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Implications of participation in 4chan?

Postby Hayteria » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:41 pm

Recently I was thinking about this conversation about 4chan from a while back. For what it's worth, I suppose there was something a bit presumptuous about claiming to know what participation in a site suggests about someone. Still though, what justification is there for participation in 4chan?
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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:43 pm

Hayteria wrote:Recently I was thinking about this conversation about 4chan from a while back. For what it's worth, I suppose there was something a bit presumptuous about claiming to know what participation in a site suggests about someone. Still though, what justification is there for participation in 4chan?

Unusual porn.
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Postby Hayteria » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:45 pm

Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Hayteria wrote:Recently I was thinking about this conversation about 4chan from a while back. For what it's worth, I suppose there was something a bit presumptuous about claiming to know what participation in a site suggests about someone. Still though, what justification is there for participation in 4chan?

Unusual porn.

Then there's plenty of alternatives to 4chan; there's obviously an abundance of online sources of "unusual porn" so that still doesn't qualify as a justification for participation in 4chan.

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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:51 pm

Hayteria wrote:Then there's plenty of alternatives to 4chan; there's obviously an abundance of online sources of "unusual porn" so that still doesn't qualify as a justification for participation in 4chan.

Why not? Its easier to find the free porn that I like there. You do realize that 4chan=/= /b/ right?

go visit /d/ :lol2:
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Postby Risottia » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:52 pm

Hayteria wrote:Still though, what justification is there for participation in 4chan?

Porn.
Porn is just like the pizza of Internet, everyone wants at least a bit of it.
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Postby Lord-General Drache » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:53 pm

Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Hayteria wrote:Then there's plenty of alternatives to 4chan; there's obviously an abundance of online sources of "unusual porn" so that still doesn't qualify as a justification for participation in 4chan.

Why not? Its easier to find the free porn that I like there. You do realize that 4chan=/= /b/ right?

go visit /d/ :lol2:


I'd argue it's what it's best known for and forms its core. I've personally tried to forget the anime sections even exist.

Entertainment is usually the reason people go to 4chan and its various boards.
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Postby Otagia » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:54 pm

/tg/ is actually relatively high brow a decent portion of the time. Actually, as long as you ignore the trolls and the fact that it's an unmoderated shithole, an awful lot of it is.

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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:56 pm

Lord-General Drache wrote:
Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Hayteria wrote:Then there's plenty of alternatives to 4chan; there's obviously an abundance of online sources of "unusual porn" so that still doesn't qualify as a justification for participation in 4chan.

Why not? Its easier to find the free porn that I like there. You do realize that 4chan=/= /b/ right?

go visit /d/ :lol2:

I'd argue it's what it's best known for and forms its core. I've personally tried to forget the anime sections even exist.

Obviously thats what its best known for, the rest don't make the news, you know, because they're not doing anything wrong.
why?

Entertainment is usually the reason people go to 4chan and its various boards.

Entertainment is usually the reason people go to nationstates and its various forums.
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Postby Southern Patriots » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:58 pm

What is this 4cham everyone talks about? And what is /B/?

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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:59 pm

Southern Patriots wrote:What is this 4cham everyone talks about? And what is /B/?

4chan.

google, use it.
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Postby Hayteria » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:01 pm

Lackadaisical2 wrote:Why not? Its easier to find the free porn that I like there.

Instead of using a google search to find alternative sources?

Lackadaisical2 wrote:You do realize that 4chan=/= /b/ right?

Doesn't matter, since /b/ is still nonetheless part of 4chan. Anything on 4chan is within the same site as /b/.

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Postby Southern Patriots » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:01 pm

Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Southern Patriots wrote:What is this 4cham everyone talks about? And what is /B/?

4chan.

google, use it.


Image

Oh, that 4cham. I always like to lork at 4cham and I also like mudflips too, as you do. DASU DASU LOL. Shop the wops, do a battle roll and i just lost the match. Due to the fact that i'm not a noobfag i know that /random/ is in posession of a great variety of "PC", at least those of you that aren't underage b%. in a nutshell, I need Anomalous to deliver to an Astrafaglian /re/tard some of his "PC" (you know what i mean LOL). ROW ROW ROW THE BOAT. PLEASE DONT MAGE THIS THRED IT IS NOT COPYPIZZA, BUT ORIGINAL COMMENT.
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Remember Rhodesia.

On Robert Mugabe:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:He was a former schoolteacher.

I do hope it wasn't in economics.

Panzerjaeger wrote:Why would Cleopatra have cornrows? She is from Egypt not the goddamn Bronx.

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Archnar wrote:The Russian Revolution showed a revolution could occure in a quick bloadless and painless process (Nobody was seriously injured or killed).

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Postby Post-Unity Terra » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:02 pm

Otagia wrote:/tg/ is actually relatively high brow a decent portion of the time. Actually, as long as you ignore the trolls and the fact that it's an unmoderated shithole, an awful lot of it is.


If you ignore the cultist threads, trollplayers, Thri-kreen porn, meta threads, trolls, WHAT DO and furry quests.

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Postby Tungookska » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:02 pm

Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Hayteria wrote:Then there's plenty of alternatives to 4chan; there's obviously an abundance of online sources of "unusual porn" so that still doesn't qualify as a justification for participation in 4chan.

Why not? Its easier to find the free porn that I like there. You do realize that 4chan=/= /b/ right?

go visit /d/ :lol2:

/d/icks?

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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:03 pm

Hayteria wrote:
Lackadaisical2 wrote:Why not? Its easier to find the free porn that I like there.

Instead of using a google search to find alternative sources?

Yeah, again, its easier.

Lackadaisical2 wrote:You do realize that 4chan=/= /b/ right?

Doesn't matter, since /b/ is still nonetheless part of 4chan. Anything on 4chan is within the same site as /b/.

So. fucking. what?

I live in the USA, that doesn't mean I should leave because some people are criminals.
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Postby Imperial Domtopia » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:03 pm

Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Hayteria wrote:Recently I was thinking about this conversation about 4chan from a while back. For what it's worth, I suppose there was something a bit presumptuous about claiming to know what participation in a site suggests about someone. Still though, what justification is there for participation in 4chan?

Unusual porn.


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Postby Imperial Domtopia » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:04 pm

Southern Patriots wrote:
Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Southern Patriots wrote:What is this 4cham everyone talks about? And what is /B/?

4chan.

google, use it.


Oh, that 4cham. I always like to lork at 4cham and I also like mudflips too, as you do. DASU DASU LOL. Shop the wops, do a battle roll and i just lost the match. Due to the fact that i'm not a noobfag i know that /random/ is in posession of a great variety of "PC", at least those of you that aren't underage b%. in a nutshell, I need Anomalous to deliver to an Astrafaglian /re/tard some of his "PC" (you know what i mean LOL). ROW ROW ROW THE BOAT. PLEASE DONT MAGE THIS THRED IT IS NOT COPYPIZZA, BUT ORIGINAL COMMENT.



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Postby Norstal » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:07 pm

Hayteria wrote:Recently I was thinking about this conversation about 4chan from a while back. For what it's worth, I suppose there was something a bit presumptuous about claiming to know what participation in a site suggests about someone. Still though, what justification is there for participation in 4chan?

Why not? Are you discriminating against 4chan users? You remind me of that over-blown FOX report about Hacktivism.
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Postby Otagia » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:11 pm

Post-Unity Terra wrote:
Otagia wrote:/tg/ is actually relatively high brow a decent portion of the time. Actually, as long as you ignore the trolls and the fact that it's an unmoderated shithole, an awful lot of it is.


If you ignore the cultist threads, trollplayers, Thri-kreen porn, meta threads, trolls, WHAT DO and furry quests.

Fuck you, cultist-chan is adorable.

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Postby Post-Unity Terra » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:16 pm

Otagia wrote:
Post-Unity Terra wrote:
Otagia wrote:/tg/ is actually relatively high brow a decent portion of the time. Actually, as long as you ignore the trolls and the fact that it's an unmoderated shithole, an awful lot of it is.


If you ignore the cultist threads, trollplayers, Thri-kreen porn, meta threads, trolls, WHAT DO and furry quests.

Fuck you, cultist-chan is adorable.


If by 'adorable ' you mean 'irritating beyond all reason'. It doesn't help that MrCulexus' comics are so utterly moronic.

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Postby Call to power » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:17 pm

well:

1) 11 years old an obsessed with vanilla emo-girl porn
2) post the same shit over and over again
3) like to think they are in an awesome club

but naturally its summertime so a similar thread like this will be posted within the next week
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Postby Otagia » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:18 pm

Post-Unity Terra wrote:
Otagia wrote:
Post-Unity Terra wrote:
Otagia wrote:/tg/ is actually relatively high brow a decent portion of the time. Actually, as long as you ignore the trolls and the fact that it's an unmoderated shithole, an awful lot of it is.


If you ignore the cultist threads, trollplayers, Thri-kreen porn, meta threads, trolls, WHAT DO and furry quests.

Fuck you, cultist-chan is adorable.


If by 'adorable ' you mean 'irritating beyond all reason'.

There's a difference?

As for all the other stuff, I am selectively blind and know not of what you speak.

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Postby Tungookska » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:19 pm

Call to power wrote:well:

1) 11 years old an obsessed with vanilla emo-girl porn
2) post the same shit over and over again
3) like to think they are in an awesome club

but naturally its summertime so a similar thread like this will be posted within the next week

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Postby Call to power » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:22 pm

Tungookska wrote:
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Postby Hayteria » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:24 pm

Lackadaisical2 wrote:I live in the USA, that doesn't mean I should leave because some people are criminals.

False equivalence. The USA is a country, with hundreds of millions of people who physically live there. 4chan, at least in terms of its more well known components, is a digital cesspool known for enabling the harassment even of those who aren't involved in it. If those who participate in that cesspool wanted porn, they could have looked elsewhere. Instead, they choose to participate in a site that has facilitated large-scale harassment, even towards those not on it. What does that suggest?

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