the site and started 2ch.sc This is the guy who runs 2ch/8ch https://twitter.com/xerxeswatkins
Puts this quote in a new light: >He is one of few individuals with a deep understanding of what it means to provide a digital home for tens of millions of people for more than a decade. There is nobody more qualified than Hiroyuki to lead 4chan, and I can't think of a person better suited for the task.
A few days ago, an article was posted how WhatsApp has scaled to nearly a billion users and is still running with only 50 engineers. Isn't running 4chan more impressive feat being run, if I am not wrong, by just one engineer, and that too from a time when web development tools weren't anywhere close to what we have today.
Most of the chans (2ch/8ch/4chan/420chan ect) are just FreeBSD boxes and cgi/perl scripts http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/interviews/moot-4chan.h...
I feel bad for moot. He'll probably be known for the rest of his life for creating a cesspool he never made much money from.
A few days ago, an article was posted how WhatsApp has scaled to nearly a billion users and is still running with only 50 engineers. Isn't running 4chan more impressive feat being run, if I am not wrong, by just one engineer, and that too from a time when web development tools weren't anywhere close to what we have today.
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Yeah, no. People claiming "harassment!" absent evidence is not proof of said harassment existing, doubly so when the people shouting the loudest have a profit motive for its supposed existence. Also: It would be rather disingenuous to claim that gamergate are a bunch of harassers without acknowledging that prominent people within the movement have received things like syringes and knives in the mail... and been black…
Perception is reality. And it seems the perception is that Gahergate is a group of harrasors. You (not you personally) saying it is not will not change that perception. It seems to me that if you want Gamegate to be taken seriously (though I think it is way to late for that) Gamergate needs to start cleaning out it ranks. Which highlights the real issue. Gamergate has no central entity. So there are going to be peopl…