>>5659
The (You) theory is a recurring one and has merit, and this is the most in-depth articulation of it I've read. Have a (You).

Could a message board thrive without
encouraging either reply-optimized bait or vote-optimized circlejerking? There would have to be some other kind of incentive for the posters. Retweets are one, but they are incompatible with anonymity and require users to have their own feeds.
>it's no longer the meme center of the Internet
Is this true? The most successful memes (like the recent NPC meme) still seem to originate on 4chan. Social networks make replication too easy, which weakens selection.