4chan, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

[MaskedOne]

Re: 4chan, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

So we've managed to venture far from the topic of turning an AI into a Nazi and into a demonstration of faulty ethics that I find moderately disturbing. As OP, I think my thread has derailed past the point that I care to try and save it. As Admin, I'm shutting it down. Have a nice day, move along.

[Denarius]

Re: 4chan, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

I can imagine if 4chan members would join this forum. It would be the end of civilization as we know it.

Not really, 4chan is full of reasonable people who can follow rules and get along just fine in more structured settings. It's the lack of moderation, anonymity, and board culture that leads to the behavior you see there.

For a lot of people, it's an outlet for the things we keep bottled up. A space where you can let it all hang out and show sides of yourself you really can't anywhere else. Where there is no real distinction between extremism and irony, the radical and the contrarian. Where there is both hostility and support for any and all ideas, big and small.

That attitude doesn't carry over very well into more structured areas. Ideas bred in that space might, but the behaviors definitely do not. Like all things, you adapt or you die.

That's the equivalent of dropping a dozen sharks in the streets of New York and expecting them to be effective predators. They might hurt a few people by flopping around, but the worst they can possibly do is make the place smell bad after a while.

[Bartmanhomer]

Re: 4chan, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

I can imagine if 4chan members would join this forum. It would be the end of civilization as we know it.

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Ok. You made your point Juniper. I'm sorry.

[Juniper]

That's still no excuse for Jessi Slaughter acting like a brat on Youtube. Those Anon deserve a medal for trolling.

Choose your words very carefully from now on. Abusive trolling is not the kind of behavior we will let slide here and I don't really know if I even want you on our forum with an attitude like this.

[Bartmanhomer]

Re: 4chan, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

Fun Fact: 4chan is run by Anons not kids. Don't forget 4chan is an adult message board.

[Denarius]

Re: 4chan, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

I'm been to 4chan at one point and it's crazy as heck.

More than half the boards there are relatively safe for work (marked as such, even!) and relatively tame most of the time. There's /b/, /pol/, and their ilk, as well as the porn boards, which are crazy but they are safely cordoned off in the NSFW area.

The other boards are really only crazy when there's a lapse in moderation or in exceptional circumstances. /mlp/ and /v/ being hit the worst by lack of moderation, IMHO.

Basically, if you are in the SFW boards, you actually have to dig around for the crazy most of the time.

[Bartmanhomer]

Re: 4chan, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

4chan abused her, not Anonymous, as far as I am aware. Sure, they're a bunch of kids too, but they seem to have higher motives. Sometimes they aim poorly, and look at the wrong things, but more often than not, Anonymous are actually trying to do something useful. 4chan are genuinely a waste of space.

I'm been to 4chan at one point and it's crazy as heck.

[Briton]

Re: 4chan, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

4chan abused her, not Anonymous, as far as I am aware. Sure, they're a bunch of kids too, but they seem to have higher motives. Sometimes they aim poorly, and look at the wrong things, but more often than not, Anonymous are actually trying to do something useful. 4chan are genuinely a waste of space.

[Bartmanhomer]

Re: 4chan, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

What's your excuse for your behavior here then?

Behavior? What's behavior?! I don't see any behavioral problems in me.

[Medusa]

Re: 4chan, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

That's still no excuse for Jessi Slaughter acting like a brat on Youtube. Those Anon deserve a medal for trolling.

What's your excuse for your behavior here then?

[anunitu]

Re: 4chan, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

I believe you have just defined just who you are BMH....

[Bartmanhomer]

Re: 4chan, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

That's still no excuse for Jessi Slaughter acting like a brat on Youtube. Those Anon deserve a medal for trolling.

[EndlessCravings]

Re: 4chan, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

Looked it up.
Romantic Goth stuff..found a PIC.

Oh that's attractive. Trying to watch my language

[Briton]

Re: 4chan, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

BMH is the most succesful troll here IMO.

Quite possibly!

[ThePaganMafia]

Re: 4chan, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

When did trolling come to mean "sending abuse and harassing"?

I remember the days when trolling was an honest days work, posting absurd comments where there is a good mix of the smart and the gullible. Trolling was about how ridiculous you could make your assertion, and people still believe you. Every now and again you get a fantastic comment on an online news article, such as one parodying religious individuals who believe the wrongdoing in the article is the sort of thing that's going to bring on judgment day. You know they're trolling, you've seen them on that website before, they're an atheist. They're not sending abuse at anyone, though, they're separating the wheat from the chaff, as people more extreme than them will take slight at their sarcastic comment. The fun is in the "in-joke", you, the commenter, and other regulars know full well they're taking the mick. It's just baiting people who can't help but bite.

It's a form of fun, where you angle and let them bite, and that is their fault. No victim blaming to be had. You leave something ridiculous out in the open and see who falls for it. That is trolling as I know it, and it's a harmless bit of fun. A bit like messing around with an AI. Nobody was harmed.

However, what they did to that girl was not anything short of inhuman.

BMH is the most succesful troll here IMO.