>>37324816I'm not going to say that hiro is a "good" administrator in the active sense, but he understands one thing (or defers it to someone who does):
One of the biggest draws that keeps people coming back here over other website is a LACK of enforced standards beyond the rules, which are so reserved that they intentionally enable a lot of conversation that most people (outside of 4chan) would actually want moderated away, and accordingly most people use other services.
As such people both happily and unhappily come back for the content the love-or-hate but crave regardless. The vast, vast majority of people even interested in buying 4chan and who can afford it would absolutely fuck it up in short order trying to get blood from that stone, even worse than Musk is doing to Twitter.
One thing to realize about 4chan that answers a lot of meta drama is that the site is really only driven by moderation in terms of keeping it mostly topical if the board has one, keeping obvious advertising/bots at bay, keeping the site legally up (increasingly difficult per traffic, doesn't scale well), etc. 4chan is mostly normalized and stereotyped by anons posting, and most headaches you personally encounter likely result from someone(s) with the same access to the site as you, likely just with a different flavor of autism. Like pic related, which is no longer super-drama-bait, had no real solution that I see moderation solving because anons on both sides were using it intentionally to be annoying/derailing for their own entertainment, so beyond knocking people on both sides for trolling (which they actually are, but oddly enough doesn't help if enough people actually find it compelling or even fun), the actual best thing was probably to let people grow bored of the bait and move on to some other autism.
What would actually happen if someone like
>>37325697 got their wish is that the site would become redundant compared to all the boogeyman sites anons bemoan, since pretty much all 4chan really has going for it for its current size is a unique community that has no equivalent in the West. Just look at other imageboards to see how popular the site concept itself really is (extremely niche). There is actually something of value lost if the catalog is sanitized and agreeable to (You) without manual filters, as that implies a lot of potential threads and replies of neutral/low-negative value being snuffed out as well. That doesn't mean it would "die," but 4chan would become a site that would struggle much more to attract any new posters and would start noticeably shrinking in traffic/speed over time, where now it is pretty stable.
and yes I've been reddit-spacing since I learned how to use Word in like 2003, if you want I can scrunch the newlines out and make it harder to read if that's all you can reply about 
