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I do know how 4chan works. It's a very well trodden trope that 4chan is easily manipulated, rushes to conclusions on impartial or inaccurate information, and ha

by Phlarp 8y ago

I do know how 4chan works. It's a very well trodden trope that 4chan is easily manipulated, rushes to conclusions on impartial or inaccurate information, and has a predisposition towards group think that very often will contrive ways in which 4chan users can exert influence on other parts of the internet through sheer numbers. (online polls, brigading vote based aggregators, DDOS attacks)

surge 8y ago
Yes, but you also described groups on Twitter and reddit, which makes it hard to pin down where its all coming from. There is no lead by 4chan, 4chan has no leader, 10-100 people on a thread on 4chan isn't "lead" by 4chan, its more likely the larger portion doesn't care, and doesn't participate. So if some are from 4chan, some are from reddit, some see it happening on Twitter and decide to join in, why do you think its entirely 4chan lead or that its everyone or even the majority of people on 4chan? Again, still, don't feed the trolls. Reacting to it is what the trolls want, and you'd think they'd know better by now than to react. Instead something that happens on the Internet everyday (something that isn't even that bad, like telling someone to learn to code), is being made into another thing to write another fake outrage clickbait piece to create a controversy where there is barely notable that no one cares about and people wonder why these companies are going under. They just want to put the blame entirely on one platform they dislike, because that's what's fashionable for outrage clickbait. If their version of harassment is some trolls telling them to "learn to code" that's just more of the overly dramatic, hyperbolic reporting that got me to discount them as legitimate news to begin with, and if anything makes me feel like laying them off was probably the right choice.

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I do know how 4chan works. It's a very well trodden trope that 4chan is easily manipulated, rushes to conclusions on impartial or inaccurate information, and ha

by Phlarp 8y ago

surge 8y ago
Yes, but you also described groups on Twitter and reddit, which makes it hard to pin down where its all coming from. There is no lead by 4chan, 4chan has no leader, 10-100 people on a thread on 4chan isn't "lead" by 4chan, its more likely the larger portion doesn't care, and doesn't participate. So if some are from 4chan, some are from reddit, some see it happening on Twitter and decide to join in, why do you think its entirely 4chan lead or that its everyone or even the majority of people on 4chan? Again, still, don't feed the trolls. Reacting to it is what the trolls want, and you'd think they'd know better by now than to react. Instead something that happens on the Internet everyday (something that isn't even that bad, like telling someone to learn to code), is being made into another thing to write another fake outrage clickbait piece to create a controversy where there is barely notable that no one cares about and people wonder why these companies are going under. They just want to put the blame entirely on one platform they dislike, because that's what's fashionable for outrage clickbait. If their version of harassment is some trolls telling them to "learn to code" that's just more of the overly dramatic, hyperbolic reporting that got me to discount them as legitimate news to begin with, and if anything makes me feel like laying them off was probably the right choice.