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Forgive my ignorance but what's an a/b/raid [rules 1&2]?

/b/ is 4chan.org's random board. Home of the btards (and Anonymous). The group Anonymous started there because you don't need to register or sign in to post, everyone is anonymous. It's exceptionally well known and somewhat infamously feared by geeks/people that spend a lot of time online. Basically it's an imageboard, someone posts an image (which creates a thread) and then people can reply or comment on that thread. There's 15 pages of active threads and once a new thread replaces an old one the threads that reach the end of page 15 are deleted. Due to its anonymity there's no rules except don't post CP (child porn) and that gets broken quite often when other sites attack 4chan with floods. Most of the images posted are gore/porn/camwhore threads. Funnily enough there seems to be a huge female population, the sex distribution is prob in the region of 40/60 but you'd never know cause everyone is anonymous until they reveal otherwise. The majority of the meme's you've heard of (rick rolling and lolcats being the famous ones and a billion others) started on the /b/ board of 4chan.

So on this board live the assholes of the internet and generally people that are bored. When there's no rules (and most believe no chance of reprisal or consequence because they are anons) a lot of things get suggested, attacks on other sites being one of them. I should mention that when it comes to trolling btards are pretty much the experts. Attacking RIP sites is an obvious choice because it provokes a lot of responses and gets a lot of lulz. These attacks on other sites are called /i/nvasions because there used to be a /i/ board (for invasions) before it was removed. During those invasions rules 1 and 2 were that you don't talk about 4chan, parodied from the rules of fight club, because it'd only serve to drive new people to 4chan and btards like their exclusivity and non-mainstream feeling.

Fun trivia:

1) When raiding btards would blame e/b/aumsworld with the /'s. That way everyone who knew about the internet would know who it was but the raiders had stuck to the rules. When greeting each other it's hey /b/ro. Kind of like a gang tag I guess.

2) Rules of the internet are here: knowyourmeme.com/memes/rules-of-the-internet the most famous ones being 1&2 for btards and rule 34/35 which is widely known across the intertubes (if it exists there is porn of it, if there isn't porn of it you have to create it).

That's my history lesson for the day

All very geeky, but we all have our strange hobbies!

4chan is an American site, it would have been the Americans continuing the trolling through the night.

Yep, you could tell they were yanks.

it was proper sick the pics and stuff they were putting up

They wouldn't have had any need to disguise who they were, facebook doesn't police rip groups other than banning troll accounts. Plus fb allows connections via proxy so people are completely anonymous on there if they want to be and most trolls know this. The one or two that don't (like that dude that got jail time) are usually first time users that don't know much about anything.

Thanks Ex0. Interesting summary there. I hadn't heard of 4chan before. Some rather sad inadequates out there.

Trolling threads just went up again on 4chan. Someone she went to school with must have disliked her or something.

http://boards.4chan.org/b/res/360473229

(bear in mind that 4chan has rotational threads, the link will die soon when more active threads replace it)

its hit all the main papers about the trolls

Win for 4chan.

Mission, accomplished.

its proper sick in the head mate, can not believe people would do something so horrible. just feel so sorry the family, if they have to see any of it im hoping they have been warned not to go on, which is wrong they should be viewing wishes from people to try and provide a bit of comfort.

Tony, the above post is also a win for 4chan.

Forget it, move on.

Don't try and understand it.

Ah yes, trolling. I allegedly used to enjoy a bit of that way back in ye olde days of usenet. I was a meower and flonker. However we had a strict policy not to troll the vulnerable back then.