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"I do not post on 4chan." -- RMS

by mahmud 15y ago

drostie 15y ago
I only wish he had expanded on this with similar negative statements, like "I did not invent the trollface character." and "I do not like gore images." I think there are a lot of things which he does not do, and all of these might be interesting!
mappu 15y ago
It's actually really interesting he feels the need to point that out. Possibly because the /g/ and /prog/ boards have such a fascination with him (perhaps deservedly). Stallman has famously called /g/ full of "inane comments" [1] - and I remember someone venturing far enough outside of /prog/ to mail another idol, Gerald Sussman, who said that such fandoms were "unscientific and ultimately destructive", which was very funny at the time. 4chan is a simple enough website that (a) it would perform well on his Leemote, and (b) he probably wouldn't be threatened by e.g. non-free javascript, since there basically isn't any. I think it highlights the way 4chan is "heard and not seen" that RMS refers to "accounts", of which of course there are none, and curious again he uses the gender-inspecific "it" as if the account itself has an identity as a person, let alone any identity at all. Of course, things like this [2] (possibly NSFW) probably have a very strong influence on his opinion of 4chan. ____________________ 1. http://i.imgur.com/fhEQX.png http://i.imgur.com/fhEQX.png 2. http://i.imgur.com/WXvva.png http://i.imgur.com/WXvva.png
- stfu 15y ago
  Thanks for those wonderful screenies. I just intended to request further infos on the Stallman/4chan "relationship" but your posting cleared some things up. 4chan is still after all these years one of the most fascinating places around.
  - DanBC 15y ago
    I haven't checked, but probably NSFW. (http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8326/screenshotmh3.png http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8326/screenshotmh3.png) (http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1202783375 http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1202783375) (http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1861/screenshotlm2.png http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1861/screenshotlm2.png) etc etc.

"I do not post on 4chan." -- RMS

by mahmud 15y ago

"I do not post on 4chan." -- RMS

I only wish he had expanded on this with similar negative statements, like "I did not invent the trollface character." and "I do not like gore images." I think there are a lot of things which he does not do, and all of these might be interesting!

mappu 15y ago

It's actually really interesting he feels the need to point that out. Possibly because the /g/ and /prog/ boards have such a fascination with him (perhaps deservedly). Stallman has famously called /g/ full of "inane comments" [1] - and I remember someone venturing far enough outside of /prog/ to mail another idol, Gerald Sussman, who said that such fandoms were "unscientific and ultimately destructive", which was very funny at the time. 4chan is a simple enough website that (a) it would perform well on his Leemote, and (b) he probably wouldn't be threatened by e.g. non-free javascript, since there basically isn't any. I think it highlights the way 4chan is "heard and not seen" that RMS refers to "accounts", of which of course there are none, and curious again he uses the gender-inspecific "it" as if the account itself has an identity as a person, let alone any identity at all. Of course, things like this [2] (possibly NSFW) probably have a very strong influence on his opinion of 4chan. ____________________ 1. http://i.imgur.com/fhEQX.png http://i.imgur.com/fhEQX.png 2. http://i.imgur.com/WXvva.png http://i.imgur.com/WXvva.png

stfu 15y ago
Thanks for those wonderful screenies. I just intended to request further infos on the Stallman/4chan "relationship" but your posting cleared some things up. 4chan is still after all these years one of the most fascinating places around.
- DanBC 15y ago
  I haven't checked, but probably NSFW. (http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8326/screenshotmh3.png http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8326/screenshotmh3.png) (http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1202783375 http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1202783375) (http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1861/screenshotlm2.png http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1861/screenshotlm2.png) etc etc.