Re:4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google
by coliveira on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:49PM
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Why do you think this is not relevant? Everything that came out of 4chan is not a surprise, it was accepted there from the very beginning. It just took proportions that nobody would expect.
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Re:4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google
by nemothekid on Friday April 23, 2021 @03:18PM
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The reason I think it isn't relevant is I think 4chan would be different if moot stuck around. moot had a sort of dictatorship power that allowed him to kill trends - for example GamerGate "died" on 4chan (leading to 8chan and friends) because moot decided one day that GamerGate was done on 4chan. I can't say for sure what 4chan would look like but I felt moot had a more tasteful and less ideological driven approach to running 4chan.
There was an article in Motherboard[1] how /pol/ is being idealogically driven due to moderation choices. I don't believe moot would have allowed such an ideologically driven moderation changes to continue for so long. (IIRC, moot had deleted /pol/ twice, once as /n/ which he removed for being too much like stormfront).
[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7aap8/the-man-who-helped-tu...
Re:4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google
by devenblake on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:54PM
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I meant the Anonymous group/movement/"which group?"/whatever debate is a bag of beans to be spilled another time.