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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by scythe on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @12:09AM (#1011610)
Considering the amount of failed *chans that showed up both before and after 4chan - world2ch, 5chan, etc, I wouldn't count Moot as merely lucky. At the very least, he kept the site sane by continuing to run it -- in contrast with, say, the constantly fluctuating staff at 7chan.
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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by Falaina on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @12:36AM (#1011627)
4chan survived out of his sheer stubbornness to run the site at a loss for a long period of time and refusing to sell it to some porn network (possibly on multiple occasions?) It's impressive he was willing to spend the past 6 years running; 4chan clearly means a lot to him, god knows why.
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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by alex_c on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @02:02PM (#1012590)
4chan clearly means a lot to him, god knows why

Forgive me if I presume too much, but it sounds to me like you've never had a wildly successful project of your own.

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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by Falaina on Thursday December 24, 2009 @08:40PM (#1014660)
I was just making light of the... dubious content that springs forth from 4chan. I do understand how he could be quite proud of the fact he created such an incredibly popular site.
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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by viraptor on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @07:43AM (#1011988)
There's something in the 4chan's community. For some reason 4chan survives, even if admins decide that for a week the whole site will be pink text on pink background (or was it some other colour) and will have an annoying song playing in the background -- exactly with the intent of driving some people away. Maybe it just crossed the critical mass and luck or inconvenience doesn't matter anymore?
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Re:4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED by pyre on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @01:25PM (#1012508)
> will have an annoying song playing in the background -- exactly with the intent of driving some people away

I never realized that these were attempts to drive people away. I always saw them as hilarious. I would just mute the page if it was too annoying.

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