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Moot Retires From 4chan
vivaoporto writes Moot bids his final farewell as the administrator of the (in)famous imageboard. The full resignation letter can be read on the site blog (it's cool, it's SFW) but for those who are not brave enough to dwell in the "underbelly of the internet" here are some excerpts: "I founded 4chan eleven and a half years ago at the age of 15, and after more than a decade of service, I've decided it's time for me to move on. 4chan has faced numerous challenges... [B]ut the biggest hurdle it's had to overcome is myself. As 4chan's sole administrator, decision maker, and keeper of most of its institutional knowledge, I've come to represent an uncomfortably large single point of failure. I've spent the past two years working behind the scenes to address these challenges,... [T]he site isn't in danger of going under financially any time soon,... and while I've still been calling the shots, I've delegated many of my responsibilities to a handful of trusted volunteers, most of whom have served the site for years. That foundation will now be put to the ultimate test, as today I'm retiring as 4chan's administrator.... I look forward to one day returning to 4chan as its Admin Emeritus or just another Anonymous,... I'm humbled to have had the privilege of both founding and presiding over what is easily one of the greatest communities to ever grace the Web."
I guess he's going back to reddit.
The presidential election is next year. He needs to get ready.
To paraphrase Gene Spafford, "[4chan] is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
one of the greatest communities to ever grace the Web.
lolwut
He's only 26-ish. He has no idea how elegant and wondrous the contributors of alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die were.
Three.
- the CIA
And by the way, your fly's open.
God dammit.
You are welcome on my lawn.
You are misinformed, sir. Mods and janitors jump on CP extremely quickly these days. Usually, the thread has already been deleted before I click on the report button.
Well that's good news.
God forbid anyone get the wrong idea about the moral compass of 4chan, since the rest of the site is nothing but good clean family fun.
I was rather amused by the titles of the Tanya Harding / Nancy Kerrigan newsgroups, though to be honest I don't remember the titles any more and never read them. I just remember ".whack.whack.whack" being the tail end of one.
I actually did follow and post to technical newsgroups.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.