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Exactly. Would anyone who posts here willingly visit 4chan? Slashdot may be one exception though. Trolling increased there until Digg and Reddit became popul

Exactly. Would anyone who posts here willingly visit 4chan? Slashdot may be one exception though. Trolling increased there until Digg and Reddit became popular. I think many of the slashdot trolls left for Digg and Reddit, and the amount of trolling on slashdot has subjectively decreased. Thoughtful posters go where the feel like they are heard and appreciated. Trolls go where the system permits them to do the most damage.

DaniFong 18y ago
Unfortunately, on of my good friends started to visit 4chan regularly, and he's been harder and harder to deal with, of late...
nazgulnarsil 18y ago
/b/ is somewhat interesting from the perspective of trying to make a community that is NOT like /b/. Kind of like the smelly cave woman in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who gives out a list of every choice she's made in life and tells Arthur that if he makes the opposite choices maybe he won't end up nearly as bad off as her.
- thwarted 18y ago
  It's been a while since I read HHGTTG, but I don't remember this. Was it in one of the many other mediums? Time to buckle down and read (listen, watch) the rest of the stuff DA produced in the HHGTTG non-canon canon.
  - whatusername 18y ago
    It was in the book I had. (Which was the "Trilogy in 5 parts" one..) Was probably in one of the last 2 books..
  - DLWormwood 18y ago
    I'm not sure, but this sounds like something from "Mostly Harmless," which was the HHGTTG novel I only read once. That novel had a side plot about Arthur's "immortality" and how his choices impacted a character that was introduced in "Life, The Universe, and Everything."
palish 18y ago
Yes, I willingly visit /b/ (4chan), and I enjoy it a lot. It never fails to make me laugh. Sometimes, when the moon is right, I even giggle. Like a schoolgirl, sometimes. A schoolgirl in the noodly grip of thousands upon thousands of tentacles. I also have over 2K karma, if that matters to some people. I refute that /b/ is "supposed to be" a serious community. It just is what it is. And as far as I can tell, its sole purpose is hilarity. You should visit it sometime, when nobody's looking, and when the moon is right.
taw 18y ago
Chans get a lot of undeserved bad reputation. Even 4chan's /b/ which has the worst reputation of them all there's almost no real trolling - it's just a place to talk about everything and nothing, and full anonymity and all the irrelevant stuff simply makes people open up more. People pretend to be homophobic or pretend to be gay depending on their mood, and role play flame wars, but none of this is real, and everybody other than newfags knows it. Everybody can say whatever they really think and that's fine. On the other hand I've seen a lot more trolling and spamming and groupthink and bitterness on Reddit - ronpaul, obama, palin, proposition 8, sensationalizing titles, vote up if etc. As a scientific experiment try criticizing gay marriage or whatever is the popular thing on Reddit right now - you'll be downmoded into oblivion no matter how thoughtful your comment is.

DaniFong 18y ago

Unfortunately, on of my good friends started to visit 4chan regularly, and he's been harder and harder to deal with, of late...

nazgulnarsil 18y ago

/b/ is somewhat interesting from the perspective of trying to make a community that is NOT like /b/. Kind of like the smelly cave woman in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who gives out a list of every choice she's made in life and tells Arthur that if he makes the opposite choices maybe he won't end up nearly as bad off as her.

thwarted 18y ago
It's been a while since I read HHGTTG, but I don't remember this. Was it in one of the many other mediums? Time to buckle down and read (listen, watch) the rest of the stuff DA produced in the HHGTTG non-canon canon.
- whatusername 18y ago
  It was in the book I had. (Which was the "Trilogy in 5 parts" one..) Was probably in one of the last 2 books..
- DLWormwood 18y ago
  I'm not sure, but this sounds like something from "Mostly Harmless," which was the HHGTTG novel I only read once. That novel had a side plot about Arthur's "immortality" and how his choices impacted a character that was introduced in "Life, The Universe, and Everything."

palish 18y ago

Yes, I willingly visit /b/ (4chan), and I enjoy it a lot. It never fails to make me laugh. Sometimes, when the moon is right, I even giggle. Like a schoolgirl, sometimes. A schoolgirl in the noodly grip of thousands upon thousands of tentacles. I also have over 2K karma, if that matters to some people. I refute that /b/ is "supposed to be" a serious community. It just is what it is. And as far as I can tell, its sole purpose is hilarity. You should visit it sometime, when nobody's looking, and when the moon is right.

taw 18y ago

Chans get a lot of undeserved bad reputation. Even 4chan's /b/ which has the worst reputation of them all there's almost no real trolling - it's just a place to talk about everything and nothing, and full anonymity and all the irrelevant stuff simply makes people open up more. People pretend to be homophobic or pretend to be gay depending on their mood, and role play flame wars, but none of this is real, and everybody other than newfags knows it. Everybody can say whatever they really think and that's fine. On the other hand I've seen a lot more trolling and spamming and groupthink and bitterness on Reddit - ronpaul, obama, palin, proposition 8, sensationalizing titles, vote up if etc. As a scientific experiment try criticizing gay marriage or whatever is the popular thing on Reddit right now - you'll be downmoded into oblivion no matter how thoughtful your comment is.