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Originally Posted by missmacabre
4chan has ruined the internet. I can't go to any forum, social media site, or even on WoW without seeing 4channers ruining everything. Everything from forum trolls, to youtube and digg comment trolls to trade chat and guild trolls. I have been told that "there are no girls on the internet" over 50 times in less than a month now, all to elicit "pics or it didn't happen" comments that they think will trick me into refilling their "noods folder."
If I was a mod or GM, every teenager or 20 something who was any less than literate, made more than 5 4chan meme jokes, couldn't post on a forum without including a picture from 4chan, didn't read old posts before asking questions or posting new thread or was immature or sexist in anyway would be banned.
PS don't make me a mod or I will ban majority of the internet.
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The internet/forums have always been like that - I've being posting on an MMA site since about 1997 and alot of the behaviour you attribute to 4chan was happening there and prolly every other forum back then too and Newsgroups (BBoards before that again). There has always been trolls - there has always been forum 'in jokes' and jargon this is long before 4chan existed.