Moot Sells 4chan To 2channel Founder Hiroyuki Nishimura

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 21, 2015 @06:23AM from the your-problem-now dept.

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.”

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can you imagine the harassment? by circletimessquare · 2015-09-21 06:51 · Score: 3, Interesting

moot was probably harassed in ways us mere mortals couldn't even dream of
i would have sold too. anyone would have
most angry users probably protested moot's new moderation in acceptable ways
but, being 4chan, a sizeable amount probably protested in ways we don't even want to know human beings can treat each other short of actual violence

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