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The Rockerfly

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Pararaptor said:
The Rockerfly said:
There is little to no moderation on most boards
No, the moderation's pretty good on most boards.
They're just not Nazis who ban you for having a different opinion.
Well in comparison to some of the moderators on the escapist whose ideas of freedom of speech are the offspring of a leader from soviet Russia and a member of the Nazi party but
 

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Pararaptor said:
The Rockerfly said:
There is little to no moderation on most boards
No, the moderation's pretty good on most boards.
They're just not Nazis who ban you for having a different opinion.
Depends on when you visit.

Get on at a bad time, you'll be perma-banned for being a Communist.

[sub]Among other things...[/sub]
 

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It depend on where you go, but stay away from /b/, I'll tell you why.

/b/ is the deepest, darkest most horrific trench of despair on the internet...it also smells funny.
 

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TU4AR said:
It's an image board, run by m00t.

r9k is good for a laugh.
NOT ANYMORE.
They removed it along with /new/ (news board), because they made the /soc/ board to out all the rate my _____ and all that crap, and /new/ turned into /stormfront/, with trolling and racism and general WHITE POWER ELITISM everywhere.

So yeah, don't go to /soc/, it sucks, avoid /b/ unless you want to be desensitized, and /v/ is pretty good sometimes, they can get pretty nasty when VALVe is brought up, and /wg/ has some amazing threads running most of the time.
 

captaincabbage

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If you can imagine the Internet as a human being, Wikipedia is it's brain, where all knowledge is stored, Google is probably the eyes, the Escapist is probably it's smarminess and 4Chan, well, 4Chan is the dark part of it's soul. It's horrible, black, shrivelled up little soul.
 

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Basically it's an image board full of children and misfits that think they're cool spouting out what they don't have the balls to say in real life. This is because of the false sense of anonymity given to them because you don't have to create a profile. Wait... that's just /b/ and most /b/tards... Eh, the rest of 4chan isn't half bad, although the /k/ board could do with less 10 year old cod fanboys and more people with actual knowledge of firearms...
 

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I like to think of it as the Mos Eisley of the internet. A wretched hive of scum and villainy, but if you look hard enough, you may find a Han Solo.
 

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/b/ WAS a place of "horror and insanity", but now it's just the cool new thing that kids go on to get "omg so random" humor to use in real life. Repost of a repost of a repost etc.

/v/ makes me think of the Escapist but with less moderation

/mu/ is a pretty terrible board, but mostly because it's just same-old same-old every now and then. Spamming NMH threads is good for a laugh occasionally.
>instant replies
>implying

/ck/ is mostly food porn with some sparse advice

if you really want to kill your soul, go to /d/
 

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Escapist rages every time 4chan is brought up. Few of them actually know anything about REAL 4chan. Everyone thinks the whole website is /b/. It's not. You can immediately spot a board newbie (colloquially 'newfag') if they think every board is like /b/. There are plenty of friendly boards with actually good people on there. /ck/ has great cooking tips, /r/ is good for acquisitions, and /co/ is love. That's right, there's a board with a reputation for having relatively nice posters.

But even then, people complain 4chan is NSFW. This isn't even true. There ARE NSFW boards, but not all of them are. In fact, the background color of the boards changes if you go onto a NSFW board, and you will get a prompt warning you.

In truth, 4chan is about absolute free speech. There's a lot of vocal hatred, but a surprisingly large amount of good will, too. It is something that must be experienced, not described, and most of the people who will tell you about it here haven't REALLY experienced it for themselves. They're passing on rumors about how bad they've heard it is.
Pretty much this, most boards aren't as bad as /b/.
 

etherlance

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Its a place where all the dark emotions and irrational behaviour of mankind coagulated into an image board of terrible malfeasance, racism, sexism and occasionally incredibly funny comments and images.


It's not a place for the innocent, young or light hearted as those are the first to be eaten alive.

I once made a journey into 4chan and barely made it out with my life and sanity intact.

If you haven't been there.......don't go there!!!!!
 

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So nobody noticed OP was trying really hard to be a troll right? I find it classy how people with spelling mistakes think they're trolling that way.Escapists here are just too well mannered and actually bother replying to these kinds of threads.
 

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TU4AR said:
Master_Spartan117666 said:
NOT ANYMORE.
They removed it along with /new/ (news board), because they made the /soc/ board to out all the rate my _____ and all that crap, and /new/ turned into /stormfront/, with trolling and racism and general WHITE POWER ELITISM everywhere.

So yeah, don't go to /soc/, it sucks, avoid /b/ unless you want to be desensitized, and /v/ is pretty good sometimes, they can get pretty nasty when VALVe is brought up, and /wg/ has some amazing threads running most of the time.
What the hell, that was one of the best boards. Laaaaaaaaaaame.
/r9k/ was good, just for lolz and the occasional 'forever alone' comic thread that popped up.
/new/ was a shithole that needed either full-board banning or just removal, so that's gone kaboom.
At the moment, the only good boards are /wg/, /p/, /k/ and /ck/, just for the honest advice and information you can get out of them.
 

Hound174

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Ugh, honestly it's really not worth going into.
But if you Must, Pretty much what most people have said is all you need to know, it's an image board, and /b/ is filled with 13 year olds and 17 year olds being 12. People praise and condemn it so much but honestly, no one cares! not anyone with a life anyway, I browse /b/ for lulz, but it is not an almighty army, and it is not the sanctuary for the Devil himself. It's a bunch of dicks thinking they are awesome. When really, they're not.
Memes are fun, and every now and then there's a post that blow's your mind, but it's still nothing worth getting worked up about.
 

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captaincabbage said:
If you can imagine the Internet as a human being, Wikipedia is it's brain, where all knowledge is stored, Google is probably the eyes, the Escapist is probably it's smarminess and 4Chan, well, 4Chan is the dark part of it's soul. It's horrible, black, shrivelled up little soul.
4chan is the massive dick of the internet
 

Mr.Mattress

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From what I've heard, 4Chan is like... a 'lighter' version of this websites basement.... Seriously though, do not go into the Escapist's basement! Anything you see on 4Chan is only 1/4th of the horrors in our basement!

On a serious note: 4Chan, from what I've heard, is an un-moderated website where anything goes and usually, anything happens. The website has spawned many, many, many Internet Memes from "Do It, ******!", to "i herd u liek mudkipz' (Or at least, the earliest form of 'i herd u liek mudkipz' came from there). I have never went there, and I don't wanna go. Seems like an idiot box to me.
 

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Scout Tactical said:
Escapist rages every time 4chan is brought up. Few of them actually know anything about REAL 4chan. Everyone thinks the whole website is /b/. It's not. You can immediately spot a board newbie (colloquially 'newfag') if they think every board is like /b/. There are plenty of friendly boards with actually good people on there. /ck/ has great cooking tips, /r/ is good for acquisitions, and /co/ is love. That's right, there's a board with a reputation for having relatively nice posters.

But even then, people complain 4chan is NSFW. This isn't even true. There ARE NSFW boards, but not all of them are. In fact, the background color of the boards changes if you go onto a NSFW board, and you will get a prompt warning you.

In truth, 4chan is about absolute free speech. There's a lot of vocal hatred, but a surprisingly large amount of good will, too. It is something that must be experienced, not described, and most of the people who will tell you about it here haven't REALLY experienced it for themselves. They're passing on rumors about how bad they've heard it is.
Just wanted to repost this so more could see a decent answer.

There's an amazing amount of irrational hate for 4chan. Even the board which deserves it has many redeeming qualities, primarily that it's often hilarious. It's also, arguably the birthplace of the idea of Anonymous which means it attracts some of the hatred people feel for that non-organisation.
 

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InfiniteSingularity said:
captaincabbage said:
If you can imagine the Internet as a human being, Wikipedia is it's brain, where all knowledge is stored, Google is probably the eyes, the Escapist is probably it's smarminess and 4Chan, well, 4Chan is the dark part of it's soul. It's horrible, black, shrivelled up little soul.
4chan is the massive dick of the internet
I'll have to honestly disagree, respectfully, of course.
THeres a lot more to 4Chan than just tits. There are people whoo will fuck with other people for no good reason, people who will post things nobody wants to see. People who honestly wish death on people they don't know and peope who laugh at things like murder, rape, torture and the like. There are good parts of 4Chan, sure, but the bad parts are pure evil.