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Will the 4chan hack be the end of it?

  • Yes, goodbye forever 4chan

    Votes: 1,051 18.2%

  • No, they will rise from the ashes, stronger than ever

    Votes: 363 6.3%

  • This will rattle them but it will be forgotten about next week

    Votes: 2,396 41.4%

  • I am just here for the janny phonebooking

    Votes: 1,122 19.4%

  • What the fuck is 4chan

    Votes: 252 4.4%

  • Yotsuba&!

    Votes: 599 10.4%
  • Total voters
    5,783
CEO of Autism said:
My least favorite type of 4chan OP is that one in which OP is too chickenshit to actually affirm what he likes. So he has to be a little sniveling faggot and ask questions with obvious answers, "why is [object of my obsession] like this?" "Why did [product] not sell?" "why did [person's career] fail?", etc. You can't make an OP in which you say "I like/dislike X, can we discuss it?" anymore, you have to be a passive bitch who can't commit to any single viewpoint because people aren't allowed to have an opinion anymore. It's all so tiresome.
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The best OP is where you tell everyone your opinion and if they don't agree with you, they're faggots and retards.
 
r/oldpeoplefacebook said:
Getting this as well. Is this a provider issue/range ban? That happened to me when posting from PC, but not mobile on data. And I am not giving them my fucking email
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BigBadBastich said:
I saw someone post on another board that using ublock origin will give you the rangeban notification and turning it off and then resetting cookies will undo it. I use it but I havent had any issues personally so it could be something else.
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The "your IP is banned for abuse" message is an automatic, random block based on your threat score. It is assigned to your IP after making a post. You can remove it by getting a single post through from a browser the site considers to be less of a threat.

What 4chan does is analyze a bunch of things when you post. Your browser user agent, many of the sent HTTP headers, how many posts have you made, when was your last post, whether you are posting a new thread or a new post, using an image or not, and many other things I forgot. It then assigns a threat score based on all of those, for example certain combinations of strings in the browser user agent will increase the score while having made a post in the past 15 minutes decreases it. Lower threat score gives you easier captchas, higher ones will give you harder captcha and longer timer blocks. New user sessions (for ex. private browsing) all start with a higher score, the more posts you make the lower the score gets. Plus there are per board and even per thread score requirements (the latter are particularly funny).

The thing that triggers the "your IP is banned for abuse" message is that if your threat score is too high, then the site throws the dice (runs an "if (mt_rand(0,1)) {" call, ie. 50% of returning yes/no) on whether you should be blocked or not. These temporary blocks are set after you post, so you could post fine for a while and then get a random block. They are also paired up with your IP, so if you can push a new post, it will remove the message.

The user agent check is however broken, and keeps assigning Firefox a too high score. So what you can do is to use desktop Chrome to post once, it will then clean the temp block for your IP, and you can post from Firefox again.
Messing with ublock origin may change your browser profile enough to get a new message through the same way, but using desktop Chrome works 100% for me whenever I get the block.

So it's not an actual IP abuse filter, the site just throws the dice on whether it likes you or not.


edit: the spur.us and mcl.io blocks are piggybacked on this system, they are only loaded if the calculated thread score is very high. Then the site runs those. It makes sense because if they ran it on every post, they'd end up sending hundreds of thousands of calls per day.

It's actually a pretty good idea on paper, it's just not set up properly. Or, they had it set up broken intentionally because the error message tells you to by a pass, which bypasses the entire threat score generation.
 
Dorkwan said:
You can tell 4chan is dead because if it wasn't the people running these pink pill discords would've been doxxed and then pushed off the internet after a week or two of harassment.
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What was the name of the /r9k/ nigger that was one of the earlier spammers? He basically had that happen to him.
 
seal said:
What was the name of the /r9k/ nigger that was one of the earlier spammers? He basically had that happen to him.
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I'm not sure if it's the same person, but Kimmo Alm used to spam /b/ and some other boards with advertisements of his Anontalk website.
 
Hypercop said:
Fascinating to think I've now seen multiple huge sites slide off into irrelevance and die. Part of my brain wants me to find the next 4chan, but when I actually go looking it's like the entire internet is full of mentally stunted manchildren and the only sane choice is to not really spend time online anymore.
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The only consolation is that Tumblr also died. Both the Tumblr and 4chan diasporas will plague the internet and keep fighting each other for many years to come.
 
Egregore said:
I'm not sure if it's the same person, but Kimmo Alm used to spam /b/ and some other boards with advertisements of his Anontalk website.
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I was thinking of Reiko. Looks like there's a few mentions of him on here. All the 'le become le girlfriend' shit felt like a psyop from the very beginning. I remember seeing one of those threads for the first time and thinking that the OP pic looked like a guy and you absolutely can tell.
 
Gaped Ape said:
Hmm why do people keep trying to ban evade or use proxies on my website?
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Egregore said:
I'm not sure if it's the same person, but Kimmo Alm used to spam /b/ and some other boards with advertisements of his Anontalk website.
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One of my earliest memories on 4chan was seeing some anon post a picture of a note they taped to Kimmo's front door. I don't remember what it was but it was either some "LOLZ U GOT SET UP DA BOMB" directed towards him or something along the lines of "REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER LIVES IN THIS APARTMENT." Nothing will instill a strong commitment to strict cyber hygiene habits like lurking early 4chan. Seeing how some teenager posting a webcam video on YouTube for her Gaia Online friends escalate to grown men showing up at her parents house to give her flowers really changed my perspective from "the internet is a fun place to meet people and learn new things" to "the internet is a funny place full of low inhibition psychopaths that will try to trick you into mustard gassing yourself."
 
so I got a "your IP is sus" from my chromebook, but then the exact same shitpost went through kosher on my win11 machine, both on the same IP
the chromebook is less pozzed to 4channing, the win11 machine is balls-deep
but yeah the "IP address spam" bullshit is def bulllshit
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
so I got a "your IP is sus" from my chromebook, but then the exact same shitpost went through kosher on my win11 machine, both on the same IP
the chromebook is less pozzed to 4channing, the win11 machine is balls-deep
but yeah the "IP address spam" bullshit is def bulllshit
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I would personally just rangeban all of SEA, Israel, , Jeetland, Russia, China and call it a day.
 
Dorkwan said:
One of my earliest memories on 4chan was seeing some anon post a picture of a note they taped to Kimmo's front door. I don't remember what it was but it was either some "LOLZ U GOT SET UP DA BOMB" directed towards him or something along the lines of "REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER LIVES IN THIS APARTMENT." Nothing will instill a strong commitment to strict cyber hygiene habits like lurking early 4chan. Seeing how some teenager posting a webcam video on YouTube for her Gaia Online friends escalate to grown men showing up at her parents house to give her flowers really changed my perspective from "the internet is a fun place to meet people and learn new things" to "the internet is a funny place full of low inhibition psychopaths that will try to trick you into mustard gassing yourself."
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He had it coming.
 
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