@kitten_tech @lritter @davidgerard

No lie, I had to scroll past a bit because I was having flashbacks to the days of my youth when 4c* wasn't quite as well established as the cesspool of the internet.

If you've never been exposed, I certainly don't suggest you delve, but the energy shown there is a 1:1 match.

@theogrin @kitten_tech @lritter @davidgerard

I thought 4chan was established as a cesspool from birth, it's origin was "people who got banned from Something Awful because they were too vile", which I mean, considering the mid-late 2000s forums culture, is quite an achievement

@alexandria @theogrin @kitten_tech @lritter @davidgerard @paninid

moot couldn’t post the things he wanted to post in the Anime subforum so he made his own site where he could make the rules. That should tell you all you need to know about what he was/is into.

SA Forums post paywall was the pinnacle of the type of heavy handed moderation needed for social media.

@bflipp @theogrin @kitten_tech @lritter @davidgerard @paninid

As one of the many queer posters on modern SA Forums, I disagree about the post paywall. That's a critical and very positive part of moderation because it means that, if you make a post that is bad enough to get banned, the moderators are actually encouraged to ban you for it. Compare with, for example, Reddit, where making accounts is easy and therefore bans mean absolutely nothing, lmao

@alexandria @bflipp @kitten_tech @lritter @davidgerard @paninid

Sounds like you're in agreement with Brett -- that the paywall is necessary and exceedingly helpful in the moderation of one of the internet's oldest extant forums, let alone one with such a storied history, and that 'heavy-handed' moderation is the way to go in such cases. At least, that's how I'm reading that.

I'm also definitely not arguing that 4c was always a cesspool -- just that it hadn't been entirely recognized as such in the early days.