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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.”
First time I first hear of something on Slashot!
That averages out to "3 Chan".
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2channel is similar technically, culturally, and even lineage'ly. It's 4chan's big brother. I don't know anything about Nishi, but my impression is that he's the sort who is familiar with the nature of the beast, as opposed to some suit who though buying 4chan would be a great captive (lol) audience.
Not that I'm saying "why is this news" but it doesn't seem like they should expect any dramatic changes just yet.
Last time Hiroyuki Nishimura was involved in managing an "anonymous" board he ended up selling the its users data.
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
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Dice would sell /. to someone who actually understands it.
No, Hiroyuki provided some assistance to the owner of 8chan, but he doesn't own it.
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...isn't taking the sale of 4chan to a Japanese national too well?
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I'm pretty sure there is no person named "Christopher Poole"
The name is a combination of 4chan jokes too unpc to even print, one racist and one to do with child porn.
Except 4chan at its best was decisively brilliant and funny. It was one of the last bastions on the web of the old BBS days, and it was amazing the sense of community you could build from anonymous posts. It was one of the last strongholds against the corporatization of the web.
And it was also mismanaged at nearly every turn, like most popular websites, forgetting it was little more than a platform for its users. Moot started towards self-aggrandizement with the publicity 4chan got and killed off most things that made it great.
Like /. in its prime, 4chan shaped the face of the web where a true market place of ideas could take place, but is now sadly out of step.
Have gnu, will travel.
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If you want to feel old, consider that that was like 15 years ago, as old as the kids on 4chan WERE at the time.
Also, you're wrong. What was cool about 4chan is that it is anonymous. "Management" is the opposite of anonymous.
Then it got too popular and lost the advantage of a quirky culture and became whatever random American teens are, which is still a bit interesting to see unconstrained by identity.
I mean, c'mon.
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4 Chan is gonna be destroyed. You guys don't know wha he did to 2 Chan
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Can the author please update the article with the permalink to the news - http://www.4chan.org/news?all#...