[EJTH]

To be fair, /pol/ is one of the best places to get happening news (Information about terror attacks that would otherwise be censored by mass media, information from the Syria conflict etc)

There is a lot of shilling and a lot of trolling... It seems to me that /pol/ posts has become >50% shitposting from trolls and shills and less political discussion.

The real influx of users into pol started with the european refugee crisis, not the presidential elections.

[Vaskivo]

Every board in 4chan has it's amount of shitposting. One thing you start developing, as a user, is an semiconscious filter and ways to process the information.

A *chan site has many layers a user must go through to finally fing a decent discussion (or the epic lulz). You have an outdated confusing UI, the sheer amount of useless content, the lingo and the highly offensive content.

After you learn to process and filter all that, you start finding the really good stuff. Or, as I like to say, "Gold floats on shit. You just have to be brave and reach it"

[qwertyuiop924]

/tg/ had a gentler introduction than most, as the Very Best of /tg/ is published on 1d4chan, so you start by seeing the very best of what the chan has to offer.

[Senji]

There was that one time when posters from the Syria general thread helped by looking up images on google earth and had an artillery strike directed.

[Joeboy]

Can you (or somebody) explain this? It sounds interesting but I don't understand exactly what that sentence means.

[3dk]

Here you go: http://imgur.com/gallery/5P1N1GI

Summary: 4 chan users identified a training site of ISIS and pinpointed it on google maps. One of the users knows a friend of the Russian Minister of Defense and sent him the information, resulting in an air strike.

[astrodust]

This is disturbing to say the least. Which group of "rebels" is this? There's a lot of factions here in play, some of which are downright scary, but others of which are just fighting to survive.

Not that 4chan cares about these things. They just want to see people blown up.

[AvenueIngres]

>Not that 4chan cares about these things. They just want to see people blown up.

You understand 4chan isn't a single hive mind right? Each board has its own culture, and even moreso: each general thread has it own subculture. /sg/ (Syria General) is one of the best place to get data on the Syrian civil war. The folks there aggregate data from a massive set of sources and include people who actually live in Syria or can speak arabic.

So you know, instead of parroting the same spam all around this thread. Maybe you should take two seconds to appreciate that you neither understand nor are willing to make an attempt at understanding what goes on there.

[astrodust]

The problem with communities, online and otherwise, is they develop a certain prevailing attitude. These can either be weak (e.g. Reddit, 4chan) or strong (e.g. /r/The_Donald, /pol/) depending on how you delineate these.

You can make a case that /sg/ is a good source of news, but it's part of 4chan. I'd rather follow individuals doing reporting on something more neutral like Twitter.

[NotaSockPuppet8]

It appears I can only find a version that has experienced some jpeg rot, but it should still be good enough to do the explaining:

https://my.mixtape.moe/lnuyms.jpg

[praptak]

Probably someone had a photo of a possible target but didn't know the location so they crowdsourced that to 4chan.