On the other hand, it allows 14-year-olds to post as though they're real human beings.

Overall it's a positive experience though I think.

I hate the forums were the postcount is below the avatars. It's like a credibility-meter for faggots.

Moot - 1
Tripfags - 0

tripfags are okay by me on interest boards. if you know you can trust one tripfag's advice then you know who to believe if there are conflicting opinions.

Definitely agree, otherwise I probably wouldn't NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER

>>7618994
l would like to stab you to deth. Hmmkay?

On a typical forum there's so much dick-riding and circlejerking it's unbearable. I've never gone back to a normal forum since coming to 4chan in '06.

He's right but sometimes it lends itself to people bullshitting about stuff they have no clue what they are talking about.

>>7619026
And that's where you judge them based on what they say

>>7619026

Fact checking is hard.

Tripfags are nowhere close to being like registered users on a forum, because they can just drop the trip any time they like, use a different one or hand it over to someone else; and even if they don't, 4chan itself still doesn't keep track of their info. It's really not the same thing.

>you judge somebody by the content of what they are saying and not their user name and not their registration date.
To bad this doesn't happen on 4chan.

>>7618966
true - but even 14yr olds might occationally need a chance to be taken seriously...

even if 99% of everything posted on 4chan can be condenced into either "derp" "lulz" or "fap"

>>7619055

they do it just for the sake of trolling, though.

Posting in a tripfag hate thread.

the problem is that being anonymous takes coherence out of long or winded discussions, if i'm debating someone i want to know(and i want them to know) who said what, when and how.

that's why i tripfag i also do it to troll people who get all pissy about it.

i doubt anyone on /r9k/ remembers my tripcode, and very few, if any, do so on /fit/ so i don't think my posts aren't being judged by their merit.

>>7619086
No they do it because they think they are something special and want attention, be it good or bad, it is still attention.

>>7619122
You have point there tripfriend, I don't remember every tripfag I've seen, much less cared about whether they trip or not. I guess I'm too cool to give a shit.

>>7619122
Quit stealing my trip you fag

>>7619086

Troll tripfags I don't mind, because it makes them very easy to filter/ignore. I mean, if for some reason I see Kaiji or athens or Taiga, I know to just swing wide and ignore it.

I can't stop the rest of 4chan from being retarded about them, but at least I don't have to watch.

There's one girl who trip posts here and I'm saving every picture and post she makes and building a profile. It's lots of fun. Unfortunately she's only around every couple of weekends.

>>7619177

Which tripfag?

double edged sword. while anonymity leads to more 'honest' responses, some people see it as carte blanche to act like a complete ass

>>7619190
It's not important. Let's just say she's beautiful, level headed and career minded with a strong self assured personality.

I love her.

Now only if every tripfag that comes here actually thought that...

>>7619240

think I know who you're talking about but let's leave it at that.

good call

>>7619240
...can't you just show us a collage of what you compiled so far?

The best part was moot's face after the Myspace comment. I seriously lol'd at that.

How about an Internet forum where everyone's username is a twenty-digit long series of numbers? Just enough idenification to permit long-term discussion, but not enough that it allows for large amounts of individuality.

Is there a streaming video of this anywheres?

>>7619297
oh god you idio theres even a sticky in r9k with the videolink to it

Im actually surprised at how much useful information and fairly good discussion there is on this niggerboard.

Especially since anonymity is paired with such a large extent of freedom to post more or less whatever you want.

>>7619438
yeah and on some boards that are really on topic, you get some fantastic discussion that's extremely open without the "reputation" factor of other forums.
plus you get /rs/es of recent shows you would have missed otherwise or comics or trailers or whatever and you can start a thread about something insignificant like "HOLY BALLS DID YOU SEE THIS NEW TRAILER?" and not worry, becuase in a day or so the thread'll be gone and you don't have to worry about wondering if it's worth creating a thread that'll stay on the front page of another forum for a week or more.

4chan is better, I like 4chan.

>>7619290
how about none at all?

I hate the bulk of /r9k/.

For a month now the facebook/camwhoring threads have been fired off like gun salutes, once an hour, every hour.

moot describes the faggotry of identity online and suddenly everyone is all about, "moot, our hero! We like the same stuff. We should be friends. Call me. Kthx."

Nobody sees the irony.

>>7619330
Only works for Eurofags.

>>7619122
The problem here is that you are "debating" online, you will now begin to breath manually, and you realize your life has no meaning.

beautiful. such beauty. i've been on 4chan for 4/5 years now, and i have no identity. Sometimes I am fucking hilarious, starting threads with tons of posts and archive, coordinating it effortlessly. Sometimes I am hounded and hated because I made an incredibly shitty post. But the thing is, every new post was a fresh start. On IRC forums, even if you made a shit post, you could be glorified because of your 'join status' or previous feats. The same for shitty users who make occasional good posts- they're still looked down upon.

anonymity is awesome. Nishimura, moot, etc. = pioneers.

>>7619122
that's the point of tripfagging, it's to prevent impersonation during debates/etc.

however, in most cases, people prefer to be anonymous

>>7619498
but most of those camwhore/facebook posts, unless they have trips, have a 'real' identity. someone could post a timestamp in one post, then post as anonymous again in another thread. that one timestamp post carries no identity other than, "hey, this guy posts on 4chan". But the other post labeled 'anonymous' around him? They could be him, or they could be someone else. They could be anyone.

>>7619653
I realize everyone has some sort of 'real' identity. However, when the 4chan tubes are gummed up with non-stop proxy identity, "check out my OKC profile, here's my picture, etc..." it cheapens the value of anonymous. There is something unique and worth fighting for about everyone having a flat and fair "non-identity" to discuss practically anything.

It goes back to moot's words; the message is what is important, not the messenger.

>>7618986
:(

>>7619122
This is why I trip, as well. However, I post a lot more without it. You guys just never know.

>"...you judge somebody by the content of what they are saying and not their user name and not their registration date. With identity the discussion is mostly revolving who is saying what and not what they are saying."
This is a great idea on a website with very active moderation and strictly enforced but reasonable rules (like no blatant trolling or racism). 4chan is not that website.
See the John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

>>7619011
>deth

So does anyone have a link to the CNN video that can actually be viewed in the US?

>>7620314
This. Please.

>>7620363
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/22/chris.poole.4chan/index.html?eref=rss_latest

>>7620314
-annoyed grunt-
lazy cunts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0OQPLtZdeU

Am I the only one who always finds a disparity between how moot looks and how he sounds? Like his voice doesn't fit his face?

>>7620314

EVER USED A SEARCH FUNCTION FAGGOT

IT'S ACTUALLY REMARKABLY SIMPLE, YOU TYPE IN THE SHIT YOU WANT TO SEE

AND THEN YOUTUBE TELLS YOU WHERE IT IS

IT'S THE FUCKIN' FUTURE MAN, GET IN YOUR HOVERCAR AND JUST FLY AROUND

moot owns

mootownsblock

>>7619498
s/irony/hypocrisy/

Yeah. It's the only reason I come here, and wade through the idiocy, the trolling, the useless "tell me something about yourself that no one else will bother to read" threads, and the endless reaction images, implying, and porn.

Yeah I always suspected he would have a much deeper tone, rather than that 17 years old scene kid voice. Before anyone responds just picture it;moots voice on the body of a 17 year old scene kid

moot is fighting for our privacy
yayayayayaya
btw my ssn is 1241352

>>7618957
had no idea moot was from astoria

While anonymity is a dual edged sword, in most cases in the threads I've seen on 4chan, especially on /r9k/, you can be truly honest about something you know without fear or retaliation. While you have the risk of experiencing racist or prejudicial replies, you can counter and challenge those users without fear of exposing your identity.

However for some topics that are not covered under 4chan I do still visit those forums. But these days I go to 4chan and sometimes other imageboards more often.

As for some of the comments I heard around 4chan especially on /b/, being the potential of the evolution of social networking. It may make sense.

I'll give you two examples: In a discussion for an Xbox Live enabled game, if you want to play together, you can giveout your gametags in that thread and the thread eventually gets pruned a few hours or a half hour later.

Or for a meetup, you give out information that is minimally absolutely need for further planning the the meetup like a aim username or skype number. Then when the meetup actually happens, you can exchange the real information like your real names at the actual meetup, not on the thread.

>>7620951
shit, college park
JHUfag here
hows it going

that's why I post on 4chan... I have not reached the stage where I need to make myself a name on the net. I think that is pitiful

>>7618957

great quote, those liberal half breed faggots at CNN eat that shit up.

4chan is a haven

>>7621038
Yeah, new ideas and sociotechnological (I just made that up, but I like it) progress are fucking worthless liberal bullshit.

The only good actual internet community I've been a part of was an imageboard based on the vidya and the internet and stupid inside jokes where most people use names. It had the same carefree, lax-rules attitude as 4chan but with the rules actually enforced and a real sense of community.

>>7620980
Doing OK. I'm currently finishing the Grapes of Wraith. A good book.

My aim is Jkid232 if you want to chat.

>>7621086
Do you have the link of that imageboard you're talking about?

I use a script for forced-anon. I think it's silly to tripfag. Namefagging is ok I guess if you're OP in some cases. Other than that, it's all just e-penis on 4chan.

Haters gonna hate.

Heh heh heh

>>7625350
stolen from the founder of 2ch, Hiroyuki Nishimura:

"... Moreover, people can only truly discuss something when they don't know each other. If there is a user ID attached to a user, a discussion tends to become a criticizing game. On the other hand, under the anonymous system, even though your opinion/information is criticized, you don't know with whom to be upset.

Also with a user ID, those who participate in the site for a long time tend to have authority, and it becomes difficult for a user to disagree with them. Under a perfectly anonymous system, you can say, "it's boring," if it is actually boring. All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work. "

Imagine a world where people judge others based on the content of their character rather than their possessions.