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Seems like a lot of that can be solved by simply not moderating or censoring anythng.

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Sure. Just have boards filled with childporn and dick picks. Let me know how that goes.

CP is never welcome and gets removed. Even un- or barely moderated boards do so.

Dick picks, on the other hand, are tedious but not inherently bad.

The point is -- it needs to be moderated.

For a message board run extremely well see whirlpool.net.au

It's basically the forum for all of Australia. They seem to have found the perfect balance between moderation and creating a good culture.

^^ This comment is being discussed by Australians on twitter here: https://twitter.com/decryption/status/828462981096710149

4chan seems to do ok. Or maybe not, depending on your perspective. There are a ton of smaller chan style boards that are awesome and don't seem to have the problems everyone is talking about here.

Though 4chan does have moderators.

So why is there so much racism, doxing, and other horrible behavior? Or are only some of the boards moderated?

All boards are moderated in a completely different way. Most of the boards have a pinned post with the rules. Most moderation occurs stealthily.

Also, racism and doxxing are not comparable at all.

The double-edged sword of not moderating based on racism and other undesirable behavior is that your job as a moderator is much easier, but you have the terrible reputation that 4chan has. I am personally fine with boards that allow pretty much everything other than CP and other illegal content. I think this is how a number of chan boards operate.

Do they both not belong to "horrible behavior?"

4chan is moderated to the hilt.

It's moderated but far more permissive than the internet at large. Also, maybe they're really good at deleting complaints about the moderators?

It's not really comparable because their boards have a limited number of active posts and the bigger boards get so much traffic anything is gone within a few minutes. So if you complain about something and they don't respond within the hour, it's gone anyway.

Still they have big problems with spam, ddos attacks and moderator turnover and that is after they delegate the bigger problems to /b to be mostly ignored.

Yes 4chan is a mess, but I'm glad it's there.

Is this "If you can't beat em, join em" Nazi edition? Half the challenge of the other boards out there is keeping the waste of molecules that constitutes 4chan away.

Out of all of the people who would like to frequent message board, some of them can't stand boards with a lot of censorship; and others can't stand boards which don't have strong moderation.

Surely some forum hosts will desire to serve those users who desire strong moderation, and for these forum hosts, not censoring or moderating isn't a solution.

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