4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20

Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20 by jmduke on Monday July 01, 2013 @05:32PM (#5973709)

The now-banned subreddit had an external forum (the name of the subreddit with a prepended 'r', if memory serves) which they used to coordinate raids with obvious malicious intent.

The whole point of free speech is that unpopular groups aren't shut down for having unpopular opinions.

Reddit's administration has made a point of this as much as they possible. But when you break the rules, you break the rules.

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Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20 by jquery on Monday July 01, 2013 @05:49PM (#5973815)

> they used to coordinate raids with obvious malicious intent.

Kind of like /r/shitredditsays (a forum exclusively for raiding other subreddits), which has the blessing of the reddit admins because it's PC...

> Reddit's administration has made a point of this as much as they possible.

Then why is this in the Reddit ToS?

You agree not to use any obscene, indecent, or offensive language or to provide to or post on or through the Website any graphics, text, photographs, images, video, audio or other material that is defamatory, abusive, bullying, harassing, racist, hateful, or violent. You agree to refrain from ethnic slurs, religious intolerance, homophobia, and personal attacks when using the Website.

Reddit is many things, but a free speech zone it is not.

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Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20 by jlgreco on Monday July 01, 2013 @06:04PM (#5973884)

> */r/shitredditsays ... it's PC...

I wouldn't quite say they PC... but I don't know what I would call them. I don't think there is really a term that adequately describes using shock tactics, belittling, and bullying to further an otherwise commendable cause. They are "Un-PC about being PC" I suppose.

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Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20 by hobs on Monday July 01, 2013 @07:27PM (#5974433)

Bullies. Bullies for a good cause are still bullies.

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Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20 by jlgreco on Monday July 01, 2013 @07:33PM (#5974475)

Just the word "bullies" doesn't explain why they have been untouched, but yeah. They are bullies.

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Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20 by swarthy on Monday July 01, 2013 @07:43PM (#5974539)

From what I've read, one of the Reddit admins is an SRSer, which is why they are untouchable despite their duplicitous behavior.

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Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20 by jlgreco on Monday July 01, 2013 @08:14PM (#5974719)

Well... that would explain a lot....

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Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20 by egypturnash on Monday July 01, 2013 @08:57PM (#5974954)

"trolls using political correctness as an excuse for lulz"

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Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20 by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @03:50AM (#5976379)

Which is totally unlike everyone else, who troll and use free speech as an excuse for lulz.

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Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20 by swarthy on Monday July 01, 2013 @07:41PM (#5974527)

The whole of Reddit is PC. SRS is violently PC.

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Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20 by jmduke on Monday July 01, 2013 @07:57PM (#5974617)

There is a subreddit devoted to beating women. What is your definition of PC?

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Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20 by jquery on Monday July 01, 2013 @08:47PM (#5974901)

The purge of Reddit will continue. Don't worry, /r/beatingwomen will be gone soon.

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Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20 by redthrowaway on Monday July 01, 2013 @06:27PM (#5974027)

The TOS has never been enforced, as the admins have explicitly stated.

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