Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

[AnOminous]

There was a TED talk with him glowing about how they caught serial killers and rapists. The HWNDU event feels like it was the last hurrah of a dying site.

There were a couple other neat things around the same time, like when /pol/ used some photos posted by some ISIS fuckers to figure out where they were and then basically gave it to the armed forces in a position to airstrike it.

 

[Gondolindrim]

Despite what people say about eternal newfags and such, the site really was better back in 2011. Almost everything was. I guess we have AI now (cringe).
Anyway that's when I started browsing, and around 2021, I just stopped. There is something truly horrifying about the site now.

"Eternal newfag" is just a cope for being over 40 and still browsing a Tibetan Sled Riding forum.

 

[21 Hz]

The addition of the user scripts into the base site functions was the start of the end, like thread updaters, QR box, and catalog. When you could only browse boards by pages, you were forced to engage in random content, not just find the same thread constantly to post in.

 

[rapecel]

Care to explain why? Fanfiction is always fun, and a board to it would encourage the creativity the site needs.

Fanfiction is the hallmark of autismo and degeneracy.

Low-effort romance/self-insert stuff would be confined to a general and straight-up smut would be banned;

Romance is keyed and self-inserting is fine. You're a twitterNIGGER.

Bio-women-only boards are nonexistent on the internet, aside from a few obscure Discords and the Beauty Parlour on this site, so a large bio-women-only community would be a really good thing.

1. I don't see why you would want to serve women in any way when it doesn't benefit you. Running an imageboard is not charity work.
2. How do you not know about lolcow.farm, crystal.cafe or the multitude of other shitboards by women for women?

a board for philosophy and religion would be much more productive.

Only good thing.

 

[Space Police]

Fanfiction is the hallmark of autismo and degeneracy.

So? Constructive autismo is never a bad thing, and there's plenty of non-degen fanfic.

Romance is keyed and self-inserting is fine. You're a twitterNIGGER.

All that stuff is low-effort. I want to see epic crossover sagas and grand original works, not the modern equivalent of cheap pulp writing.

1. I don't see why you would want to serve women in any way when it doesn't benefit you. Running an imageboard is not charity work.

It would benefit me because it would give traffic from a demographic it never courted before, which would also make it attractive to more advertisers.

2. How do you not know about lolcow.farm, crystal.cafe or the multitude of other shitboards by women for women?

I do, but lolcow doesn't ban maleposters and the 'fe has really bad moderation from what I understand.

 

[Mai]

Anyone else notice you can't filter out the NSFW boards anymore on the front page? There used to be an option to only show SFW boards and now it's gone. Why the fuck are they doing this?

 

[TulpaTownW]

I got banned on /x/ for telling the succubus general they are retarded for trying to summon a succubus and it will damn their soul, and pointing out I got back to back dubs followed by trips - chaos magick. I guess whatever jannie is on /x/ is just trying to kill off the site by only allowing bots to post there, or he cant handle someone telling a bunch of larpers they will burn in hell. I also shat on styx, who they are probably in love with.

It just makes me think they've degraded every board to the point where bots will dogpile you for expressing any opinion in an effort to destroy the site.

/v/ is coomer spam and playstation vs nintendo. /pol/ is big black cock general. The one time there was a fun UFO thread they deleted or moved it to /bant/.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

started scrolling through 4chan out of pure boredom. maybe I'd find a funny grntxt, found furry CP instead.

Hey real CP on /b/ wasn't even that uncommon around 2010. I think that played a bigger hand in prompting the feds to get involved than people gave it credit for.

 

[The Gene Genie]

inally, a good community for the paranormal cannot exist in modern internet culture; a board for philosophy and religion would be much more productive.

A /rel/ board should be opened but /x/ shouldn’t be closed. /rel/ gets the christoid baitfags out of both /x/ and /his/ so they can re-enact the Council of Nicaea to their hearts’ content while not actively shitting up either board.

 

[SuccubusFeeder]

I got banned on /x/ for telling the succubus general they are retarded for trying to summon a succubus and it will damn their soul

No it won't.

 

[Colon capital V]

What's truly fucking astounding of this new tranny janny dilation filtering is that, if I exceed the number of heckking offending slurs, could I not just bypass it with different characterizing?
Example: nigger, ni99er, n1gg3r. Tr4nny. F4990t. Phagg!t
And if a janny is still dilating and decides to delete it for bypassing the filter, then that’s more unnecessary work on their end to sweep it all up. Literally how could this not backfire?

 

[Seagal]

Site dead for any one else?

It's been dead for years.

 

[Space Police]

What's truly fucking astounding of this new tranny janny dilation filtering is that, if I exceed the number of heckking offending slurs, could I not just bypass it with different characterizing?
Example: nigger, ni99er, n1gg3r. Tr4nny. F4990t. Phagg!t
And if a janny is still dilating and decides to delete it for bypassing the filter,

A few pages ago someone mentioned jannies manually deleting variations of "tranny" like "trune" and "chra nee", so you'll probably get banned.

 

[Samhain]

/x/

/x/ has had terrible moderation for years. There's at least one janny there who goes on crusades to squash discussions of anything he doesn't like, and is extremely oversensitive. 3 day bans get handed out like candy on Halloween on that board. I used to think the /tv/ jannies were overzealous until I started noticing /x/'s moderation 5 years ago. I've received more bans on /x/ than on all other boards combined.

 

[seri0us]

/x/ has had terrible moderation for years. There's at least one janny there who goes on crusades to squash discussions of anything he doesn't like, and is extremely oversensitive. 3 day bans get handed out like candy on Halloween on that board. I used to think the /tv/ jannies were overzealous until I started noticing /x/'s moderation 5 years ago. I've received more bans on /x/ than on all other boards combined.

Maybe /x/ is where your personal post quality is the worst

 

[Samhain]

Maybe /x/ is where your personal post quality is the worst

Absolutely not. 95% of my posts on /tv/ were shitposts back in the day, yet I only ever received a single ban via that board. I've received 3 or 4 bans via /x/ in the past 5 years alone despite not breaking rules. It's preposterous.

Something I noticed on /x/ back during the 2020 Corona craziness was that there was one particular janny who was fond of banning posters who would reply to posts he didn't like. Not posts that were breaking the rules, just posts he didn't seem to want on the board. He would delete the post and ban the poster, and then he would then ban anyone who responded to that post as well. Their replies would also get deleted. I received 2 bans in 2020 like this, and judging from what I've seen since then, he's still there and up to his usual shenanigans. He always hands out 3 day bans so they can't be appealed.

 

[Unyielding Stupidity]

So? Constructive autismo is never a bad thing, and there's plenty of non-degen fanfic.

All that stuff is low-effort. I want to see epic crossover sagas and grand original works, not the modern equivalent of cheap pulp writing.

90% of fanfic is smut of various flavours. And if you're actually posting high-quality fanfic, you're not going to go to a fucking imageboard of all places to post it; you'd just post it on a fanfic website and be done with it. Imageboard formats just guarantee that your effortpost will be washed away in a sea of low-quality bait and thinly-veiled porn threads.

It would benefit me because it would give traffic from a demographic it never courted before, which would also make it attractive to more advertisers.

Women don't really use imageboards, most of the "women" you're encountering on 4chan currently are trannies. If your special woman-only board somehow manages to avoid being overran with trannies (it won't), it'll just end up being a dead board like /po/. Advertisers don't care if your women are biological women or trannies, they're both treated as women for advertiser purposes. If anything, the reputation of being bio-female only and banning trannies would make any advertisers that'd specifically want female viewers want to avoid it like the plague for being "transphobic".
Side note, how the fuck would you actually enforce the rule forbidding trannies and ensuring that it's bio-female only? No-one's going to be retarded enough to doxx themselves and send pictures of their ID to gookmoot to use a fucking imageboard.

the 'fe has really bad moderation from what I understand.

It's because of the jannies purity-spiralling and banning users who don't meet their standards of hating men enough for "being pickmes", or just accusing them of being trannies with zero evidence. 9/10 if you ask some women who used to post there why she stopped posting there, it's inevitably because some power-tripping janny banned them one too many times. Which will probably be what happens in your hypothetical "female-only" 4chan board, the jannies would somehow manage to have a worse rep than /tv/ jannies.

 

[barelymoving]

Hey real CP on /b/ wasn't even that uncommon around 2010. I think that played a bigger hand in prompting the feds to get involved than people gave it credit for.

yeah, that sounds about right

 

[30+GameOvers]

Something I noticed on /x/ back during the 2020 Corona craziness was that there was one particular janny who was fond of banning posters who would reply to posts he didn't like. Not posts that were breaking the rules, just posts he didn't seem to want on the board. He would delete the post and ban the poster, and then he would then ban anyone who responded to that post as well. Their replies would also get deleted. I received 2 bans in 2020 like this, and judging from what I've seen since then, he's still there and up to his usual shenanigans. He always hands out 3 day bans so they can't be appealed.

If the whole "moderating cuckchan for free" thing doesn't work out, I know a fat jew who would LOVE to have him onboard. He has all the qualifications needed.

 

[Space Police]

90% of fanfic is smut of various flavours. And if you're actually posting high-quality fanfic, you're not going to go to a fucking imageboard of all places to post it; you'd just post it on a fanfic website and be done with it. Imageboard formats just guarantee that your effortpost will be washed away in a sea of low-quality bait and thinly-veiled porn threads.

/m/ had TONS of high-quality fanfic in the late 2000s. That's the type of quality I want to foster, and I believe imageboards are the best way to do that -- it's anonymous and it won't get washed out in a sea of smut like on AO3.

Side note, how the fuck would you actually enforce the rule forbidding trannies and ensuring that it's bio-female only?

Confidential voice recordings that get instantly deleted and each user is given a special key to post on the board.