3 ms·
> Nothing kills an edgy contemporary art platform faster than censorship I don't know the solution but isn't 4chan an example of what happens with no censorshi
by nox101 2y ago
> Nothing kills an edgy contemporary art platform faster than censorship
I don't know the solution but isn't 4chan an example of what happens with no censorship? That would also kill an edgy contemporary art platform as the "4 teh lulz" crowd drowns out the "for the art" crowd.
As another semi-related example. Imgur used to be interesting "images" but now 25-75% are posts of text (like a screenshot of a tweet for example, or of a blog post, etc...). That might be good for Imgur's bottom line, I don't know, but it's not the site it started as.
To be the site it started as would require somehow disallowing images of text but magically allow meme images (some text). That might end up starting an arms race as users skew their messages onto billboards, tvs, signs, and other things to try to make them not look like just an image.
Like I said above, I have no idea if they want the site to be mostly images instead of mostly text. Only that it's another site that changed character over time and I'm sure didn't start as a site expecting mostly images of text.
- thinkingemote 2y ago4chan has censorship and extensive and active moderation but the levels for what is acceptable are lower than most other sites. Unlike Reddit, moderators are hidden there's no way to know if a user is a mod or not. I like this way of removing ego and moderator abuse but this makes the place seem more chaotic, unaccountable and lawless. In theory it's possible to have the same kind of site with the regular family friendly content and with strict (i.e. normal) levels of moderation. In practice we don't see this. I think it's because the levels of active moderation by humans needs to be high. So 4chan can get away with less spent on moderation because their levels are lower.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- bitcharmer 2y ago> but this makes the place seem more chaotic, unaccountable and lawless That's how exactly how reddit mods operate, no?
- vkou 2y agoReddit admins, employed by the site serve as a line of (corporate) enforcement. Otherwise, reddit isn't a democracy, the mods can do what they want (within limits set by the admins), just like they can do what they want here.
- 20after4 2y agoPerhaps Ironically, (or perhaps just tellingly), there was a very large overlap between the 4chan and DeviantArt user base back when I worked there.
- araes 2y agoUnfortunately, Imgur also largely ceased being memes and / or discussion board include image storage (Reddit) and starting being a lot of TikTok / Vine / Youtube Short cross-posts. "Here's my dog / cat, my dog / cat's cute." "Here's us in our car, we're very clever." "Here's us in softcore dress-up, look at how attractive we are." There's memes, just not that many unless you mostly subscribe to sub domains (#meme, ect...).