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Ask HN: 4chan Archives Pre-2008?
hey,
I've been recently going down a rabbit hole in terms of 4chan history. I am wondering if there are any archives of 4chan, regardless of image availability, out there.
Thanks!
- vitovito 2y agohttps://archive.org/details/4chan_threads_archive_10_billion https://archive.org/details/4chan_threads_archive_10_billion "This is a text-only compilation of 4chan threads, primarily from the years 2006-2008. The total unique threads in this collection is roughly 10 million."
- MrFots 2y ago> 9000
- whateveracct 2y agoIt seems like it wouldn't be hard to train a model on this era of 4chan and create a simulacrum. Posts would happen at a certain frequency with all the users being simulated. I wonder if you could even allow user posts and have the model reply in a realistic way (bullying and all)?
- Jerrrry 2y ago[flagged]
- whateveracct 2y agomy comment was pure substance and I think LLMs are generally stupid & overrated tbh but the 4chan idea is a fun gas
- weare138 2y agoI don't have the link handy but I do remember reading about an LLM project trained on 4chan.
- StrangeDoctor 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT4-Chan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT4-Chan
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- labrador 2y agoIt works for X
- manarth 2y agoYour scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should
- chipdart 2y ago> It seems like it wouldn't be hard to train a model on this era of 4chan and create a simulacrum. Out of curiosity, are there any models trained on HN posts?
- valianteffort 2y agoThe remarkable thing is how effective bullying is at moderating idiots. Astroturfing state actors aside, the site maintains a high level of on topic civility. There's something inherently wrong with ordering posts by vote count, both because a confident/deceptive idiot can spread his lies like a virus and because it's too easy to game.
- oceanplexian 2y agoSlashdot solved this ages ago with its moderation system, vote moderation has been flawed since inception, because people downvote when they disagree not based on the quality of the post.
- scubbo 2y agoI'm reasonably sure this is the first time I've ever seen a claim associating civility with 4chan.
- valianteffort 2y agoI suppose you need to be deep in the trenches to find anyone still willing to have discourse there. But as another commenter said, some of the niche boards, like subreddits, maintain some pretty high quality conversation.
- mid-kid 2y agoOn a small scale I've seen this work, and maybe early 4chan was like this. Current-day, though? Nah, idiots attract more idiots and most of the site sucks save for a few niche boards/topics.
- protocolture 2y agosup/tg/ might go back that far, just for /tg/
- ofslidingfeet 2y agoSoon to be a question asked about the entire internet pre-2019.
- para_parolu 2y agoSince governments started to get more involved the more and more data lost forever. It’s good to see that at least projects like archive keeps it. But I’m afraid that will be lost too.
- schlauerfox 2y agoI miss my geocities site. I found it's path the other day and sadly isn't in the snapshots taken that I've seen. Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust.
- beastoftheweast 2y agohttps://old.sage.moe https://old.sage.moe