> 8chan claims not to be able to ban content because of the way they are set up ...

duskwuff · on Aug 5, 2019

> How is this implemented?

By throwing up their hands and claiming that it's too hard to implement.

8ch is not running a highly sophisticated software stack. (Quite honestly, their code [1] is pretty terrible -- it's a bunch of frameworkless, hacked-together PHP.) Nothing about their setup is especially elaborate or unusual; at best, "we can't ban content" is an admission of their incompetence.

[1]: https://github.com/OpenIB/OpenIB

NikkiA · on Aug 5, 2019

The only people that can ban content are the board owners.

Sure I imagine they could go db diving and ban content manually, but they don't want to.