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I saw this and said "Why the fuck is this on Hacker News?" out loud.
by moot 13y ago
I saw this and said "Why the fuck is this on Hacker News?" out loud.
- tomasien 13y agoSame, but I'm ok with it. I haven't been on 4chan in years, but I still love it and everything that it built/made in internet culture (well - maybe not EVERYTHING). It's good that the community would be sure to vote up the very most important posts IRT it, because I wouldn't find them any other way.
- angersock 13y agoBecause moot runs one of the largest, most active, and longest-lived anonymous social networks and discussion boards on the 'net?
- nostromo 13y agoDid you notice who wrote that comment?
- christiangenco 13y ago...oh snap, moot is on HN?! For some reason I've placed him in this completely parallel place in my mind to the tech community. He's like a mythical creature of some secret world of my childhood with untold powers. But now that I'm older and am making a career out of coding websites, I look at 4chan as something that I could feasibly create. I've seen the man behind the curtain o_O
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- presty 13y agoWell, it shouldn't be much of a surprise since he has also ventured into the startup world. Backed by AZ16, etc http://canv.as/ http://canv.as/
- moot 13y agoWe've been working on DrawQuest for the past year: http://www.drawquest.com http://www.drawquest.com More info, in case you're curious: http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/8/3942110/drawquest-for-ipad-chris-poole-moot http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/8/3942110/drawquest-for-ipad-... Same company, different product.
- k__ 13y agoAre you making good money with this stuff? 4chan is a big hit, but don't hear much about your commercial ideas.
- anonymous 13y agoA better question is why isn't he posting as anonymous.
- christiangenco 13y agoi see wut u did thur
- joenathan 13y agoI think that's a moot point.
- awhitty 13y agoMaybe moot just needs to be reminded himself?
- angersock 13y agoHah, no I did not.
- atmosx 13y agoNo he didn't #LOL
- nemo1618 13y agoI suspect there's more of a userbase overlap than you'd think.
- marshray 13y agoI've heard a lot of stuff about 4chan, and this sure sounds important. But this post is literally the first thing I've ever read on the site. Should I even try to understand this?
- meowface 13y agoYou're replying to the owner of 4chan right now, if you're unaware.
- marshray 13y agoI was indeed aware.
- britta 13y agoWhy not! This post is about moderating a very large and very complex forum, which can be interesting to anyone who participates in forums, or anyone interested in social software and online communities. I'll attempt to explain some of the jargon. The part about "proud to call ourselves /v/irgins and /k/ommandos" refers to the nicknames that people on various boards (topic-specific forums within 4chan) have invented to call themselves, as a kind of in-joke. For example, "/v/" is shorthand for the video games board (because its URL is http://boards.4chan.org/v/ http://boards.4chan.org/v/), so people on the board extend that and call themselves "/v/irgins" (because that's much more amusing than "/v/ideogamers"). When he says "sage is now invisible", "sage" means the feature that lets you write a comment that doesn't bump that thread to the top of the board. People use "sage" in order to write comments like "this post is terrible" without promoting that post. See http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sage http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sage or http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sage http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sage for more explanation. "/q/ will be retired and replaced" - this was a board that moot had set up for talking about 4chan itself (asking him questions, providing feedback, etc). "Post timers" prevent you from writing tons of comments in rapid sequence, which is usually spammy/abusive behavior.
- marshray 13y agoThanks. It's still not clear to me what kind of moderation system is in place (if any). But it's OK :-)
- meowface 13y agoWell, you are a startup founder, and arguably a household name on big swaths of the internet nowadays. It certainly fits the criteria.
- djillionsmix 13y agoHe should talk to those guys who wrote about advertising their food delivery service on pornsites
- talon88 13y agoeat24, if I recall correctly.
- icpmacdo 13y agoDo you recommend that people go to 4chan?
- moot 13y agoDefinitely. Be sure to check out /d/!
- michaelwww 13y agoI wish I hadn't
- moot 13y agoYeesh, sorry. It shouldn't come as a surprise that when I'm introduced to someone and they say they know of 4chan, my immediate response is "I'm sorry."
- michaelwww 13y agoNo problem. I'm in my 50's. I didn't see my first porno until I was 19 at a drive-in. I didn't see my first super-gore picture until I was in my 30's. It seems very weird to me that kids see all this at a very young age. Now Hentai is another weird thing to me. I do know humans are adaptable, but don't know in what way kids have adapted to it. My poor father, he heard Jimmy Fallon mention 2 girls 1 cup so he looked it up. He was visibly shaken when he told me about it. I have managed to avoid that one.
- hyperbovine 13y agoIf nothing else, I suspect children of the Internet generation have learned not to blindly Google things they heard about from their friends. So perhaps a bit of wisdom is trickling down :-)
- michaelwww 13y ago
- simonebrunozzi 13y agoHello moot, nice to see you here :)
- jedberg 13y agoBecause you're a hacker like the rest of us. :)
- jsonne 13y agoJedberg responding to a comment from Moot on Hackernews? I think we may have just hit inception levels here.
- bookface 13y agoQuick, someone call Kevin Rose!
- redthrowaway 13y agoNow we just need pg to come in and post "ಠ_ಠ", and we'll have an HN shark-jumping trifecta.
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- TallGuyShort 13y agoDid somebody say... spiderman thread?
- ante_annum 13y agoWhy? He's an admin on a YC-backed company...
- anologwintermut 13y agoWho let you out of Higgins' trunk?
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- eob 13y agoHey, moot! 10% of people posting is actually exactly what you should expect in a thriving community. Several studies of web communities have confirmed the "90:9:1" ratio of Lurkers:Contributors:Creators. Lurkers just read. Contributors will respond. Creators will initiate. See the wikipedia article at [1] but there are also (I think) several old USENET studies and corporate email list studies which confirm this that I didn't notice in the footnotes of wikipedia. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
- fuckmoot 13y agomoot - Fuck You Nigger.
- fivre 13y ago"How to grow your site from 3.2m to 22.5m users when you can't talk about your site: the rules 1 and 2 strategy"
- brittonrt 13y agoHi Chris, do you still keep up with your good friend DAVE!? :)
- joeblau 13y agoThings have changed around here in the last two years.
- mh- 13y agodon't worry moot, it's of above-average relevance compared to recent months' activity.
- perlpimp 13y agoBecause #4chat is the culture of them interwebs and is the foundation likes of craigslist.
- Camillo 13y agolol internet
- Daiz 13y agoThen how about adjusting the cooldowns back to how they were? 4chan is still supposed to be a collection of imageboards, and the new cooldowns make image posting extremely time-consuming with large amounts of images (which can be very much on-topic and valued content). Shitposters are not suddenly going to stop shitposting just because they have to wait longer between posts, so ultimately this just seems to make life for legitimate posters worse.
- uchi 13y agoI advise you to rethink the 60 second posting rate for /a/, it's making dumping chapters impossible.
- lcasela 13y agoHey moot! <3 from /mu/!
- interject 13y agoI heard that trips and dubs are cancelled. Is this true m00t?