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Please consider this a polite "no."

by moot 13y ago

applecore 13y ago
Note to self: Don't refer to own venture as "cancerous off-shoot" of site whose brand we purport to leverage.
- deleted 13y ago
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- KaoruAoiShiho 13y ago
  The point is that it's known as cancerous on 4chan because it distracts from normal activity on it (chatting / img sharing) but is popular and easily profitable elsewhere. Like many general sites with large disparate communities 4chan is good at some simple things but doesn't serve specific niches in a thorough and interesting way. I think there are many people doing this: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwkfi5tqEi1qzqh0wo1_500.png http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwkfi5tqEi1qzqh0wo1_500.pn... to 4chan. That's the situation faced by any popular site, but imagine if Craig was offered the chance to invest in airbnb?
  - bsamuels 13y ago
    It's probably cancerous on 4chan because it's plainly obvious you're profiteering rather than trying to build a community. After the cheezburger/meme monetization age, I'd expect everyone on that site to be extremely wary of anyone trying to make money off of them. >4chan is good at some simple things but doesn't serve specific niches in a thorough and interesting way. Have you been to 4chan? Are the papercraft/origami and "general" thread boards not good enough for you? Not to mention awhile ago poole did a post about how thoughtlessly adding boards dilutes the community and just ends up causing mayhem.
    - KaoruAoiShiho 13y ago
      We do not advertise on 4chan and do not engage the 4chan community in any way. Yet 4channers constitute a large part of our community for some reason. I think I worded my pitch incorrectly but the "cancerous" part is not our site, but the activity itself. Our site is the cure to the cancer. Just going off of the previous airbnb example, if 4chan had a travel board where people are spamming their rentals that activity might be considered cancerous. If 4chan told people to go to a site where they're invested in that would both solve the problem and be a win win for both communities. >Have you been to 4chan? Are the papercraft/origami and "general" thread boards not good enough for you? Not to mention awhile ago poole did a post about how thoughtlessly adding boards dilutes the community and just ends up causing mayhem. There are people attempting to do things on 4chan which are as complicated as the previous example of rentals. It is obvious that airbnb is a much superior rental platform than 4chan. The activity I'm referring to is much like rentals, a cancerous annoyance on a discussion site, but important and useful economic activity. 4chan should seek to join us and help it get rid of the cancer.

Please consider this a polite "no."

by moot 13y ago

Please consider this a polite "no."

applecore 13y ago

Note to self: Don't refer to own venture as "cancerous off-shoot" of site whose brand we purport to leverage.

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KaoruAoiShiho 13y ago
The point is that it's known as cancerous on 4chan because it distracts from normal activity on it (chatting / img sharing) but is popular and easily profitable elsewhere. Like many general sites with large disparate communities 4chan is good at some simple things but doesn't serve specific niches in a thorough and interesting way. I think there are many people doing this: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwkfi5tqEi1qzqh0wo1_500.png http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwkfi5tqEi1qzqh0wo1_500.pn... to 4chan. That's the situation faced by any popular site, but imagine if Craig was offered the chance to invest in airbnb?
- bsamuels 13y ago
  It's probably cancerous on 4chan because it's plainly obvious you're profiteering rather than trying to build a community. After the cheezburger/meme monetization age, I'd expect everyone on that site to be extremely wary of anyone trying to make money off of them. >4chan is good at some simple things but doesn't serve specific niches in a thorough and interesting way. Have you been to 4chan? Are the papercraft/origami and "general" thread boards not good enough for you? Not to mention awhile ago poole did a post about how thoughtlessly adding boards dilutes the community and just ends up causing mayhem.
  - KaoruAoiShiho 13y ago
    We do not advertise on 4chan and do not engage the 4chan community in any way. Yet 4channers constitute a large part of our community for some reason. I think I worded my pitch incorrectly but the "cancerous" part is not our site, but the activity itself. Our site is the cure to the cancer. Just going off of the previous airbnb example, if 4chan had a travel board where people are spamming their rentals that activity might be considered cancerous. If 4chan told people to go to a site where they're invested in that would both solve the problem and be a win win for both communities. >Have you been to 4chan? Are the papercraft/origami and "general" thread boards not good enough for you? Not to mention awhile ago poole did a post about how thoughtlessly adding boards dilutes the community and just ends up causing mayhem. There are people attempting to do things on 4chan which are as complicated as the previous example of rentals. It is obvious that airbnb is a much superior rental platform than 4chan. The activity I'm referring to is much like rentals, a cancerous annoyance on a discussion site, but important and useful economic activity. 4chan should seek to join us and help it get rid of the cancer.