No.117131
>>117130I went there yesterday and saw that cheese pizza had been up for 6 days, I think the admin had become inactive and it was taken down
No.117132
>>117099I don't believe so. You could maybe ask on heyuri, or was that someone else?
>>117131It's so depressing to see how many imageboards die because of that vile garbage. I hate it so much. I hope the users had a meeting place in mind somewhere for such a situation. If not, this is another reminder to people to have something set up ahead of time for any community you're a part of.
No.117134
>>117132If kissue dies lets all meet up on v's threads
No.117135
>>117134I mean, Kissu has Sageru #qa, and Rizon #qa and #kissu. I like to think at least most people would be able to coordinate a new site if worst were ever to come.
No.117145
>>117130The admin is rolling back from vichan to lynxchan since his update failed. I think the site is going back up soon
No.117146
>>117134If Kissu dies then I die too
No.117157
>>117132>You could maybe ask on heyuri, or was that someone else?Unfortunately the archivers were the "soyjack party" trolls and that site has died, no way to contact whoever had hosted it.
No.117164
>>117146That seems inconvenient.
No.117177
/v/ has Doom CSS to celebrate it's 30th birthday
No.117209
>>117130>>117131>>117132>>117145Site's back up, the admin's just not a NEET so he couldn't fix it immediately
No.117385
What's going on with wirechan? Just late getting their certs back up? Or something more?
No.117393
>>117392Oh, I was wondering why my theme reset. Guess Hiro finally realized that the loose separation wasn't attracting any more advertisers than there already were?
No.117394
>>117393I use uBlock on PC but whenever I use 4chan on my android I notice most ads were either crypto scams or "advertise on this site" type of banners.
No.117396
someone needs to compile a grand list of imageboards again. Seems like 50% of them have died since the covid years
No.117397
>>117396I thought about it and even made a thread about it here somewhere, but the thing is that the sites really need active moderation before they should be listed. Not so much for general raiding (which is quite rare these days) but for the illegal spam which is an unfortunate reality of having an imageboard and especially one that is on a list that gets passed around. Unfortunately, not many of them have said moderation and the stuff can sit there for days which will invariably get them yanked by the host.
Permission could be asked ahead of time so any possible negative repercussions are, uhh.. consensual? (how else do I say this)
I don't know, this just seems like an iffy thing to do, but it probably would be beneficial.
No.117418
>>117396>>117397maybe the best thing is just for them to be found naturally in that case
No.117420
>>117418>naturalfuck off m8
No.117421
>>117420Why are you so upset?
No.117422
>>117421The idea of "naturally" finding something is such a misnomer that it's basically impossible not to get angry at people who think discovering something through an affiliate, advertisement or search engine is anything different from finding it by being friends with another person who advertises in place of the organization
No.117515
Not exactly happening, but today I found out both my home ISP and my cellphone carrier's IP range has been blacklisted by 4chan because of "abuse". I tried VPN, but that quickly gets detected and perma-banned/blacklisted. Looks like Hiromooot doesn't want people posting there without paying.
No.117533
>>117515He's raking in the cash by allowing shills free access to the boards while banning all the real users. If you buy the pass you're basically paying them to advertise to you.
No.117534
The 4chan captcha seems to have gotten updated again, though my auto-solver still works most of the time. It puts a big circle somewhere in the middle that makes each captcha look like the Japanese flag.
No.117560
>>117515When Hiro first was announced I remember reading a handful of reaction threads on 2ch/an. One of the things that got echoed a lot on 2chan was this, Hiro liked to hand out range bans on 2ch to drive account sales.
No.117569
>>117560It's amusing how the main English imageboard ended up being run by the tyrant of Japanese imageboards. Meanwhile the tyrant of 8chan ended up running the largest Japanese imageboard.
How do they keep getting away with it?
No.117570
>>117569According to open2ch they did it on purpose to use the language barrier as an excuse
No.117572
>>117570That's my opinion on the matter as well. Any complaints can be written off as
>so sorry I can't understand youJim Watkins was very shady pre-8chan even. But after he showed up in front of the US Congress and nothing was ever said again about it I'm unwilling to go anywhere near any IP range he owns.
The only reason he can bully people is the fact that he bought a block of IPv4 addresses way way back in the day. If he didn't have that no one would have ever bothered doing business with him.
I wish I would have purchased a block of IPv4 addresses and gotten a bunch of free 2-3 letter .coms back then. At one point you could get those .coms for free.
No.117573
>>117397Check out chan.city
No.117678
>>117664I have never seen it until now, and I don’t recall it being in the image files listed out in the past in some older /qa/ /s4s/ threads.
No.118021
What are some of the longest ritual posts/threads out there?
No.118133
>>118021I remember there being a screenshot from 2003 (or maybe 2004) of a "me on the left" post. It might predate 4chan even, but I think it's one of the funniest long-lasting stock replies.
No.118145
>>118135It’s for the better that 4chan did that honestly.
(It’s been forever since I visited 4chan other than visiting the site once to look around one time last year.)
No.118146
>>118132Fortunately it doesn't do this every time. It was freezing up my captcha solver at first, but once I turned it off and clicked through the CF one once I was able to turn it back on and continue posting without solving that stupid fucking puzzle. I swear the solvers have better success rates than I do.
No.118220
>>118193Check your basement, you may be living with a CIA server room.
No.118221
>>118132AI and Cloudflare: two of my least favorite things, helping each other make life worse.
No.118564
>>118563A two months advanced notice is really good. Practically unheard of, really. A shame for the loss, but that's a lot of time to make plans, exchange info, register domains, and so on. If only every imageboard disappearance had such a grace period we'd be able to fight off entropy just a little bit better.
I hope they can all find a place they enjoy. (and I guess it's a good time for people to extend welcomes to any related boards)
No.118567
>>118132I can tell you why, at the very least, the PC building general thread on /g/ was being spammed ad nauseam with misspelled words from archived posts by some angry autist with a captcha solver and the mods and janitors couldn't ban his proxies well enough. There could've been similar threads elsewhere but I only knew because I got banned wrongfully because I posted inside one of the threads to give advice.
My first appeal was rejected probably because I used a throwaway email account from cock.li and they ignored my well written appeal about how my IP was not a bot. I had to burn my alternative Github account to show I was a real person with a public private key combo on a Gist for my 2nd appeal which is a bit cringe and probably not why they unbanned me. But they did it on December 17-18 or so which was probably an indication they had decided to use Cloudflare to tackle the issue at that point.
Anyways, it was honestly a good thing because I got to actually browse altchans which I haven't done since before the pandemic in 2018 and see how things have shaken out. I haven't posted in many even before that point since I was a relatively late 4chan poster starting in 2009 or so but I decided I wanted to take a shot to do more on seeing better change and thinking how 4chan has changed for the worst after seeing you guys here and Henyuri and wanting to keep some of that alive today. I didn't feel comfortable posting until I lurked more though which is why you are only seeing this now. I will probably still browse 4chan but hoping to switch that over more to altchans if possible for deeper thoughts and discussions.
No.118576
>>118567if you last browsed altchans in 2018 I wonder if you browsed 8chan before it was shut down. remember when the autistic furfag Bui spammed all of 8chan with short posts of random characters? I wonder if it was the same guy here. If not him then maybe that 'ecker guy from 2chen.
No.118582
>>118580Went to ota to see the aftermath and saw 2 cp threads on the front page great job as always shitmin
No.118583
>>118580Oh, wow. His Twich's still there though, see the last VOD:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2029718130>killing the dinosaurs then killing my babysitter gigHe decides to do it right at 2:36:00.
>imt33nlol'd@that nick
No.118584
he does this every other month
No.118585
>>118583he apparently has to offboard as an affiliate before he can delete the channel
No.118591
>>118576I did but it was shit in my opinion because they clearly aimed and targeted and encouraged the worst posters to move. I rechecked out 420chan and 7chan but they didn't appeal that much to me because they focused more to the normal oldfags. That furfag poster does sound like one of those vile people that would move over to 8chan but I don't think it was him or the other person mentioned that spammed on /g/. He was just some autist or underage with money that didn't like the thread maker for the general or had something against that thread only. It didn't leak elsewhere but it was annoying especially since I got banned.
No.118621
>>118567>spammed ad nauseam with misspelled words from archived posts by some angry autist >ban his proxiesThat's the accelespammer script Or rather how it worked. Pulls posts from the archive to blend in while avoiding regex filtering, and posts using multiple proxies so even if the mods do ban a single post all the others were made on different IPs stay up.
4mods really can't stand not being able to hit two buttons to make all the posts go away. Hunting down 12 proxies making 80 posts makes them mad and sloppy because they just want to go back to pressing two buttons.
No.118627
>>118621It was probably a variant since captcha did kill the script. But captcha solving has gotten really good and just using experimental ML models that do OCR from like 5 years ago is enough to achieve human-level accuracy. That's why for a while, reCaptcha changed to the whole identify traffic and etc. to train Google's internal vision model for driving. Google jacking up the price and introducing v3 which used more heuristics instead probably prompted 4chan to move away from it.
Really, the new capchas weren't bad. But the thing that made the whole spamming semi-possible was the usage of specialized models just to solve the new captchas as a userscript even with the sliders which was introduced by Automatic1111 who also made the stable-diffusion-webui everyone basically uses now to generate images. For the longest time after he started the latter project and he stopped updating the solver script, you could not say his name on /g/ due to his userscript until he stopped hosting it.
In any case, the new captchas with the whole black white section with sliders only help a little bit but the captcha solvers already have enough information to solve them. I would say that Cloudflare's captcha and backend services are doing more here to stop scripts than the change to the captchas themselves based on that. We'll see how long the pricing holds out to help out small websites but it sucks that CF is now basically a cartel because of this shit. It shouldn't need to be a given when you run a website that you need DDOS protection and have to pay protection money once you hit a certain size. Modern society sucks.
No.118640
I find ti kind of hard to believe that a casino/gambling spam site came up with a logo for GNFOS, but it's definitely a unique spin on his normal gag, either true or false.
No.118661
>>118132>This is likely being done to combat the ubiquitous use of captcha solvers on mobile apps and more speculatively, to combat bots. This comes after the in house captcha has been updated at least twice in the last month, updates that proved insufficient to combat the solvers. There has been a cloudflare check before loading captcha ever since recaptcha (or whatever google calls it now, since it has nothing do do with reading anymore) was discontinued with the 4chan slider captcha in its place. It's just that now the cloudflare check is (slightly) more aggressive.
Also it has no effect on using captcha solvers
No.118734
>>118661>no effectThey're trying to use the cloudfare js blobs to check for solvers. They've gone through multiple iterations already and briefly broke the site for regular users.
It's not nothing.
No.118841
The iconic Longcat photo
turned 20.
No.118842
>>118734How does this work? Some sort of telemetry?
No.118843
https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/reference/javascript-detections/ no idea what an invisible javascript snippet is, but I suppose they're using this tooling
No.118857
>>118847Yotsuba&! is one of those weird things that feels like it's always existed at some non-determinant point in time, never becoming an "old" manga while obviously not being new.
No.118859
>>118857I feel like people have a tendency to associate the age of a manga with when it got an anime adaptation, so something like Yotsubato which never got one feels comparatively timeless. For example, I feel like most people would struggle to pin a manga like Uzumaki down to even the correct decade, would not think of Vinland Saga as at all old despite it having started nearly 20 years ago, and are surprised by how 'classic' series like Black Lagoon and Ichigo Mashimaro are still ongoing.
No.118861
>>118859>Black Lagoon and Ichigo Mashimaro are still ongoingOnly by pure technicality.
No.118862
>>118861Did Black Lagoon become shit? I heard one of the recent arcs was badm but I haven't kept up with up in a long time.
No.118864
>>118862It just didn't release for a long time, then gave an okay arc, then seems to have stopped again. I guess it's better than Ichigo, but it's hard to consider them current manga when they're barely releasing new chapters.
Another example would be HxH, which is technically more current than, say, Kimetsu even though the latter started and ended without the former releasing a single chapter.
No.118866
>>118861You might as well say the same about Yotsuba&, which has only released four volumes since the start of 2013 (the same as Black Lagoon and one more than Ichigo Mashimaro). HxH has released five in that time, but I'd consider that way worse, considering it is supposed to be a weekly series, whereas the others were only ever monthly.
>>118864>then seems to have stopped again. The latest volume released just last month. There's also a 7+ volume spin-off that started in 2020 and a 3+ volume one that started in 2022, both of which are getting regular releases, although I have no idea if they're any good.
>Another example would be HxH, which is technically more current than, say, Kimetsu even though the latter started and ended without the former releasing a single chapter.No? HxH released 40 chapters while KY was running. HxH did have a 4 year hiatus, but that didn't begin until halfway through KY's run.
No.118868
>>118861Hidamari Sketch too, last I checked.
No.119153
>>118999I spent a bit of time the other day arguing with all the bloodthirsty X users talking about it that the arsonist was basically already burnt to death; the doctors had to go to great efforts to keep him from dying of severe burns thanks to the way he just sloppily tossed gasoline everywhere.
No.119156
im thirster i thirst
No.119160
>>119153Yeah, may as well finish the job now that he's been served due process.
No.119161
XxXBloodythirstyxXx
No.119162
bloodthirsty shab just bit me
No.119398
https://trashchan.xyz/meta/thread/374.htmlInteresting thread about the malicious CP bots that have been targeting imageboards and related communities for years.
No.119399
>>119398probably fanfiction. I'm pretty sure I already know what they're about but I'll check their donut steel.
No.119400
>>119398From my observations over the years the OP has no inaccuracies, which I am honestly surprised by because I've become accustomed to conspiracy theories about this stuff. The later part of that thread is what I've come to expect and it is actively detrimental to actual beneficial discussion, unfortunately making boards more susceptible to it. If OP is still in that thread after it was destroyed so utterly I would be surprised. The neocities site seems really useful!
The guy really does know what he's talking about.
-Eastern Europe/Russian in origin: Yes
-Hits the top post in index or top board on the side/top alphabetically: Yes
-Done manually: Yes
-Profit-driven: Seems that way
-Patterns from different individuals at different times, seemingly replaced over time: Yes
-Multiple imageboards at the same time: Yes
Illegal content is indeed something that had been weaponized among the 8chan remnant sites, but I don't consider that stuff to be spam in the traditional sense so I consider it unrelated to this.
No.120376
>>120375Who is the audience for /b/ these days aside from lolicon
No.120452
>>119398It pisses me off that someone scooped up the name "trashchan" for a site that has nothing to do with /trash/. Out of all the boards that don't have a prominent spinoff, /trash/ is probably the one that needs it the most.
No.120461
>>120452/trash/ is like /vg/, a miniature imageboard where each general is its own mini-board that operates independently from the rest. A spin-off of /trash/ would be a topicless imageboard with open board creation.
Besides, most of /trash/'s generals are spin-offs of communities originated from another part of 4chan or already have a Discord (often advertised in the OP of the generals), forum or imageboard dedicated to their topic.
No.120463
>>120452/trash/ is a board for ERP. Pretty much all the liveposting boards have spaces for this. And that shit doesn't belong on imageboards anyway, it only took root on 4chan after Hiro created a board specifically for all the shitposting that had been successfully repressed by users for a decade.
No.120616
>>120375I never had a moment where I stamped my feet and decided 'that's it the cancer won' with /b/. It's just the thread churn rate was so insane it wasn't worth posting anymore when that thread would be gone in two minutes.
At least that's the way I remember it. Now I cry about general threads not really being threads. It all comes full circle.
No.120624
>>120616/b/ was ultimately done in by board splitting. Everything that was actually interesting on /b/ eventually either given its own dedicated board as with /tg/, or was siphoned off to another, lower traffic general purpose board like /r9k/ where it had more room to breath.
There really hasn't been any good reason to post anything to /b/ since the mid-2010s. It survived off of inertia for a while, with newfags coming in who knew 4chan solely because of /b/, but that inertia started to wear off a while ago.
No.120625
>>120616That was always the appeal of /b/ for me. You could just refresh page 0 and it would be something completely different than it was five minutes ago. I miss the feeling of jumping into the unknown and reading about some topic I never expected to find discussion of. It was like the perfect place for satisfying that "I'm bored, let's talk about something" feeling. /v/ is probably the only board on any chan that even comes close to that, but it's still a far cry from old /b/. The decline into an irrelevant porn board for people too dumb to post on the proper board is depressing and probably at the source of a lot of 4chan's current culture problems.
No.120635
>>120624I think what really killed the inertia in the end was that it was overtaken as the site's entryway by /pol/ during the election.
/b/ of course had some oldfags, but more than any other board it ran on newcomers discovering how the site operated.
No.120756
this isn't a happening at all but there's no /nah/ - not a happening thread up and I don't think this deserves its own thread.
I got my IP address range blocked for evading once lol
No.120759
>>120756Outside of the handful of designated threads like this one and the blog thread Kissu is very anti-general. If you think your post doesn't belong in an existing thread, by all means make a new thread for it, no matter how simple it may be.
No.120760
I wonder how "large" the IP range is and how many mobile posters I fucked over with my stunt. I kinda regret it now, since it probably affected other people...
>>120759I feel bad for making a new thread for what's essentially a shitpost. I miss when /nah/ was a thing. maybe I'll make a thread for it next time.
No.120761
/nah/ doesn't really need to exist when the blog thread exists
No.120762
>>120761fair enough. I guess I will post there from on. thanks.
No.120771
I have never had a region ban, but region blocks can be circumvented by buying a pass. (I guess that region bans cannot)
I too got a bunch of bans for ban evading. When I told the moderation team that I wasn't in fact ban-evading (and the 3-day-wait was a pretty convincing argument), they often unbanned me and region blocked me instead.
But ever since Hiro took over, I have refused to buy passes.
No.120788
>>120771I once got my IP blocked in the original /qa/ for reporting legitimate spam. if you can evade, I say go for it.
No.120849
>>120847Wow. That's really unexpected.
No.120863
>>120861/dbs/CHADS rule this board
No.120875
>>120861fucking ainz wank...
No.120879
>>120875It's just shitposting. If somebody were honestly trying to advertise the super isekai MC powerlevel, they'd go with somebody like Yogiri, or Ruphas Maphal, or some cultivator.
I speculate that originally, it was just meant to mock powerlevel discussions within the context of Overlord. But the way it's being spammed nowadays, I doubt it has any purpose beyond annoyance.
No.121290
>>121244Acchi->Kocchi<- MIRACLES EVERYWHERE
Acchi->Kocchi<- REINCARNATION EVERYDAY
No.121417
4chan removed the IP counter at the thread stats
No.121421
>>121417You don't actually really even need the feature if you have a good culture in the first place but 4chan has not had that in some time for most boards. What it was useful for was being able to assess the quality of a thread somewhat quickly through reading a post and checking to see if it was worth engaging but people misused it as the only indication of thread quality. Now you have to do it the old fashioned way without that. This bodes really badly for post quality, I expect it to further decline with a lot of samefag posting and for shilling/marketing to increase a lot on boards with heavy traffic.
Some of the speculation seems to be revolving around people paying Hiromoot to disable it but I find that highly unlikely since it would be cheaper to advertise the proper way with ads. The other one is a possible selling of the website and disabling unique IDs is one way to juice metrics by not having up to date data. That sounds more likely to me but historical data for something like this is still a strong metric.
No.121423
>>121421>Some of the speculation seems to be revolving around people paying Hiromoot to disable it but I find that highly unlikely since it would be cheaper to advertise the proper way with ads.Anyone who seriously wants to hide samefagging actually has an easier time of it with the IP counter than without. Getting fresh IPs is easy. I have seen anons who got a new IP with every single post they made in an active discussion.
That's actually a pretty good reason to remove the feature.
No.121429
>>121427What I am surprised at is how Hiro wasn't bothered until now about this and how he managed to escape court appearances up ever since the Fappening, you would think it would be more common especially after 2016. It is probably true though that he has most likely not been too pleased with the website not generating the profit he envisioned when he brought it off moot but he has been very hands off since he brought it and his initial involvement 1-2 years after the sale. But apathy sometimes is better than malicious involvement and I am not ruling out the latter if the website gets sold again.
No.121430
>>121429Back then he at least tried to communicate with the userbase, mostly through /qa/. Now he's pretty much a ghost.
>What I am surprised at is how Hiro wasn't bothered until now about this and how he managed to escape court appearances up ever since the FappeningJust like how he avoided court in Japan; by moving to another country. The last time I heard about him he was living in France. Not sure if he still does.
No.121431
>>121427>It does seem odd for them to just remove it out of the blue with no explanation.Most of the team has been under a gag order for a long time now, and after his initial introduction, Hiro too quickly turned quiet.
I think he was trying to evade responsibility that way.
>>121429>But apathy sometimes is better than malicious involvementWhile that is theoretically true, I would describe this as malicious apathy. I don't think he was genuinely uninvolved, but rather actively tried to raise the click-rate. Twitter and facebook taught the world that angry people spend a lot of time with the stuff that makes them angry.
The claim that
everything is politicized now and you can't escape it, that is so often brought up, is, in light of the fact, that the controversy is literally in the financial interest of community owners, highly suspect.
I believe of moot that he honestly (and incompetently) opposed its spillover. Of Hiro, I suspect the opposite.
No.121432
>>121423Yeah, it was only ever good for calling out OPs who samefaged their own threads, but the shills and shitposting autists who do that all have mobile IPs anyway and on boards like /a/ they just shamelessly self-bump because nobody is going to stop them and you'll be forced to use their general thread if you want to talk about the subject at all. I guess it makes it even more obvious when a thread is a massive circlejerk, but again there's no benefit to knowing that when they have mod protection.
>>121431This. The malware ads, the rangebans, the board splits, the changes in moderator behavior, they're all ways for Hiro to wring more money out of the site. It's not just political stuff, it's anything that generates lots of activity that gets encouraged. If it were just apathy he'd still allow mods to communicate with the users to explain what's going on and help guide the community in a less shitposty direction. He keeps them quiet because he has them acting against the interest of the users. In this regard, being openly malicious would be better since it would drive people to leave for places run by people who actually give a fuck about having a healthy community.
No.121435
>>121432>In this regard, being openly malicious would be better since it would drive people to leave for places run by people who actually give a fuck about having a healthy community.do you think that'd even happen?
do you really think those guys would leave?
they never will
No.121516
>>1214324chan moderation transparency is just abysmal and sometimes on the rare occasions they do act they do it haphazardly. My experience is just with /jp/ though. Vtubers hit board culture really hard and you can't speak out about it because mods hand out warnings and bans, then there's a handful of crossboarder generals that make up the rest of the fast paced threads on what otherwise would be a slow board. 3DPD is also an issue but that's more a personal gripe. If it wasn't for Touhou and a couple good gem threads like the guy or two hosting games or GTA:SA twice a year I would've left it completely. I just don't see how removing features that help users self moderate is supposed to help, and I'm inclined to believe you when you say it's deliberate to act against the interest of users.
No.121824
>4chan moderation transparency is just abysmal
It comes down to moot's idea to make moderators anonymous and then moot positioned himself as the avenue of public comment. One of the last things moot did before leaving was to take away every mod's capcode. Every time you see "Anonymous ##mod" post it's either one of 4chan's actual sysadmins, or a moderator that has received a special one time use capcode from those sysadmins.
Once moot left 4chan lost its frontman so all that's leftover is the policy of the anonymous opaque moderators. No public face.
No.121835
>>121824Proofs? I'm fairly sure mods still posted with some regularity after moot left. There wasn't even an admin for almost a year in between. The radio silence policy only came on after Hiro had time to implement the transition to a behind-the-scenes, (nominally) rules-based moderation system.
No.121843
>proof
I'd have to dig it up but the info comes from A-San's /qa/ and /a/ rant in 2016 when he was fired for the last time.
No.121845
>>121835The capcode thing is news to me, but I'm pretty sure I remember moot talking about making the moderation team invisible in one of his 4chan updates. I can't find it, but I am pretty sure that he forbade them from even identifying themselves as mods within a post body.
That's why modcat sent out messages via warnings, and that's why he got banned.
No.121847
One of the things I remember A-san saying in the end is that mods were tiered. You needed very strong seniority to post with a capcode. Essentially you had to be promoted after years of moderation the way a janitor would become a mod, leading to a clique within a clique within a clique. (The other thing he pointed out is that the camaraderie was largely missing when he returned in 2016)
/pol/ has the most mod posts by a large margin within the past 8 or so years, which makes sense when you consider swaglord and rapeape are both keenly interested in the board. I think /g/ has fission that occasionally posts as a mod and does CSS stuff while ABIB does similarly on /v/. Mod stuff seems significantly more rare elsewhere apart from grandfather'd /a/ stuff and famous deaths.
Of course all these names are only known because of IRC. It could be other people are involved, but we'd never know.
No.121877
>>121847/sp/ also got a number of fun things during World Cup, but I'm not sure how much of that is present for less important tournaments/games. At least one mod listens to r/a/dio and did CSS shenanigans a couple years ago, but I sort of feel like he's one of the guys who comes back just for that because all the other mod activity there is very minimal and often belated. Christmas Carol being a rolling sticky was so retarded you have to think the guy who did it had no idea what he was stickying.
No.121881
>>121435Honestly, I think that /a/ (and to a lesser degree, other boards as well) at this point can only die a slow death anymore.
Newcomers will recognize that the site is mechanically not supportive of its functionality and go elsewhere instead. As the board loses relevance in the overall anime scene, even oldfags will first browse secondary communities before switching main and secondary community.
I can imagine a few of the more incestuous sub-communities holding out for much longer. But they can't realistically recruit new members when the board around them is a wasteland.
No.121941
>>121939That is fucking embarrassing holy shit
No.121943
>>121939I have no words.
I tried to, but I don't.
No.121944
>>121939Yep we're redpilling normies hard with this one! Praise Kek!
No.121947
>>121944It really sounds like a bunch of newfags that were drawn to 4chan by politics, masturbating over how influential they are now that they are Anonymous.
No.121950
>>121939I don't think it's that bad... It looks kinda ironic to me? You know, it's deliberately using lines from infamous reports on 4chan. Not to say that it will be perfect, but it does seem well-researched. They've got some guys from the 2000s chanosphere like Kirtaner apparently? Can't be that bad.
No.121951
>>121948It's just the trailer. You can still hold out hope for the full documentary.
No.121952
>>121939Kirtlaner is there and I think I hear hotwheels which means they at least reached out to people tangentially involved instead of the usual "culture consultants" or whatever you call those internet experts who don't actually know anything. Although those are two people that love to hear themselves talk and will make things sound extremely dramatic to make themselves sound important.
Also that MIGHT be snacks with the blurred face and the hat, but I don't really know what he looks like now.
It's going to suck, but probably less than people expect it to since they did the bare minimum.
No.121959
>>121952you're supposed to just instinctively hate it because imageboards are simultaneous not important and worth a lot of time investment.
No.121961
>>121959>imageboards are [] not importantAnd to me this is a critical problem with the trailer. It attempts to paint 4chan as very important, and describes the rest of the internet as being 4channified.
No.121964
>>121961I'm calling you a hypocrite for hating on the concept of reporting and documentary.
>>121963what's this refering to
No.121968
>>121965notararies are informal lawyers who handle civil record taking for clients. It's not a court thing. But from the looks of things he's doing an on record statement for court relating to something he's not showing up for
No.121969
>>121964the tops shooting lawsuit
4chan, and a ton of other social media companies were denied dismissal from a product liability lawsuit
so hiro testify
and they requested a ton of information, and they'll likely get it, through 'discovery'
then probably more requests
>>12196503/22/2024
No.121971
I see
>The suit is a test of the limits of Section 230, a law that has long shielded internet platforms from lawsuits over content posted by their users. The plaintiffs are 25 survivors of the shooting, who are represented by the legal group Everytown Law, which specializes in gun safety litigation.
Axe this kuso section already. It does no good for society
No.121975
would be funny if the next yanitor leak is from the lawsuit
>as requested, janiteamlogz.txt
No.121977
>>121971It does a lot of good for the internet as we know it. If it did not exist, platforms would be held liable for the content posted on it, the same I'm sure as vermin must contend with obeying Canadian law.
No.121978
That's kind of the whole reason they've roped in Hiro, apparently. They want to hold 4chan liable for the posts on it, and extract damages or otherwise shut down the website for the content posted on it. The internet as we know it would look very different without Section 230. If you hate the pandering websites already must do to appease advertisers, I hate to imagine what the internet would look like if, suppose PeTA could harass some website into shutting down through continual lawsuits, for example.
No.121983
>>121939lmao, they picked a bunch of tumblr-looking goofs to represent oldfags. Have they never seen pics of a meetup? I guess the reality of the site wouldn't help push their obvious political agenda, though.
>>121979Just because it would tear down the big sites overnight doesn't mean it wouldn't impact small ones too. Do you want every post you make on any site to get held for review before a mod decides it's safe to let through? Where they make those decisions in a state of fear for their livelihoods?
No.121986
>>121979
Section 230 is what allows websites like Kissu to exist in the first place. Smaller imageboards do not have the same resources to defend themselves against legal challenges that larger websites have. What you are doing is proposing a world in which only larger websites exist because smaller ones do not have the capital to defend themselves with no legal mechanism to protect them.
>>121980
>>121981
Deleting particular content and deleting illegal content are very different things. One is an ethical consideration and the other is a legal consideration. I do not think that websites should be bullied by the threat of litigation on the sheer basis of having reprehensible content.
>>121984
Section 230 has no qualifications on size of platform. By definition, repealing or weakening it would disproportionately affect smaller sites.
No.121988
>>121986Section 230 does not exist in Canada or for Canadian run websites.
No.122002
>>121964>hating on the concept of reporting and documentary.Not sure what gave you the impression.
No.122006
>>122003
Contrarianism is the foundation of imageboard culture.
No.122016
>>121983>they picked a bunch of tumblr-looking goofs to represent oldfagsThat's what they look like, or rather one form they can take. People on the internet in the 90s and early 00s were huge dorks. Stuff people associate with tumblr or reddit often started before those sites even existed. To say those people look like tumblr is like saying people on 2005 4chan talk like redditors. You have to flip it around.
I think getting people that want to talk about this on TV naturally selects a certain type of person, though. Kirt probably tells his dentist that he personally created Anonymous while his mouth is full and hotwheels has a severe case of troll's remorse, so they're not exactly everyday users. Coincidentally the former gave/sold 420chan to the latter and it's
still dead.
No.122019
>>121983>>122016>they picked a bunch of tumblr-looking goofs to represent oldfags>That's what they look like, or rather one form they can take.Snacks looks a fair bit like them I suppose (guy on the right). But he's also a DJ a DJs tend to look more 'alternative'.
I've been using 4chan since late 2007 and I don't really look like this though. I'm just a pale hikki of average height and weight with longish hair. I don't consider myself 'oldfag' though, just thought it could be relevant since someone in that video said "fifteen years ago".
No.122036
>>122016There's a difference between huge dorks who want everyone to know how much of a huge dork they are and huge dorks who don't want to stand out. Anonymity has always been more attractive to the type of person who prefers to hide their powerlevel, even if some fail to do so well.
No.122037
>>1220364chan posters are and have always been tryhards
No.122040
>>122016>>122019I am pretty sure this is just sample bias.
In order to feature in a documentary, you have to volunteer for the job. (Probably) after being reached out to, because you are a well-known entity in the scene.
No.122079
>and they'll likely get it, through 'discovery'
Thought that had already happened. Or was another case responsible for the wired article screeching about good smile?
No.122094
>>122083if you check the thread you'll notice that it was just some mild silliness. Don't think /qa/ is coming back any time soon.
No.122175
As per unofficial happenings thread rules, people can have their pointless bickering but it gets removed after a few days have passed so the thread is more focused on happenings.
No.122190
>>120375it seems as if the activity levels of a lot of boards are dropping. is this a good thing? are the chinz finally dead?
No.122196
>>122190Good thing because 4chan is better off dead than in its sorry state right now. Bad thing because altchans such as this one will also suffer.
No.122197
>>122196Wtf the options field bugged or something. I'm not copypasting anything there.
No.122198
>>122196If 4chan dies, alts will get a lot of new users and through them become more culturally distinct from each other, which is a good thing.
No.122206
>>121847The team camaraderie is pretty much dead. There is no mod tiering, but capcode posts need to be approved before they are made. Using a capcode to speak individually is strongly discouraged, as is anything other than youtube embeds. The handful of mods that use the embeds often are kind of viewed as morons anyway.
No.122400
Wapchan has deployed "the great firewall", blocking all datacenter and VPN traffic in an effort to stop the spread of CP on the site. It seems to be working.
https://wapchan.org/wap/res/713.html#1258 No.122401
>>122400They want to be even more dead? Why not simply moderate the site better? This likely won't solve the issue anyway. I see those cp bots on 4chan all the time now and nearly all VPNs are blocked there.
No.122403
>>122402That's difficult to do when the law is written and enforced by old fogeys who don't understand the internet.
The saucenao guy got into trouble because an anti CP organization uploaded CP imagery to his website and then found the CP imagery they had just uploaded.
If the survival of your site depends on you answering accusations in time and explaining "no, that wasn't me. And it's gone now!" then you want a second layer of protection.
No.122406
>>122403Can you stop going on about this crazy and unsubstantiated rumour. and the people writting internet legislation are average at it nowadays. Not good not bad. Maybe malicious though
No.122418
>>122401Those bots have moved on to using residential IP addresses. There are a few VPN services that offer them. Impossible to control without banning most of your real users.
The only solution is changing the laws concerning data. All data should be treated like speech and be free.
No.122419
where the april fools
No.122427
>>12241922chan for whatever reason deleted all boards and set up a joke /pol/ board for april fools
No.122431
>>122428It was like there was no april fools at all on any of the other boards with people barely even using the tickers for post effects, but on /biz/ you can't even see the normal /biz/ threads because it's pretty much all Yotsuba Stock Exchange shitposting. As a /biz/ regular this has been a weird day. I decided to just read manga instead of participate. I get a bigger kick out of shitcoins with real money.
No.122433
>>122432I'm 100% sure it's not possible to post even with 1 millon $CHAD based on there being basically no posts. Meidos manipulating the Yotsuba Stock Exchange to profit off of the uneducated masses. Shocking.
I'd be surprised if they don't just leave it there after the event as a small memory to mess with people.
No.122434
>>122433It's probably possible, but you can only buy 1000 of a stock at a time, and even then you can only fill an order once every 10 seconds. Assuming you have infinite funds you'd need to spend 3 hours alone just filling out orders to buy enough to post.
No.122435
so practically nobody but mods are able to do it
No.122436
>>122432The thread? Probably as long as the other threads there. It's probably a severe vulnerability to allow this thing to bypass moderation controls like that so it will only remain a silly moved thread with a mod post.
No.122437
>>122434It's impossible, I tested.
No.122438
>>122437you had 1million chad? how long did you spend attaining it?
No.122439
The thread was moved. it's a heat-of-the-moment prank
get pranked nerds
No.122440
>>122428It's fine but it's also like 4 years too late at this point to be relevant.
No.122441
>>122440not really, crypto's been having somewhat of a resurgence after something happened with the ftc or whatever
No.122442
>>122431/v/ has had a fair number of threads playing off the joke and /a/ has a couple Ayaya ones + a meta "how shit is this" one. I don't think it's very good to begin with, but the whole "turn off ublock and 4chanX or you can't participate" pretty much ensures the majority wouldn't engage with it even if it were better integrated into the actual boards. It's probably just incompetence, but I don't trust Hiro to not use every opportunity to profit off of users.
No.122443
>>122442The majority of modern 4chan doesn't even know about adblockers.
And when you bring up 4chanX in threads, people respond with real fear of 3rd party applications.
No.122478
>>122432not long enough for me to see what it was
No.122595
https://www.gnfos.com/jplmao
not only was gnfos sold off to a turkish gambling site
but apparently it was then seized by the turkish government or something and now redirects to a page about legal turkish gambling sites
what a hilarious end
No.122597
>>122595heheh that's pretty good
No.122658
Frenschan seemingly ran out of money and shut down. Good riddance.
No.122662
>>121939It's out now. Lots of people have netflix and it's probably already uploaded somewhere by now.
No.122674
Not dignifying netflix or the team that made this with my time for what i know will be some half truths and outright lies woven together just to force their desired viewpoint onto me.
No.122687
keep your echo chamber and idealized version of reality then
No.122688
Would probably be watchable in a stream format where we can rip on it if it's bad.
No.122705
¥using the phrase echo chamber in 2024
No.122706
>>122705holier than thou?
No.122715
>>122658>their list of friends are 5 honeypot sites made in wordpress, 2 honeypot telegram channels, two telegram channels owned by them and the fucking soytard siteoh wow
No.122742
>>122715So it was some /pol/tard site then? So yeah, it makes sense that it closed because /pol/ keeps losing more and more influence on 4chan and the web in general.
No.122745
>>122742>/pol/ keeps losing more and more influence on 4chan and the web in general.Are you sure about that?
It feels like /a/ has more politically flavored threads than ever. They are just subversive. It's not Trump in the OP, it's discussions on the medium getting "pozzed" or censored to death or that we need to discuss the new gender roles because Fern insulted Stark in this one panel, or what the "recent" inclusion of dark-skinned characters into anime means for us as a society...
At the same time, there is a surge in people telling "pedophiles" to kill themselves (in threads dedicated to series with girls in the 14+ age range). If it's all in jest, the joke is lost on me.
No.122746
What have they done to warrant any other response
No.122748
>>122745We didn't start the fire.
No.122751
>>122745That doesn't sound very new, there's been fearmongering about this forever
>At the same time, there is a surge in people telling "pedophiles" to kill themselves (in threads dedicated to series with girls in the 14+ age range).Trolls.
Really, political threads are the least of /a/'s issues and are often a nice break from the monotony of generals
No.122752
>>122751I didn't say it was new. I said there was an unusual amount of it.
>>122749It's not even about capturing a younger audience. It's about failing to hold itself together. It's the loss of the oldfags that really hurts the board because without their culture, there's no appeal to the community.
No.122753
>>122752>an unusual amount of itWell, the last time I checked out /a/ I told a blacked poster to go away and got warned for being "off-topic" while the post I was responding to got to stay up until the thread died, so I'm going to chalk this up to the mods actively trying to kill the board like usual. If you give zero-effort trolling a pass while simultaneously cracking down on gatekeeping, it's obvious what the end result will be.
No.122754
>>122745>that we need to discuss the new gender roles because Fern insulted Stark in this one panelA similar thing happened during DitF and Konosuba, this is to bait posters with the traits into replying. But I haven't used /a/ since then.
Personally I've seen an equal number of discussions about whether her making comments like that is fat fetish fuel or not
No.122769
Honestly there's almost no point to be on 4/a/ anymore unless your thing is just, just, popular enough to get a thread or two without instantly getting bumped off page 10. Because if I like something like Frieren then it just gets a god awful 24/7 general spun up for it and I would rather watch the show by myself at that point than breathe the same air as the people who camp out in threads like that for 6 months.
No.122893
>>122770Yeah but very few manga get talked about on 4/a/ so I just stick with the mangadex forum for what it's worth
No.122898
>>122893Mangadex doesn't have much 'discussion' though. It's mostly just people asking "where the hell is the translation", "when is the next chapter coming out" "what happened to the scan group", etc.
No.122930
>>122745Very late but the entirety of the website seems to be that way at this point, it's not a problem exclusive towards /a/. I went on there for mango as well but the general "twitter" user mindset of newer anons truly got under my skin
when I was feeling way too emotional that day, even for someone who rarely goes on there at all.
>>122898I wonder if the dead discussions on bakaupdates are any better lol.
No.122953
dumb twittards
No.123030
https://boards.4chan.org/biz/thread/58388587A meido on /biz/ is attempting to enforce email verification to post on 4chan.
https://boards.4chan.org/biz/thread/58388635Users of the board are not happy with this and see it for the transparent bullshit that it is.
Although it may not be a success and potentially reverted if even implemented in the first place, it's extremely indicative of the kind of people that run the site now that they see no issue with this in the first place and go to a "trust, but verify" board and expect people to "trust" that they will not store the email long term as per their own claims which cannot be verified and are obviously bullshit.
If this goes through and is deemed a success by the meidos, expect other boards to get similar treatments in the future, potentially even a sitewide measure.
This to me feels like a pivotal moment in 4chan history with a possible point of no return if they don't change course. User registration will be a thing down the line, they're dipping their toes in the water.
No.123031
4chan is testing out an email verification system on /biz/ soon:
https://boards.4chan.org/biz/thread/58388587 /
https://warosu.org/biz/thread/58388587https://sys.4chan.org/signinI can't claim to have any experience with it, but my assumption is that you can't separate all the chicanery and spam from a board about crypto and ARGH THAT GUY JUST BEAT ME TO THE POST HERE
No.123037
>>123030So will we get:
a) a completely dead board as everybody just makes /biz/ threads on /b/ and also every other board with traffic.
b) a board where no real users are willing to jump through the hoops for and all that's left is shills shilling to shills.
c) the dawn of the new 4chan mods have dreamed of where every poster has to verify their phone number to post, bans actually do something, and every ounce of the site's culture and ideology are washed away by the tide of twitterification and the site can finally join the modern internet. Hiro buys a new yacht with all the pass (and purged email address) sales.
Personally, I'm looking forward to a future where I have to explain to teens that 4chan didn't always have accounts. People accepted the existence of /vip/ and from4chanpass even though they blatantly go against the ideals of the community and with "spam" being the reason they can easily apply this to every other board once people accept it here. The sooner they kill the site off the better.
No.123038
>>123030/biz/ is full of scammers trying to sell pump and dumps.
I wouldn't exactly be shocked if 4chan was getting letters or advice from lawyers about potential issues with the SEC soon
No.123039
>>123038/biz/ is my main board. The scammers are not that big of an issue, they are blatantly obvious and a lot of us actually like making fun of them and telling them to get fucked. This will only result in less posters on an already dying board. We already risk being banned just for talking about crypto, that is a far bigger issue than any spam there. It's ridiculous. We even had tourist meidos come in and shit on us during the last cycle. Most of the people moderating /biz/ aren't even /biz/fags, they're just meidos for other boards forced to interact with /biz/ which results in the most ridiculous bans.
This entire thing is just a bullshit excuse to do something they always wanted to do.
No.123040
>>123039there's no way that 4chan would do something unless they were told to
No.123041
"something" as in get the devs to implement a feature of email verifications... because mods can do random things
No.123043
>>123040What anons here are saying is that this is a monetizing feature.
No.123044
>>123030>>123031>>123037So in a relatively short timespan they:
- Got rid of 4channel and merged it back into 4chan
- Got rid of the IP counter
- And now this
They're trying to cook something, but I can't quite tell what it is yet. Perhaps Hiro is preparing to sell the site and is making all of these changes beforehand?
No.123045
>>123044>>123043¥ ConspiracyIt's always about trying to cut costs/time investment/risk.
No.123046
Unrelated, but /biz/ has the worst catalog in all of 4chan, holy shit. It's nothing but frogs and cancerman. Seems nothing changed the last time I looked at it.
No.123047
>>123046My strategy is to open every single thread with an anime picture in the OP and ignore everything else. We get a few threads a day to look at. Everything is garbage, but it's our garbage.
No.123048
>>123045These large image boards are businesses. Hiro took up a major loan from multiple investors in order to buy it. Cutting costs/reducing risks is fine. But for a business to make sense, it must make profit.
No.123049
>>123039>/biz/ is my main boardthat just sounds thoroughly awful man, sorry
No.123050
>>123032le smuggé girlé
>>123030>>123031Oh boy.......
Here we go
again.............
They will never break my
/qa/ spirit! No.123051
heh, got my e-mail right here for them ¬‿¬
No.123054
>>123049It made me a wealthy neet in 2021. The anime picture strategy makes it somewhat worthwhile, though I do scan for news as well. I spend more time talking about anime and lolis than crypto. I like being a misfit who is hated by most of the board. It brings all us anime underdogs together.
No.123056
>>123054>I spend more time talking about anime and lolisHonestly the best way to use pretty much any board.
No.123058
Generally not very alarmist but this is the first time since moot left it's looking pretty bad, between the lawsuits and what appears to be the reaction to them.
No.123060
>>123030>>123031This is certainly going through, and looking at other 4chan boards the flareup over it is inexpressibly mild compared to the absolute nothingburger that was the split. People are pointing at the "some" in the new page as if it were ultimate proof that it'll be used on multiple boards but not all of them, but there's no reason to trust anything they say. At the same time, others were fearmongering they'll apply it to /pol/ too but it'd be such a massive shitfest that I doubt they'll bother.
A lot of folks also seem to be taking the Indians claim at face value and saying that rather than instituting this filter they should just rangeban the country, which really misses the point of the whole thing.
(forgot to post this nine hours ago but i think it's still accurate)
No.123061
If this is a late April fool's joke it would be pretty good.
No.123062
>>123048you're being silly. If they wanted to make money they would just expand the features in the pass system.
No.123063
4chan makes money anyways. It's costs are just the colocation of some PHP servers and some cloudflare services... compared to Reddit which hires employees to maintain a good and friendly media presence.
No.123064
>>123062>you're being silly.>If they wanted to make moneyIronic.
You can believe about this incident whatever you want. But to assume that Hiro paid for this site for any other reason than to make money would be wildly naive.
No.123065
>>123064No... You're ignoring that they have a perfectly established system for payments in place already and assuming there's some big reason when the mods are likely misreading the problem
No.123066
>>123065You are arguing that a for-profit company just decides that they don't want more money.
I am not even talking about this case of email verification. This is what you are saying. And it's silly.
No.123067
>>123066I'm arguing that you're pushing a theory based on too many assumptions
No.123068
>>123067I am not pushing a theory. I am pointing out that you made a silly claim.
No.123069
>>122745You're responding to soyjak faggots copypasta.
No.123071
>>123069???
Are you talking about
>>122742 No it's not, I was the one who wrote that.
No.123075
>>123071Don't you realize that
>>123069 is 6 months from the future? She's searching for the man who is destined to rape her lover, and God knows what she will do to him once he falls into her hands.
No.123107
>>123063My main issue is the fact that they want to have their cake and eat it too. There's no imageboard principles from the founding of the website or from Futaba Hiro and the rest of the staff won't overturn for money and I won't rehash the discussion on how trash it is or how it can spread to other boards. But economically, if the obvious solution of hiring more people to look at /biz/ was not viable is to cut losses and delete the board altogether. But doing this preserves the workforce to not need to as heavily moderate the board and allow for Hiro to keep making money.
Even if 300 bans a week or rounding up, 2 bans an hour, from /biz/ was as onerous as the staff claims it is, the board is slow compared to other boards. We're talking right now it's not even in the top 10 fastest boards on 4chan even at its peak of 12 posts a minute. /vg/ not even at peak hours is 90 posts a minute. The disparity is staggering and 12 posts an hour at peak is almost nothing.
The most baffling thing though that this is implying is that the older tools of moderation the staff uses has stopped scaling and there has been no consideration to start using solutions out there that have been there for a while for automated spam/marketing detection that have been in place for email systems for decades. I'm not even expecting the fancy machine learning moderation tools that are out there now but if the board staff can't even have the tools to do their job effectively except keep browsing the catalog and marking posts manually for deletion at this point, I don't know if 4chan is even going to survive for long once the current crop of AI software matures enough to effortlessly spam shit everywhere.
No.123109
>>123107it could also just be them hedging their bets in case it ever comes into play that adult social websites have to have a registration mechanism or risk being illegal in states like Texas
No.123115
>>1230644chan does a few petabytes in traffic a month. that's easily $10k-15k a month for cloudflare alone
No.123120
>>123115I'd say 10k is a good ballpark for hosting and services... 120k / yr
Just as a point of reference for what Truth Social pulls in, they get 4.9million from their operations(I won't discuss the losses because the company's expenses are a scam). If 4chan gets 1% of that they're paying this off.
> It revealed an operating loss of $15.96 million and around $40 million in interest.With their pass, 120k/yr is 6_000 subscribers per year. Which seems very doable, then they've got their meager advertising stream which can cover the rest
No.123122
>>123121Hopefully that'll spice things up.
No.123125
>>123121I get the yurobaiting, but how the fuck is bible spam getting that many replies? And why is AI shit even on that board, did /g/ get verification too? I thought /bant/ was the Cirno spam board.
No.123126
>>123125The christian thread was moved from /pol/. The AI thread exists because every single board needs to have one, apparently.
No.123129
>>123120I don't think anyone is arguing that 4chan is currently making a loss.
No.123130
>>123129i'm not sure what the comment I'm responding to is trying to say then
No.123131
>>123130I'll confess that I am confused by that post too. I was too shy to ask directly.
No.123142
>>123131>I was too shy to ask directly.cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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No.123149
>>123107>But economically, if the obvious solution of hiring more people to look at /biz/What do you mean? I hate using this phrase, but they literally do it for free.
They have no excuse other than wanting to implement this.
No.123152
>>123149There is a limited pool of people who hate 4chan enough to cut it as janitors/mods. It's entirely plausible that they have trouble recruiting more willing slaves.
No.123157
>>123152When was the last time they did a recruitment drive?
No.123179
>>123131>But to assume that Hiro paid for this site for any other reason than to make money would be wildly naive.4chan is not a profit engine, it's a good month if it barely pays for itself
No.123181
>>123179Are you really going to argue that Hiro just loves the community of 4chan that much?
No.123187
>>123179That may have been true 10 years ago when moot was running a site he made to have fun with a community he was part of, there is absolutely no reason to think it's true today when it's run by a guy who has never engaged with the community in a meaningful way and who consistently makes decisions aimed at increasing revenue through ads and pass sales.
No.123567
>>123566I really really like this image
No.123571
EXPONENTIALITY
No.123572
though i suppose we'd have to ask the /biz/ anonymous about it since as a stranger at least it's hard for me to tell what the impact was beyond speed
No.123579
>>123577Barely, and at the same time as /biz/ posts are going down, so are /bant/. /biz/ on /bant/ is going to be a short lived phenomena outside of maybe 4 generals that might stick around for a while. /bant/ doesn't even have that much /biz/ posts anymore. Most of them are just gonna start posting about non-/biz/ stuff instead and likely go to some other board eventually.
No.123603
>>123569Won't they undo the change if it's clearly so unpopular?
No.123605
rest in piss /biz/
*pours out lukewarm steel reserve mixed with spit on the grave*
No.123612
>>123603If they cared what the users wanted, they wouldn't have done it in the first place.
No.123614
>>123612The question here not being what the users want, but what keeps the number of users high, which is (presumably) what Hiro wants.
No.123618
>>123614What he wants (presumably) is money and ad-blocking, non-pass-buying users are a drain on resources you only accept because they help attract paying customers. If the board went from 20% pass users at 100% total users to 100% pass users at 30% total users then that's a net profit for him. That might hurt long-term prospects, but he might not need to worry about the long-term.
No.123620
>>123618But this is 10% users, and it is not clear to me that they are all pass payers or turning their adblock off for 4chan.
In fact, it's doubtful that even these guys will stay there, given how dead the board is now.
This is assuming that the lost posters were 100% genuine human beings, and not bots that were ruining the board for everybody. I can't judge that. I haven't used /biz/ except for a few short weeks after its creation.
No.123815
HERRO?
I LOOK FOR SEKRET JP
IS THE JP HERE THE RIGHT JP?
I HEARD IT IS BERRY TENGU
No.123819
>>123815Secret /jp/? No idea what that could mean. If you mean the one associated with a guy that avatarfagged as Aya then it's on zzzchan.xyz
No.124057
>>122016Just lie until that lie becomes the fact.
Truth is a matter of perspective.
No.124058
>>122770Reddit offers more valuable insights and whatnot.
Why the dispreference?
No.124060
>>124058Not that anon, but any forum that comes with up- and downvotes is a no-go for me.
No.124064
Is GNFOS gone for good?
I'm starting to think that turning it into a gambling site isn't just one of T's "gags".
Feels bad man..
It's probably my fault GNFOS died. I kept laughing at him whenever he failed a quest in MonHun.
I should've played with him / carried him into MR.
No.124066
>>124064Nah fuck him, let him be a bitch and lick his wounds for a year or two, it'll come back.
No.124067
>>124064I don't see how he gets the domain back after this, so maybe.
No.124068
>>124064I think more than that him focusing on his new job was what pushed him to sell it. He finally normed out
No.124074
>>124060The jurisdiction of this site is a democratic state.
Regardless the content is still there for you to see.
You are freely able to sort by any way you wish for.
No.124076
>>124074I am not sure what you are trying to say. Please clarify.
No.124127
Since we have a couple of weeks of data and nearing the one month mark since the change by this point, we can see now that the board's activity is completely down for good and
>>123579 was right about most of what he said although I disagree that the /biz/ on /bant/ is not going strong, /smg/ was one of the fastest general threads there and the stock market is always dynamic so I don't see it changing, it's going to continue existing. /bant/ itself though barely budged upwards, all that traffic /biz/ had is just lost completely forever. It may be a good thing since most of that was crypto after all, and they have refocused to post and advertise grassroots elsewhere. I think that the concerns about who was exactly lost may have been overblown in that case. But it isn't clear if that actually impacted Hiro's bottom line here. Given that he hasn't rolled it back immediately, he may not care at this point, and there is a real danger I would say he may be considering it on other boards.
No.124128
>>124127Hmm, looking at April /bant/ there it does seem to have reached the activity levels of say, January-February /biz/, with its hovering around 10k which is actually a fair big bigger than the last several months that were closer to 5k~7k, and it may be that the last couple days' decrease is just a regular fluctuation, but it is undeniable that /biz/ is turbomegadead by comparison. Still can't comment on the board's contents though, maybe that one /biz/raeli here can chime in once more.
No.124130
Huh, I just noticed that /biz/ used to have the opposite cycle from /a/, with activity dropping over the weekend rather than rising.
Meanwhile, /s4s/ didn't seem to have a real weekend pattern at all, until /biz/ exploded.
I wonder if /s4s/ was just an amalgamation of other boards' random excess traffic and thus unable to express any real patterns. But then, its speed is way too consistent to be just a result of incidental activity bursts. So, I guess that means that the board has more NEETs than other boards.
No.124132
>>124130Makes sense since the stock market and other market activities are only open on weekdays. Only crypto is 24/7. But yeah, that is now affecting those boards for better or worse.
No.124159
>>124076NTA but maybe he's referring to using any sub you want? which is not the best idea bc the whole site is just ironic and unfunny, or at least 80 percent of plebbit is. if you're lucky to find a (very)smaller one then it's decent i guess(??) if you manage to weed out underage/stupid people on your own. still not good for general discussion though.
>>124132wait /s4s/ is faster now?
No.124177
>>124159>NTA but maybe he's referring to using any sub you want?How would that be a sensible response to somebody who rejects some key functionality of the site?
I didn't even say that I disliked any particular subreddit or community there.
No.124215
uh why is gnfos a turkish sports betting casino now
No.124216
>>124215Read up in the thread, dummy. Well, no one really has an answer since you know what everyone else does, I.E nothing:
>>122595 >>124064 No.124217
>>124216Trevor sold it to a turkish gambling company after he got owned by an Elder Dragon on MHW while streaming and laughed at for it.
No.124218
>>124216Yeah it really is just this:
>>124217 No.124219
>>124217that logic tracks, i also sell my property to turks when i lose in video games
No.124220
I think he just set it up for sale, I remember it being vacant for a bit before the Turk showed up, but I may be remembering it wrong and I don't know how this stuff works.
No.124259
>>124258What was it and why did it die?
No.124260
>>124259An original tinyboard version of polish imageboard wilchan.org before they switched to custom software in 2019. It was almost 10 year old. Terminated because of possible vulnerabilities of tinyboard. Now redirects to main page.
No.124261
>>124260someone's brought it up, but they're always these hypothetical ideas that the tinyboard chain of imboards have issues, but no one exploits them. it's not a great software for many reasons, but security has been at it for a while, and just prevent any buffer overflows and the worst that they find is some sort of bug
No.124326
>>124325AI is kind of a reverse video game, where you give the computer a task and then evaluate its performance.
Maybe the thread belongs on /^/.
No.124327
>>124326nvm I thought they banned it because they got tired of it on /v/ but it seems like the mod didn't recognize tracer because the OP image was in a different style
No.124363
Unfortunately I think a lot of the activity loss will be permanent. A lot of people moved on. On the 11th of May there was almost less than one thousand posts on the board the whole day.
No.124365
>>124364Credit goes to my friend who opened the catalog at the time it got posted then messaged it to me so fast that it still said 1 minute by the time I took the screenshot.
This happened exactly 30 days since
>>123030. I wonder why they didn't cave sooner, or why they didn't just trial the 15 minute wait time in the beginning. There would probably be almost no backlash to waiting on posting from a new IP. They really messed up.
No.124367
>>124363That's true, but at least it's a cultural victory for anonimity in imageboards. Had this succeeded, who knows if it wouldn't have been expanded to other boards and adopted by other websites. At least it was a quick defeat for a retarded idea.
No.124375
>>124365still possible that the "caving" was planned and the intent was to get a benchmark of how much activity would be lost and what sort of users would actually verify emails
No.124377
>>124375With a company like facebook, I'd believe that instantly.
4chan doesn't have the knowhow to meaningfully evaluate the data, I'd reckon. But they might team up with somebody else. That's the sort of accusation that people have been raising against Hiro from the beginning, anyway.
No.124397
>>124363People may return because of the Gamestop short squeeze is back
No.124398
>>124375It doesn't make much sense though. /biz/ is one of the most expensive boards to advertise on because shitcoins have high competition.
>>124397That's not a good thing. We want them to leave.
No.124408
>>124367i don't see how this was a win. it was a pretty minor thing & i doubt they were going to expand it to other boards.
>>124375it's plausible but
>>124377can't they just check 4stats?
why wouldn't they monitor their site activity?
No.124410
>>124408>can't they just check 4stats?They can do that, sure. And the archive too. But directly reading raw data does not give you the wealth of meta information that I thought
>>124375 was referring to.
No.124441
>>124440Best guess: he's a smug loli
No.124442
>>124440No clue, doesn't seem to reply to anyone anywhere. Might as well be a bot.
No.124444
Actually, it seems they made at least a few replies in that junku thread. Not just 5357, but also 5320 and 5169, 5166, then around 5459 more exchanges about the community over there and how "literally only us 3 know about [some other dude]." But I stopped reading around that point with how mindnumbingly boring and inconsequential it is, and I really can't tell if that's actually all just one guy or multiple people posting the same things, in any case it's the most teablogger replies I've seen yet.
No.124450
>>123179You guys are forgetting about what the Japanese anons tried to warn us of when Hiro took over. Mainly, that he's been caught selling user data multiple times to the highest bidder. We know multiple boards are run by the American Government and moderated by the American alphabets. We know they are analyzing all the metadata they collect from users on there everyday. We know they use bot swarms and paid posters to push agendas and it's obvious those bots/people are all pass users (or at least have the same access) because they're never banned and allowed to run rampant. They are what's killed one board after another. Heck most of the boards are just straight ads now disguised as threads.
I'm not saying you can't find one or two good threads and a few real good people there. I'm just saying it's a business run like any other social media website. They're studying the users every way possible. The embedded javascript probably tracks you mouse movements and everything. I know of a few "underground" websites/forums that do exactly what.
For the most part I don't post on 4chan at all anymore. Maybe once a month on /a/ to post an update about something I'm working on and try to get feedback.
Moot sold us out to Google. Hiro is just a face for who's really running things. I'm sure he's paid well to be that face and take the blame should anything really bad happen. Moderation is insufferable even on boards like /a/ now. Doesn't matter if you're civil or not. You say the wrong thing and you're going and I'm not talking about low effort /pol/ stuff either.
In fact, I would highly advise you use it as little as possible. I've noticed it has started setting even more cookies lately for no reason. One of these days I'll take a good look at the javascript that's basically required to lurk now.
No.124453
>>124440>>124442he has replied to me twice, be nice.
No.124454
>>124453it seems im one of the few who dont mind his presence, im only curious not malicious.
No.124477
The Frog Pond site which was spammed everywhere (including here) is down
No.124479
>>124453The usual reaction is that if you're going out of your way to blog about the most meaningless stuff and copypasting it across a couple dozen sites while hardly replying to anyone then that's either trolling or attention whoring, I think it makes sense for people to dislike it. Ate banana on an industrial scale. It's interesting that he put it up on /secret/, but even there it feels like the only objective is to take up space.
>>124477Last time I checked they had a thread where one guy made a parody edit of the /qa/ train pic. It was rather interesting to see.
No.124483
>>124454he's like whatmin except his posts are maginally less inane
No.124490
>>124479ritualposting can be annoying depending on how eerie and botlike it is but I like some of the images he posts and he was nice >.<. I agree with you, overall.
No.124508
don't mind the tea guy personally
No.124509
>>124490Notably, he's not ritualposting. He's keeping a tea-diary, with some humor (and multiple copies).
No.124522
>>124509A diary would have more information. He intentionally makes posts that are as banal as possible. It's shitposting any way you slice it.
No.124545
>>124440I think its a sane assumption to presume he's from /tea/. Tea? /jp/ shit? Blogging? All fit /tea/ to a T.
No.124842
So, uhh, does/did anyone here use tohno-chan? It was brought up a recent discussion and I decided to go look at it, but...
https://tohno-chan.com/Maybe this happens now and then and I'm unaware of something, but it could also be bad news. I think it has a twitter account, but that stuff is locked away to me since nitter died.
No.124843
>>124842Works on my end, maybe you need to remove the s since it's throwing me a security risk though.
No.124844
>>124843Oh, huh. It does work for me in a different browser (firefox) as long as I manually type in the url without the S, yeah. Huh. Pretty strange. Can't say I've ever seen such an error before with the host seemingly denying that the site exists at all.
No.124850
>>124842>>124844If the certs are broken and they're using MitM/anti-ddos then you're probably getting that error message from the MitM server. The site is still there but https traffic isn't getting through to it. But http is.
No.124857
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Doge is kill. Gone to join longcat.
No.124858
>>124857I heard at least a year ago that it's been overdue with quite a low quality of life due to greatly deteriorating health. It's for the best.
There's plenty of new cat celebrities, but I'm not aware of any dog ones.
No.124875
>>124857reminds me of the mortality of my dog...
No.125079
>>124477It's been resurrected under a different name and now redirects to the new site.
No.126577
I posted this in a blog thread here, but I got blocked due to "spam" (blog thread abuse?). it's not a happening but I don't what other thread to talk about this (and I don't think it's worth making a new thread for). can someone explain what the fuck pic related means?
>>124450>Moderation is insufferable even on boards like /a/ now. Doesn't matter if you're civil or not. You say the wrong thing and you're going and I'm not talking about low effort /pol/ stuff either.it really seems like that right now
No.126578
>>126577Mods can make mistakes too. Come back when your appeal is denied. (and take their advice to heart - even if they have wrongfully banned you, insulting them won't do you any good)
As a side note, I am surprised you can already see the appeal form. The way I remember it, it should be locked for the first 3 days of your ban and only become available after 72 hours.
No.126579
>>126578i think it's a confusion that bans under three days don't ever get it.
No.126581
>>126579I've gotten a bunch of lengthy bans over the years, and I distinctly remember having to wait to make my case - usually that they wrongfully accused me of ban-evasion, which the already passed waiting period itself proved wrong.
So, I'm pretty sure that I do not remember wrong.
No.126582
>>126578I appealed earlier today; I didn't insult anyone. anyway, I think I will post about 4chan stuff here from now on. I really miss having /nah/ threads on the original /qa/ for stuff like this.
No.126602
>>126577He probably thought you were trying to summon barneyfag, who is somehow still doing his thing 10 years after its had any relevancy. And, while mods are garbage and ruining the site, considering you were on /s4s/ and typing like a retard, I'm not confident that's not exactly what you were trying to do.
No.126626
>>126581>>126582The moderation on 4chan is so insufferable now I don't even bother to appeal. I reset my router+modem to get a fresh IP by spoofing the MAC address on the router and go about my business. I don't think they even check posts anymore. If you send enough reports you can get banned for anything.
Technically, it is against the rules. But I try really hard to stay within their unjust rules when I do post there (maybe once a month now). Even then I frequently catch a ban because someone wants to argue. Then they dog pile from what I assume are discord servers. I've noticed I'll get banned for the exact same thing the other side of the argument is doing but they're never punished.
It's obvious there is a mod club and if you aren't in it or friendly with it you get banned for 3 days - months. Same thing they used to do on IRC. It's just on discord now.
I honestly don't find much value. The small boards are starting to get as bad as the large boards got a few years ago. Of course everything after about 2007 isn't that great.
No.126633
>>126626I agree but I can’t evade, apparently. leaving my router disconnected all night won’t reset the IP address. I remember it used to work with just 10-15 minutes of being disconnected. I also have gotten banned multiple times due to someone else mass-reporting, and just bullshit reasons in general.
No.126673
I feel like every decision the mod team makes (incognito removed, IP count removed, 50 captchas, etc.) is meant to cater towards little kids who have the time to wait through just to make the site worse. I wish I could hear it straight from their mouths that they really want that kind of awful crowd.
>>125079man what the hell? fucking feds I wish they'd leave the damn 20 year olds alone.
No.126675
>>126673>incognito removed>50 captchasElaborate? I haven't used 4chan recently.
>IP count removedAs far as I am concerned, they should never have introduced the IP counter. It only worked to reveal the laziest of samefags, the ones that aren't even malicious, such as OPs trying to give their threads a little kickstart.
No.126691
>4 posts getting deleted for criticizing koreans/calling them "gooks" on /a/
really weird change in moderation. I've used that term all the time up until now. I wonder if "chinks" is taboo now too.
No.126696
>>126695I only really use one thread but yeah, it is so in that particular thread
No.126697
such freedom of speech restrictions that you're not allowed to talk about japanese politics on /a/
No.126699
>>126633Do you spoof the MAC address of your PC or router connected to your modem? A lot of ISPs are getting very restrictive now. They recently replaced the modem/router combo of a family member here. I can't even get into the admin panel of it. They want you to call them and tech support logs in remotely. A large security hole waiting to happen.
They claim you can configure it yourself from their cell phone app. But I don't have a cell phone anymore. Logging in from the local ip (192.168.0.1) just redirects you to a support page that tells you to call them or download the cell phone app. I'm not letting them replace my modem if I can help it.
I've been thinking about buying my own modem. There is a list of like 3 you can use on the ISPs network. But it's a pain to get them to approve the use of them.
>>126691Half the mod team of /a/ are gooks now that use the
>no racism outside of /b/rule to unjustly ban people. That rule and another are use as justification to ban people everywhere these days. The mods don't play fair on 4chan. If you aren't in the clique you'll catch a ban for doing exactly the same thing they're doing in threads. You can always tell a mod is lurking when a heated debate is happening. They'll delete one sides posts that make up half of the thread and issue 3 day - 3 month bans to silence them.
In other words. You aren't allowed to joke about anything anymore. One side can throw around racist and vulgar insults and the other can't. You can complain about certain people (e.g. whites, straights, Americans, Japanese, senpais) but if you joke about others (e.g. gays, transexuals, blacks, Koreans, Jews) you'll eat the ban.
The only people that apply for mod positions now are the exact types you don't want to have access to mod tools.
No.126700
>>126699kohais must learn to respect their senpais if they are to post
No.126702
>>126699unfortunately I am tech illiterate so I don’t know about that spoofing/MAC address stuff. I just remember evading used to be easy but my folks have changed their internet provider from time to time and I think that may have changed something. and from my experience, 99% of bans are 3 days so it’s just short enough to deny the right to appeal. I remember getting banned for commenting about another user (the official reason was “off-topic” although I did use a racial slur). strangely enough, that user in particular CONSTANTLY blogposts about his life and blatantly off-topic shit like his affairs and his ruined marriages (he is attention-starved); he’s never once had his posts deleted from my time in those threads. He once remarked that the moderation team likes him, and in hindsight, I think he was a janny.
>>126700that’s a very strange filter to have on kissu. I wonder what it was.
test: spic
No.126703
>>126702He probably was a janitor or even a mod. They have an in-group and let people in that group break the rules constantly.
Spoofing a MAC address isn't that hard depending on what kind of router you have. Most of them have an option to change the MAC address somewhere in the settings. After you change it you simply reboot the ISP's modem. Usually by unplugged it from a power source and waiting about 10 seconds to plug it back in. When it reboots it'll see the device connected to it has a different MAC address. This will force the ISP's network to assign your modem a new IP address.
My local ISP has two ranges (e.g. 165.x.x.x and 89.x.x.x). It's sometimes useful to keep resetting the modem until I get an address in the range I want. Since they do not allow you to run servers on home connections and block them if you're in the same range as other people. But if you're on a different range than your clients it works for whatever reason. I have to ensure I'm not in the same range as friends and family that access my media server and locally hosted website.
I don't have to reset mine much for 4chan unless I catch an unjust ban on /a/. Which I only post on at most twice a month now whenever I announce something I've created is up for download. I learned a few years ago that it was useless to post on most of the boards. /g/ in particular is really bad now. Almost anything of value to be discussed is an instant ban and the mods are lurking it all of the time. Which is why the board has mostly become a place to shill products. When I tried to announce and get help for my fork of Gentoo I was banned for 3 days constantly.
You're right. They abuse the 3-day ban because you can't appeal it. This way the admins never see complaints (not that they care). Mods use a lot of underhanded methods like that. On some smaller alt-chans they'll ban you and claim you posted pizza. Since the admins don't want to verify and look at such posts to see if they were really pizza they take the mods word for it. Most of the time they couldn't verify it anyway. As such posts are purged from the database instantly. Since everyone is paranoid about having pizza on the server at all (with good reason).
Finding honest moderation is really hard. The people you want doing it are the last that'll apply for the position because they don't want the headache. The people you don't want doing it are the first to apply because they want the power. Now a days a lot of mods are paid anyway. Since it's a great way to subvert or kill a board. Most people are not interested in real discussion anymore. The owners are interested in turning a profit and faking user stats. They bow to advertisers because they're making bank off the adds and the shill posts. This has been a long standing problem going all the way back to when people first started embedding google ads into web pages. Since they didn't want to get kicked out of google's network they started implementing rules against free speech. Back in the early-mid 2000s some forum admins were making upwards to $10k a month just off google ads alone. Even smaller forums were making several hundred-thousands of dollars if they embedded google ads. Some forums were being auctioned off for $20k+ because people knew they could make it back off ad money in just a few months. I knew several people that owned 20-50 forums all running google ads. Some of them were making over $250k a year in ad money alone until google blacklisted all the forums and started re-directing people to social media websites like reddit, facebook and the others.
No.126704
>>126702>that’s a very strange filter to have on kissu. I wonder what it was.I would tell you but I've already forgotten.
No.126707
>>126703alright, I guess if my appeal gets denied: I’ll look into changing the MAC address. my WiFi is used by a lot of people so I’d rather not tamper with it too much to avoid fucking something up and ruining it for everyone. not surprising that everything ends up being about money. I could go on about unfair bans but it would never end.
No.126715
>>126707All that will happen is your users will think the internet is down for about 2 minutes or so. Once the modem reboots and fetches a new IP everything will just werk as always.
>>126713Ah of course. I only used it as an example. But it is hating on an entire group of people. So I included it as an example of a group that's a-okay to hate.
>>126714Some anons were complaining about this in some threads I was lurking a few months ago. I can't remember what thread they were posting in now. But they were basically saying that anyone that criticized Korea was getting the old mod treatment. They were claiming censorship.
It was probably for that Korean anime that aired back in the winter. I know some anons that were laughing about its ratings got banned for no reason.
No.126734
>>126691Racism being persecuted is not exactly new.
What is new is that the moderation is so selective that it feels out of place.
You can really tell what the mods don't care about, what discussions mods want to shut down and what threads mods have turned into their personal strongholds.
The rules at this point are little more than tools to achieve the desired purpose.
No.126752
>>126714Anonymous.... this wasn't a mod deletion, it was someone remaking their post because they accidentally deleted the last number from their quotelink, making them quote a thread from fifteen years ago:
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/267529619/#267560219None of the old posts were actually deleted either, that's a 4chanX problem.
Anyways, as slow as the happenings thread is nowadays, I don't think using it to complain about random moderation on 4chan is anything worthwhile. There's nothing new to say about it.
No.126753
>>126752my bad, didnt think a chain of deleted replies would be because of some typo
No.126800
>>124842I posted on it once and my post was removed.
No.126957
>>126800what did you even post to get it removed
>>126939I’ve never been a /biz/ user but I’m sorry it happened to a board you cared about. Now I really haven’t touched the site in a while, wonder if they’ll ever rollback half the bullshit the mods have decided to take so people can come back.
No.126973
>>126957>what did you even post to get it removedI dont know. It was a year or so i posted on there. I just posted something along with a picture and it was removed.
No.126993
>>126970What kind of attack was it?
No.126994
your classic hiroyuki attack
No.126995
>>126970Long overdue tbh. They put timeshift and all this membership bs but wont even update their damn infrastructure.
No.127005
>>126999I once had the opposite happen to me. Came back after a 3 day ban, only to be met with the appeal page, for a 30 day ban.
I was so mad that I just wrote a long and angry rant. Didn't really work out for me.
Good for you, though.
No.128911
>>126691>>126699Old mods understood the difference between using casual racism as a shibboleth and full on rants.
Literally "shibboleth" was the word A-San would throw around in irc.
No.129456
>>126970>>126977Kadokawa didn't pay the ransom so they're releasing the data.
https://matomebu.com/wadai/kadokawa20240702/ No.129471
>>129456That sucks... I guess? Will it affect anything or is it just embarrassing to some executives? I imagine Japanese IT security stuff is even worse than Western IT security stuff so these Russians could simply disable the entirety of the Japanese media industry if they wanted to, but with Kadokawa and presumably NND refusing to comply then maybe they'll aim somewhere else? Fuck those guys.
No.129485
>>129484Do you have anything to say about your twitter link? Let's not turn into the 4chan twitter-links-instead-
of-discussion thing...
No.129486
>>129484So it's a imageboard but with some NFT crypto trash attached? Yuck
No.129488
>>129484I guess this is how you win at life these days, just make get rich quick scams and sell the means for other people to scam each other.
No.129491
>>129486>>129487It seems when you do the captcha, it resends the message? Or perhaps, I double clicked the submit button and that caused the captcha for the second message.
No.129494
From what I can gather it reminds me of systemspace (the cult-like nature), agora road (faux nostalgia from people that weren't alive for it) and some general r9k/biz stuff, although that just might be general internet culture at the point. Since money is involved and it's closed off then it's safe to say the numbers are fabricated as there is a monetary incentive to do so.
It's weird to think of how much of this iconography exists because some guy decided to make a fumo mod for roblox or something and it exposed kids everywhere to something they otherwise never would have seen.
No.129495
>>129491Seems like everyone involved (on twitter, at least) is all crypto web3 people, bleh
No.129773
>>129484Ah, a place with posting requirements more convoluted than Kohlchan finally appears.
No.130845
>>129484I always thought monetizing an imageboard was possible but not like this. Crypto is useless.
No.130879
>>129488Every way to "get ahead" requires doing something evil. Honest people never "get ahead".
No.130978
>>130976v killed it as part of his jong rampage
No.130998
>>130939i instinctively dislike those stupid big eyed avatars they use
No.131006
oh wait did anyone click on the master plan button? or is that new? well it links to this pdf on archivedotorg:
https://archive.org/details/miladychan-master-plan/mode/2upamong other controversial items, the doc makes it very clear that they have a goal to build up a starting group with which to foster belonging and anchor the community around well beyond the point where the site has gone public, so it says in section II, STRATEGIES:
>GATED TRIBAL BOARDS>THE TRIBAL COMMUNITY BOARDS WILL REMAIN GATED TO REMILIA HOLDERS, PROVIDING A SEMI-PRIVATE VIP SPACE TO HELP ENSURE A CORE COMMUNITY DYNAMIC IS DEFINED.>4CHAN EXPERIMENTED WITH THIS WITH THE VIP PASS BUT IT WAS A REVERSAL SINCE IT WAS PROVIDED LONG AFTER THE CORE COMMUNITY HAD BEEN WASHED OUT BY CANCER AND MOSTLY PURCHASED BY THE SAME.>SINCE OUR COMMUNITY FORMED PRIOR TO THE PLATFORM, THIS SERVES AS A GENUINE OG SPACE.>AND AS WE’VE ALWAYS DEFINED OUR COMMUNITY AS ONE BEYOND THE ACTUAL NFT HOLDERS, WE’LL PROVIDE EXCEPTIONS TO THE MILADY VILLAGE DISCORD AT A CERTAIN USER LEVEL OF POSTING.i'd imagine they discussed this to death well before it became public and they are all conscious of what they're doing (future projections notwithstanding)
don't really understand how this works, a single remilia token costs less than dust and many trades go by a dozen bucks or little more, but in their
achievements page there are some cheevos that cost a real fucking lot of money
i like the bgm though been listening to it for half an hour
as for the numbers, their discord invite link previews 2.4k people online atm and 13k members which would explain the 15k posts boasted about on
>>129484, particularly since it's a live board, so that by itself i find believable
HOWEVER, its comparison to 4chan becomes dubious even if the numbers are true when you consider that an absence of captchas is guaranteed (for now), and we do not know the nature of the posts being made
in any case, they're also interested in actively harnessing the trend towards generals towards this end, another great generator:
>THE CLASSIC WESTERN IMAGEBOARD, 4CHAN, EXPERIENCED A DRASTIC CHANGE IN ITS POSTING CHARACTER ONCE IT GREW PAST A CERTAIN INFLECTION POINT WHERE BOARDS BECAME DOMINATED BY THE “GENERALS” AS A RESULT OF HIGH POSTING FREQUENCY.>THE “GENERAL” IS MORE EFFICIENTLY SERVED BY THE REALTIME FORMAT AS AN ACTIVE SYNCHRONOUS CHATROOM OF REOCCURING PSEUDONYMOUS REGULARS.>THIS WOULD THEN ALLOW THE TRADITIONAL IMAGEBOARD THREAD TO THRIVE BY PROVIDING IT AS A STATIC CONSTRUCT.you can't deny it's a modern platform, that much is true
honestly, i might jump in their server and start asking stuff out of curiousity, it could be an interesting exercise
there is certainly an attempt being made
>>130998i take it it's on purpose, looking at this option from the [milady meme maker]
No.131011
>>130998If it was sincere I could like them even though they're derivative, but it's obviously meant to invoke the sincerity and innocence of older internet cultures (obvious in the image here
>>131006) for the purpose of scamming and other chicanery. Wolf in sheep's clothing and all that. It's terrible enough to get multiple /biz/ threads:
https://boards.4chan.org/biz/thread/58754308 https://boards.4chan.org/biz/thread/58743981 https://boards.4chan.org/biz/thread/58736792At best it's misguided and at worst it's evil. We can only be curious and poke fun at it because we're confident this attempt to exploit and monetize a dying internet culture will result in failure.
No.131021
>>131006I mean this in the least /pol/ way possible but goddamn this shit looks awful, like splitdick AI looking.
What a horrible design, may it collapse.
No.131067
>>130939I like /biz/, but I refused to connect any wallet to load a website. I don't have to do that on any other imageboards so I won't make an exception even with an empty wallet. Why should I give more data to Infura and the like which most wallets rely on for queries? There are decentralized imageboards out there that don't require connecting to read, this is no doubt by choice or they are retarded.
>>131021Saying something looks awful has nothing to do with /pol/.
No.131151
>>129484>>131006I never looked super deep into lain chain but it reminds me a lot of that community but it's looks way more cultist and there's a crypto-scam to make it look new.
No.131160
>>129484idk if this is too off-topic, but i read an old article about an important person related to this project:
https://cuteness.substack.com/p/lets-all-love-miya?s=rapparently it's also related to the old chen2 board if anyone remembers that
No.131397
>>131006>THIS WOULD THEN ALLOW THE TRADITIONAL IMAGEBOARD THREAD TO THRIVE BY PROVIDING IT AS A STATIC CONSTRUCT.In practice places like guca had three "threads" and total heat death.
Those who want chatrooms want chatrooms.
No.131434
>>131408It's a certificate issue. Just click on enter site anyways. Besides, Wizchan is a kuso IB plagued by trolls.
No.131445
>>131408One of the great ironies of Wizardchan is that I don't think any wizards ever posted on it. Back when hotwheels admin'd it I think he was like 17 or something and that was probably about the average age. Of course these days an imageboard where everyone is at minimum 30 years old might just the default for the older ones...
No.131847
I'm not posting this in blogs because of reasons
>>126999samefag here. I'm "shadowbanned" from [s4s]. if I try to make a thread, it says "please wait a while before making a thread" with a 300 second cooldown. if I wait it out, it just gives me the same message with the same cooldown lmao
No.131852
>>131847What was your gimmick on [s4s] and did you piss off Swaglord or something?
No.131900
>>4165Seems recent but 4chan seems to have added captcha solvers to the banned word list. 3 day ban woops lol :P
No.131963
>>131900captcha helpers 😈
No.131990
>>131988why does she devil emoji when she's such an angel
No.131999
>>131990Yeah I guess she is sort of stealing Mem-cho's thunder huh.
No.132256
>>131852I rarely posted there. I made fun of footfags with a kuso meme pasta and some other random shitposts. I have no idea who I pissed off.
No.132381
4chan has been down for over 2 hours. sys.4chan.org returns a "MySQL connection error" message.
No.132382
>>132381And now there are "Bad gateway" errors.
No.132385
It works as of now.
No.132399
twinkie house
No.132401
>>126977Not sure as of when but Nicodouga is back; was able to login and watch whatever.
No.132452
Not exactly a happening, but Katawa Shoujo is now on Steam, which feels a bit surreal. It might be for archival purposes since it can effectively be stored on Steam servers now. Like other VNs you still need to download a separate patch to get the real experience.
No.132699
boards on 4chan are getting purged left and right. so far I saw /a/, /int/, /lit/, /co/, /aco/ and /mlp/ getting wiped clean. dunno if it is a rogue mod or server issue.
No.132700
Probably a mod is protesting or something...
No.132701
>>132699Oh, interesting. Catalogs can be restored as we used to see on back on 4/qa/ (mostly on /po/) but doing it on fast boards where dozens of new, real threads have already been made would complicate things.
I doubt it's any mod drama since things seemed so static with staff the past decade, but it
could be possible. My assumption is that if janitors could do that it would happen far more often since it would be a good "fuck you, I'm out" button so I would lead into it being a mistake somewhere or hardware issue.
No.132702
>>132701Oh, here we go:
https://boards.4chan.org/c/thread/4356890I would take that as meaning that there's no plan to bring anything back.
No.132706
>>132702Looks like /vip/ is the board that suffered the most since it had the oldest threads on 4chan aside from some select /po/ threads. I'm not sure how you'd go about checking it (if anything archives /vip/) but stuff that was 5 years old was probably there. Whoops.
No.132707
Based on the list of impacted boards it does seem like someone accidentally did a data wipe on the server with the first set of boards on it.
>>132706I don't get why people treat old threads as innately having more value. /vip/ is a worthless failure of a board, its threads are that old because nobody cares enough to post on the 4chan gold club. /a/ has threads that last for weeks and they're all fucking terrible necrobumpfests while the few interesting ones die in a few hours anyway.
No.132708
Summary from the Happenings Thread at /r9k/:
>Comprehensive Raped Board list:
>/a/, /c/, /cm/
>(No "Video Game" boards Affected)
>/co/, /an/
>/ck/, /lit/, /3/, /diy/
>/biz/, /fit/, /mlp/, /vip/
>/b/, /bant/
>/h/, /d/, /aco/
>/trash/
>(20 out of 73 boards: 27% of 4chan)
>People report the website being non-responsive in places at around 10:30pm EST
>Most of the earliest thread creations are from around 11:00pm EST, so the "purge" probably happened then
>Every other board appears untouched
>Most affected boards feature a thread with an apology from a mod, but no other posts have been made from any mods
>/an/, /biz/, /fit/, /mlp/, /vip/, /b/, /pol/, /bant/, /h/, /d/, /aco/ and /trash/ currently have no such post despite being affected
No.132709
>>132702More apology posts:
https;//boards.4chan.org/a/thread/270308316
https;//boards.4chan.org/c/thread/4356890
https;//boards.4chan.org/cm/thread/3912881
https;//boards.4chan.org/co/thread/145128460
https;//boards.4chan.org/diy/thread/2841949
https;//boards.4chan.org/ck/thread/20782545
https;//boards.4chan.org/3/thread/992846
https;//boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/23736438
Mods giving a non-explanation:
https;//boards.4chan.org/co/thread/145128460#p145129740
https;//boards.4chan.org/co/thread/145128460#p145129786
No.132710
Actually happening happened.
No.132711
Can you post screenshots of one of the threads OP...
No.132712
Seems like every board on 4chan is giving me a 403 error.
No.132718
>>132717Someone in a happenings thread there said they're getting 429 Too Many Requests errors when opening images. Does that happen for you when you try to open an image in a new tab?
No.132723
>>132717I could give detailed reply for why this is but I'm afraid I'd be called a schizo.
Short version: 4chan is hosted by the US Government now and there is a local server hosted by your ISP that is failing. They distributed everything into CDNs when moot sold out. It's true. 4chan is the only website on the internet that you can continue using after your ISP "disconnects" you for failure to pay.
I've spent a lot of time probing how it works since the 8chan death since I was away from it for many years especially after what was called the first exodus (although I'd been on alt-chans mostly for a long time by then). When moot went to work for Google the new "owner" made a lot of major changes.
For example; They will often time exclude certain posts/threads from archives. They'll even modify the contents of the archives after the fact now.
No.132726
>>132723Mister Anonymous, we're glad to see you're still here even after past altercations. Please continue, we enjoy your presence and appreciate your input.
No.132742
>>132718yes but only on PC. on phone, I just see is pic related
>>132723>failure to payfailure to pay what? I mainly shitpost and don’t touch politics.
No.132781
>>132723I had some ISP related problems back in May and can tell you that in my case 4chan does not connect in such circumstances.
No.133086
Is onesixtwo.club dead?
They had something I wanted to mirror.
Last seen 2024-08-26.
Edit: It looks like nuked everything and started over with JSchan anyway... rip
No.133130
>>133086Were those the Starcraft 2 guys?
No.133158
not posting in blogs because of reasons. got banned for posting a 4chan ad (posting NSWF on a SWF board). it's one of those weird "wishlist" ads. I'm not even gonna catbox the ad here because I don't want to risk anything. it's the one where the silhouette of a dick is in front of the red female.
>it's okay when the site breaks its own rules! rules for thee and not for me!
it's funny because it's true
No.133160
>>133158Yeah, nsfw ads on the sfw boards is dumb, but it's a result of there being seemingly no one else willing to advertise on 4chan. (except crypto/AI scams). To you you're simply duplicating the nsfw by reposting the ad, but for the 99% of people running adblockers they're seeing the nsfw for the first time with your post.
You should get an adblocker of your own, dude.
No.133176
>>133160I do, just not on mobile
No.133297
>>133158/a/ ran an ad for months that was a picture of what looked like a 12 year old girl dressed in bondage gear. It was begging you to click the link to something because she wanted a "mentor".
No.133306
I just heard a report I did not believe until I saw multiple videos on cctv confirming it true. There was a thread on the news and politics board on the 4.
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/481970379/ Thousand of electronic pocket devices were rigged with combustible plastics and used to kill people. All of these just went off at once. All of our cellphones are using parts from this country and are vacuum seal shut. If you open it, it ruins the cellphone. How do I know my phone or gpu isn't rigged to kill me on command?
No.133309
>>133306As long as you're not a hostile target of the CIA/Mossad, you're probably fine from having your commercial products rigged to blow you up.
Also despite how scary it sounds, you gotta admit it's pretty rad we have movie spy tech now being deployed in action.
No.133310
>>133306This isn't a 4chan happening just because someone posted a thread about it on /pol/. Use your brain.
No.133313
>>133312
I have absoluitely no idea what it is so can't be that influential.
No.133315
he means the frog roleplay spinoff lmao
No.133341
Not so much a "happening" just a pattern I've noticed. Putting it here for future generations.
On 4chan there is an epidemic of mods and jannys posting bait threads and abusing their powers to win arguments, force "culture shifts" and be obnoxious. I first noticed this on /g/ several years ago but I ran across it on /a/ today. Probably just as bad on other boards but frankly I don't use many others anymore (at least not daily).
How it works:
A mod will post a thread about something that's recently been popular or a subject that garnered a lot of replies in the past. On /g/ this will usually be something like Rust vs. C threads, systemd becoming default in another distro (like Gentoo for example) or any /tech/ news that's caused a recent uproar. On /a/ it's usually seasonal shows that have gotten popular for whatever reason. They were doing it with Solo Leveling last season and they're doing it with the deer girl show this season. Pretty much any show that has obtained popularity among regular people. They'll also do it with cult classic shows and what-not as well. Basically, they post threads they know will have a lot of eyeballs on them.
They will post a thread claiming to hate/like whatever the subject of the thread is filled with insults towards the other side. But they'll never use no-no word insults (e.g. nigger, kike, faggot and related staple insults). They will post "fag" but only in the tacked on to another word way (e.g. newfag, oldfag, UNIXfag).
Anyway, once the bait is planted they will necrobump the thread over and over again. They will lurk it constantly and bump it once it's on page 9. From time to time they'll abuse their powers to pretend to be multiple people. You'll know that's happening when you see a flurry of posts within 60 seconds or so that all just happen to agree with OP. Typically, for every organic reply telling them to fuck off there will be 2-4 replies from "other anons" that happen to agree with the OP. Obviously, sometimes other mods are helping them out and it's really a few different people. But it always comes in waves and it's always organized. Like the world's weakest raid.
It's easy to prove it's a mod because they always fall for the same bait; If you post something that's even borderline rule breaking they will abuse their power to warn/ban you and delete your entire post history. This is pretty easy to do because they don't have tick skin. All you have to do is make a nigger/jew joke or "complain about 4chan". They are too stupid to wait a few minutes to make it look like the post was reported and a mod just happen to see it. 9 times out of 10 they'll wack you with the ban hammer within 30 seconds because they're constantly F5'ing the thread seeking those free (you)s.
In extreme cases if you're really beating them with sound arguments and being overly polite they'll make something up and purge all your posts from the thread. I've even seen them delete entire threads then re-post it within a minute or so. Copy/pasting the same OP and then copy/pasting all their sockpuppet replies to make it look like the original. They'll repeat this process for weeks on end until they've changed the "board culture" and "forced a meme" or whatever you want to call it. At which point they'll move on to the next thing that they can bait (you)s with.
I am not posting this because I'm mad or anything like that. Only an idiot would be unable to by-pass a ban on 4chan. I just want to let it be known that I've seen this pattern over multiple threads on multiple boards through multiple years now. I know I've personally driven at least 2 mods of /g/ to quitting because I ruined their fun. Since being overly polite and posting counter arguments early in such a thread allows other real users to both see them and in time screenshot them/re-post them. Which drives these people insane like nothing else. They get really really angry if an organic post counter to the one they posted becomes popular. A few of these forced threads regularly gets an old post of mine within the first few replies every time. At least when I bother to check I see them reposted often. Which typically will kill the thread. Since the mods won't necrobump them once such information is visible to regular users. They prefer to let the thread die and to try again.
There is absolutely no way this isn't being done on purpose. The only question is; for what purpose? Since it's happening over multiple boards for years I assume it's part of their "job". I do not think they'd be doing the same thing over multiple boards simply for fun. Especially when you consider the burn out rate among moderation is fairly high and we're talking about multiple mods over multiple boards for multiple years doing the same exact thing. I feel like this comes from the very top of the chain of command.
By using this method the moderation can control discourse of entire subjects. No one wants to post in the bait thread that outright says it hates <thing x> in the OP. But most people will not post another thread with a similar subject. Furthermore, if you do post another thread it can be quickly buried and if need be deleted because it's a "duplicate".
By using this method they've destroyed all real conversation on /g/ and several other topical boards. I've also seen them discourage discussion about several IPs on /a/ the same way. Just something to consider.
The only reason I continue to visit 4chan is so I can study stuff like this. Since it's a great way to learn and understand how propaganda is manufactured, spread and controlled in real time.
Thanks for reading my blog.
No.133342
>>133341As far as the methods they use. It follows the Gentleman's guide to forum spies to the letter.
https://steemit.com/security/@tinfoilfedora/the-gentlemans-guide-to-forum-spies-spooks-feds-etcIt's organized. It's happening every minute or every day and it's very annoying. There have been times where it seems like the bots being used and the mods (paid posters) lurking 24/7 all get disconnected at the same time. My guess is wherever they're working out of lost its internet connection or DNS services. Since it has been confirmed for many years now that they do operate pods filled with paid posters/moderators to control discourse on larger platforms. Whatever the reason I've seen when they all suddenly stop posting. It's very obvious to every real user that is still lurking around. PPH falls dramatically at those times and you can actually have a friendly conversation with other people. I'd say for every 100 "users" in a thread on 4chan only about 3 are actually real organic users posting of their own accord. Other people notice to. Since when this is happening it usually becomes the subject of conversation and people are checking in to see if they're the only one left.
At these times the web feels like it did in the "good old days". Posts are typically high quality, multi-paragraph or at least multiple sentences and on-topic. The one-liner insult posts stop. The parroting of dumb buzzwords like "schizo" stop. The tone being used by the posters goes from angry to friendly. Posters are no longer hot and cold. They seem like they're actually invested in what they're posting and seeking honest discourse. Instead of attempting to ram an opinion or idea down your throat they're actually posting questions and more importantly READING the stuff being posted by others. Your stupid insults like "TLDR" and "takes your meds" are nowhere to be found.
Then like clock work once access is restored to the pod they come back stronger than every. The wave comes and crashes into your comfy thread hard. 20+ low effort bullshit posts are almost instantly posted and the signal to noise ratio goes back to its usual annoying level.
There used to be good research about these pods being uploaded to youtube by a guy that was arrested for hate speech and later released because he hadn't violated any laws. He served multiple years in prison for a crime he didn't commit (not that speech should be a crime but you know what I mean). After he was released he started digging into this stuff hard and discovered that this rabbit hole was deeper than anyone imagined. Long story short: Intelligence community as per usual. Pods everywhere all along the backbones of the internet. Operating in multiple countries. America, Israel and the UK being the prime players on one side. Russia, China and usual suspects on the other. An information war for your mind that has ruined just about every place that used to be fun to use on the internet. If a website has more than about 20 active users it is watched closely and probably has multiple paid people with access to the mod tools. No large organic gatherings of people on the internet is allowed to exist in 2024. Every last one that we used to have was subverted and ruined from the inside.
4chan is one of the best places to see this happening on the web due to the fact that it at one point was the nexus of "internet culture". It's the only large website where anyone can post without a username. It's one of the few places where they can test and spam the fuck out of information they're trying to force on to the general population. It also serves as a good training ground for agents before they're turned loose on traditional social media where a username/real name and picture is required. Someone being trained on 4chan doesn't have to maintain any semblance of consistency. If they fuck up and say the wrong thing they can just pretend they were someone else. Something they can't do on a website like TikTok, reddit, facebook and the others. They also don't have to go through the trouble of making up a background for each account. But I digress.
If you're ever bored lurk 4chan with all this in mind. You should be able to quickly spot a thread that was both posted by a mod, is flooded with bot posts and see the few organic users being banned in real-time. I also highly encourage you to feed them bullshit information because it screws up their monitoring software. Post keywords. Make up bullshit. Tell fake stories about your life. That sort of thing. It throws off their predictive models and their own personal profile about (you). Don't fall for the
>you're not important enough for them to care aboutlie. They monitor and care about everyone. It's the entire purpose of the software they've deployed all over the internet.
I'm very off-topic now I guess. I just wanted to get this down somewhere. I would talk at length about it some more but I don't want to bring the wrong kind of attention to this place. That guy I was talking about before that served prison time then tried to research and spread the word about this. They shut him down. He was banned everywhere. Then when he refused to stop putting out content he suddenly went quiet one day. A few days later he was dead. An "accident" they said. Just one of many I've seen get murdered over the last 20 years for flying too close to the sun.
Please enjoy the rest of your day.
No.133437
>>133341I have no way to confirm that, but 4chan /g/ really is bad enough that I can believe it.
I'd say that
>>133342 gets a bit into paranoia territory, although mostly due to the scale.
There are tons of places with a decent user count that aren't subsumed by targeted garbage designed to cripple communication...
...but no one really wants to promote them because they don't want that shit happening to them.
One major fact too is that the quality of user on the internet has gone down, likely due to the same opinion enforcing operations taking place all around the large scale portions of the web.
You can't grow up on a diet of garbage and expect to come out healthy, and more and more people are growing up on an internet that is entirely dominated by complete garbage and posting in the way they've learned from it.
You don't need a targeted, paid operation at that point when you've created users that already act like that.
No.133439
I'm a subscriber of Occam's razor on this. The simplest explanation is the average internet user is tremendously low quality these days for various reasons including smartphones and the lack of a shared culture like the 90s internet. So you take that group of undesirables and you filter the types that get banned from social media and find themselves seeking out the most popular and infamous place that won't (or can't) ban them: 4chan. Year after year the only attention 4chan gets is the bad kind; everything and everywhere tells people that it's the place to go to make bad posts and get angry at things. No one is saying it's a place to have enjoyable discussion with like-minded people.
It's also been known that due to contrarianism and the desire to argue running rampant, the best if not only way to get a thread going is to say bad things about the subject you want to talk about. "[Your favorite anime] sucks!" is guaranteed to get more replies than "Your favorite anime] is good!". No conspiracy is needed there, people just recognize patterns. People on /v/ used to reply to such things with "Why didn't you just say you wanted a ___ thread, OP?" because they recognized the game.
As for /g/ in particular, well, it's /g/. Anyone that wants to spout malicious lies, smear software/creators, invent conspiracies and engage in meritless flamewars knows that it's the place to be. It's also the place where stuff gets leaked and dumped, but that's mostly incidental. /g/ is similar to /a/ in that hierarchy is established by the amount of things that you hate. The ideal /g/ user can tell you why the software he's never heard of is terrible and why you're bad for liking it. (but he would use far more buzzwords and probably a wojak, as that's the culture)
As a personal example of why a conspiracy isn't needed for /g/ being terrible: The chatbot threads on /g/ are filled with antisocial teenagers as it's where the chatbot websites said to go for leaks and reverse proxies for chatgpt/claude. They can post all the terrible and boring stuff they'd get banned from discord for because it's unmoderated. I'm not exaggerating when I say the average age in those threads is about 16, and when you think of a kid that gets banned from discord you would have your demographic. Good people who simply want to talk about their chatbot hobby anonymously are forced to share threads with people that do everything in their power to stop them from posting. People had an advanced filter list for the threads, but there's only so much that can be done as a user. I heard some people attempted to make a splinter imageboard specifically for chatbots, but I had lost interest in them by the time it happened.
4chan could have been at the forefront of AI talk online due to leaks and people like automatic1111 (creator of the popular Stable Diffusion UI) being there, but instead it embraced its nature as a cesspit that hates everything because it's the cool thing to do. No government agency is needed, just the momentum of a terrible culture. Over time the people that want to have enjoyable discussion like it was the 2000's gets pushed away, because the former group is actively detrimental to them. Despite anonymity, people wear the same armor of insincerity as most other places on the internet, and that's just not conductive to good discussion. The /g/ name is so far into the mud that I recommend other imageboards avoid using it for their own tech boards. (Yes, I understand it's Japanese in origin)
I find it unlikely you drove any mod to quit because the thing that isolates and protects mods on 4chan and allows them to remain there for decades is the lack of concern. The thing that sticks out in every IRC log posted is the incredulity of the mod that the user actually cares about something enough to enter IRC. "Why do you care so much? You're crazy."
Janitors do care and that's why they burn out in a manner of weeks or months and get replaced with the next wave of disposable fodder. The Arthur janitor dog comics are reliant on the janitor caring, and that's why you'll see mods themselves share the images and engage in the meme. The subject of mockery is the janitor, not the mods. "Why do the janitors care so much? It's 4chan, things are supposed to be bad". Users volunteer to become a janitor, only to be mocked and crushed by the users and of course their superiors on staff. The poor fools. It's possible you hastened the departure of a janitor that made the foolish decision to volunteer for 4chan, but no mod will ever be harmed by such methods. I feel bad for janitors, they actually wanted to make 4chan better, unaware of so many forces working against them.
No.133448
>>133437>>133439How much proof do you want? This is not a hidden thing. The Government(s) openly admit to do it. This is why I hate explaining this stuff to people. I'm basically going:
>Look this guy was murdered. He was speaking out against major Government official/well known high ranking mafia guy/Congressman and said he was going to dump a bunch of documents to prove they were pedophile/doing some other kind of evil. Therefor he was most likely murdered by them or someone hired by them.And you're going
>You're paranoid. The mainstream media would have reported on this if it were true. You must solve this murder case completely before I'll believe you. Even then I'm just going to assume you're paranoid, crazy and talking out of your ass and ignore it anyway. Oooooo look pretty anime girls and shiny new video game. I'll just forget about it two days later anyway.Which is the main problem.
>>133437Do these large places talk about anything that matters? Or are they just a bunch of people re-posting images of sexy anime girls and talking about video games? Perhaps they don't need to be anything but monitored since nothing of value is discussed on them anyway. Perhaps there are multiple bots and shill posts but you don't notice because you don't care anyway. Since more drip fed digital cocaine and all that good stuff.
Which is fine. Entertainment and relaxation is okay. But don't pretend like every keystroke you're typing and every eye movement you're making in front of your webcam isn't being tracked. Along with every noise in your house that can be picked up by the open mics you having around. Which are in most of your devices. But hey. Who cares? You're not important enough to monitor, right? They'd never do something like that.
Oh wait. That's exactly what they're doing. It says it right in the TOS you clicked past when you set the device up and installed the software. They tell you they're screwing you over to your face and you ignore it because oooooo shiny.
The pods are not a secret. They openly talk about it all of the time. Israel openly brags about it and is contracted to handle most of the US Government's cyber security and monitoring. Big data is big business and has been for a long time now. Are you just too young to remember the days before they were promoting the fuck out of "the cloud"? Do you not remember when you could actually talk about such things on places like /g/ and have a responsible discussion with other concerned citizens without a bunch of bots posting "schizo!" and "take your meds" one-liners and then being shut down by the mods? The board used to be a place that was more than promotion of Apple products and defending crap software like systemd and Rust you know.
No.133449
>>133448(cont.)
You want a deep dive? Consider the following; The most heavily promoted and popular cell phone hardware in the world has an image of an Apple with one bite taken out of it. Where have we seen that before? Oh yes, that famous story from the Bible. The most popular second language learning software is called Babbel. Where have we heard that before? The same book in a famous story about God's wrath spreading the people all over the planet and giving them different languages after they pissed him off by building what amounted to a tower for Satan.
Now I'm not a Bible thumper. But don't you find it very odd that people supposedly non-religious keep naming their products after stories in that book? Don't you think it odd that people that claim to be Christians and followers of that God seem to have no problem using such products? In fact, they don't even notice the connection. The people running these companies are rubbing your nose in it and give no fucks I assure you. Do you really think they wouldn't monitor your webcam for the lulz or better yet for profit? Do you really think they wouldn't widely deploy bots on the internet to push agendas and censor everything?
Sure. The average user on the internet after cell phones came out was probably dumber than those that came before. But we had plenty of dumb fucks on the internet long before them. Eternal September happened in 1992 and it was already bad before then. AOL ruined many a nice place when it sent free CDs to every idiot with a telephone. We've had stupid people on the internet for a long time. They are not the reason why things suddenly got much much worse around the mid-2010s.
The old saying is very true: You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink. The fact is most people don't give a shit. They like being fucked. They like being a slave.
You want a breadcrumb to follow?
"Department of Defense Interactive internet activities"
There. If you care that's all you need. They don't hide what they're doing. Be sure to take note of the date when the program was first started. That's the unit running the monitoring pods.
Fun fact: The reason famous "youtubers" and "e-celebs" like Joe Rogan and Alex Jones moved to certain location in Texas is because it is near a major internet backbone link. Both of their studios are not only set-up exactly like a DoD pod. They are linked directly to a pod near-by. Anyone that interacts with either of those "communities" or "platforms" or whatever the hell you want to call them is watched, monitored and studied. Not that they aren't studying everyone. It's just they know a certain type of person interacts with content produced by controlled puppet Alex Jones. So they like to keep a close eye on such people to better train their tools so they can shut down any real information they might stumble upon and try to promote.
Consider the following:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_MurdockMurdered right around the time the vote on systemd was happening. Said outright that people were trying to murder him in the days leading up to his death. Death ruled a suicide. Bring it up on /g/ or any major tech website and see how many "organic" people show up to call you crazy then watch your thread get shut down and your IP/account banned for being "off topic" or whatever other rule they can use against you. Impossible to discuss this man's shady death anywhere. Even at 3am a bunch of people will show up to yell at you on an otherwise dead website at that time. Why? Because nearly everything on https goes through cloudflare these days. Where the data can be seen in reacted to in real time. But hey. Guess I'm just paranoid.
Find your own truth I guess. I'm just the messenger. Usually no one listens.
No.133451
>>133341>>133342>>133439i will eventually get around to reading these but adhd brain is refusing to cooperate today
>>133448>>133449 No.133470
>>133449A lot of people like to shit talk Cloudflare but they never ever once mention an alternative...
No.133472
>>133448>Do you not remember when you could actually talk about such things on places like /g/ and have a responsible discussion with other concerned citizens without a bunch of bots posting "schizo!" and "take your meds" one-liners and then being shut down by the mods?There are a lot of things you used to be able to talk about but are no longer possible. Like I said in my post (
>>133439 ) people are just too angsty and insecure these days. You can't talk about some government program without a bunch of angsty shitposts, sure, but you also can't talk about Superman or basketball or Pikachu. I'm sure there's bots, but it's something individuals can also operate as proven by that one guy that did the "shitpost bot" a few years ago. I think the main issue is that no one sees it as worthwhile. 4chan could easily be flooded by local LLMs if not free trials of chatgpt. The captcha solvers have been out there and if not then it's pennies to hire some Indians to manually flood. I assume the reason any random antisocial guy doesn't do it is the same reason I don't think a government does it: it's not worth the effort. Remember someone dumping some government secrets and the only reply was "fake and gay?" Most people with the means to flood do it with avatars and/or catchphrases due to some emotional trauma.
The problem with these theories of secret agencies that control various parts of the world is that they're all vulnerable to only one single point of failure to come crashing down. People are stupid, petty creatures and many things have been exposed over such stupid reasons as a jilted lover or someone forgetting a thumbdrive. Governments struggle to get their top workers to not record tiktoks in confidential areas. Soldiers have been tracked and bombed for giving social media updates from their bunker. There's also conscientious objections and stuff like that. Finally, every country and business is also spying on every other group, including their allies and partners. And they're full of workers eager to sell out for a quick payout. The level of secrecy and control to maintain any sort of grand plan like this is simply inhuman.
>But don't you find it very odd that people supposedly non-religious keep naming their products after stories in that book?Not really? The odds are your own first or middle name is biblical in origin. It's everywhere. Naming objects or things after religion/mythology is something people have done for thousands of years. Scientific names for animals, buildings, the planets, restaurants, cars and of course companies. Creating new names and concepts is hard!
Usually when there's a company that's evil it hides its name behind generic nonsense like South Bookings Mountain Group Incorporated and then 20 shell companies behind that one with equally generic names. People doing bad things want to hide it because it's bad for business or whatever plan they have if they don't. They're not going to call themselves the Black Shinigami Human Enslavement Clan, at least not on paper. There are exceptions, though.
As for the youtubers/twitterers you mentioned, I don't really care too much about the people that make a living traveling around and speaking freely about how they've been silenced and oppressed. It's great money, though.
But this all goes back to our disagreement on why 4chan is awful. I think it's a natural, albeit mostly preventable cultural decay from multiple factors. It's something we'll have to agree to disagree on.
No.133516
>>133470Didn't the flightless bird farm have some issues immediately after CF dropped them, and they designed their own in house DDoS protection of sorts?
I doubt it's as good obviously, but it does stand out enough to prove it can be done.
No.133520
99.9% of websites using Cloudflare doesn't even need it. It's just cheap and convenient because it's a government project subsidised to collect data on every website even those not hosted in the US going from non-american to non-american ISPs. They're legally required to give NSA (Prism) access by the way and no doubt they do.
https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo/¥ddos everything¥collect money and data through a protection racket.¥???¥government profit No.133521
>>133472It's well known enough that Russia and China's efforts to influence online discourse have been reported by western mainstream media. There is no doubt that west-aligned governments are counteracting with the same thing.
>>133470"Pirate" sites have already switched to ddos-guard which is Russian, but the whole service is already blocked be several ISPs.
No.133523
4chan is currently down, since like 30 minutes ago. Apparently for upgrades (?).
Error message changed from performing site maintenance to something went wrong.
I'm unsure if posts are going through but not showing up since threads are getting bumped.
No.133525
HABEEB IT
No.133528
lolcow.farm is back up after being down for a couple of weeks.
It is mostly used by females, so they used crystal.cafe as a bunker during that time.
CC got a ton of activity, but now it's over.
No.133529
tehe what if both sites went down and they had to start... start using.. tehe... k*ssu
No.133531
¥No giяls allowɘd
No.133537
>>133529CC posters can fuck off, lolcow girls are okay though
No.133573
>>133537/qa/cc poster sounds better than kissu-cow
No.133582
major off topicness.
Anyone is allowed as long as they don't do something that annoys me
No.133585
¥lolcow farmers
Mentally ill /pol/tard self-hating autistic bullies with zero hobbies other than making fun of people with just slightly less self awareness than themselves.
¥cc
Man-hating weebs into otaku culture and fashion and that kind of girl stuff.
Yeah I'll take the cc girls. Not that they want anything to do with us, but at least they are actually humans.
No.133596
>>133585For every 1 post on cc by a sane person trying to enjoy hobbies there are 9 arguing about which radfem ideology is best for spiting men. The few humans among them are just using it as a breather from 4chan or other alts where they can't be openly female.
No.133602
thankfully we can take neither
No.133767
Discussion move from
>>133754 incoming
No.133768
>>133755At the time I was involved with this the site that's from had way more going on than that one horrible board. I almost purged all mentions of that from the archive. But I was worried it would break the code. The guy that created this and runs that website is actually a really good dude. But he kind of gave up when the site wide wars started. If the place didn't cost him only $10 a month or whatever to keep hosting he would have shut it down years ago. He's still pretty mad about how things turned out. Since for a couple of months there it was looking like we might save the spirit of 8ch. He gave up after being threatened with legal action multiple times and the targeted harassment. He was doxed but it never got released to the public. He's still pretty angry about how things turned out.
Despite that one board taking the blame for how the webring turned out a lot of blame falls directly on the shoulders of the BO of the old loli board. I can't remember exact details now but I know him and another global vol got into a some kind of fight while all the admins were asleep. Loli BO went mad with power within hours of getting power. Other global vol when mad with power to. They used it against each other and chased everyone away. Still think they both did it on purpose.
Place crashed and burned that day and everyone involved left. Including me (I hosted one of the larger boards that migrated from 8ch). After that I was done with the webring and considering I lost all contact with the anons that were using the board I was managing I gave up myself.
Same guy that created this was the one that created the webring plug-in. It's probably still hosted on gitgud or github somewhere but I just had him send me the repo directly. He's pretty hard to get in touch with these days. I wouldn't be surprised if he decides to stop paying for hosting soon. He hasn't directly interacted with the 6 or so people that still use the place in years. I'm surprised it's still online.
No.133769
>>133768I'm not going to derail this thread with bullshit, but I guess since you're saying this you should know that this site was directly caught up in everything you're saying and I lost a lot of appetite dealing with the stress it caused.
No.133770
>>133768To give you an idea of how bad things got at the time; The guy that wrote this software is a pretty accomplished professional programmer. He made that website on a whim when it was announced 8ch was closing to host a couple of boards. The one it's most well known for had really gone downhill in the years leading up to the closing of 8ch and he'd been using it for nearly a decade by that point (it migrated over multiple websites in the past before moving to 8ch). He wanted to archive all the old threads and didn't have much to do with the one general thread that had taken it over by that point.
Anyway, once people started using the webring and a lot of boards migrated to his instance within it within a month or so there were constant threats of legal action. Whoever was attacking the place had learned both his and the vols sleeping habits. There was a 2-3 hour window everyday where they could spam CP unopposed. Despite everyone's best efforts it became a night occurrence. Same people that were doing it were sending emails to the host and law enforcement. Along with anyone else in the chain of providers that had anything to do with keeping the place online and protected from DDOS.
Same people were also applying for vol positions. They'd act sane and caring. New vols were needed to stop the constant influx of the CP bot spam. But they would always stab him in the back the moment they were trusted and do things like mass deletions of boards/threads and if possible other vol accounts. He was waking up everyday to some kind of legal threat, mass panic from the users, vols acting retarded and threat of losing hosting/anti-ddos services.
When they eventually managed to dox him and discovered his employer he was given ultimatum. Close all the boards but that one and a handful of others or lose your job. He couldn't afford to lose his job because he was bread winner of his family and was support his parents to IIRC. He chose keeping his career over dealing with the constant headache. At least he attempted to give fair warning and allowed people time to migrate. I figured his dox would get dumped anyway but surprisingly whoever was attacking the place kept their word. I know he was very worried about it at that time.
I should have probably documented a lot of this stuff but at the time I was fed up with it myself. I helped him out with things as best I could for about 8 months or so. I never got doxed but they were hunting for my information for sure. Along with anyone else that had global vol access for any amount of time. I was really worried about that because the amount of pizza coming in was staggering. So I knew despite my best efforts there was probably a thumbnail cached on one my of PCs somewhere. At one point I was purging encrypted HDDs and writing random data over them near weekly because I was so paranoid about it.
All that to say. Please don't let the source discourage you from using that code. It's good code and it was written by someone that knows what they're doing. Solid dude. It's a real shame what ended up happening to him and a few other former website owners within that webring. It was a good idea and most of the people involved were good people. But none of them were willing to risk prison time over internet drama. I will always contend that this attack on them was being done by a state level actor. The amount of resources they had at their disposable along with the amount of people that must have been involved points in that direction. It was not the work of a couple of script kiddies. It was too sophisticated and they had access to information that some kid wouldn't. They were also far too dedicated to their task.
This is getting off topic now sorry. Just wanted to say my peace because I know the reputation the place gained through slander and shitposting. There was a lot happening being the scenes that was never talked about openly because the people involved didn't want their lives ruined. A couple of them ended up having that happen anyway. At least in the respect that their real names were posted for all to see. They didn't want to bow to demands and ended up having to shut down their boards anyway.
Once the world shut down in early 2020 I understand why they were so gung-ho with ensuring no 8ch clone gained a lot of users. If the webring would have taken off they wouldn't have been able to so effectively control the flow of information on the internet after late 2019. When 8ch died we lost our last real place with a lot of users and reach. They shut down the flow of real information when they took it down and nothing ever appeared to replace it. Since then we've been stuck with the likes of twitter because the "nexus" of the internet and the information flowing over it. Which as we all known is heavily controlled. I doubt we'll ever see an open web ever again.
We tried to fight. A bunch of us paid a high price for it. At least this guy managed to keep his job and feed his family. I know of a few people that lost everything.
No.133771
>>133770we hosted a guy and his circle whom one of the admins was accused of spamming CP so one of the dudes who hung out on that channel looked up my (very highly hidden) linkdn profile which connected to my github and then tried to associate me with someone in his circle with the same name.
So I was involved in this BS. But luckily I am not an incompetent imageboard dev and actually had one half the moderation tools we have now. Plus having no job meant that they had nothing to use against me.
If you want to discuss it in more detail you can dig up some archives in the happenings thread and try and find the date it ocured. We basically documented most of the timeline from an outsider pov
https://kissu.moe/archivehttps://web.archive.org/web/20200511054054/https://kissu.moe/qa/res/4165https://web.archive.org/web/20200426003228/https://kissu.moe/qa/res/4165 No.133793
It would be good if we had save files of the happenings archive incase for whatever reason internet archive gets destroyed unexpectedly.
I'll wind up doing it myself if no one else does, but if I didn't have to and someone sent me an archive file that would be nice.
No.133794
hate that 8chan was killed and hate even more that its ashes were pissed on
No.133797
>>133793I'm not sure how to do it, personally. I just know Control + S, but it has its issues like needing to expand all images if you want to actually save non-thumbnails. But then I think you don't have the thumbnails so you really can't have natural thread usage.
No.133807
I did a natal horoscope for 4chan by plugging in the date listed in news and the birth city as NYC. My spiritual teacher told me that these charts can be applied to not just people or animals but to ideas, buildings, or institutions and their egregore as well. I find it to be shockingly accurate other than the parts that are hard to interpret, like regards to "family"
Here's what it tells me:
>Gemini Ascendant - Personality, Characteristics & Meanings
Gemini Ascendant is associated with curiosity and interest in how things work. Versatility and adaptability are your advantages, but these traits can lead to fragmentation of interests. These people can do everything, but they do not excel in anything. They do not like to choose only one thing if they have more options. Their mission is to disseminate information. If the horoscope has a water or earth character, then this person needs to develop analytical and objective thinking. If it is of airy and fiery nature, then the mind is very restless, you understand everything very quickly, but only by the head, body and emotions remain untouched.
>Sagittarius Descendant - Partners & Compatibility
The best partner for people with Sagittarius Descendant may be one that has a clear viewpoint and helps you maintain direction in order not to get lost in your maze of thoughts. A partner can show Gemini Ascendant purpose of a journey, which you are unable to see.
>If you have Gemini Ascendant, you may feel that your partner lectures you, that he knows everything the best and that he thinks he is better than you. Your mission is not to be afraid to show your real desire for knowledge, to set some goals and have warm-hearted understanding for others. Give your partner the opportunity to teach you understand things in a broader context; he helped you become emotionally balanced person, so do not be afraid to trust him more.
>10th house - Medium Coeli (MC)
Career, prestige and reputation
Medium Coeli (MC) - Symbolizes social status, career, reputation, honours, fame, success, authoritative personality, father.
>10th house in Pisces (Pisces ruler is Neptune)
People with Pisces on the tenth house cusp often follow a career in church, medicine, theatre or other areas associated with spirituality and esoterism. These people are perceptive and enthusiastic but they lack stability. When the tenth house is occupied with several star signs then they may want to go on long journeys on sea. These people have an advanced spirit, but they are also unrealistic dreamers.
>The ruler of the 10th House (Neptune) in the 9th House
These people often work in education, religion, philosophy or science and they have great teaching skills. They may go on long journeys and meet foreign officials in connection with their profession. They are often teaching at a mature age.
No.133809
>>133807I'm confused. October is not Gemini, I know that because I am a Gemini.
No.133810
>>133805The bizarre thing is that it's just Planetes, the thing moot once said he liked 15 years ago. That's... interesting I guess? The recent 4chan birthday imagery has referenced old stuff which makes it a bit more depressing than celebratory. "Remember when things were good?"
2024 - Planetes
2023 - Green Anonymous
2022 - Calvin and Hobbes
2021 - Dead/frozen bodies
2020 - Playing the original NES away from Corona-chan
2019 - Cart racing (Mario Kart/etc)
2018 - Alice in Wonderland (but there is at least a modern mention with that extremely short-lived /vip/-tan. Remember when /qa/ had those fun board-tan threads...)
2017 - The most depressingly bittersweet one with hopes that never came true
No.133811
>>133809Those are the ascendents, descendents, and some houses posted.
What you are mistaking it for is the sign associated with the Sun, which is a part of it all.
The sun sign is Libra which makes so much sense for 4chan; all about reading and judgement.
No.133813
>9 times out of 10 they'll wack you with the ban hammer within 30 seconds because they're constantly F5'ing the thread seeking those free (you)s.
There's been scripts for years, and 4chan's own built in find, so mods can constantly search the boards for their trigger words and act on them. The tech changed and enabled the behavior at a new scale. I would say most of the time they aren't really lurking the thread. Janitors abuse it too to bypass the report queue.
It's not new behavior per se but in the past if a mod was really upset and wanted a cluster of posts with no no words gone they'd have to ask someone like mvb to query the db to get the posts. Now they can just constantly do it themselves.
No.133822
4chan's mods added new anti-spam filters that prevent users from posting the words "nigger", "faggot" and "trªnny" more than 3 times per post:
https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/483400670https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/102641091 No.133823
>>133822this is oppressive and dangerous
No.133824
>>133822genuinely too little too late and will just piss off their userbase
they let this shit build up for something like 10 years, and it has become terminal
No.133825
>>133822Word filters would have been more fun, but I'm surprised by the addition of "faggot" since it's a term of endearment since ye olden days. I wonder what could have spurred on this change, if it's real, since the general consensus from both users and staff has been that spamming that stuff to derail and destroy threads is how 4chan is supposed to work. I've had the various gender words in my filters for a couple years and know I'm not missing anything.
No.133826
>>133825>Word filters would have been more funRemember when /b/ was full of CANDYASS and ROODYPOO?
Back then I didn't notice people complain about being censored, people just rolled with it and joked around with it.
No.133829
>>133822That's retarded as hell. If they'd filtered out "tr*nny" like 8 years ago they'd have an argument for preventing cancer by stopping people from hyperfocusing on that stupid shit, but how out of touch do you have to be to try to stop people from calling each other niggers and faggots? I can't believe there's a single part of 4chan where that isn't acceptable. Even the "comfy" altchans don't do this because it's so ingrained in imageboard culture that only the newest of newfags would find it offensive.
The worst part is that people will write longposts with good information only to have them vanish into the ether because they used a nickname like bandfaggots or moleniggers too many times while one-word shitposts will continue unabetted.
p.s. you're a niggerfaggot for making me censor myself.
No.133830
Gross language. Not very cute or funny.
No.133832
>>133830do u consider yourself to be a cutefaggot or a cutenegro which fits better
No.133834
>>133822Only niggercattle keep posting on 4chan.
No.133842
spermer
No.133864
>>133826Truth be told I definitely complained about not being able to say nigger on /k/ back in the day.
No.133866
so glad i can say nigger on kissu(You wish)
No.134075
The email verification is back, this time on /vg/.
https://boards.4chan.org/vg/thread/497902254/ No.134080
>>134075Not surprised they're expanding this bullshit, just that they had the balls to apply it to one of the biggest boards this early in the rollout. I guess they still need the spam excuse to seem legitimate until they can fully normalize it.
I really hope the refugees go to /vmg/ instead of /v/...
No.134081
>>134075What's the point of this? Why are they trying to collect emails?
No.134082
>>134081Clearly they hate their own website and want to kill it.
No.134083
>>134082Well that much is clear, but where will people go when 4ch dies?
No.134087
>>134075according to 4stats the number of posts didn't fall like /biz/'s did and from looking at a couple random threads I'm not sure most would have even noticed it without an announcement
seems like the 15m requirement is much better suited to this board
No.134094
>>134081Why would they want junk emails man. Who is buying that "data". Where is it being sold? Have you considered maybe it's truly to help deal with spam? You guys have become too jaded.
No.134095
>>134094you (singular) need to stop using that you (plural)
No.134097
>>134094Wouldn't people with the capacity to spam 4chan also have good setup and knowhow of having junk emails for signups in bulk?
No.134099
>>134087You haven't even given it one day. The newest day has yet to even arrive on 4stats.
It took a day before it was noticeable on /biz/ 4stats.
After a few more days, it had dropped far more than the first day.
A big difference is that intially, /biz/ did not have any 15 minute waiting requirement. They went straight for email only and nothing else. It is also possible that this will have less of an effect on /vg/ since video game users are used to taking massive cocks up their arse in terms of DRM and MTX.
I barely even post on /biz/ anymore because my IP keeps changing and I have to wait another 15 minutes. By the time I check the timer again it has timed out because I didn't post exactly when the timer had hit zero and I have to wait another 15 minutes leading to me just not posting at all. /biz/ does feel a lot less spammy now though, I'll give it that.
No.134100
>>134099I forgot to mention, but also initially not everyone got the email requirement. I think they rolled it out in batches depending on the country. Some of us were smug because we didn't have to do it, but it came to us eventually too.
No.134106
>>134097The system probably isn't there for the extreme evaders, just the short attention span anons with airplane mode. I imagine that crowd greatly outnumbers the well known spammers.
No.134108
>>134099You're right, we'll have to wait and see what long term impacts are, but from what I can tell anyway it doesn't impact the normal /vg/ user. Sure as shit doesn't stop malicious trolls since they'll keep spamming anyway and a burner email isn't a big deterrence for some of them.
For others out of the loop the rules are as follows and you only have to do
one:
¥wait 15 minutes¥verify an email¥have 4chan passIf you're already posting you don't need to wait, they supposedly don't keep your email, and as usual 4chan pass bypasses all of it which is what the bots are using anyway.
Variable IP and VPN posters are likely most affected and is another roadblock for you if you're in one of those regions permanently rangebanned. Maybe it wont stop spammers today, but it could be enough friction that they'll get tired of trying faster. The ones that aren't affected are the "terminally online nolifers" already used to ban dodging. Personally if I were the faggot implementing this I wouldn't do the email thing since you know those retards have a pile of burner emails to shovel in, and it would "encourage" normal posters affected by their IP to buy a pass if they care enough. The pass has its own issues, like being subject to mod arbitration since they can revoke it and some of them sure as shit don't pay attention when they're cleaning up spam.
No.134164
>>134075Mods also removed the "no generals outside /vg/" rule on all the /v*/ off-shoots days before implementing this new filter.
No.134291
>>134290Interesting. I wonder how many fun conspiracy theories will be involved with this one. Does /pol/ still have the 15s post timer thing as punishment from moot? It's been a decade so maybe if they want to reduce spam they could normalize that.
No.134295
>>134290Well, that was the obvious next target but they still moved faster than I expected. At this rate they whole site will be all "anti-spam"'ed up (except for all the bots that mods intentionally let run wild) by the end of the year.
No.134302
I'd be shocked if /v/ isn't next.
I haven't used 4/v/ in a very long time but the pissing match between mods and proxyfags mostly has its roots in /v/. I'm sure the only thing holding them back is potential user revolt.
No.134303
>>134290They should just make it an images only board.
No.134307
>>134302For better or worse, /v/ is the only board that fights back when mods try to get rid of board culture. I figured they'd wait to open that can of worms for as long as possible, but I can see them trying to neuter it right away if it takes on /pol/. Still putting my money on /a/ being next since /vg/ proved they can get away with it easily on general boards.
No.134314
>>134303unending schiztism chart spam
No.134315
>>134295>except for all the bots that mods intentionally let run wildIt really can't do anything against bots. It's not like scripts run out of patience and decide to go play some Counterstike instead. Like captchas it's something that impacts humans more than bots.
No.134316
>>134307I always thought board culture died on large boards that allow generals like it did /a/. Boards like /v/ still force you to browse the catalog for threads of interest instead of heading into your general so the entire board more or less interacts with each other.
Am I wrong?
No.134317
>>134316You're completely correct. I've seen it happen to several boards, /a/ is just the most tragic case since it happened because the mods who kept that shit at bay for years got replaced by ones who actively encouraged it. You can still see vestiges of it from time to time, but there's no real hope of it coming back at this point.
No.134322
>>134075I barely browsed /vg/, mostly just to check for info for some games every once in a while, was there a spam problem there? I know that a lot of the generals tend to have internal drama but does it warrant an anti-spam measure like this?
>>134290Considering election season is within mere weeks I'm surprised they didn't do this even earlier. Considering the state of that board in general I'm surprised the admins didn't just nuke it from orbit with no survivors ages ago.
No.134325
>>134322/vg/ has a massive spam problem, but, like /a/, it's spam from dedicated autists and mods don't care about post quality as long as it technically conforms to the rules and is contained enough to only ruin individual threads, so these measures do absolutely fuck all for them.
Nuking /pol/ has never worked. moot took it back because he didn't want to go through the years of them running rampant on other boards it would take before they calmed down and moved on. Hiro won't ever do it because he only cares about getting hits and making money and /pol/ is overrun with newfags who will obsessively refresh those ads-ridden pages. Also, the feds don't want their surveillance apparatus going to waste.
No.134337
>>134325>/vg/Tell me about it. You get people with a major axe to grind not letting a single second between post cooldowns go to waste and spends every moment trolling the thread they haunt. In my case they're going so far as to make a scraping script to redeem gift keys a user dumps for that thread so nobody else gets them. I can't fathom what compels some of these autists to do what they do, I just want to discuss a hobby dude. Since mods are an invite only clique you doxx yourself to join, the status quo remains. I can't imagine what it would feel like if you're properly invested in a thread there, one hell of an abusive relationship.
No.134338
>>134324It sucks being right but knowing team4chan a little, since /biz/ didn't actually stay dead they'll keep rolling this out at a frog boil's pace. It means less work for them.
Ultimately the 4chan moderator is about doing the least amount of work possible but still maintaining their position for when something personally offends them. That's what the toilet paper labor of the janitor is all about. I speculate the spam must have been bad enough that they couldn't maintain enough janitors per recruitment cycle, they were quitting out too fast, leaving the actual senior mods to do some work.
This cannot stand so the team must have escalated the issue until hiro was willing to pay for developer man hours to try to fix it. At the very least, Hiro isn't one to pay for contract labor unless there's money to be made off it or serious drama threatening the free volunteer labor.
No.134370
>>134366They really are trying to kill the site aren't they.
No.134378
>>134370You could only really call it alive if you consider the mold and maggots festering in it as part of it
No.134384
>>134338>since /biz/ didn't actually stay deadActivity is still 50% of what it was before the change. It might be that /biz/ had far more bots though, but I personally stopped posting.
No.134389
/biz/ was surely affected by bots and spam due to the nature of manipulating things for direct monetary gain, but I think the post rate fall was also affected by threads/generals successfully moving over to /bant/. I'm not sure how many of them went back to /biz/ or are even still on /bant/, but that certainly had an effect on things.
In theory /v/ and /vg/ users could move to the slow /v/-related boards like /vr/ or /vst/, but there are subject limitations and the speed is probably too slow for people accustomed to /v/ or /vg/. /pol/ users could just post more poliitcal threads in /g/ or /tv/ or something I guess.
No.134402
>>134370you're being kind of dramatic there anon
No.134403
>>134402That's not dramatic; it's a true statement.
No.134407
soyjak (dot) party is down
No.134416
I hope it never comes back and you overdose on fentanyl coping with its loss.
No.134417
i hope it comes back soon and you live a long healthy and fruitful life !
No.134418
>>134382Blame the pedos constantly posting child models on /tv/. It was so bad even the mentally stunned senpais that believe in Qanon-tier bullshit made a buzz about it because pics of child models hosted on 4plebs were among the first results of the query "tv television and film". These morons thought 4plebs meant "For Pedo ceLEBS" and that it was a pizzagate-tier conspiracy.
Pedos have caused a lot of trouble to 4plebs and other archives for years. In 4plebs' case it was so bad that the admin disabled ghostposting first on /tv/ then on /pol/ and finally on every board, removed 4plebs' meta board, and disabled the search of deleted posts on /tv/.
No.134422
>>1343704stats hasn't changed much outside /pol/. this may be a W for the mods
No.134438
The absurd anti-spam captcha escalation has pushed me into installing a captcha solver, ironically enough.
No.134439
>>134438Is this a joke? How can you still post on that shit site
No.134440
It has the numbers, that's why anyone still does.
No.134442
>>134440wow. numbers. Might aswell go sign up to facebook then
No.134445
A shit site with numbers is still better than a shit site without, like this one.
No.134446
>>134445There's no reason to be a passive aggressive fag over one bad apple spouting retard rhetoric...
No.134450
>>134290They just added it to /a/.
As much as I hate it, it will be interesting to see if this affects post quality, because /a/ has been getting to the point where ~80% of bad threads are made by a handful of spammers with recognizable templates and posting styles.
No.134451
>>134448Then why do you obsess over it?
No.134456
Added a couple more archive additions to the OP for the past year or so. But, as some people may be aware the internet archive has been attacked not only through the courts but through hacking, and it's ongoing:
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/20/nx-s1-5159000/internet-archive-hack-leak-wayback-machinehttps://www.zdnet.com/article/more-of-internet-archive-is-back-online-despite-hackers-infiltrating-its-helpdesk/The happenings thread and the wider internet community needs to take steps to make backups of things only available on the wayback machine as the future is uncertain.
No.134458
>>134450>made by a handful of spammers with recognizable templates and posting styles800.57 - /vg/
210.13 - /gif/
208.87 - /vt/
190.49 - /trash/
176.85 - /tg/
86.98 - /a/
72.89 - /g/
66.45 - /sp/
59.74 - /int/
59.45 - /vp/
55.71 - /v/
42.99 - /x/
40.08 - /pol/
38.61 - /b/
37.03 - /pw/
36.58 - /co/
36.25 - /adv/
31.22 - /lgbt/
27.18 - /mu/
24.67 - /fit/
23.96 - /tv/
21.10 - /bant/
10.33 - /r9k/
I'm sure kissu gets what ratio this is.
I've only ever really looked at data over time for /g/ but at least for /g/, as the overall ppm falls in 4stats if you break it down you can see the generals are doing just fine (and even growing) and it's diminishing traffic to regular threads that disproportionately represents why overall ppm is sinking.
No.134463
>>134458>I'm sure kissu gets what ratio this is. I don't, is this the ppm or something?
No.134464
>>134458>what ratio this isAverage replies per thread? Considering /vg/'s 750 bump limit.
>data over timeInteresting, how do you keep track of this stuff? The best I've done was look manually in a thread by thread basis and it's obviously not scalable.
No.134467
>>134464Since /g/ isn't like /a/ where there was a history of general threads being suppressed almost all of the generals have subjects that you can easily query for. By convention they all self identify with "/" in the subject twice.
So you just take a time sample, take posts within that sample that appear in those general threads, and take posts from threads that aren't general threads in that same sample, and compare the ratios sample over sample.
Then you see pattern emerge that I talked about in my first post.
No.134471
>>134458I'll never forgive the generalnorms for ruining /tg/.
No.134473
>>134467It's not just /a/, there's also threads that people are able to recognize as covering a topic without making itself explicit, or which relies on images, or just didn't have a name until a certain point, kinda like /lit/'s /wwoym/ here
>>133234. It's always a boon when the thing you're looking for manages to be stable throughout time, that's for sure.
>>134471General threads are a matter of convergent evolution. You could call it a regression to the norm.