On tripcodes:
Tripcodes are used as a form of identification where it is relevant. In the early days of 4chan, most users were from Something Awful's ADTRW forum and naturally adopted tripcodes as a form of `registration'. However as moot and the 4chan community became more educated on tripcodes, people began to realize they were using them erroneously! On an anonymous BBS, WHAT you post is important, NOT who you are. There are many users on /g/ who retain a tripcode from thread-to-thread when it simply isn't relevant. I suggest reading this excellent article by Anonymous-san, a former member of staff:
www.4chan.org/blog/2005/11/09/in-response-to-anonymity/
As a sidenote, do not accuse every `anti-tripcode' user of being a /b/tard who believes that ``Anonymous are legion'' or similar. This is an unfair generalization; many of just want tripcodes to be used properly!

Of course feel free to spam this thread and `ironically' go against what I have addressed, but I appreciate those of you who read it. In particular those of you who are lurking, but did not feel the need to respond.

Thank you.

someone please sticky this

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u sure troled me op

>2011
>trying to teach how to quote

>This is consistent with common practices in newsgroups and email. Quoting is NOT used to provide contextual information or perform actions. This comes from an old joke on /b/ (``how do i greentext?'') which later spread to /v/ and was eventually used to condense stories. Its intended use is to quote passages of text. You would not use ``>implying x'' on a mailing list, and you certainly wouldn't say `` `using a mac' `2011' '' in an instant messaging conversation! If you have to use it this way, please keep it in /v/ and /b/.
De jure, you are correct; de facto, you are not. Despite the oft updated rules/FAQ, moot uses it in the contexts you describe as inappropriate all the time. As it is his site and no law or mandate requires that he or any of his users use it only to quote, the behavior is not wrong.

>An awful habit that has gained traction in the West (thanks to faster boards like /b/) is to use `sage' as an insult. `sage' does nothing; rather, it `opts-out' of bumping a thread.
It's an insult if everyone replies negatively with sage. When you just say "sage", it's useless; if you post something and you don't want to bump it, it's because you don't want to bump the thread. Whether or not it's because you believe your post isn't worth bumping the thread over because its content isn't good or because you don't want to bump the thread itself because you think it is a bad thread can vary and does vary.

>tripcodes
True, but at this point I don't think 4chan is attempting to emulate other boards because it has its own culture. What was said by an unknown mod in 2005 may not reflect current opinions of site administration. Certainly the practice is not prohibited and certain users have used it to great benefit to offer trusted advice. (I no longer use tripcodes regularly, I occasionally will use them for a single thread)

Sage because I don't think this thread is worth bumping; this reply is intended for OP.

­>>20357471 is not part of the addressing users by their post number master race.

>install gentoo

>>20357398
Fuck off, you raging neckbeard pedant.
>Implying anyone should care