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It's worth noting that 4chan is knee-deep in marketing shills and state-sponsored trolls these days. Any open community that attracts enough of a following beco
by rm_-rf_slash 10y ago
It's worth noting that 4chan is knee-deep in marketing shills and state-sponsored trolls these days. Any open community that attracts enough of a following becomes an object of interest to for those who want to accumulate money and power.
Ever been on /pol/ these days? It's so much an echo chamber of sponsored trolls and shills I'm surprised any genuine conversation can happen there at all.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI never visit /pol/. Ever. Or /b/. Or most of 4chan in general. /tg/ is fun sometimes, though.
- apozem 10y ago> marketing shills and state-sponsored trolls Gonna need some hard evidence of that. 4chan can barely sell ads on the site, not sure why anyone would bother marketing to them. Frankly, 4chan is kind of irrelavant. A couple million weebs, racists and neo-Nazis spread across the world is pretty irrelevant to state actors. No offense to 4chan users, but no one cares what you think.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoNobody cares what we think either: Most 4chan users don't really care that nobody cares outside of 4chan any more that reddit users care that most people don't care what they do, or HN users care that most people don't care what they do.
- totony 10y agoI think you underestimate the demographics of 4chan
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoVery much so: a surprising number of respectable people use 4chan: many HNers show up there from time to time, IIRC, and it really was an intersection of American and Japanese net cultures, with people taking code and ideas from 2chan, but the culture coming from the site's roots amongst the goons of SA, and also from migrants coming from the usenet. It's a pretty interesting site, in general, and fairly neat in some ways. Unfortunately, the best part of 4chan was axed. What was the best part of 4chan? the text boards (aka world4ch): They were less crowded with awfulness, and threads were immortal. It also played host to /prog/, the programmer's chan, which is probably most famous for inventing the now-famous sleepsort (the ancient HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657277 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657277). Sadly, because threads were immortal, archives were rare, and sleepsort, along with many other threads, has been lost to the mists of time.
- floopidydoopidy 10y agoSo is Hacker News. And Slashdot. And reddit... The internet is dead.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoBy that metric, was it ever alive beyond its infancy?
- jdietrich 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoPre-ES was the infancy.