[Bobboau]

https://www.4chan.org/news?all#118

[Turambar]

A Moot will convene to determine the new Moot

[That Man]

A Moot will convene to determine the new Moot

A Mootsmoot, if you will.

[Bobboau]

from the sounds of it he's already set up a Council of Moot

[An4ximandros]

It's a moot point.

[X3N0-Life-Form]

It's a moot point.

Thanks, I couldn't find an elegant way to make that joke.

[Bobboau]

http://imgur.com/gallery/q7O3i

[MP-Ryan]

It's just too bad that 4chan hasn't also stepped off the Internet.

I'm a major project of free speech and that cesspool even makes me consider the potential worthiness of legal censorship. Ugh.

[Bobboau]

I'm curious, have you ever gone there?

[Lorric]

I'm curious, have you ever gone there?

I know this was not directed at me, but I never have, perhaps outside the rare time some Google search hits on it. Really the only impression I have of it is this place's bad opinion of it. If you want to tell a different side of the story, I'd listen.

As for Moot, this means I have no idea if this is a good thing or a bad. Either way, Moot is now moot.

[Ghostavo]

To no one in particular, 4chan is not synonymous with /b/, there are other boards there.

[Scotty]

To no one in particular, 4chan is not synonymous with /b/, there are other boards there.

Which doesn't make /b/ less of a steaming cesspool.

[Ghostavo]

To no one in particular, 4chan is not synonymous with /b/, there are other boards there.

Which doesn't make /b/ less of a steaming cesspool.

No, but people talk about 4chan as if /b/ is the only board there.

[Lorric]

To no one in particular, 4chan is not synonymous with /b/, there are other boards there.

So, umm... what's /b/?

But I was wondering about this kind of thing, if people might be letting some rotten apples spoil the whole barrel.

[Ghostavo]

There are a ton of boards on 4chan, each dedicated to a topic ranging from traditional board games to porn. /b/ is where everything else goes.

Unfortunately on the internet, everything else means really nasty stuff.

[Scotty]

Moreso on 4chan than anywhere else on the internet even.  Just saying it without prefacing it like that is liable to leave people with an incomplete grasp of the enormity of the thing.

[Lorric]

Better stay out of there then if I should ever end up there (4chan). Thanks.

[Bobboau]

So, umm... what's /b/?

/b/ is to 4chan what 4chan is to the rest of the internet, it's 4chan's General Discussion, it's the source of 4chan's power reputation
4chan.org/b/ (it is NOT safe for work (or home unless you pay the mortgage), that not being a link was very much on purpose)

4chan, and in particular 4chan's /b/ has a reputation for being the darkest most edgy horrible place on the internet, so people who want to do the worst thing imaginable on the internet go there to be as horrible as they can possibly be. and any time that it gets an unusual level of interest the regulars spam it with porn and gore to scare all of the tourists away. /b/ is the place where people who were told that they can't do something on the internet go to do it. considering that and the fact that it is often called "the **** hole of the internet", it's not "that" bad, there are places on the internet MUCH worse, though many of them are sites for literal hate groups or criminal enterprises, but there is a huge gap there.

most of the other "SFW"* boards, /a/ /co/ /v/ /x/ are not significantly worse than HLP GenDisc. some might even be more civil (thinking /sci/ /g/ /p /po/)
*not actually safe for work

[Dark Hunter]

Really about the only stuff that doesn't happen on /b/ is stuff that is, you know, actually illegal. I understand that occasionally illegal material gets posted there, but the community chomps down on that hard (if they didn't, /b/ might get shut down, after all).

I sometimes wonder what 2ch and Futaba Channel think of 4chan, considering they more or less spawned it in the first place.

[Bobboau]

yeah, remember, the site has just celebrated it's 11th year, and millions of people use it. The site it's self is safe to view both technically and legally (just don't be an idiot and trust anything said by anyone "The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood..Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."). they haven't had a consistent problem with illegal content for a long time, it's pretty rare these days and the people posting it get sent straight to the FBI.