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A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by vidarh »

dylanfw wrote: post #49
hacker42 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember that arXiv is just pre-print and the last page if not the entire paper is probably nothing more than a lame/distasteful joke. Remember that any nutbag who knows a little English and LaTeX can publish on arXiv. It will likely not make it into a journal.

Seeing "LaTeX" (lay-tech) and "arXiv" together in your sentence made me finally realize that arXiv is pronounced "archive". I've been reading it as "arx-iv" for years.

Archive is spelled "arkiv" in several languages, and the etymology goes back (via latin) to the Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon), so it's a quite clever name.

Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by Paul_S »

bhaumik wrote: post #44
SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #20

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This means every one is simply judged by what ideas they create and I think thats a beautiful thing. And it drives higher quality content because of it. Most people do not realize that a lot of the popular memes and internet jokes shared on more mainstream platforms originally came from the "chan" culture. To your point though the high quality content is often difficult to find in the cesspool of low-quality spam on…

Besides memes and internet jokes, what are examples of high quality content created (or originating) from the "chan" culture?

There's the vidya gaem awards, an alternative to the mainstream awards ceremony.

Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by MichaelGG »

ivarious wrote: post #29

It's rather disappointing that the authors didn't talk about the biggest thing that has reshaped discussion in 4chan since years. The reply indicator. For people who don't go to 4chan, you can read it on http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-here-s-your-you . Basically, if someone else replied to your post, the post pointer will show a (You) word, showing that the poster replied to a post that you wrote. Moreover, the po…

The addition of flags probably do far more damage to /pol/. Too much meta discussion or just insults based on the flag of the poster.

Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by cache-monet »

bhaumik wrote: post #44
SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This means every one is simply judged by what ideas they create and I think thats a beautiful thing. And it drives higher quality content because of it. Most people do not realize that a lot of the popular memes and internet jokes shared on more mainstream platforms originally came from the "chan" culture. To your point though the high quality content is often difficult to find in the cesspool of low-quality spam on…

Besides memes and internet jokes, what are examples of high quality content created (or originating) from the "chan" culture?

Most people don't know, but Tox (just posted here a few days ago [1]) started on /g/.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12657891

Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by AvenueIngres »

colordrops wrote: post #80
jmcgough wrote: post #74

I've been really surprised how influential /pol/ has been this election, which has been really weird and a little scary. It's not uncommon to post something on 4chan stating that you have inside information on events that are going to happen over the next few days (which is fiction 99.9% of the time). Posts like this in /pol/ have been getting screenshotted and spread elsewhere on the web, where alt-right conspiracy…

/pol/ uncovered the Paul Combetta posts on Reddit. So it's not all bullshit. Its crazy that they had enough of an effect to get the head of the FBI grilled by a house committee.

/pol/:/sg/ helped the Russian airforce identify rebels positions in Syria and destroy them. It is not all bullshit at all; there is a significant proportion of it that is undeniably childish garbage but there is the occasional gem as well.

Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by cryoshon »

AvenueIngres wrote: post #86
colordrops wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

/pol/ uncovered the Paul Combetta posts on Reddit. So it's not all bullshit. Its crazy that they had enough of an effect to get the head of the FBI grilled by a house committee.

/pol/:/sg/ helped the Russian airforce identify rebels positions in Syria and destroy them. It is not all bullshit at all; there is a significant proportion of it that is undeniably childish garbage but there is the occasional gem as well.

source? if true, this would be a troubling precedent in the use of third party analysis in conducting military operations

Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by amiga-workbench »

MichaelGG wrote: post #84
ivarious wrote: post #29

It's rather disappointing that the authors didn't talk about the biggest thing that has reshaped discussion in 4chan since years. The reply indicator. For people who don't go to 4chan, you can read it on http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-here-s-your-you . Basically, if someone else replied to your post, the post pointer will show a (You) word, showing that the poster replied to a post that you wrote. Moreover, the po…

The addition of flags probably do far more damage to /pol/. Too much meta discussion or just insults based on the flag of the poster.

Those bloody Canadians though...

Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by verandaguy »

eclyps19 wrote: post #73
dylanfw wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seeing "LaTeX" (lay-tech) and "arXiv" together in your sentence made me finally realize that arXiv is pronounced "archive". I've been reading it as "arx-iv" for years.

It's really not pronounced "lay-tecks"? Damn, I've been pronouncing that incorrectly for years, then.

Originally, a TeX user would've been called a TeXnician, which, according to Don Knuth, would be pronounced the same as "technician."

Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

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Post by pierrebai »

NotaSockPuppet8 wrote: post #64
bhaumik wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Besides memes and internet jokes, what are examples of high quality content created (or originating) from the "chan" culture?

/g/ makes useful software on occasion for example. after 4chan pioneered webm as looping gif replacement (long before imgur doing the gifv thing) they made webmcam and webm4retards for example. The latter by its mere existence also highlighted github's overzealous application of community policies. A bunch of indie games started their life there too. And then there are derivative and mashup works like fanart, transla…

But we could apply the reverse Sturgeon's law: in any sufficiently large community, 1% of content will not be crap. 4chan is not special, it's just large.
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