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"Moot" Working On Reboot of 4chan Platform
Hugh Pickens writes "Nick Bilton has an interesting interview with Christopher Poole, known online as 'Moot,' founder 4chan, a jumble of content, hosting anything from pictures of cute kittens to wildly disturbing images and language. Poole, now 22, started 4chan when he was 15 after he discovered a Japanese image-board Web forum called 2chan dedicated to anime. 'The code for 2chan was publicly available and I took it and translated it from Japanese to English using tools online and I threw it up on the Web and sent it out to 20 people,' says Poole. 'I wanted to keep with the 2chan naming and the URL for 3chan was taken at the time so I just jumped to the next number.' Although 4chan gets 8.2 million unique visitors every month, 600 million page loads per month, and 800,000 new posts a day, Poole is working on a new project to reimagine what an image board should be today using the current technologies available."
Three sentences turned into a frontpage story..
"Chantards"? Man, aren't you cool. I bet you lurk there anyway.
/b/ may be the cesspool of the internet, but even sewage needs somewhere to go. I suppose you rather all that filth pool up in your backyard?
first slashdot goes web2.0, and now 4chan? there'll come a day when you won't be able to look up man pages on the internet without a web browser with javascript and java enabled. mark my words.
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this is your id and this is your id on drugs /b/
see? same thing
and that's even if you don't know anything about drugs
it's not as if /b/ tries to be the wild wild west /b/ too deeply /b/ is there
it just is
what else is left that's like the old usenet?
or like a place without rules?
it's there.. not that one can continue to feel well
if one looks into
so it's funny to think that net freedom is healthy coz
yet.. there you have it
So feds should shut them down because they create and contribute nothing? What law are you referring to?
Pretty sure the feds have already caught wind of them. Notice how nothing has happened yet.
Anonymous Coward, do not be angry at Anonymous, for he is your kin.
'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' - Mao Tse-tung
That's the problem with free speech. About half the people wasted theirs trying to get someone else's curtailed.
The /b/-tard is but one aspect of us. Most of us are caring, empathetic, logical, intelligent and/or educated, and function in real-life. Embracing, expressing, and living in harmony with one's dark side is a sign of balance and health. Having masturbated in private to depections of questionable situations or posting insanely clever racist jokes based on reality are not abnormal.
Problems arise when the dark side is swept under the rug instead of acknowledged and understood. The repression and cognitive dissonance has a way of catastrophically exploding in peoples' faces -- just ask Larry Craig, Mick Foley, or the Catholic priests. The assholes who dedicate their lives to fighting and speaking out against what they fear most about themselves.
Doesn't the second space [alt-255] in the first line completely screw the alignment? Surely you'd want: * Windows: [alt-255] [alt-30] [enter] [alt 30] [alt 255] [alt 30] * Mac: [option-space] + [option-J] + [enter] + [option-J] + [option-space] + [option-J] * Linux : [Ctrl+Shift+U + a0] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2] [Enter] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2] [Ctrl+Shift+U + a0] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2]
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
It's simple.
Many Slashdotters were losers who got bullied and had no luck with girls in high school, and this turned some of them into angsty misanthropes stuck in a kind of permanent adolescence. I would feel sorry for them if they weren't so obnoxious.
/b/ is pretty damn conformist. Go an objectively read the posts there, notice the common form of all the posts, the common language and use of symbols. /b/ is just another cliche, it follows all the sociological rules defining such a group. /B/ is an in group, just like any other, with a common culture, common rituals, common symbolism, etc... They are as rigidly conformist (to their own mores) as any other group or subculture.
Notice that you can always tell when confronted with any random b-tard that they are, in fact, a b-tard. If in doubt, wait for the "I see what you did there", or "am I doing it right", or some stupid reference to Pokemon. These are nothing but banal badges of identity. Like punk rockers in the late 70's wearing safety pins and anarchy signs, or people in the grunge subculture wearing ripped jeans and flannels, or metal heads in boots. There is a level of conformity in ALL groups.
Don't fool yourself into thinking that /b/ is some super special group that you are a member of. All groups are the same, and generally have the same "insider vs. outsider" philosophy that this line of reasoning exhibits.
Another line of proof, go scan /b/ once a day, reading it as an non-impassioned, objective, observer, and notice that the style, quality, and content really doesn't vary all that much from day to day. I tried to scan /b/, and got quickly bored since it really doesn't vary that much. If you scan /b/ once, you never really have to again, so rigid is the culture there.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey