Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?

Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? by collyw on Thursday January 31, 2019 @05:47AM (#19043870)

If you have the right sense of humor 4chan can be the funniest place on the internet in my opinion.

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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? by jiscariot on Thursday January 31, 2019 @08:45AM (#19044620)

Agreed - I appreciate the sheer variance in comment quality and the threads are easy to consume. To take something like /ck/ (cooking), you have a mix of some generally good advice, along with a fair amount of madness and absurdity. The mix works for me. I am glad they split off the "work-safe" boards to 4channel.

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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? by Vaskivo on Thursday January 31, 2019 @09:26AM (#19044863)

Why do you think the split was good? I think it had absolutely no effect on the site.

And the work-safe boards remain "work-safe" with a huge amount of quotation marks :)

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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? by jiscariot on Friday February 01, 2019 @07:36AM (#19053586)

I agree that it probably has had little effect on the site overall, and huge quotation marks as you say. I am assuming they did it for more flexibility with advertisers or something.

For me it is more psychological--there is a fair amount of decent content there, but being one click away from /b/ and /pol/ can be a detriment if I want to share a link or show something to my girlfriend. "Here's a bread recipe that sounds tasty or some /diy/ project--but don't use your work computer and you might want to fire up VPN."

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