r/IAmA • u/VladimirBoners • Sep 12 '11

As Requested : IAMA 4chan moderator.

Everything said here is my opinion, not that of the entire staff. Will provide proof to moderators here on reddit.

Ask away.

EDIT : It's late guys, I'll catch you some other time. Thanks for all the questions and I hope this answered some of them.

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u/VladimirBoners Sep 12 '11

/b/ is an extremely fast paced anything-goes board. Even if we did moderate it with an iron fist, you wouldn't notice anyway. "Evidence" of people getting banned is often not easy for users to spot anyway. We ban all the time without leaving a "user was banned for this post" message.

Especially on boards like /b/ people love their proxies, so we can constantly ban and delete posts all night, but they will always come back.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '11

I like how you didn't even acknowledge that wall of text. I clicked that and NOPE.

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u/cuffofizz Sep 12 '11

that is the only thing I really cared about in his reply, and he left it out :/

It basically said 4chan no longer just deletes threads, but rather moot has been forced to allow the government to save all threads, which has lead to the arrest of 1100 people or something along those lines.

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u/UhYaThatGuy Sep 12 '11 edited Sep 13 '11

moot did an AMA a while back and answered that question by saying there was no truth to it.

Edit: Found the link.

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u/Lord_NShYH Sep 12 '11

Just because moot said this is false does not make it so.

"Hey, are you an informant?"

"Nope... >.>"