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4chan has a large cesspit, but it gathers a lot of intelligent people who can ignore the noise. For any interest, there’s someone somewhere who made a half dece
by hilsdev 2y ago
4chan has a large cesspit, but it gathers a lot of intelligent people who can ignore the noise. For any interest, there’s someone somewhere who made a half decent thread on the topic. There’s decent barriers too (as in the less talked about boards are more thoroughly moderated than the ones that make the news, much like Reddit)
- Der_Einzige 2y agoShhh!!! Don't tell them that 4chan is the best origami/paper craft website on the internet!
- jjmarr 2y agoone letter off from the alt-right!
- TyPepakura3 2y agoThey taught me how to model and how to transfer models to pepakura. It's really amazing how everything was just in place and you could ask a person something and have the answer by the next day. Reddit has shades of this, but it was never truly focused. The upvote system kills small discussions.
- rat9988 2y agoMost popular websites gather a lot of intelligent people. Nothing specific to 4chan.
- johnnyanmac 2y ago4chan was very early, if not close to first of what we'd describe as a "forum" and persisted through the decades. That's the notable factor, outside of all the "noise" described above. But yes, the noise was also a part of the surprise factor here. Many people have this perception that intelligent people are dignified, studious,and fancy in their demeanor. So someone like that hanging out on an "anime forum" can be shocking to some.
- bawolff 2y ago> 4chan was very early, if not close to first of what we'd describe as a "forum" and persisted through the decades That feels untrue. 4chan was launched only in 2003. Forums are much older than that. Especially if you count forum-like things that aren't called forums, like usenet or bbs.
- pimlottc 2y agoCompuServe used the term “forums” going back at least to the late 1980s
- extraduder_ire 2y agoIt's a natural term to use for it. Since about the time of the Romans.
- dragonwriter 2y ago> That feels untrue. 4chan was launched only in 2003. Forums are much older than that. Web forums are basically as old as the web; I have accounts that are older than 4chan on forums (what I believe is the oldest forum that I have an account on, which also has my oldest continuous forum account [though not my first forum account] launched in 1996 -- I didn't join until 2002.) Online forums, more generally, are older than the web, whether you are talking about email listservers, nntp groups, or CompuServe forums.