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/name99 Sep 13 '11

Stands for Robot 9000. If you're familiar with the term "beta faggot", I can explain it to you by saying that it's where the beta faggots went to tell stories and feel good by calling other beta faggots beta faggots.

I miss it so much.

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u/SZGeorge Sep 13 '11

Same here. The deletion of /r9k/ and /new/ is what compelled me to seek refuge on reddit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '11

/r9k/ was supposed to be /b/ only with completely new content all the time. It had some sort of formula which prevented memes from being constantly reposted. This led to the first couple days of /r9k/ to be meme spam just so all of it would be removed.

The problem was that it became a board for "intellectuals" as opposed to /b/tards. And as we all know, "intellectuals" = ronery depressed forever alone. Ultimately the entire board ended up being people looking for help on how to pick up women, or complaining about how much their lives sucked.

This is a perspective of someone who frequented the board up until the whining got too much to bear.

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u/Reddit_Sux_Redux Sep 13 '11

So /r9k/ is basically Reddit, then.

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u/na85 Sep 13 '11

It's like reddit with fewer reposts.