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
How is this evidence of /gif/ astroturfing when it's flag stats from /pol/? :thinking:

Agreed. Give new accounts from mid-April the badge so they are easy to spot.
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>he doesn't know or pretending to be stupid about Israeli having an massive bot army for interracial/tranny porn in every website
do you remember when Gab's owner also said his site had a massive porn spam all coming from Israeli IPs?
 
The PDF format yes i know thats like 'atm machine' was a fucking mistake.
Well almost. It brought us all this.
The old joke is that PDF stands for Payload Delivery Format.

Is this confirmed how they did it, then? I'm not a 4chan user and I'm more interested in the technical side of this than the social implications so I'm just picking through the thread for details, really.

The worrying bit for me is when you see them building command strings to pass to exec with what looks like a suid wrapper. Nice.
Oooh, I missed that. Got a file / line number? I've really only spent about 15mins looking through this code but I can already tell if I did a serious review it would be huge. I still really, really want to know what version of PHP they were running.
 
I used to filter blacked threads out and that alone wiped out half the board on /gif/. It was like a ghost town. At any given time there were like 11 threads just for interracial blacked porn, not including the WMAF shit. Add tranny porn into that and it was fucking dead. Every porn thread wasn't even mostly porn, either. It was all retards arguing about their penis size.

There had to be something fucked with the mods/jannies on /gif/, because other "porn" boards were not as bad.
Goon too close to the sun, and you will turn into a jew that does nothing but post tranny nigger porn. Happens often.
 
I’m too old to change my ways. I’ve always hated discord, I don’t like other forums, and social media isn’t good for my hobbies.

/tv/ was the only place I could discuss Stargate, /tg/ was the only place I could spam bait nogamer threads on and still hit the bump limit, and when I was in college I do believe that autistic retards on /fit/ drastically changed my life and helped me lose the weight with eternal /fph/. Today I wanted to post the terrible bread that I made and I had to post that shit on xitter, where surprise surprise, zero interactions. On /ck/ I’d have a dozen people cursing me out and several people actually giving me advice. What’s the alternative, going on reddit and posting bread and getting a dozen useless comments quoting marvel movies?
Fuck, do you happen to still have /fit/ info from sticky?
 
Rate me late, but I think it's sad to see the probable death of a legend of the old that 4chan is, but in the other hand the death is a well-deserved one since it has been a mere shadow of its old self for a long time - nowadays almost all of the good stuff is deep in the archives.
I don't quite like Sharty to be honest, but the soyteens hacking 4chan was inevitable at some point.
 
Ironically what once made 4chan great ended up being one of it's biggest flaws : total anonymity. It made it way too easy for discord troons to astro-turf every topic into board into submission. You simply cannot have any discussion worth having anymore on a board that doesn't require an account of some kind in order to post. It's ghey and I hate that it's like that, but it is how it is.

The kiwifarms allowing guest accounts or something similar would ruin this site, too many troon groups who would weasel their way in "How do you do fellow kiwi's, TTD am I right?" and would then actively try to subvert every conversation in the the direction they want.
Most, if not all raiders are easy to distinguish from normal users by the way they write and behave, to a trained eye of a regular 4chan user the difference between a Discord troon and the schizo regular are quite obvious, and thus any sort of astroturfing would be useless since to them the raider doesn't pass, in fact it's only effective in causing anger and reaffirming the current opinion they're trying to change, and if they're insufferable enough even cause several of the more vitriolic Anons to start counter shitposting. Unfortunately it works wonders on other tourists and screenappers that don't know any better, and they get tricked into believing that the astroturf campaign is actually the prevailing opinion on the board.

Another real problem is their ability to bring the board to a halt (or at least the few threads they were sent to brigade), because unlike a regular that sticks to posting in one or two threads while lurking others, they shitup the whole board because they're here on a mission, not to have "fun" and discuss various topics. But then again most of them get active when there's a happening so the board was gonna be unusable with or without them.
 
The death of 4chan may spell the end of imageboards in general, which ultimately is a huge win for centralized social media and trooncord. No one will ever be able to convince me that 4chan, as garbage as it often is, is worse than xitter and reddit. The same applies to message boards such as this one - I don't want to see them disappear in favor of social media "apps" owned by billionaire technocrats.

Best case scenario is 4chan stays dead and and a superior altchan (other than the sharty) takes its place, but that is way too optimistic and I'm not counting on it.
8chan could easily be the best altchan board just like 10 years ago, but the pedo retard running it and the pedo retard jew who owns the /v/ board are too incompetent to take advantage of the new traffic.
What I really want is for a 4chan refugee to make a new board that is like 4/v/, advertise it as such and attract most of the refugees. I want that board to be ten times as active as Mark's /v/ and completely overtake in relevance and activity, making the kike seethe. Theoretically it's possible, since anyone can make a board on moe, even sharty niggers had a bunker there(altho I think it was nuked by Acid once it devolved into /v/ users flooding it with lolicon and a couple of spammers shitposting it to death).
 
I’m too old to change my ways. I’ve always hated discord, I don’t like other forums, and social media isn’t good for my hobbies.

/tv/ was the only place I could discuss Stargate, /tg/ was the only place I could spam bait nogamer threads on and still hit the bump limit, and when I was in college I do believe that autistic retards on /fit/ drastically changed my life and helped me lose the weight with eternal /fph/. Today I wanted to post the terrible bread that I made and I had to post that shit on xitter, where surprise surprise, zero interactions. On /ck/ I’d have a dozen people cursing me out and several people actually giving me advice. What’s the alternative, going on reddit and posting bread and getting a dozen useless comments quoting marvel movies?

We'll be back fren
 

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It's hard to believe /g/ had 11 janitors (+4 global ones). It had a few almost decent generals ruined by constant off-topic spam. People would get random 3 day bans if they didn't go along with the avatarfags.

I'm also pretty certain they stalked users across the boards. Wrongthink, like anti war views, on /pol/ led to consequences across other boards.

It doesn't make any sense to me. 4chan has good rules, but no one is enforcing them. Moderation is complete chaos.
How they "hire" jannies seems like it would end that way. People casually posting about wanting to be jannies is ususally to "clean up" something they don't like. So I wouldn't be surprised if there's just a tendency for jannies to have a vendetta about something and only moderate those threads/that subject and not really care about other stuff.

/g/ was pretty bad but not nearly as bad as it could be, but just casually browsing archives right now trying to find a particular bunch of schizoposts about a janny that bans anyone shit-talking linux, I found a fuckton of really innocuous posts that got deleted for shit-talking linux so I wouldn't be shocked if that schizoposter was/is correct.

Same for cross-board stalking. If normal users do it, why wouldn't jannies?
 
>he doesn't know or pretending to be stupid about Israeli having an massive bot army for interracial/tranny porn in every website
do you remember when Gab's owner also said his site had a massive porn spam all coming from Israeli IPs?
Trying to greentext outside of 4chan? Not very gemmy of you...
Is this confirmed how they did it, then?
The hack was discussed on HN so I expect an enthusiast there to publish a post-mortem in a few weeks.
 
I’m too old to change my ways. I’ve always hated discord, I don’t like other forums, and social media isn’t good for my hobbies.
I'm not even old, but it is basically impossible to match properly. The anonymity, unconditional engagement, and even playing field are completely missing in social media. There's a place for and an upside to having a concrete identity on a site that can help with discussions (and not having one has downsides, like schizos and samefags). But no other major social media is just going to have you able to hop onto a board, see a thread vaguely related to something you like, and shoot the shit for a couple of hours without any worry about your dogshit opinions on Gunpla biting you in the ass and getting you cancelled a year down the line. There's no stakes, little commitment, and a freedom to just going into a thread, solving a captcha, and posting.
 
all of my favourite boards on that website turned to shit

/pol/
unusable after 2018, twitter 2.0

/k/
flooded with redditors, /pol/tards and nogunners, the best thread was the /ak/ thread

/tv/
looked like there were only 10 different active posters, apart from Sneedposter and Baneposters

/wsg/
too slow, otherwise peak

/vst/
too slow because people still made most strategy games thread on /v/ for easy engagement bait

/v/

had sometimes more gooner shit than /gif/

/vg/
/mbg/ died, /twg/ turned into reddit, at least /gfl/ was good

Rest in Piss, you won't be missed
 
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