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.
People are really using 4chan? I thought this was a meme
If you want brain damage it’s the place to be!
I check in once a year or so, just to remind myself if the dregs of humanity are still hanging out there
Sometimes you need to go into the toxic wastes of /pol/ to appreciate fresh air and sane people in your life.
no the website is just bots /s
Always saw 4Chan as a freedom of speech platform but looks like things are changing very quickly.
That was your mistake. Just because it allowed all sorts of stupid shitposts, slurs and weird porn didn’t mean it was a place for free speech. Power tripping mods are as old as the site itself. Some people got so fed up with that they made “freer speecher” alternatives, like 8chan.
maybe, but the rules were never like this. I’ve tried searching the web about people being unfairly banned and I barely found anything. They’re definitely changing things.
It’s messed up to get banned for life without any warning, explanation or second chances. Literally how would anyone know the rules have changed unless they read them every day?
It’s gonna be hard for people to find out though, because most search results on Google are reddit ones, and people who go on 4chan are much more likely to be banned from reddit. So that’s why I wanted to post this here. I know I’m not the only one and I suspect alternative websites will only grow in the future.
To be honest you’ll do a great favor to yourself abandoning this site from hell.
You’re not wrong but it doesn’t make it less devastating. I’ve been using it for years and not even gotten banned a single time. And now in the past few weeks this, and then I check the rules and it all makes sense. I always saw it as a fall back option when I wanted to talk to someone. It used to be reddit but I got banned for some complete bs, it used to be discord but they totally ruined it too… Then I thought I at least had 4chan but no longer
Are you posting in /b/ ? The moderators of /b/ are also freed from many of the usual rules, and they have often removed posts or issued bans for any and no reason at all.
I am not :/ I’m telling u guys this is definitely a recent thing. I don’t exactly know what their motives are but it’s kind of scary tbh
I rarely read the rules, but hasn’t it always been the case that you could be banned for no reason? and I think that’s okay, the mods don’t have a obligation to be fair, Hiro / the mods can do with 4chan whatever they want.
ultimately I think you can say on 4chan everything you want, more so than on any other platform.
No, I don’t think that has always been the case at all. When I was looking back at old post people would be completely shocked if someone would get banned from 4chan, because it would be very hard to get banned and you’d have to do something really bad. That’s just not the case anymore. I’ve also heard of people paying for a pass and getting banned for bs reasons too.
It served it’s purpose getting MAGA elected. Now the funding from Putin and US political action groups is gone and they need to tighten things up to continue to get ad revenue.
I don’t get it, who are they getting ad revenue from? Thought it was just random people using their website to sell their stuff, why would they care about how “politically correct” the website is? They can just find literally anywhere else to advertise
ITT: we don’t understand how internet marketing works
I don’t know who we is but I certainly don’t
It served it’s purpose getting MAGA elected.
yeah, that was moot’s plan in 2003
I thought he was no longer in charge of 4chan
he was in 2003
thinking 4chan is important enough for any government to care about it at all
It’s uncertain what exactly, but something weird is definitely going on
