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

Re:A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Ef... by pierrebai on Friday October 14, 2016 @11:33AM (#12708755)

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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Re:A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Ef... by nickthemagicman on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:40PM (#12710545)

Facebook is my counter example. Its the biggest social media site on the internet. Produces nothing that gets reified in the form of internet culture.

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Re:A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Ef... by internaut on Saturday October 15, 2016 @04:48AM (#12713282)

magicman, academia should study why Facebook is a sterile wasteland

4chan, Reddit and HN are Internet natives.

Facebook and Twitter are fucking tourists.

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Re:A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Ef... by nickthemagicman on Saturday October 15, 2016 @01:25PM (#12714808)

Facebook is what mainstream compares 4chan to. A nice safe sterile place. Good for family values and advertising.

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Re:A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Ef... by Vaskivo on Friday October 14, 2016 @11:55AM (#12708921)

But it's size together with the temporary aspect of it's content greatly accelerates the iteration process, culling bad content and refining the good one.

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