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I like 4chan because it is as close to a meritocracy as exists online. There are no "reputations" or "karma", your ideas and opinions stand on their own merit.
by aphextron 10y ago
I like 4chan because it is as close to a meritocracy as exists online. There are no "reputations" or "karma", your ideas and opinions stand on their own merit. It's one of the last bastions of free speech and anonymity that exists.
- krapp 10y ago> It's one of the last bastions of free speech and anonymity that exists. Well... for certain definitions of free speech and anonymity. Let's not forget that people have left 4chan because they didn't consider it nearly free enough.
- aphextron 10y ago>Let's not forget that people have left 4chan because they didn't consider it nearly free enough. People come and go from 4chan constantly, yet it remains. I've posted there since it was launched in 2004 and seen many different waves of new users in that time. The moderators have always held a strict line of no illegal pornography, but essentially anything else is allowed. There's really no other large internet community that is so laissez faire in it's limitations on free speech.