4chan planning a "raid"

[bicostp]

*It's 11*

Referring to the pointlessness that is 4chan. The only time I ever think about it is when it coughs up something halfway funny.

EDIT: Why hello there pagebreak. Fancy meeting you here.

[palmertech]

I bet 4chan dies or drastically changes form by January 3rd, 2010.

Moot is flying towards bankruptcy, no ad agencies will support them because they have been flagged as a criminal activities organization site, and the few ads they are able to wrangle on their own are increasingly useless thanks to adblock, and the fact that nobody will disable it.

[bicostp]

"Insert coin to post idiocy"?

EDIT: *checks Wikipedia* WHOA 20 GRAND IN DEBT

[palmertech]

Yup.

There was a recent article on him in Kiplingers, a financial magazine. Basically, they analyze a business's financial situation, give advice, and make an article of it. As of that article, he is supposedly owes $15,000 is hosting fees, and over $60,000 in personal debt, fines, and assorted other stuff.

Kiplingers basically told him he needs to get rid of his criminal organization site allegations by forcing people to have an account that is traceable to a real person, so they can bust them in case of crime. Then, he needs to require a way (probably via credit card number) to prove that all visitors are 18 or older, or make a strict anti-pornography policy on the site. Finally, any planned "raids" need to be immediately reported to the proper authorities. They say that this will either allow him to get ads that can support the site again, or make it a far "safer" purchase for some possibly buyout by a media company (Rupert Murdoch, looking at you).

Here is proof that none of the analysts had ever heard of 4chan and what it stands for before they wrote their article: Basically, they think he should take anonymous, porno, underage kids, and any kind of raids/attacks out of 4chan.

Wait a sec, what would be left after you take all that away?

[Triton]

Wait a sec, what would be left after you take all that away?

not very bloody much lol, not in /b/ anyway, the rest of the boards would be relatively unharmed. but yea what they suggest would in effect kill 4chan so

[collinE]

Finally, any planned "raids" need to be immediately reported to the proper authorities.

so then we'd know who planned the benheck raid?