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Re:Fuck 4chan
When "5chan" springs up....
http://5chan.org/
I think you underestimate how many *chans there are. Shii (a founder of 4chan and the reason it is "Anonymous" rather than "No name" like on elevens) has an index at http://shii.org/2ch/ . He also has some other cool shit on his site relating to anonymity. -
Re:Probably an obligatory link, but...
ESR is a hacker of the old school, and his material may be a little dated. For a more contemporary thesis on how a geek might successfully run social skills under emulation, try The Well-Cultured Anonymous, a compendium of all the little details that we might otherwise miss. Written by and for the anons of
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Re:Shorter Names, Spreading Power
No, I'm saying do it at the DNS level. You can have a website on a TLD itself. A Slashdot user here has a page about it, though it's outdated. My point is that you can have a TLD without an SLD. I'm not talking about browsers guessing where you want to go.
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Origins of anonymous
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Re:Definition...Here's a workable definition for you: Art is the word we use when we refer to that creative activity or its result, when images and objects, sights and sounds, drawings and carvings, convey the beauty and splendor of the world, or realize the imagination of the artist, for the purpose of self-expression or the shared enjoyment of its creation. Art is that which elevates our interpretation of the world and of ourselves from mere description or narrative, to the sublime. By that definition, a few games do easily pass, while many others fail.
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Re:Can't say I disagree
Because I can't be bothered to write it over and over again, let's just quote http://shii.org/shiichan:
* Registration keeps out good posters. Imagine someone with an involving job related to your forum comes across it. This person is an expert in her field, and therefore would be a great source of knowledge for your forum; but if a registration, complete with e-mail and password, is necessary before posting, she might just give up on posting and do something more important. People with lives will tend to ignore forums with a registration process.
* Registration lets in bad posters. On the other hand, people with no lives will thrive on your forum. Children and Internet addicts tend to have free time to go register an account and check their e-mail for the confirmation message. They will generally make your forum a waste of bandwidth.
* Registration attracts trolls. If someone is interested in destroying a forum, a registration process only adds to the excitement of a challenge. One might argue that a lack of registration will just let "anyone" post, but in reality anyone can post on old-type forum software; registration is merely a useless hassle. Quoting a 4channeler:
Trolls are not out to protect their own reputation. They seek to destroy other peoples' "reputation"
* Anonymity counters vanity. On a forum where registration is required, or even where people give themselves names, a clique is developed of the elite users, and posts deal as much with who you are as what you are posting. On an anonymous forum, if you can't tell who posts what, logic will overrule vanity. As Hiroyuki, the administrator of the largest forum in Japan, writes:
If there is a user ID attached to a user, a discussion tends to become a criticizing game. On the other hand, under the anonymous system, even though your opinion/information is criticized, you don't know with whom to be upset. Also with a user ID, those who participate in the site for a long time tend to have authority, and it becomes difficult for a user to disagree with them. Under a perfectly anonymous system, you can say, "it's boring," if it is actually boring. All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.