4chan's "Moot" weighs in on anonymous forums

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	4chan's "Moot" weighs in on anonymous forums
Date	2014-02-12 17:14 +0000
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Great article the guy behind 4chan has written on his blog:

"http://chrishateswriting.com/post/76431353368/the-anonymity-i-know"

Choice quote:

The very things I overlooked as a teen quickly became the driving force
behind the site, and are now deeply ingrained in its ethos as well as
my own. Few communities have grown in size and come to influence
mainstream culture as 4chan has, for as long as it has, and it is
without a doubt the result of allowing people to interact without the
burden of identity, and to share and explore new ideas together. For
many, 4chan has become their “third place,” and provided a sanctuary
away from the everyday stresses of home, school, and work life.

The combination of anonymity and ephemerality has fostered
experimentation and creativity rarely seen elsewhere. It’s incredible
what people can make when they’re able to fail publicly without fear,
since not only will those failures not be attributed to them, but
they’ll be washed away by a waterfall of new content. Only ideas that
resonate with the broader community persist, creating the most ideal
conditions for the production of viral content, which established 4chan
as one of the Web’s earliest “meme factories.”


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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>

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4chan's "Moot" weighs in on anonymous forums RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-12 17:14 +0000
  Re: 4chan's "Moot" weighs in on anonymous forums sagebump <outersend@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 12:41 -0800
    Re: 4chan's "Moot" weighs in on anonymous forums RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-13 11:43 +0000

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