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4chan isn't all /b/ and /pol/. /g/ the technology board can be a very interesting place. And its Members often create technology that absolutely suprises me. Just recently we started an effort to retake the usenet and are actively repopulating alt.cyberpunk.tech with genuine good discussions.

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> 4chan isn't all /b/ and /pol/

maybe this is my bias, could very well be. maybe i should give it a 10th chance and browse the more useful boards.

i guess /g/ would be a start, do you have other recommendations? i mean i'm open to change my mind. for me 4chan stands for alt-right pipelines, spreading far-right ideology online etc., so i just really have a sour taste in my mouth when thinking about it.

/pol/ was a containment board for Stormfront users. The site is super pluralistic. But don't force yourself to go to a place you don't want to go.

There's no such thing as a "containment board." Nothing actually gets contained.

They're correct though, that was /pol/s origin story. That Containment worked roughly as well as the one in Chernobyl though.

Objection: The Chernobyl containment building generally speaking does its job. /pol/, on the other hand, leaks like an incontinent old man in a retirement home. "Containment" only works if you have jannies that actually sweep it up. 4chan, much like Voat, suffers a problem of people spamming up boards and threads with unrelated crap that is ostensibly supposed to be kept to other boards/threads (like /pol/). The reputation they have is a consequence of that unmanageability (just like Voat ultimately suffered from when they embraced Reddit's cast-offs and suddenly had people talking about "shitskins" and "day of the rope" everywhere).

> Objection: The Chernobyl containment building generally speaking does its job.

The Sarcophagus and the new containment building sure, I meant the original one before the accident.

You do know that they physically disabled the safety systems at Chernobyl before the accident. They were running an incredibly irresponsible test at the plant. The rumor is that that test was for the PhD thesis of the kid of a central committee member.

I know, I've been to Chernobyl myself. I'm also aware that the reactor there DIDN'T have another containment Unit like Fukushima which was the whole joke.

You want to me share all the IP addresses I've got banned on for posting stuff on /g/, /sp/, and /int/? There's definitely some level of containment going on. Be it pornography, politics, or gore.

luckily IP addresses are mapped to a specific person for life, the fash-trolls will never get around IP-blocks!

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