4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED

Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by onewland on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @09:55PM (#1011391)

In all fairness, as much as you may not be a Bill Gates fan, it's pretty difficult to suggest that he's as unimpressive as the founder of 4chan. All the 4chan guy did was make an unmoderated message board.

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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by aceofspades19 on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @12:49AM (#1011641)

Umm 4chan is moderated thats why it doesn't get raided by the FBI, you obviously have never been there

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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by pyre on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @01:15PM (#1012486)

It's unmoderated in the sense that the bare minimum amount of moderation happens. (to remove illegal content to avoid getting shut down/raided)

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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by vaksel on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @09:57PM (#1011394)

here is a question...was 4chan the first image board, or did it just use the main image board script?

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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by bugs on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @10:02PM (#1011402)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan#Background

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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by DanBlake on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @10:14PM (#1011424)

Better question- How does 4chan keep itself from getting raided for the endless amount of CP that gets posted there?

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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by ErrantX on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @04:48AM (#1011850)

Because it's mostly a non-issue on 4Chan.

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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by jgrahamc on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @06:16AM (#1011914)

What's CP?

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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by rms on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @06:17AM (#1011915)

NFSW

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/CP

Also, CP stands for Christopher Poole. It is quite likely that Christopher Poole is a fake name, chosen becase of the CP meme.

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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by pyre on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @01:17PM (#1012493)

I'm pretty sure it's a fake name. 4+ years ago I mailed something to him and the name he gave with the mailing address was completely different (no I don't still have the mailing address, I'm not that organized) and I've heard that same name bandied about elsewhere (at least the same first name). But who knows it could also be fake.

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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by jgrahamc on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @06:59AM (#1011948)

Thanks. I was being dense. I assumed it was Copyright Protection.

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