[sayonaraman]

What’s wrong with 4chan? I for one think it’s awesome, one of the few outlets that haven’t gave in to censorship.

I can give you a counterexample of Reddit that turned into cesspool with (and may be because of) excessive moderation. Just check their front page with posts celebrating people dying of Covid https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/

[lovich]

That’s some weasel wording with “(and may be because of)”. Also if you want posts of people celebrating death just stroll over into /b and mention anything to do with minorities and/or genocides.

/pol is not the only containment board or issue with 4chan

[throwaway0a5e]

>That’s some weasel wording with “(and may be because of)”. Also if you want posts of people celebrating death just stroll over into /b and mention anything to do with minorities and/or genocides.

So like /r/HermanCainAward but without the doxing?

There's plenty of "death of the outgroup" celebration on Reddit even in big subs.

[lovich]

This thread was discussing whether moderation was needed or not for a forum and 4chan was brought up as a forum without moderation and all the issues with that.

You brought up /r/hermancainaward as an example of Reddit having a cesspool and tried to imply without evidence that moderating it had a hand in its creation, _and_ implied that it’s the same level of cesspool as a place like /b.

Even if we assume you are correct about it being the same level of cesspool, as we speak the Reddit admins have been instructing the hermancainaward moderators to clean up the board or be shut down, which would get rid of said cesspool.

The only thing shown is that people can be terrible as a group, but moderating at least removes the worst excesses. That does not show how to deal with those excesses in an unmoderated forum

[popcube]

they had done a lot of debate at there, about whether this behaviour is acceptable. I just want to direct that the original purpose of this forums is try warn people what is the result of choice.