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Has anyone noticed that 4Chan's rules have changed (somewhat drastically)? (www.4chan.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/4chan@lemmy.world
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The most notable of which being "The 4chan moderation team reserves the right to revoke access and remove content for any reason without notice."

I noticed something fishy starting a few weeks ago. I kept getting 3 day bans, but with no reason listed and/or no link to the offending post.

So basically I was being banned because the mods wanted to ban me. This turned into a permanent ban, I presume because of the updated rules that I wasn't aware of.

You are not allowed to DISCUSS anything that violates US law. I was banned for mentioning that I was worried my neighbours are abusing their kid.

Permanently banned from 4Chan for this. I tried to appeal it but it was rejected.

Always saw 4Chan as a freedom of speech platform but looks like things are changing very quickly.

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[–] 20 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

I've always seen 4chan as like a content generation white hole (made of poop ofc). From nothing, content spews forth and each tier of websites acts as a new filter as the content got safer or less dark as few and fewer memes got reposted. There used to be 4 tiers of how dark you liked your meme brew (4chan>reddit>twitter>Facebook)

Idk why I typed this up I should just hit the delete key this is outdated I have no idea how it works now. I've never used 4chan (or its doubling number clones) so it was always a mythical, forbidden place.

(Everything the light touches is our domain. What's that shadowy place over there? 4chan where you must never go)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    At the time of the COVID pandemic, so 4 or 5 years after gamergate, I saw a 4chan repost on reddit about starting a conspiracy that drinking your own piss would prevent/cure COVID. About 2 weeks later there was a mainstream news article about some dehydrated maga supporter who was pulled of the road, who had been drinking his own piss.

    I thought that was pretty original and novel.

    I've never been a 4chan user though, so I only see 4chan memes/trolling once it spreads outside and I can't comment on the quality/quantity of their content, I just don't think that the site's relevance is completely gone.

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