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 No.2101

Maybe anonymity makes people more collectivist because you can't be distinguished from anybody else.

I'm going to recall an experience I had on 8chan but bear in mind that I can't remember exactly:

>There was a thread on /pol/ by a person coming from Reddit where OP says about how he doesn't like the lack of karma and identity on anonymous forums because he can't gauge the popularity of his comment and opinions.

>Two anons replied saying that anonymity means being part of a collective and losing your individuality.

National Socialism and Communism are ideologies that are common on 8chan and they are collectivist I think, Libertarians aside.

I also found a thread that I think might be of interest: >>>/4chonr9k/1729

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 No.2107

Redditors get off on parroting the opinions everyone reading it already agrees with. "[Overused meme/opinion held by people with college degrees]" "Upboat!!! :DDD" "So much this".

Chanfags get off on having the same opinion as everyone else only more so. "I hate niggers" "BUT NOT AS MUCH AS I HATE NIGGERS" and so on and so on.

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 No.2109

>>2101

Yes, our essence is collectivist. Chan boards are mind virus in it's purest form, completely ignoring the carrier.

You will notice however, where the virus is regularly attacked, the IDs (being the most basic form of identification) are introduced for the sole purpose of easier protection against the enemy virus.

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 No.2112

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Yeah, and?

I remember in the early days of 4chan we would call ourselves a hivemind.

Or that motto "We are anonymous, we are legion".

Or How people started protesting wearing guy fawkes masks.

Imageboards create leaderless decentralized groups.

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 No.2115

I would say that, at its best, imageboards create a Darwinian survival of the fittest regarding ideas, while stripping away any sort of ethos that would taint someone's opinion of the idea being shared. The problem with this is the same one plaguing /pol/ right now, a group creating mob rule and a hugbox. The problem is the concept I mentioned is a commonly shared one, and the mob uses social pressuring to chase out rival groups, while convincing themselves that their success is this concept working, despite them using identity politics to undermine the concept.

At its worst, imageboards become just like a subreddit. Wrongthink threads get met with sagebombs and cries of "bait" and "shill," moderation works to maintain an ideological consensus through direct action hotpocketry, and commonly-held beliefs go completely unchallenged and become "truths," despite evidence to the contrary existing. After all, if a tree falls in a forest, everyone says they didn't hear it, and those that did are pressured into denying it, it really doesn't matter if it made a sound, now, does it?

In the end, like all things social, it comes down to the integrity of the community in question.

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 No.2119

Fuck the quality of this board has gone downhill since the last time I been here

Anyway, on the subject at hand I don't think there's any collectivism in here, a lot of the stuff that happens at IBs like these are a matter of momentum, you have threads with good ideas that go nowhere because not enough people post in them

On the other hand a lot of shitty threads go far because of shitposting, which creates momentum, everybody likes an active thread and the number one complaint you hear from cuckchan visitors is that most boards in fullchan don't have the same amount of posting, regardless of overall quality.

The problem with reddit is that it became a fucking popularity contest, its just so big most people don't notice but you got a ton of users who are just karma whore. This is much more obvious in reddit clones like quora which make people use their IRL names and thus you can see the whoring more obviously since a of pretentious fucks there try to sell themselves on every post

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 No.2131

>>2119

>Fuck the quality of this board has gone downhill since the last time I been here

I'm sorry to hear you feel that way. I would appreciate it if you took the time to post your specific complains on the Meta thread, so we can discuss possible solutions together.

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