Anonymous
8/24/2025, 3:53:15 PM
No.106368058
>>106367841
>4chan allows you to delete your own posts and there are no issues like other anons deleting your posts.
>Since the extension would consist of both client side and server side code, there'd be effectively no difference between it and 4chan itself, in this regard. It's just another server.
Whenever you post you're sending a password to the 4chan server, and when you delete you're also sending the same password to the 4chan server so it can verify.
But in your proposed system you need to send a post submission message to one 4chan server and then you also need to send a message to the overlay server saying basically "I am OP of the thread with this thread number", but you can only send this message after 4chan actually submits the thread or you can't know the thread number in advance, so there is a small delay, what if an attacker sets up a scraper such that whenever a thread is made they send a message to the overlay server saying that they are OP? Or even worse what if I spam messages for every future post number?
The problem is that you can't communicate with 4chan servers.
>it could improve thread quality
Quality is subjective, what you're saying is that OP should decide what quality is, essentially that they should have this power instead of mods.
I'd argue they would do an even worse job than mods because they are involved with the discussion and can't be impartial.
>Upvotes on reddit
Collective moderation is not the same as upvotes, moderation is all about deciding which posts are harmful to discussion, while upvotes are all about giving an absolute value to posts (it's a quantification), the objective is totally different.
Notice than in my proposal >>106368010 I said that the quality rating should be between 0 and 1 so it's a percentage not an absolute value.
>4chan allows you to delete your own posts and there are no issues like other anons deleting your posts.
>Since the extension would consist of both client side and server side code, there'd be effectively no difference between it and 4chan itself, in this regard. It's just another server.
Whenever you post you're sending a password to the 4chan server, and when you delete you're also sending the same password to the 4chan server so it can verify.
But in your proposed system you need to send a post submission message to one 4chan server and then you also need to send a message to the overlay server saying basically "I am OP of the thread with this thread number", but you can only send this message after 4chan actually submits the thread or you can't know the thread number in advance, so there is a small delay, what if an attacker sets up a scraper such that whenever a thread is made they send a message to the overlay server saying that they are OP? Or even worse what if I spam messages for every future post number?
The problem is that you can't communicate with 4chan servers.
>it could improve thread quality
Quality is subjective, what you're saying is that OP should decide what quality is, essentially that they should have this power instead of mods.
I'd argue they would do an even worse job than mods because they are involved with the discussion and can't be impartial.
>Upvotes on reddit
Collective moderation is not the same as upvotes, moderation is all about deciding which posts are harmful to discussion, while upvotes are all about giving an absolute value to posts (it's a quantification), the objective is totally different.
Notice than in my proposal >>106368010 I said that the quality rating should be between 0 and 1 so it's a percentage not an absolute value.