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Elderbean
Jun 10, 2013


It's weird, because people who post there often brag about the lack of moderation creating freedom and an environment without censorship but I found that there really wasn't a free exchange of ideas going on there. Every subforum adopts a particular set of memes and talking points that get parroted over and over again until they become the only acceptable conversation.

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Elderbean
Jun 10, 2013


Woolie Wool posted:

The unmoderated hivemind nature of *chan type sites causes the groups with the largest social capital to easily dominate the conversation due to their outsized influence and weight of social consensus, the real outcasts are forced out, the bros assume control of the hivemind, and the community becomes one with the Brog Collective.

I admittedly used to go there and it got so bad, it's an echo chamber of self-hatred and misanthropy.

/v is especially bad.

Elderbean
Jun 10, 2013


Regardless of how much content 4chan creates it's an insufferable place to visit because nearly every discussion is going to degenerate into people calling each other SJWs, shills, samefags, jews, cucks, etc. There's like, a marginal chance you might get a legitimate discussion about anything.

/tg is occasionally okay, as long as you never mention women.

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