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Moot Sells 4chan To 2channel Founder Hiroyuki Nishimura
An anonymous reader writes: A year after stepping down from the day-to-day running of the site following a mass user rebellion over moderation issues, Christopher 'moot' Poole has transferred ownership of the once nefarious 4Chan to 2channel founder Hiroyuki Nishimura. “Hiroyuki is literally the only person in the world with as much if not more experience than myself in running an anonymous, large destination community that serves tens of millions of people,” Mr. Poole said in an interview. “He’s the great-grandfather of all of this.”
The key difference with 2channel is that it doesn't support image posting. It's text only. 4chan is more like Futaba Channel (2ch.net), which is an imageboard.
Still, Hiroyuki did invent the anonymous board concept, with the way threads are managed etc. 2 Channel is quite well known in Japan, due to some infamous incidents. In some ways it's a lot worse than 4chan, but in other ways the users seem to get bored faster so you don't get epic never-ending shitstorms like GamerGate coming out of it.
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