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I’ve seen 4chan. I honestly mean no offense to you, but I can’t imagine there is anyone who contributes here who could tolerate that.

FreeSpeech 5y ago
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3A4chan.org%20news.ycombinator.com https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3A4chan.org%20new...
Karsteski 5y ago
Why can you not imagine it? As much as I don't care for 4chan I can see why it attracts some people. It's almost entirely uncensored and everyone is completely anonymous. The only driving factor to contribute is for the sake of enjoyment. I would like to be part of such a board, albeit slightly cleaner...
- sudosysgen 5y ago
  I've been banned from /pol/ three times for political content the moderators disagreed with. It's far from entirely uncensored.
throwaways885 5y ago
I suspect there are many users here that visit 4chan regularly. It's got a lot of hate, but some of the content there is entertaining enough.
kkoncevicius 5y ago
There are very smart people on 4chan. A well known example: > Fans were arguing online about the best order to watch the episodes, and the 4chan poster wondered: If viewers wanted to see the series in every possible order, what is the shortest list of episodes they’d have to watch? [...] In less than an hour, an anonymous person offered an answer — not a complete solution, but a lower bound on the number of episodes required. [...] The proof slipped under the radar of the mathematics community for seven years — apparently only one professional mathematician spotted it at the time, and he didn’t check it carefully. [...] Then Robin Houston, a mathematician at the data visualization firm Kiln, and Jay Pantone of Marquette University in Milwaukee independently verified the work of the anonymous 4chan poster [1]. This example tells us a few things. One is that 4chan has users who can come up with new complicated mathematical proofs in a matter of hours. Two - that there are professional mathematicians who read 4chan and can spot those proofs. Also anecdotally, but on two separate occasions I accidentally discovered that a "smart and well-adjusted" person I know lurks on 4chan. In one such instance the response was similar to "reddit is where dumb people try to act smart, while 4chan is where smart people try to act dumb". I think there is at least some truth in that. [1]: https://www.wired.com/story/how-an-anonymous-4chan-post-helped-solve-a-25-year-old-math-puzzle/ https://www.wired.com/story/how-an-anonymous-4chan-post-help...

FreeSpeech 5y ago

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3A4chan.org%20news.ycombinator.com https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3A4chan.org%20new...

Karsteski 5y ago

Why can you not imagine it? As much as I don't care for 4chan I can see why it attracts some people. It's almost entirely uncensored and everyone is completely anonymous. The only driving factor to contribute is for the sake of enjoyment. I would like to be part of such a board, albeit slightly cleaner...

sudosysgen 5y ago
I've been banned from /pol/ three times for political content the moderators disagreed with. It's far from entirely uncensored.

throwaways885 5y ago

I suspect there are many users here that visit 4chan regularly. It's got a lot of hate, but some of the content there is entertaining enough.

kkoncevicius 5y ago

There are very smart people on 4chan. A well known example: > Fans were arguing online about the best order to watch the episodes, and the 4chan poster wondered: If viewers wanted to see the series in every possible order, what is the shortest list of episodes they’d have to watch? [...] In less than an hour, an anonymous person offered an answer — not a complete solution, but a lower bound on the number of episodes required. [...] The proof slipped under the radar of the mathematics community for seven years — apparently only one professional mathematician spotted it at the time, and he didn’t check it carefully. [...] Then Robin Houston, a mathematician at the data visualization firm Kiln, and Jay Pantone of Marquette University in Milwaukee independently verified the work of the anonymous 4chan poster [1]. This example tells us a few things. One is that 4chan has users who can come up with new complicated mathematical proofs in a matter of hours. Two - that there are professional mathematicians who read 4chan and can spot those proofs. Also anecdotally, but on two separate occasions I accidentally discovered that a "smart and well-adjusted" person I know lurks on 4chan. In one such instance the response was similar to "reddit is where dumb people try to act smart, while 4chan is where smart people try to act dumb". I think there is at least some truth in that. [1]: https://www.wired.com/story/how-an-anonymous-4chan-post-helped-solve-a-25-year-old-math-puzzle/ https://www.wired.com/story/how-an-anonymous-4chan-post-help...