Message from @Scarlet
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I don't care how you feel on the issue, Reddit was clearly mucking with something.
I like mildly interesting
Spent most of my teen years crawling backwater boards like 4chan and 8chan, Reddit felt a bit foreign for the longest time
And their "explanation" was embarrasingly bad.
I don't really mess with 4chan either
Evidently, Shareblue documents planning operations got leaked and /r/politics was a top target too.
Fun fact about reddit
Really depends on specific board you visit
Anyone can manipulate it
/b/ is a shitshow, always will be.
That's the idea with Reddit.
I once got a bag of chips to the frontpage of r/donald
By myself
But it collapses much the same way wikipedia does. A sufficiently large organized group can potentially cause signficant damage.
It's so easy
Someone brought up my karma on Reddit, but I am mostly like I don't really need to feel like society approves of what I think
Alot of inertial effects and things can give organized entities disproportionate power.
Common public is dumb af
Yeah, Karma is really a game to try and incentivize people to use the platform.
It's like levels in Discord. A skinner box of worthless rewards.
The chan boards are unique in some ways though, people act differently when they dont have a name, or any sort of reputation to worry about
Sometimes it brings out the worst
But sometimes it brings out the best
I always got the impression 4 chan tries to be the worst part of humanity at all times.
"humor is edgy" as they say.
So they take it to the extreme where it's probably a bit too far.
4chan is a lot of things
There's alot of shit to search through, but /b/ and /pol/ are the face of 4chan
/b/ is classic.
and give it a somewhat undeserved reputation
The origin of modern internet culture.
The smaller boards are really chill
8chan is mostly the exodus that happened after moot decided to be a cunt
(Moot was the guy that owned 4chan)
Changed his tune, started censoring certain boards
After gamergate if I recall
Yeah, not too long after
it was somewhat related
Moots fault for hanging out alongside the rich left
/v/ and /pol/ got hit the hardest with the censoring
calling it left or right in any way wasnt something you saw back then