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In January 2011, Poole announced the deletion of the /r9k/ ("ROBOT9000") and /new/ (News) boards, saying that /new/ had become devoted to racist discussions, and /r9k/ no longer served its original purpose of being a test implementation of xkcd's ROBOT9000 script. [40]
In 2021, Poole left Google; his last day was April 13th, according to an internal repository viewed by CNBC, which described his last role as a product manager. Reportedly, he jumped between ...
Moot eventually brought back /r9k/ on 4chan, due the realisation that his reasons for deleting the board were misguided, and he apologised. The board was named 'ROBOT9001' (it was originally ROBOT9000). The 4chon board still exists, despite the fact that /r9k/ has now been reinstated on 4chan itself.
/r9k/ was Robot9000, it was a test board that encouraged original posts. If it detected that you typed something in that was not original, or posted there before, you would be muted for a short time. If you continued to post unoriginal content, the gag time would increase.
Basically, 4chan is for unhappy, depressed people, and individual boards are ways for these people to find some respite based on their interests and worldview. Some blame their failures on socio-political issues and perceived persecution of white males, these ones go to vent on /pol/.
Aug 4, 2019 · Then in 2011, 4chan’s founder Christopher “moot” Poole, by then a successful tech entrepreneur, closed down /r9k/. In response, Brennan and the robots created their own home-brewed chans.
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May 3, 2018 · In January of 2011, Poole, the de facto boy emperor of 4chan, had quietly deleted /r9k/ because “it had never served its purpose.” But at the end of the year he was forced to re-instate it as “ROBOT 9001.”
