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m00t had taken action when it was necessary in the past. m00t had already banned the offending parties once. Then he reinstated them and gave them a containment

m00t had taken action when it was necessary in the past. m00t had already banned the offending parties once. Then he reinstated them and gave them a containment board. In retrospect this did not work so well. The containment board became an ever radicalized echo chamber and worst, it did not contain anything. Since Hiro took over it seems like he has ignored the issue. This was pre-neonazi days. /news/ and /pol/ were not so bad back then. None of those users back then would have overtly supported nazism.

Nadya 8y ago
There was never a /news/ "back then", it was created in 2015 and is a text board. There was only /new/ and /new/ and /pol/ never co-existed. /pol/ was created after /new/ was removed because moot was sick of /new/ going constantly off-topic with racism and bigotry. The decision was made to more or less cease moderation of /new/, rename it to /pol/, and use it as a containment board. Also people need to realize chan culture. Each board may as well be its own website. 4chan hosts /pol/, it also hosts /lgbt/. 4chan's moderation (rather, lack of) is being seen as an issue because of how heavily moderated the internet has become in the past 20 years. Reddit, the "bastion of free speech", bans every subreddit that gets in the way of advertisement money, giving Voat more popularity. 4chan, "a bastion of free speech", banned #Gamergate discussion which gave 8chan its rise to popularity. I'd rather have extremists on Reddit and 4chan where they can be debated and talked down to by moderates than on Voat and 8chan where they can form echo chambers. Echo chambers are a lot better at recruitment. Pushing "bad people" away where they are out of sight and out of mind hasn't been solving the problem, it has only been making it worse year over year.
- sexydefinesher 8y ago
  There is no debate on 4chan /pol/, its an echo chamber that keeps fueling the flames of hate (Remember Dylann Roof?). Why dont you try and make a thread there and argue that muslims shouldn't be shot and report back here with results?
throwy22873 8y ago
the worst of the worst are already banned and made 8chan (no doxing/raiding allowed on 4chan, etc ). the fundamental problem is pretending to be a white supremacist as a comedic device, and actually being one, are not easily distinguished on an anonymous message board. especially when the most popular form of humor on that board, is trying to be edgy and/or imitating someone you think is stupid. if you are old enough to remember /b/ raiding Hal Turner, i'm pretty sure that same thing would have happened to Alex Jones had raiding not been banned.

Nadya 8y ago

There was never a /news/ "back then", it was created in 2015 and is a text board. There was only /new/ and /new/ and /pol/ never co-existed. /pol/ was created after /new/ was removed because moot was sick of /new/ going constantly off-topic with racism and bigotry. The decision was made to more or less cease moderation of /new/, rename it to /pol/, and use it as a containment board. Also people need to realize chan culture. Each board may as well be its own website. 4chan hosts /pol/, it also hosts /lgbt/. 4chan's moderation (rather, lack of) is being seen as an issue because of how heavily moderated the internet has become in the past 20 years. Reddit, the "bastion of free speech", bans every subreddit that gets in the way of advertisement money, giving Voat more popularity. 4chan, "a bastion of free speech", banned #Gamergate discussion which gave 8chan its rise to popularity. I'd rather have extremists on Reddit and 4chan where they can be debated and talked down to by moderates than on Voat and 8chan where they can form echo chambers. Echo chambers are a lot better at recruitment. Pushing "bad people" away where they are out of sight and out of mind hasn't been solving the problem, it has only been making it worse year over year.

sexydefinesher 8y ago
There is no debate on 4chan /pol/, its an echo chamber that keeps fueling the flames of hate (Remember Dylann Roof?). Why dont you try and make a thread there and argue that muslims shouldn't be shot and report back here with results?

throwy22873 8y ago

the worst of the worst are already banned and made 8chan (no doxing/raiding allowed on 4chan, etc ). the fundamental problem is pretending to be a white supremacist as a comedic device, and actually being one, are not easily distinguished on an anonymous message board. especially when the most popular form of humor on that board, is trying to be edgy and/or imitating someone you think is stupid. if you are old enough to remember /b/ raiding Hal Turner, i'm pretty sure that same thing would have happened to Alex Jones had raiding not been banned.