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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by Mezzie on Monday September 05, 2022 @10:21AM (#32724606)
The difference is probably that KF mocks individuals in easy to locate and follow threads. 4-Chan's set up is just too chaotic; proving that 4-Chan is going after a specific person would be...difficult. KF organizes its mocking into easily discoverable forums and threads, which makes it easy for the individuals in question to find all the nastiness.

Finding ANYTHING with any kind of historical evidence on 4-Chan is difficult. The thousand+ posts about keffals are all collected together where she and others can read them all at once, which also contributes to making it look 'worse'.

A haystack may have more needles in it than a sewing kit, but you KNOW which ones are in the sewing kit.

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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by phillipcarter on Monday September 05, 2022 @02:14PM (#32727364)
It's also a cultural thing. 4chan is not a place where you go obsess over one particular person with aims to ruin their life. It's, as you say, a place of chaos and inanity.
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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by yanderekko on Monday September 05, 2022 @02:58PM (#32727888)
> 4chan is not a place where you go obsess over one particular person with aims to ruin their life.

Uh, this has happened many times. The thing is that it's more difficult to systematically document.

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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by Mezzie on Monday September 05, 2022 @03:01PM (#32727946)
It's more incidental/emergent than intentional, though. And that can happen with any group that has more than a certain number of empathy-impaired people participating. (Including most groups of teenage girls.)
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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by Mezzie on Monday September 05, 2022 @02:27PM (#32727517)
And there's a cultural resistance on 4chan to obsessing over one person and trying to get the group to back you up. "Not Your Personal Army."

KF are mean librarians.

4chan are just 12 year olds.

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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by tstrimple on Monday September 05, 2022 @03:06PM (#32728014)
Unless that person is critiquing games from a feminist perspective.
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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by Mezzie on Monday September 05, 2022 @03:57PM (#32728692)
That was so fucking weird.

I still remember watching AS's videos and being confused as to how something so bland pissed off that many people.

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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by birdboy2000 on Monday September 05, 2022 @03:27PM (#32728277)
saying "your critiques are bad and you're a grifter" is a far cry from ruining someone's life and doing anything worse got you banned
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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by flumpcakes on Monday September 05, 2022 @10:26AM (#32724668)
I agree with this. I think the aging-off process on the 4chan boards has probably protected it from a lot of heat. The heinous stuff will be gone and forgotten in a few days but any comments on Kiwifarms remain forever.
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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by stepupmakeup on Monday September 05, 2022 @02:10PM (#32727308)
Multiple 4chan archives exist, and Google indexes them. Most even have a search function, 4chan doesn't (except for currently active thread titles in catalog)
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