How does 4chan work?

[Gregis]

If you don't log in, how do you know which one you are? What if you post something, and then change your mind about the issue and forget you posted, what's to stop you from arguing with yourself?

 

[a hapless toad]

#1. Be gay.
#2. Post.
#3. Goto #1.

 

[Nicholas Gur]

How does 4chan work?​

It doesn't

 

[Cranjis McBasketball]

how do you know which one you are?

You just have to remember which posts you make, and any replies to your posts will be marked with (you).

what's to stop you from arguing with yourself?

Nothing. People often do it intentionally, but it's looked down on and is called samefagging.

 

[Gregis]

any replies to your posts will be marked with (you)

But how do they know I'm me?

 

[Cranjis McBasketball]

But how do they know I'm me?

They don't, some treads like /pol/ and /biz/ have thread specific tripcodes that allow you to keep track of who is who in threads, but not between them. Other boards you just have to keep track of the flow of the conversation, but that won't stop people from pretending they're you and fucking up your thread.

 

[PonderosaPete]

Poor stalker child, 4chan hasn't worked in days.

 

[Gregis]

tripcodes

Is that like stickers? I like stickers. Here, I gave you one, welcome to kiwi farms!

 

[Gangstalker #32194]

its a little like putting your mouth up to an israeli sewage pump and then drinking everything that comes out

 

[We Are The Witches]

Other boards you just have to keep track of the flow of the conversation, but that won't stop people from pretending they're you and fucking up your thread.

What a mess, so if they make an additional claim (shitting up your previous one) pretending to be you, then the conversation is pretty much going nowhere.

 

[Mound Dweller]

It works the way all satanic imaging runes (silicone based vacuum tube technology) works; infernally imprisoned lightning inside of rock.