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Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour by dyauspitr on Saturday November 16, 2024 @06:45PM (#42160600)
Yeah but what’s the point, most people don’t want to spend a lot of time there.
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Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour by newsclues on Saturday November 16, 2024 @06:55PM (#42160664)
The small group that does has had a major influence on culture at large.
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Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour by dyauspitr on Saturday November 16, 2024 @08:36PM (#42161247)
It does but that’s not what a large scale scalable corp is trying to achieve. You want as many participants as possible enjoying themselves for as long as possible.
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Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour by squigz on Saturday November 16, 2024 @09:11PM (#42161408)
Such as?
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Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour by newsclues on Sunday November 17, 2024 @11:50AM (#42165177)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-fa...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan

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Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour by harimau777 on Saturday November 16, 2024 @09:14PM (#42161432)
Sure, but that influence has not exactly been positive. That's the catch I think. It's much easier to exert negative influence than positive influence.
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Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour by newsclues on Sunday November 17, 2024 @11:52AM (#42165194)
Influence is just a tool to effect change upon people at scale.

It’s a tool, it can be used for good or evil. I’ll leave the subjective analysis to others but I think tools are rare just good or bad.

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Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour by dyauspitr on Sunday November 17, 2024 @04:56PM (#42167671)
It’s not that simple. Tribalism is easy and most considered a net negative. Tribalism is easy to sell because it’s ingrained in humans. That’s what 4chan does, pick the lowest hanging fruit.
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Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour by newsclues on Monday November 18, 2024 @06:26AM (#42171478)
Imagine living a primitive life in a cave or the woods, you eat berries and kill small animals and cook by a campfire.

Do you really think joining up with other primitive humans in a small tribe would be a negative experience on your life?

Friends and allies would be helpful.

Tribalism is an essential human social method that got humanity to this point!

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Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour by thousand_nights on Saturday November 16, 2024 @08:36PM (#42161242)
that's an intended feature working as expected, an influx of more people would ruin it
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Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour by ranger_danger on Sunday November 17, 2024 @04:00PM (#42167196)
Maybe that's the key... sites should not become so large that it creates big echo chambers for one person to reach millions, it keeps other people having to search for answers and do their own research instead of just everyone listening to the same group of idiots.

Perhaps you could also force a limit on how much time was spent (or how many posts made in X time) on the site.

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