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Felixdicit: '4chan Is Kill'. How an Internet Dinosaur Was Brought Down

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Not sure this is a great topic for HN - it's barely relevant and a total clusterfuck in an area where we don't exactly have a great record of meaningful discussion. Also, some of the historical information is wrong - Zoe Quinn (probably) didn't sleep with journalists for coverage, and a lot of /v/'s anger came from revelations about gaming journalism that predated the ones invloving her. (That is, the reason /v/ was so willing to believe gaming writers were giving coverage for sex was because they already distrusted them due to incidents like DoritoGate and Jeff Gerstmann's firing.)

I was thinking it was a good background until the author started stating their own personal stance related to GamerGate and Quinn. That subject could have been brought up without stating their own personal opinion of it.

I see no problem with what's been happening on 4chan. Sharing the plundered private photos and videos of celebrities is a sickening invasion of privacy, and invites a whole host of legal trouble for moot. Whatever these anons think, Christopher Poole cannot stand behind a veil of anonymity; he can and will be held accountable for illegal activity on his site. Especially since it has spawned things that grab the attention of authorities, like Anonymous, Lulzsec, and "the fappening."

As for #GamerGate, I think the whole thing was blown out of proportion, but with anons (and redditors) doxxing anyone they thought was involved, I can see why moot might want to nip that in the bud before any serious harm came from 4chan (which is, again, his site to run as he sees fit).

If anons just want a place free of moderation to share CP, pilfered nudes, and dox, then maybe there will be an exodus. All I can hope is that if they leave, maybe there will be some technology on /g/ again.

Google cache, since the site seems down right now: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

This is a shallow history with a lot of drama.

http://www.lurkmore.com/wiki//b/day

And instead of this 8chan, it was 7chan that everyone ran to. This was 8 years ago now, and the end of 4chan was proclaimed. 4chan was not over, /b/ just got rules. This is not new.

Interesting that the article is written in the past tense. The big exodus isn't scheduled to happen until Oct 1st, and inertia being what it is, I expect most of the "community" to hang around to see what happens and then stay around when they see there's still the same ol' stuff happening.

After all, it's not the tech or the site but the community and what the community produces.

Related to the date, its interesting watching the interaction between frontend apps and the backends.

You can more or less vendor lockin your backend, for a very short time, if you have a decent frontend app like chanu. That is being worked around extremely quickly and actively, and that likely explains the whole oct 1st thing.

Compare this with the schism of slashdot and soylentnews. There is no dominant frontend for slashdot other than chromium so the schism happened a little faster.

As an "oldfag" I too will be departing.

I'm not pro gamergate discussion, but the level of censorship recently is too high to ignore.

What year? 2004 here

I'm usually on /fit and noticed a lot of bitching about janitors deleting FPS (fat people stories) threads. You can not moderate 4chan. People will not stand for it. They tolerate the deleting of child porn because everyone agrees it's illegal. That's about it.

So basically you're saying Moot is the cancer that is killing /b/?

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