4chan isn't that bad of a place.

[Nautical Honors Society]

I never even heard of 4chan before I started posting on this site. The constantly referenced it, so I decided to see what it was all about. I went on /b/ and was immediatly annoyed and disgusted.

I forgot about 4chan for a long time. Months go by and I decide to check out some other forums. I try /v/, it was ok. I try /co/, it was fine, but I didn't know enough about comics, then I found /mu/ (the music forum).

Since then I have gotten a constant source of music suggestions, been introduced to new artists, and expanded my taste in general.

Now 4chan's community is mean, immature, and cruel, but they do know what they are talking about. If you can learn the lingo and pick up a thick skin, places like /mu/, /tv/, /v/, /a/, /ck/, /sp/ and so forth can be interesting places to talk to a like minded (and suprisingly intelligent) community.

4chan isn't a great place, but it is a unregulated mish mosh of like minded individuals. And if you can get past the racism, homophobia, and blatant ignorance you may be able to find something you like.

Anyone with similar thoughts?

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

There are people there who remind me how I hate 4chan.
There are people there who remind me how I love 4chan.

It's a huge hit-or-miss place, but I do like it overall, since it's a place that goes on humor.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

There are people there who remind me how I hate 4chan.
There are people there who remind me how I love 4chan.

It's a huge hit-or-miss place, but I do like it overall, since it's a place that goes on humor.

-snip-

Yea I gotta be honest, sometimes I like it when threads go off topic. Everyone on that site is trying to get a laugh.

 

[microhive]

Well, I've certainly had a better introduction since jumped the bandwagon as soon as I knew about the site.

It's the best place on the internet to watch entertainment, political movements and get decent information (You need to be sceptical but you learn what's fact and what's fiction pretty quickly).

It's a great site. In my opinion, it's most likely a better forum than EscapistMagazine due to the open nature of the site.

 

[Weaver]

I started going there in 2005 and probably visited fairly consistently until sometime in early 2010. I had a lot of fun in general. You end up running into some unsavory posts, but just report it and it will be dealt with surprisingly quickly.

If you go to any of the blue boards (that is, safe for work boards) they are generally good sources of fun and information. I even learned recipes on the cooking board that I still use to this day.

 

[trebthegamer]

wow long time since i visited 4chan but yeah visiting is is like visiting a country that no one even knows it exists. it's quite the culture shock.

 

[smithy_2045]

/s/ is a fairly convenient place for masturbation material.

 

[Jerubbaal]

4chan is the internet's single biggest cesspool.

Not that there aren't worse places out there, but 4chan is the biggest and most prominent.

 

[Dogstile]

I like 4chan, he's a cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything.

Honestly, if you go on the safe for work boards, 4chan is fine. Everyone judges it because of /b/. Honestly, if you judge 4chan purely by /b/ you should stfu and go learn. It makes you no better than people who hate on lawyers as a whole just because some of them work for corporations, or people who hate all germans because of WWII (godwins law on first page, woo!).

 

[Zukhramm]

It's like the Escapist forums but friendlier.

 

[Chimichanga]

/b/ hasn't been "that bad of a place" since 2006 when all of the really offensive content was made a bannable offence and it became tame enough for norps to settle in and make it mundane. /b/ is now irreversibly boring. God I miss the post-2006 era.

 

[Who Dares Wins]

/co/ is probably the "best" one, the community is mature (you could consider it ironic),the discussions are great, people have a nice sense of humor and the board moves slowly. /g/ is pretty good if you need help with technology. Actually, the blue boards are usually pretty great and a very nice and fast source of info, since anyone can post and a lot of people post.

 

[The Virgo]

This is all I have to say and I think the only way to reply to "4Chan isn't that bad of a place".

 

[Voration]

I like the sense of freedom of speech the site has. Considering the right to free speech is something we all should be enjoying its hard to find somewhere that allows it. Does this make sense to anyone??

 

[AbstractStream]

This is all I have to say and I think the only way to reply to "4Chan isn't that bad of a place".

Hahaha, best response man.

I don't think I've ever had a pleasant experience with 4chan. Then again, I haven't visited in like 4 years so yeah.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

And if you can get past the racism, homophobia, and blatant ignorance you may be able to find something you like.

Never been to 4 Chan but that isn't exactly a promising sentence. I read a bit of ED every now and again, but the difference there is that the site is satirical. All of the bigotry and disparagement expressed is done specifically to encite feelings of anger and offence in the reader. A website that paradoxically hosts articles that project hatred towards both men and women, black and white people and any other race and sexuality there is, while also being condescending to their own audience and therefore abating the validity of anything they've said by admitting that only basement dwelling, pathetic social rejects dwell their, can't possibly be taken seriously. The problem I think I'd run into with 4 chan, is that there are many insipid bigots who are too short-sighted to notice this and think that this sort of article is genuinely reinforcing their views rather than a parody of them, despite rebuking them in seperate articles on the same site. What's worse is that I think the only intelligent people who would be there, are those who troll and would thereby strive to make their posts indistinguishable from the knuckle dragging shitheads in order to get a rise out of people. In a nutshell, I wouldn't go there because I think the only thing I'd be met with is troglodytic, bigoted assholes and trolls posing as troglodytic, bigoted assholes.

 

[SaetonChapelle]

I have had little to no interest in going to 4chan after hearing both and positive and the negative. I know you dont piss of people from 4chan. Thats all I need to know. xD

 

[Wintermoot]

I always enjoy battle station/guts threads on /g/
I don,t post that much on 4chan though.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

4chan's /b/ used to be awesome, but now it has stage 4 terminal cancer (as opposed to FunnyJunk, which has stage 5).
Other boards on 4chan are good.

Krautchan reigns supreme.

And if you can get past the racism, homophobia, and blatant ignorance you may be able to find something you like.

Never been to 4 Chan but that isn't exactly a promising sentence. I read a bit of ED every now and again, but the difference there is that the site is satirical.

There is no difference. The people who write for ED are the same people who spend their time on 4chan.

 

[DexterNorgam]

I know that supporters of 4chan and those who are regulars there and post here as well will take this the wrong way, and use it as some kind of badge of honor or something but it remains to be said that...

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Ok that's over doing it a bit, there has to be worse... but honestly I wouldn't touch that site with a 10ft pole.