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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by izzydata on Monday September 21, 2015 @10:55AM (#10252681)
A lot of 4chan users will be upset if you do anything. That is too much of a generalization and isn't possible to determine for the community as a whole. Keep in mind the vast majority of 4chan users don't even post.
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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday September 21, 2015 @10:56AM (#10252694)
I'm not saying all of 4chan was upset (I'd imagine many might be quite happy, but kept quiet). Perhaps not even most of 4chan. I just think that's probably the main reason why anyone would call the mods 'SJWs'.

(Though maybe 'SJW mods' is just the new 'fascist mods')

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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by chisleu on Monday September 21, 2015 @11:07AM (#10252776)
I don't think this is the case at all. Gamergate was noisy and annoying at it's best on 4chan. However, there have been many bans for posts wildly outside of gamergate, that were on SJW talking points.

The reason gamergate was banned from 4chan is they kept posting pics of zoe and moot hanging out at conferences and bars and such.

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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by Torgo on Monday September 21, 2015 @12:27PM (#10253326)
Mods/janitors ruined /cgl/ (cosplay board) well before gamergate existed and it definitely had a (so-called, I dislike the term) "SJW" flavor.
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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by astrange on Monday September 21, 2015 @05:39PM (#10255317)
Do you want /cgl/ to have more or less flaming? It's a very popular and active board and everyone is still pretty rude.
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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by Lawtonfogle on Monday September 21, 2015 @11:15AM (#10252839)
I'm not sure about the larger picture of the whole internet, but after seeing the fempire spread on reddit and reading some of the ways they did so, I can see why some people jump to it as the default argument.
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