Hello 4chan. I have spent the past 2 years conducting a study on 4chan's international board (/int/). You see it is commonely stated that /int/'s moderation is extremely biased, specifically when it comes to anything regarding Russia. I wanted to test this to see if this was actually true.I made threads on /int/ (N=50) using various proxies. (https://pastebin.com/XfwT4zXR) Each thread would be made in a pair. One would be would negative about Russia, the other would contain the near exact same wording except instead of Russia it would be about another country. I would then record if the thread was deleted and how long it would take to be deleted (in minutes). What I found was shocking even for me. 88.5% of threads negative about Russia were deleted while only 11.5% of threads negative about other countries were deleted. The median time of deletion for Russian threads were 4 minutes with the longest time being 5 hours and 19 minutes and the shortest time being 4.5 seconds (which was so fast the archive sites weren't able to archive it in time so it had to be thrown out). The confidence scores in the graph were calculated using Wilson score with a 95% confidence interval.Under normal circumstances a sample size of 50 would be considered too small to be statistical significant or publishable but due to the immense and frankly shocking difference in outcomes it was able to more than overcome this and is provably statistical significant. On a scientific level the moderation of this board is biased. If this bias continues I will try to publish this as a pilot study in JOTS
Here is an example of the typical thread I would make. Here the wording is the same with the only difference being the flag shown. Other times the wording would be changed to change "Russia" to another country or similar other adjustments. Most cases would result in the Russian thread being deleted and the other country's staying up with 0 instances of the reverse happening.
Post a pasetbin before you get banned and your thread deleted
Blame it on the Nafoids shitting down the catalog with retarded propaganda threads.
>>534348676https://pastebin.com/AVaWSFmR
>>534348714>Saaar I had to delete only the mean comments about Russia because the comments are very mean, I must do the needful
>>534348564>international board (/int/).>/int/Just throw it out it's irrelevant now
>>534348564>Under normal circumstances a sample size of 50 would be considered too small to be statistical significant or publishable but due to the immense and frankly shocking difference in outcomes it was able to more than overcome this and is provably statistical significant.Clearly you don't know nonparamentric methods, I can only assume how fucked your assumptions are for the tests that assume the data is parametric. Also, your approach should have used more experimental design methods including nonparametric approaches.Above all however, that you wasted 2 years of your life on something so fucking irrelevant is probably the saddest shit I've heard in a long time. In the entire universe of potential things to analyze, you wasted it on 4chan. Fucking hell.
because 4chan has been infiltrated for years now, end of explanation
>>534348786nice
TJDJD
>>534348879nonparametric*
i got a 3 day ban on /pol/ for making a thread critical of israel during the height of the iran war.
>>534348954you got banned for being an insufferable frogfaggot 2014 was a VERY LONG TIME AGO
>>534349040seethe more migger. strait open yet?
>>534348580isn't it based on how many people report it so X number gets a reposnse from jannies and its already off topic so either one can be deleted
>>534348564>I shit up the board with spam threadsOk... Your premise is fucking retarded though as you seem to be assuming that mod/janny coverage is a constant and doesn't vary by number of mods/jannies active at various times of the day. I.e. there is nothing scientific about your experiment.
>>534348564Your free speech website sire.....
>>534348580Zipperhead from April 25th is the real hero here.
>>534349236What a retarded post. You are clearly a jannie or a wanna be jannie defending it.Unless all 50 threads were made at a different time from the other 50 it wouldn't make a difference and even then not by that much.
>>534349329They clearly were made at different times if you simply look at the example posts in OPs second message
mods just assume you are retarded nafo tranny with the same RUSSIA BAD spam that was spammed here for years
>>534349541You would have a point if there was only 2 posts made. Not 50 retard.
>>534349541>100 threads weren't made at the exact same time so Jannies dindu nuffin
>>534349570Uhhh we had to delete all the threads insulting Russia (but none of the ones insulting other countries) because too many people were mean at us ok? So I guess insulting India should also be against the rules.
>>534348564Makes sense. The Russian government pays activists and intelligence officers to shit up the internet. I have very little doubt that Russian intelligence doesnt have a strong grip over this website in general. Look at /b/ for example which used to be a troll board and is now entirely trans and interracial porn and pro-Russian state propaganda. /pol/ is in a similar position. I knew something was off when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and threads about it started popping up. They created a single General about it and people of all different views posted there. Yet somehow the pro-Russian position, which didnt seem all that popular, was furious anandd created a separate General for only pro-Russian government views complete with obvious off-site organizing. I have never in my life seen jannies allow TWO Generals to exist on the same topic before, but it was bizarrely allowed when it came to supporting Putin. Its pretty obvious that the Russian government spends resources to try and control what is posted on 4chan in general.
>>534348564This is what happens when you have low IQ and go about this all wrong. Your bait threads are incredibly obvious and probably just being reported. Your data is like 99% skewed towards your confirmation bias.Use a little bit of subtlety.
it's a known fact that 4chan is exploited by multiple external agents, it has been for many years.but now what ? If you change 4chan to restrict those use, it stops being 4chan. And yet, at the same time, 4chan is definitely different from what it originally was. Will people lose interest and the website become niche once again ?Will there be new rules about online id ? new rules about foreign influence ? many things could change the paradigm
>>534349834So it is bait when it insults Russia but not bait when it is word for word the same but a different country? You are the low IQ one here Jannie. You got caught. Stop seething and accept it. >>534349967All jannies get an ID. All deletions and reports are viewable publicly and tied to the jannie ID. The 4chan dox already showed that most of the jannies are freaks that need to be put on a short leash.
>>534350106>>534349967To samefag myself. This isn't even the first time biased Russian jannies made things so bad that the mods had to publicly step in.
>>534350106>So it is bait when it insults Russia but not bait when it is word for word the same but a different country?Yeah because noone cares about Japan or pays attention to them compared to Russia are you that blind to the most obvious things? What you think works on paper isn't real life.
>I wasted 2 years of my life studying the behaviours of retards and faggots
>>534350546>So no one cares about JapanThis is literally a Japanese image board retard. What you mean is Russian jannies are far more sensitive when you insult their country than other countries.
>>534350546So what you are saying is the Jannies get upset when you insult Russia but not Japan. Got it.
>>534348954>make retarded post>get bannedOkay?
>>534349073Why do you NAFO retards make the chimp meme for Trump when he's fighting Russia's ally?
>>534348786thanks m8
>>534350640You're retarded, it was like that in the 00s when moot made it, and is something completely different now. I bet you don't even remember what /new/ was before pol.
>>534348564>TaiwanSo this is a glowie psyop, in other words.
>Putin himself is a /pol/ mod.
>>534350682No, what im saying is that the Russian threads get clicked on more and therefore get reported more and deleted faster.Im done explaining this shit to you complete absolute newfag cretins.
>>534350786I was here since 09 but either way you are doing a shit job defending yourself Jannie. You argument literally boils down to>Insulting Russia makes the jannies more angryWhich we already knew and that is the problem.
>>534351014>Deleted in 4.5 secondsReports literally don't work that fast. The mods have publicly stated the jannies are biased towards Russia and the 4chan dox showed a lot of them were Russian shills.
>>534350954I mean, what else does he do all day? Last I checked he barely goes out anymore due to drone danger.
>>534348564>4chan is under supervision by Russian agents, proven in the hack>russoids and russophilic idiots have very thin skin and a persecution complex on par with Jews so they mass report anything bad about Russia no matter how true (especially if true)Meanwhile if you trash talk say Japan, Sweden or France people from there will join in the shitposting.
>>534352643>>4chan is under supervision by Russian agents, proven in the hackI believe it but want a source.
>>534348839>meanwhile there are 10s of millions pajeets across the west who also hold major CEO roles in western IT companies
For what purpose are the jannies of /k/ anti-russia and the jannies of /int/ pro-russia
>>534353311/int/ has had a russian janny since forever, it's why the monke meme originated there 10 years ago
>>534348564You are an idiot and too stupid for basic social science. Both /pol/ and /int/ are flooded with paid spammers and NAFO bots trashing Russia, so to combat that, jannies will delete some of it and thus the nuke ratio will be higher for Russia than with other countries, despite Russia being trashed like no other country in absolute numbers.
>>534348564I'm not reading that and you're a nigger
>>534348564/int/ has been dogshit since like 2014 when they forced generals
>>534348564thought it was weird that i got banned on /vg/ when i said that russians are niggers
>>534348564This experiment was conducted by someone who is either stupid or manipulative, because threads that are currently by definition politically sensitive are removed more quickly, and if you express negative views about Russia, that automatically seems more politically sensitive than if someone expresses negative views about, for example, Switzerland or Paraguay, because those countries are currently not involved in a controversial geopolitical conflict, whereas Russia is, with the added circumstance that this conflict in particular leads to a lot of online discussion, more than, for example, the conflict in Sudan, as this "research" itself attests.It is therefore justified that moderation is applied in this area to prevent /int/ from becoming a political discussion board.I suspect that any thread that expresses criticism of a nation currently embroiled in a geopolitical controversy is quickly removed, because that is simply the policy of this board; politics belongs on /pol/ and will generally be removed here according to the prevailing policy. A sincere investigation would provide a definitive answer to this and also include countries and topics in the comparison that are proportionally politically sensitive or controversial, such as Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, Trump, the Jews, etc., etc., and I suspect that those threads will be removed proportionally just as often as threads that take Russia as a subject of criticism, and what you would then demonstrate is that a policy is indeed being pursued to keep /int/ free of off-topic threads, and that is no secret nor controversial.What you have now is a single subject of criticism compared to a neutral control group where, to no one's surprise, it turns out that the subject of criticism is often removed in the face of critical threads on more neutral topics, creating the false impression that the website moderation is biased, and that is a gross generalization; a fallacy.
>>534354115that's when they introduced country flags
>>534348564>https://pastebin.com/XfwT4zXRYou data is complete and utter shit and not even remotely what you claimed it is. >>534348580That's not even remotely typical. That's literally the only example in your dataset.
>>534348564I think all you proved is Russians are easily triggered and use the report button 80% more of the time while other countries' people don't give a fuck
>>534348564If you are using minitab in 2026 you are Low IQ. Literally free alternatives everywhere. You can remake almost the entire interface in an afternoon with a chatbot.
>>534348879>t. Russian on a VPN
>>534348564It's well known on /int/ that there is a Russian janny who will delete your posts, give warnings, or bans even for the slightest criticism of Russia, even mild cultural observations.
>>534354351no see>>534355261
