Re:4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google
by leetcrew on Friday April 23, 2021 @02:00PM
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"reasonable users" is doing a lot of work here. not everyone desires the same level of discourse you do on every site they visit. /b/ has just about the bare minimum level of moderation needed to comply with US law and a lot of people seem to enjoy using it.
Re:4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google
by jandrese on Friday April 23, 2021 @02:04PM
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/b/ is a good example of a forum that is only trolls at this point, and as you note it does have some moderation.
Some of the other forums on 4chan might be better examples, but even those have some moderation. Forums like /tg/ have managed to hang on alright, although their total post volume per day is quite small compared to /b/.
Re:4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google
by leetcrew on Friday April 23, 2021 @02:27PM
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> /b/ is a good example of a forum that is only trolls at this point
and some people enjoy that. you don't have to go there if you aren't one of them.
you're not describing some platonic ideal of an internet forum. you're just describing what you personally want out of one.
Trolls can always take over unmoderated forums because while they can drive the reasonable users out by reducing the signal to noise ratio down to a useless level, the reasonable users have no power drive them out. It's a completely imbalanced power dynamic. All forums need some sort of moderation or they will always collapse once they grow beyond a fairly modest threshold.