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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..
Website creator promises to redesign his website. We'll be monitoring this story overnight and have a full report to you on the Saturday Really Early News. We start when normal people wake up.
For the web2.0 tubgirl experience.
We could discuss this further, but I'm afraid it'd be a Moot point.
Doesn't Moot know that it's bad luck for geeks to discuss software they're going to write before it's written? It's the Vaporware curse that has been dogging classics like Duke Nukem Forever.
That site is kind of like living with strange and often helpful people who leave you cryptic notes on your fridge, with pictures of your mom from some party you swear you don't remember being at. And yet all that is somehow comforting. A sort of magic 8 ball that both answers and re-enforces some of the lunacy and hivemindedness I remember from lambda moo. Also be sure to go there and ask people about the secret board where you can play "the game."
"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
He's ranting because he can't do a Triforce.
So feds should shut them down because they create and contribute nothing? What law are you referring to?
/. and /b/ share a common history. /. is sort of a grandparent for /b/. And, read how I say /b/ and not 4chan. /b/ and the rest of 4chan are completely different places, with wholly different people. The difference is interests. Actually, people in other boards have interests, common interests. People in /b/ ... they are just /b/tards.
but ALL of you go to /b/, some more often than others. You all troll Omegle, and you all have vandalized wikipedia at least once. Every single one of you have gone into chatroulette to flash your dick, and engaged in a flame war with the retards that post on youtube, or spent hours looking at gross things at rotten.
This are the dark corners of the web. We all go there. Not all of us admit it.
All of this sites exist for a simple reason: Because they can. It's part of what we all are, and we have to eventually vent and let the daemons run loose.
So, don't be so critic of 4chan and accept it for what it is: A crappy board filled with self-righteous, ignorant, malicious and violent hypocrites. A quick hack that excretes nonstandard html code where lots of cruel and selfish uncaring monsters vent their frustration and anger. And we are those monsters.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
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
... i c wat u did thar
That's the problem with free speech. About half the people wasted theirs trying to get someone else's curtailed.
That's a moot point.
It's either false dichotomies, or the terrorists win, you decide.
He's my younger, stupider, brother...
Goatse is red, /b/ has three posters --
Mudkips are blue.
moot, Chris-chan and you.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
well actually alot of people have been partyvanned from 4chan (for those not up with the chan's lit.; partyvanned is when the FBI task force trailer, the 'party van' shows up in your driveway.) They dont do much about raids and whatnot, although most of the people behind those raids are from 711chan and others like it. 4chan in a raid is usually just the fodder to get the job done. all the great hackers today are also great social engineers, and they make full use of the mob.
* Windows: [alt-255] [alt-255] [alt-30] [enter] [alt 30] [alt 255] [alt 30]
* Mac: [option-space] + [option-space] + [option-J] + [enter] + [option-J] + [option-space] + [option-J]
* Linux : [Ctrl+Shift+U + a0] [Ctrl+Shift+U + a0] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2] [Enter] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2] [Ctrl+Shift+U + a0] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2]
Anon Delivars!
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
no, they will spill and bring the stupidity all over the net.
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If by last attempt you mean almost every hour of every day for over two years...
/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