4chan Launches '$20 Bug Bounty' After Hackers Ruin moot's Day 79
mask.of.sanity (1228908) writes "4chan's founder Moot has launched a bug bounty for the site after it was hacked, but is offering a meager $20 in 'self-serve ad spend' for all bugs. The bounty program was launched after the website and Moot's Amazon accounts were hacked. The intrusion spelled the end for DrawQuest which was closed after Moot decided it was not worth spending money to ensure the unprofitable but popular drawing platform was secure."
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He's dealt with its community with astounding elegance. And never bowed down and cashed out like Slashdot did.
I'm sure more than one moneyman waved a check at him thinking he had an idea of how to monetize the site. Selling it to a corporation would mean instant death (no corporate structure would deal with such an army of crazy people)
In any case, who the fuck are you to call him a loser?
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Honestly, you have no idea what you're talking about. The whole "HUR 4CHAN IS EVIL" thing is essentially a forced meme among communities of kids like Gamefaqs or Reddit. They act like it's Valley of Defilement from Demon's Souls, in that the second you walk in there's a bunch of once-human monsters covered in toxic goo and their own feces who want nothing more than to club you to death, when really it's nothing like that.
What I remember 4Chan for are things like Katawa Shoujo, or the group on /vr/ that occasionally translates Game Center CX episodes, the time people from /v/ delivered Gabe Newell a locked crate and charged him $2.50 to open it. 4Chan is exactly what it set out to be - an anonymous imageboard made for the discussion of anime and Japanese culture (and later other things). It's more popular than the board it spun off (2Chan), and hasn't sold its soul to a mega-corporation, ala Slashdot, Gamefaqs, Reddit , and every other forum out there. Moot makes no money off it. Even the donations from 4Chan Passes are used entirely to pay for the servers and upkeep.
So no, I think a site's userbase is what you make of it. Of course, judging from your post, you're going a long way to making Slashdot's comments section the most asinine userbase on the internet.
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Re:let me be the first to say (Score:5, Insightful)
Free speech is messy. Completely free speech is completely messy.
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