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"Not your personal army" goes father then not doxxing. It's a rejection of any attempt to imagine a community of strangers, united by hatred of a scapegoat.

shadowgovt 2y ago
If someone rallied a hate-mob on 4chan, though, how would people know? Since 4chan overtly resists it, it'd rapidly move off of there, but it's still a great place to find like-minded folks that'd follow someone to another server to go brigade someone.
- Klonoar 2y ago
  4chan has always claimed to resist it, but 4chan was never immune to being shuffled a specific way.
  - snvzz 2y ago
    Immune is the extreme. "claimed to resist but hasn't been immune" is reduction to absurd.
  - mikeyouse 2y ago
    Right, “not your personal army” was a quick way to decline to advance whatever doxx was being requested at that moment. Not an actual ethos. They regularly doxxed and swatted all sorts of people.
bboygravity 2y ago
So "not your personal army" == don't be a journalist?
- anigbrowl 2y ago
  No it was a stock response to proposals for board/site raids from people who had lost an argument or been banned and wanted to retaliate (but without offering comedy potential). Kinda like when corporate people discovered flash mobs and tried to use them for free marketing.
  - watwut 2y ago
    Note that it is possible only because harassment, abuse and raids happened so frequently, it was a well know fact. Not exactly something that makes 4chan people into ethical or moral.
- jabroni_salad 2y ago
  A thing about the site is that comments not threaded or ranked. When the site started getting a reputation you had a lot of tourist beggars coming in fishing for free labor. NYPA is about getting those people to stop cluttering the place with garbage.
smsm42 2y ago
> united by hatred of a scapegoat. United by hatred of a scapegoat that they didn't choose on a random whim or due to some common agenda. Otherwise it's completely fine.

shadowgovt 2y ago

If someone rallied a hate-mob on 4chan, though, how would people know? Since 4chan overtly resists it, it'd rapidly move off of there, but it's still a great place to find like-minded folks that'd follow someone to another server to go brigade someone.

Klonoar 2y ago
4chan has always claimed to resist it, but 4chan was never immune to being shuffled a specific way.
- snvzz 2y ago
  Immune is the extreme. "claimed to resist but hasn't been immune" is reduction to absurd.
- mikeyouse 2y ago
  Right, “not your personal army” was a quick way to decline to advance whatever doxx was being requested at that moment. Not an actual ethos. They regularly doxxed and swatted all sorts of people.

bboygravity 2y ago

So "not your personal army" == don't be a journalist?

anigbrowl 2y ago
No it was a stock response to proposals for board/site raids from people who had lost an argument or been banned and wanted to retaliate (but without offering comedy potential). Kinda like when corporate people discovered flash mobs and tried to use them for free marketing.
- watwut 2y ago
  Note that it is possible only because harassment, abuse and raids happened so frequently, it was a well know fact. Not exactly something that makes 4chan people into ethical or moral.
jabroni_salad 2y ago
A thing about the site is that comments not threaded or ranked. When the site started getting a reputation you had a lot of tourist beggars coming in fishing for free labor. NYPA is about getting those people to stop cluttering the place with garbage.

smsm42 2y ago

> united by hatred of a scapegoat. United by hatred of a scapegoat that they didn't choose on a random whim or due to some common agenda. Otherwise it's completely fine.