>But in an environment like 4chan, all that is stripped away. No status games, no authority, no obligations, no expectations. You know I here that one a lot, b

>But in an environment like 4chan, all that is stripped away. No status games, no authority, no obligations, no expectations. You know I here that one a lot, but really /b is a perfectly addictive status game. There are right and wrong responses to a situation, which you only learn if you hang out for a bit. Get things right you get praised, get them wrong you get flamed. The anonymity lets you take the praise to heart and basically ignore the flame. It's like tetris or peggle, when you fail you can blame it on the random nature of the game, but when you do well you can claim it was skill. /b is absolutely FULL of status games, obligations and expectations. What emerges is a game of one ups man ship and me too isms played 24/7 that has no bearing on honesty or the participants actual thoughts.