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Re:Reddit’s Plan to Recover from Its Meltdown by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @07:20PM (#10349840)
> Every conversation I've had on 4chan I have no clue what gender the other person is, what race they are, where they live, how much money they make, what organizations they support, or what their name is real or not.

Yes, but these are assumed to be male, white, American (or European), not poverty and right-wing ones, respectively. If you intentionally or unintentionally reveal that you are not one of these, you're in trouble.

Re:Reddit’s Plan to Recover from Its Meltdown by NovaS1X on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @07:27PM (#10349879)
>Yes, but these are assumed to be male, white, American (or European), not poverty and right-wing ones, respectively.

You're defeating your own argument. Assumption doesn't mean it's the rule or it's true. There's no census on 4chan and there's no reason to assume that the assumption is correct.

I could argue against your views by citing the 4chan conventions which had quite a number of women and minorities. Obviously the largest group was 18-25 white males but this was by no means a significant majority.

I can also cite my own experiences in 4chan IRC channels where a lot of our members were located outside of Europe and America.

Or how about doing a census on /cgl/? It's well known among experienced users that the vast majority of users there are women.

You're not stating a fact.

Re:Reddit’s Plan to Recover from Its Meltdown by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @07:31PM (#10349888)
> You're defeating your own argument. Assumption doesn't mean it's the rule or it's true. There's no census on 4chan and there's no reason to assume that the assumption is correct.

Whether the assumption is correct or not is immaterial to the point I am making.

> I could argue against your views by citing the 4chan conventions which had quite a number of women and minorities.

That doesn't go against what I'm saying. Re-read my comment.

Re:Reddit’s Plan to Recover from Its Meltdown by xyzzyz on Thursday October 08, 2015 @02:57AM (#10351269)
> Yes, but these are assumed to be male, white, American (or European), not poverty and right-wing ones, respectively. If you intentionally or unintentionally reveal that you are not one of these, you're in trouble.

On the other hand, you also get a white male middle-class privilege by default, don't you?