Let's talk with Jim-san. Part15

2ch and bbspink are not Twitter.
2ch does not have a motive or plan for economic profit. The first time I met
Hiroyuki, I was excited and under the impression that 2ch was a chance and a
future for making huge profits. I must admit that my dream would be huge profits.
Hiroyuki told me straight at that time, that he had no intention of making a public
company, and that if anything he saw 2ch as a not for profit corporation.
Of course I did not understand or agree with that, but he is a rock, and someone
that is worth following. I have followed his philosophy since then. Since that time.
I have watched several companies rise higher and fall back farther than my company
and 2ch as well. Can you remember an upstart public internet company wanting to buy
a baseball team, and having a wonderful business jet? ( I was very jealous of that jet.)

Server load and settings for 2ch and bbspink are discussed and set by users for users
Many of the regulating systems are monitored and controlled by volunteers who are
completely anonymous. When new servers are needed there is quite a bit of discussion
for and against every time. Sometimes I have disagreed but I always look back to the
rock or foundation of this unorganized mayhem that we make daily online, and let the masses
have what they want. Twitter has a different philosophy on this, and good or bad their
server did not crash during the cartoon festival. This is not PIE's fault, it is just a failure
of the current system to predict that it was to happen. Actually some users are probably
enjoying the fact because the usage was so huge it crashed the server that was tuned
personally by the famous Mumumu-san. I am sure there will be more failures in the future
and many more successes. The failures will be newsworthy, and the successes of hardware
and systems will hardly be noted. That is the way of things, and it is normal.

There are times when even this system needs to make money, and this is one of those times.
Many servers need to be upgraded, the economy is still down, there is an improvement, but
still so many people are suffering. This has affected the businesses that are the customers
of my company, and it has reduced the gross income that supports our efforts substantially.
Of course we will weather the down turn, and come back bigger and better. It is a very conservative
course we follow economically and that will hold things true towards our course of supporting
this ongoing test of human experience and change that we play with daily online.
Maru helps support this effort, and its use should be encouraged. Soon there will be other
products that will be available that will also support this great effort. I hope that you will use
them as they are released and understand that the philosophy behind them helps support the
change in the world that 2ch and bbspink have made. The freedoms that they have given to
slices of the population that never had a voice before them, and would lose their voice without them.

I think there is no solution for trolls and cyber bullies except for manual labor to restrict their ability
to harm others. I do think that trolls can cause real harm to real people, and wish they wouldn't but
I am not naive either so I know they will continue. Vandalism is a different story, and often is brought
on by legitimate companies that have a dream of crashing our way, so that their way can be advanced.
Often vandal attacks don't even originate in Japan, but from other countries that might see this real
freedom as a threat to their way of life. I hope that we will always be able to find the way of blocking
them and stopping their aggressive oppressive behavior. When massive blocking happens on 2ch and bbspink,
this is the reason, and when you are personally affected I am so sorry for that, but I know that
the greater good is served by it. The use of Maru can often help you when there is a block in place. This
system allows you to authenticate so that even though you are on a blocked network, we know that you
are someone that should be allowed to post. One of the solutions for this that I am working on is an ipv6 vpn system
that will allow you to “dial up” and post from a good network with an individual IP
from a good network, instead of from a proxy.

Many of the newer telephones will allow vpn use,
and there are plenty of ipv6 segments so that everyone can have their own ip.
Of course the servers themselves will have to be upgraded and have dual stack ipv4 and ipv6 installed on them.
Over time that will help the most with the network blocking.
Then systems like Pasegueno will not block your proxy that you are forced by your isp
to use. They will just block you as an individual if you get carried away and abuse the system.
Less people will be affected and bad users can be restricted with a more surgical like precision.
The tweet community is nothing like the community that 2ch and bbspink are.
It is more of a commercially supported accepted by the mainstream industry community.
Definitely for the homogeneous by the homogeneous. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/twitters-internal-strategy-laid-bare-to-be-the-pulse-of-the-planet/

I hope that comparisons are not made, there is no grand scheme for world domination here.
We are always just looking for ways to make users more comfortable in their experience.