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4chan /b/-day
“/b/-day” was an uproar on 4chan's /b/ board, which occurred after the staff announced policy enforcement on August 23, 2006,1) sparking a massive wave of overreactions. In reality, nothing came out of it, but it did bring traffic to alternative websites and birthed the /i/ shenanigans.
History
In 2006, 4chan was starting to gain a significant amount of traction, which caused the 4chan's /b/ board to be reduced to child pornography (i.e. 'jailbait'), doxing, and website raiding.2) This led to a staff member announcing, with an image of Bob Ross's head attached to the post,3) that they would be enforcing its rules by banning users who would engage with said content on Wednesday, August 23, 2006.4)
Policy Enforcement
Participating in a thread dealing with illegal content will get you globally banned for two weeks (thread starter is indefinitely banned). This means merely replying to it removes you from this site for a minimum of two weeks. This includes JB and any other “grey area” threads. Posting any piece of personal information or inciting/participating in an invasion of any sort will also get you, and anybody who replied to the thread globally banned. You have the option to either report or ignore (not reply to) threads that break the rules. Thanks!
Note: To clarify, this applies to THREADS breaking the rules, not REPLIES. If somebody breaks the rules in a REPLY the entire thread won't be banned. Again, exploiting this clause to break the rules will get you banned. These rules aren't anything new–we've just adopted a new way of enforcing them.
There is literally a “Ban thread” button now, so it isn't a chore to do. Abide by the rules and your own common sense.
This led to a massive overreaction, as people thought /b/ was literally 'rule-free', so the enraged users would crash the “img.4chan.org” server.5) In the aftermath, alternative websites saw a significant surge, including 7chan, 420chan, AnonIB, Dvach,6) WAKAchan, WTFux, etc. The “img.4chan.org” server was restored after two days and everything went back to normal, except /i/ now exists.
Notes
External links
- /b/day on the LURKMORE Wiki
2)
"I'm glad for the new rule enforcement on /b/. It was loosing it's appeal by being just cp/jb, copy pasta, and stupid raids all the time." (August 23, 2006). Something Awful.
5)
"Yeah, /b/'s server had a disk failure. I hope we actually backed up dis this time!" (August 24, 2006). Something Awful.
6)
Dvach was a Russian website, but it did lead to a “Refuge” (Убежище) board being set up at /rf/ for users who were tired of all the yankees in /b/. It later became a board for social outcasts which is how it earned the name, “Hikkach” (Хиккач) as in Hikikomori, but this isn't the article to get into its history.
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