Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

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Will the 4chan hack be the end of it?

  • Yes, goodbye forever 4chan

    Votes: 1,031 18.5%
  • No, they will rise from the ashes, stronger than ever

    Votes: 343 6.2%
  • This will rattle them but it will be forgotten about next week

    Votes: 2,322 41.6%
  • I am just here for the janny phonebooking

    Votes: 1,093 19.6%
  • What the fuck is 4chan

    Votes: 218 3.9%
  • Yotsuba&!

    Votes: 569 10.2%

  • Total voters
    5,576
4chan is basically the last place on the internet I can actually speak my mind. Not a fan of this.
You know how Americans will do the "say [x] word" test to Europeans when they say they have free speech?

Say a slur 4 times in your post. Or post something that the jannies don't like. Hell, some homestuck weirdo just explained their own personal experience with shadowbans. 4chan jannies are known for their awful moderation. The site has, in Moot's own words, never been about free speech. Is it more lax? Sure. But unlike other sites, its subject to the unknown whims of jannies who WILL get offended if you make fun of their favorite vtuber. Criticism is NOT allowed. All decisions are made outside of public view and you will be subject to rules you don't know about.

I'm fully convinced anyone who has anything less than abject hate towards the 4chan moderation team does not actually use 4chan. Everyone I talk to, no matter the board, has their own stories about retarded overzealous mods and jannies killing their board.
 
IP leak seems big. If there's a way to figure out which janny jannies what, that'd be something.
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I'm really curious about which board this troon (naemuti/paimuun) moderates. Apparently he was really ban-happy.
 
`$browser_id`

they fingerprint browsers
Yeah. I got caught up in this when they were first implementing it a few years ago. Adding a new empty userscript that did nothing but load on the page was enough to get past it back then. I'm sure its much worse now with all the other garbage changes they have been making recently.
 
A few quotes from the /j/ dump I found interesting. I have a script to parse through keywords that I'm using.

"Filter "chud" to senpai Filter "tranny" and "troon" to people Filter goy to "good" You're welcome, I've solved 4chan"

">>9040 There's definitely obnoxious buzzword usage on other boards. Tranny has only grown yet more prevalent."

"Well, I've officially been a Janitor for 5 years now. Honestly, I don't really post much in the discord outside of moderation, but I really wanted to express how much I appreciate the opportunity to help clean up the website I love. I've been browsing 4chan for over 15 now and have met some great people and even some lifelong friends. I’ve had thousands of hours of laughs, arguments, and have learned so much. I mean, this website even helped me on my path to becoming a Software Engineer. I’m not sure I would be as successful as I am now without /g/ raisinting on me and my code for so many years lmao. If I could go back in time, I would change nothing. Overall, this dumb-ass anonymous weeb-centric shit-filled forum has been an overwhelmingly positive experience for me. Huge shout out to the other Jannies, mods, and 4chan staff for working hard to maintain the website throughout the years. It’s a loveless job, but someone has to do it. Just always remember. spoiler]we do it for FREE[/spoiler" (this one is gay as fuck)
oh fuck /j/ was dumped? the mod i was talking to said he didn't know. Aeolian you lying ass cunt.
 
I never thought 4chan was free speech, it always had rules to watch what you say. I just use it to talk about my hobbies. It sucks that I can't use it right now but this happening is still funny.
no, never been about free speech. And honestly, the hate on the jannies is only half deserved. Most of the unbridled cancer comes directly from the head mod who thinks posting copious amounts of coombait on /v/ is more on-topic than talking about a recent video game release.

honestly sucks to suck but the janitors are simply forced to do whatever the mods say and the mods often just say "we do not care"
 
I personally witnessed new people come in and want to do something about the nigger dick and tranny porn spam on boards like /gif/ and /b/ only for the mods to say no because akshually its technically not breaking and roolz. It became obvious to me that the place was compromised by bad faith actors. I mean in my case they'd give me 0 help dealing with a retard who spammed garbage all day but they'd bitch at me for not ban requesting someone who said nigger.
 
no, never been about free speech. And honestly, the hate on the jannies is only half deserved. Most of the unbridled cancer comes directly from the head mod who thinks posting copious amounts of coombait on /v/ is more on-topic than talking about a recent video game release.

honestly sucks to suck but the janitors are simply forced to do whatever the mods say and the mods often just say "we do not care"
they say they do not care but they do have private ban reasons to seethe to jannies...
 
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It's such a warped concept to me. People want to vent and relate, yet do so from behind a no-name account that you can't even tell apart from others.

Likewise they're like "uhhr 4chan is a free speech space! Look, I can say nigger!". The internet has never been more toxic. You can find guilds in any mmo that peak 4chan in foulness. 4chan is unironically a nostalgia honeypot.
It's a certain mindset, if you want a forum kiwi is the closes thing, if you want the public bathroom stall writing experience you have 4chan. Why is that so hard to understand?
 
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