Speaking of dragging board quality down, those $10 you paid certainly aren't doing your posts any good.
Online friendships in 2018
Zachary Perez
William Nelson
It feels like the net has become a more hostile place too. It used to be if someone disagreed with you the worst that could happen was they call you a faggot, maybe start an autistic flamewar the rest of the community would laugh at. Now not having the correct oppinions causes a butthurt swarm of normies to strawman you into literally hitler and try to get you banned.
If you're this upset over anime posters, you're gonna have a rough time here.
Luis Stewart
I agree. Do you guys remember the glory of 4/jp/ in the 2000s? It was just pure fun - now everyone has a stick up their ass.
Luke Kelly
It's due to SJWs. Autists will rant at you and be done with it, SJWs embark on a crusade because god-forbid someone doesn't think exactly the same they do, just look at the whole glibc censorship shit, they're siding with a troll (airmail.cc email) instead of rms on the off-chance they might offend someone. Goes to show if you have a kid you have to tell that fucker 'no' sometimes even if for no other reason just so the little fucker learns things don't always go his way and that's ok.
Joshua Russell
Try doxed and humiliated, fired, or expelled.
Sometimes I am sincerely sad, I am sure there are some same people who I've been posting with for years across various boards, but despite so much shared and rare connections felt, I will never meet any of them.
Anthony Hughes
I strongly doubt that your average imageboard user is any less likely than a Reddit/Facebook/Twitter user to doxx someone. Not that it matters, because in reality people doxx themselves. And there has always been at least one fucker with nothing better to do than either to post it online in an attempt to scare them, or to tip it off to their employer (or anyone else able fuck them over) for shits and giggles.
What has changed is that internet forums have all but either died or disappeared, with everyone migrating to social media. This means that the a person's posting history which was previously scattered among the half a dozen forums they would have used in the mid 2000s is now available for everyone to see, unless they make the conscious effort to compartmentalize it under different usernames. Plus, these platforms all try to incentivize users to share as many crap as possible for upboats or their equivalents and to prioritize "real" accounts over "fake" ones. The result is that your average internet user now lives in one giant glass house because of social media. But it still takes only one rock to bring it down. The only thing that protects the vast majority of users from being doxxed, smeared or just being generally shat on is their own obscurity. Nobody cares. For everyone else, there's either paranoia or becoming a lolcow.
Ayden Cook
There are various ways but you'll get accused of data mining and assuming you do join the IRC channel or whatever it is things just devolve into namefaggotry. Also, most anons aren't worth your time honestly.
I don't think they make us less social, I think they make us more aware of what a joke the world we live in is. You go from laughing at normalfags to despising the way they act because they're so willing to go along with the herd. I feel like people attracted to imageboards are less social anyway but for the first time in history we have a means of communicating with each other aside from shitposting on bathroom walls. You become aware of how being social can come back to bite you in the ass after you've watched 100s if not 1,000s of people have embarrassing shit put on display for the world to see. I know I stay the hell away from social networks because /cow/ taught me how awful putting my face out there can be for me if I catch the attention of the world anons.
All user meet-ups are going to be full of faggots seeking attention. Anyone with a brain stays away from them.
Also see pic related.
Agreed. The internet is never going back to the wild west days. September is eternal and anything we create to escape it will just be flooded by normalfags in short order if it's worth using. They invade out places to be edgy and to feel like they're part of something but they just end up ruining the place. Look at Zig Forums, in just a few short years it went from a place where young adults discussed politics to a place where boomers hang out. We've always had a minority of oldfags but when they start posting openly about finding Zig Forums via facebook you know you've got a problem. This is why user can not run effective OPs anymore.
It's dox, faggot.
Anthony Myers
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Joseph Allen
Does Zig Forums have an IRC?
Thomas Carter
Forum administrators pass around a list of bad IP ranges and domains user. They block a lot of things other than tor, just the list of domains they block (e-mail blocking) is a mile long. Everyone brings up Neogaf but a lot of forums have the same policy they just don't talk about it and accept things like hotmail/gmail because they're chasing adshekels.
I believe there is one on rizon but no idea about the people that idle in it. Rizon is where most of the 8ch channels are located unless things have drastically changed in the past year or so.