<story><title>A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03452</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ivarious</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s rather disappointing that the authors didn&amp;#x27;t talk about the biggest thing that has reshaped discussion in 4chan since years.&lt;p&gt;The reply indicator.&lt;p&gt;For people who don&amp;#x27;t go to 4chan, you can read it on &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&amp;#x2F;memes&amp;#x2F;you-here-s-your-you&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&amp;#x2F;memes&amp;#x2F;you-here-s-your-you&lt;/a&gt;. Basically, if someone else replied to your post, the post pointer will show a (You) word, showing that the poster replied to a post that you wrote.&lt;p&gt;Moreover, the post number of posts that replied&amp;#x2F;quoted you will be attached to your own posts. Much-replied post will have a lot of link to the posts that replied them, and very visible when you skip through the thread.&lt;p&gt;This one simple feature has changed 4chan. Before, posts are similar and anonymous since they don&amp;#x27;t have visual distinction between each other. You have to actually read their content to know what&amp;#x27;s inside. The reply indicator make controversial posts very visible and &amp;quot;famous&amp;quot; in the thread.&lt;p&gt;Much like Reddit&amp;#x27;s voting system and Facebook likes or Twitter&amp;#x27;s retweets&amp;#x2F;favorites, 4chan now has its own post rating system. The difference is that Facebook likes and Reddit&amp;#x27;s vote system rewards popular posts that people agree  with and liked. 4chan&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;rating system&amp;quot; rewards controversial posts that people rebuke or laugh at.&lt;p&gt;The presence of this reply indicator make people try to post controversial contents, and to be controversial by 4chan standards, your post have to be very, very controversial.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03452</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dogma1138</author><text>&amp;quot;9. RARE PEPES
In this Section we display some of our rare Pepe collection.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Things that you have never thought would appear on a bonafide research paper for 800$.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: 4Chan thread regarding this paper, this is worth the read on it&amp;#x27;s own.
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;boards.4chan.org&amp;#x2F;pol&amp;#x2F;thread&amp;#x2F;92612923&amp;#x2F;a-longitudinal-measurement-study-of-4chans&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;boards.4chan.org&amp;#x2F;pol&amp;#x2F;thread&amp;#x2F;92612923&amp;#x2F;a-longitudinal-m...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>