Wow, he's had a reddit account for 5 years. That's pretty insane, especially since reddit wasn't big at all in those days. It's funny that people keep commenting that reddit's becoming 4chan, when in fact moot was probably one of the first redditors.
Interesting. His responses are far more down-to-earth than I would have expected them to be. One funny comment:<p><pre><code> > I'm not sure where else people meet women
Spoken like a true /b/tard.</code></pre>
<i>Q: How many people does 4chan employ?<p>A: None. It's just me, a volunteer part-time developer, and a handful of volunteer moderators and janitors. The volunteers all do an incredible job, and don't get nearly enough credit for their hard work. Hats off to them!</i><p>That reminded me of several extended IM logs between moot and a server admin/scripter. Suffice it to say that they both come out sounding like total douchebags and it's difficult to tell who you'd dread working with more. The moral of the story is that he'd be way better off paying his volunteers and acting like a boss.<p>It's quite long and gets somewhat tedious, once you get the jist it's not really worth stick with. But it is interesting to get a peek inside the mind of a new founder:<p><a href="http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Talk:Moot#thoughts_on_images" rel="nofollow">http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Talk:Moot#thoughts_on_image...</a><p>(note that page is SFW, but I wouldn't go to the main moot page unless 'shopped gay porn is cool with you)
I didn't want to be one to pester in his AMA but I still have no clue about what he's up to with canv.as. Aside from providing a meeting place to internet vigilantes and meme spammers, his track record isn't that stellar in either technology or monetizations. I'm also unable to overlook the recent developments in the image-sharing space with Path and Color valued into the tens of millions with anywhere from $11M to $41M cash on hand, making his $625K investment seem more like a pittance than a serious attempt at making a run at the current front-runner.<p>The pussy-footing surrounding his handling of this canv.as thing is unbecoming.
I can't believe people still think his name is Christopher Poole. This has got to be the longest-running joke turned gospel on the Internet. Either that, or that thing about Glen Beck killing and raping a young girl in 1990, except people actually _know_/tounge-in-cheek that one.