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user-inactivated  ·  3940 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Chris Poole: The anonymity I know

I don't think anonymity is the sole reason /b/ is the way it is. I think the raiding, paedophilia and casual use of slurs became the thing people talked about when they talked about /b/, and people started wanting to live up to the stories it tells about itself. Maybe that wouldn't have happened without anonymity, but I don't think anonymity causes that to happen.