What this poster didn't know at the time, but was basically confirmed by the sharty hack, is that the actual mods are neglectful and lazy and most of the actual "moderation" done on this website is done by unpaid volunteers (jannies) who can only delete posts, files, and REQUEST a 3-day ban. This is the reason why it'll usually be a while between making a post and getting a 3-day vacation for it.
I'm fairly certain if you had W.T. Snacks style moderation - banning every single dipshit and deleting bad threads on sight - then the website would be much better for it, but it's all but confirmed that the site is kept intentionally bad to a) prevent subversive ideas from taking root and spreading here, and b) so as to allow viral marketers to work more or less unimpeded.
and I don't get the people who say "Oh, 4chan is too irrelevant to have shills/viral marketers." It's the largest English-language imageboard on the internet - possibly the largest English language FORUM, full-stop, and has a demographic base almost completely opposite to that of mainstream social media, so again, marketers and counterintelligence propagandists needing to reach *this* demographic of internet users, rather than the "normalfag" demographic will HAVE to work here because it's the single most effective way to actually reach a relatively large number of 'counterculture' internet users. (for want of a better term)