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"gatekeeping is only your ability to mentally filter every Nth ... post being full of slurs" Well, and filter out the CP, dead and butchered bodies, nazis & an
by tuple 3y ago
"gatekeeping is only your ability to mentally filter every Nth ... post being full of slurs"
Well, and filter out the CP, dead and butchered bodies, nazis & any number of other horrifying things I ran across when I've looked at the site. Granted that was years ago but it's not really the type of thing you check up on to see if things have gotten better...
Sure maybe not on /g/ but that leaves lots of people just one mistaken click away from potential nightmares. That's not a value people are missing, it's a cost they aren't willing to pay for someone else's concept of being egalitarian.
You could fill every post on every site with slurs and I would barely notice. Slurs aren't 4chan's problem though, the crowd of unrestrained sadists is.
- pwb25 3y agothat's nothing like that on biz or g, stop FUDing
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- noodles_nomore 3y agoThat's exactly right. You've been successfully filtered.
- jchw 3y agoPeople always hype up 4chan nowadays like it's LiveLeak on steroids, but generally speaking any time I browse 4chan it's felt much more mundane. The only major culture shock that most people are in for is the degree of hatefulness and shamelessness that you encounter on 4chan, especially in the memes and vernacular. It's the one place left on the internet where truly Nothing is sacred, and the userbase is happy to make that clear whenever possible. That said, it's absolutely not worth the time, unless you are bored and feel like most of the internet is too sanitized for your tastes. It's just, unquestionably a big waste of time at best. I don't think it'll ruin your brain, but it probably won't expand it either.
- jjoonathan 3y agoYeah, the legendary exploits led me to visit it a few times but the signal:noise was abysmal. Visit 1: porn, porn, porn, funny creative joke, porn porn porn Visit 2: porn, porn, porn, porn, porn, porn Visit 3: porn, porn, porn, porn, porn, porn Visit 4: porn, anti-muslim rant , porn, porn, porn, porn Visit 5: porn, porn, porn, porn, porn, porn
- wooque 3y agoYou know that tech is not discussed on /gif/, right?
- BasedAnon 3y agotbf people even post born on /biz/, they just eat the ban for it, and even when it isn't outright porn it's often very overtly sexual images. The only thing that makes it browsable is the Wingman browser plugin.
- jjoonathan 3y agoI thought I was on /b/. I tried a few, nothing inspired me. This was 15 years ago.
- wooque 3y agoWell /b/ is mostly porn, along with few other boards. Relatively "normal" boards are hosted on 4channel.org domain. That said, 4chan is mostly "shitposting" and memes, don't expect serious discussions.
- dmonitor 3y ago/b/ is practically a containment board. even the dedicated containment board, /trash/ is more browsable than /b/
- adamrezich 3y ago/b/ hasn't been "/b/" for longer than /b/ ever was "/b/" to begin with. if that makes sense.
- cmilton 3y agoWho do you trust to be the filter?
- 0x69420 3y ago>maybe not on /g/ weeeeeell, people did spam lolicon and gay furry porn in like 2011 for a couple months but the mods swooped in and it's been a well-enforced blue board since the real problem with /g/ in the current age though is the thought-terminating memes. it's no longer really the bastion of oblique insight it once was. opinions on the board have ossified to the point you're not going to find out about anything cool from them first. this is common across most blue boards these days honestly; they are no longer really tastemakers
- LV123 3y agoPerhaps /g/ is worse, but I feel that applies to most established forums on the internet. It's particularly noticeable if you've bounced around various subreddits that it's just the same 5 opinions rehashed endlessly, and anyone who disagrees has left the building. You just get a different set of 5 opinions when you jump to a new subreddit.
- prox 3y agoThis is why I feel moderation, or perhaps curation is a better word, isn’t a bad thing. A hardcore 4channer might not think so, but I feel the lowest common denominator isn’t. That is to say it just produces a noise that isn’t beneficial at all unless you want to be tickled that way for the lulz. r/askhistorians is a fantastic example where curation produces high quality insight and debate.
- Miraste 3y agoThat's an odd example. askhistorians is meant to reflect current American historians' scholarly consensus, and rigidly moderated to stay that way. While this does sometimes produce insight it's one of the least debate-oriented places on the internet.
- SamoyedFurFluff 3y agoI mean it’s not called debate historians
- dmonitor 3y agowhat the fuck kind of boards are you browsing to see that?
- sieabahlpark 3y agoProbably /b/ and 10-15 years ago where it wasn't moderated that well.
- satvikpendem 3y agoLooks like you're right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36301884 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36301884 It's interesting how people go to a certain board specifically infamous for posting that kind of stuff then are shocked to see said stuff, then generalizing the entire site off that one interaction. It's as if I equate /r/AskHistorians, a heavily-modded academic sub, to /r/(insert raunchy sub here).
- emodendroket 3y agoThe users from one are going to be around on the other. This is true everywhere. When Reddit banned various hate speech subreddits you stopped seeing those guys "just asking questions" about the inherent inferiority of certain races in unrelated subreddits anywhere near as often.
- arboles 3y agoHoly shit, in what world is /b/ not full of gore and porn today. Outsiders can't help but make confident sweeping statements about a site they don't even use. This comment tree is laden with cringe-inducing posts, you think using 4chan is so cool that you're willing to pretend that you know anything about it?
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- hn_thrwn 3y ago4chan from 2003 is not 4chan on 2023. If anything it's tamer than reddit was after the digg exodus.
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- captainpiggies 3y agoThat does not describe the average /g/ thread at all. Most boards are rather tame. Also, I think most avid 4chan users have their filters set up in a way to get rid of most garbage simply by excluding posts with certain keywords.