Anonymous
3/3/2016, 11:15:30 PM
No.5280
While I'm enthralled at the prospect of banning all dumb mobileposters forever (okay, not really), I think that's likely to be a dead-end discussion that should be had in another thread if it needs to be had at all.
>>5272
>a) They go directly against why people browse 4chan for (anonymity)
I've heard the idea brought up and dismissed a few times but I'm not sure it's ever been on the grounds that they unconscionably violate the "spirit of anonymity." IIRC the issues usually brought up are the barriers placed in front of new posters and overall practicality.
>b) They would require an immense amount of restructuring for the site and they would place an additional and not indifferent load on the servers.
Yeah, I'm aware that 4chan's server capacity is not unlimited. Adding some sort of post authentication layer to 4chan is likely to have a noticeable impact on the site. I don't know how much that would be compared to what we already have (I think the most computationally expensive operation associated with a single 4chan post is thumbnailing it, but I don't actually know) but that's a practical consideration which we can measure concrete trade-offs for if it's decided that a better mousetrap would actually be improvement.
>there's too many providers in the world to compile a list of every mobile provider
We already block all open proxies and Tor exit nodes and there's a lot of those, and the vast majority of people share a few major carriers. Not saying that we should ever actually DO this, but there is a difference between something being technically impossible and something being a workable but bad idea.
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>>5272
>a) They go directly against why people browse 4chan for (anonymity)
I've heard the idea brought up and dismissed a few times but I'm not sure it's ever been on the grounds that they unconscionably violate the "spirit of anonymity." IIRC the issues usually brought up are the barriers placed in front of new posters and overall practicality.
>b) They would require an immense amount of restructuring for the site and they would place an additional and not indifferent load on the servers.
Yeah, I'm aware that 4chan's server capacity is not unlimited. Adding some sort of post authentication layer to 4chan is likely to have a noticeable impact on the site. I don't know how much that would be compared to what we already have (I think the most computationally expensive operation associated with a single 4chan post is thumbnailing it, but I don't actually know) but that's a practical consideration which we can measure concrete trade-offs for if it's decided that a better mousetrap would actually be improvement.
>there's too many providers in the world to compile a list of every mobile provider
We already block all open proxies and Tor exit nodes and there's a lot of those, and the vast majority of people share a few major carriers. Not saying that we should ever actually DO this, but there is a difference between something being technically impossible and something being a workable but bad idea.
(cont.)