Message from @Scarlet
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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
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
Hm. I get the impression the majority of people are on Reddit now.
Which kinda scares me given how easily manipulated it is.
Reddit is way more populous then the chan boards
And therefore the closer to average internet savvy person
The chan's are just backwaters, thats been mostly true since ive been around to observe them
Reddit is something like the 8th most popular website worldwide.
Reddit is really common, almost entry level internet
It's massive. And ripe for all sorts of abuse.
4chan is structured in a really old, not very user friendly way
4chan *is* old.
It is.
And it wasn't really meant to be user friendly either.
Correct.
Reddit was specifically designed to be clean and self-organizing.
And well, it kinda forms a shield
8chan could be described as 'self organizing'