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Paul Furber
Developer at Tildedot
City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
In his CV he gives his work experience history as:
Experience
Developer
Tildedot
2013 - Present 11 years
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
I have developed a digital signage player solution on embedded hardware for corporates and SMEs that is currently running at many customers, including Sandton City, TotalSports, Adidas, Ericsson, Mitsubishi, Hitachi and Arrow Altech.
Group Senior Writer
ITWeb Brainstorm
2006 - Present 18 years
Group Senior Writer
ITWeb / CareerWeb
2006 - Present 18 years
Researcher
Discord
2016 - 2016 less than a year
ITWeb
7 years
Features Editor, Brainstorm Magazine
Sep 2011 - Mar 2013 1 year 7 months
Johannesburg
Group senior writer
2006 - Mar 2013 7 years
Content Writer
Soul Providers
2013 - 2013 less than a year
I work as a content writer and researcher for corporate clients specialising in software development.
So, the first and more minor item he left off his CV is that he spends most of his spare time working as a moderator for the 4chan internet forum website.
The site has been described as a hub of Internet subculture, its community being influential in the formation and popularization of prominent Internet memes, such as lolcats, Rickrolling, rage comics, wojaks, Pepe the Frog, as well as hacktivist and political movements, such as Anonymous and the alt-right.
Unlike most web forums, 4chan does not have a registration system, allowing users to post anonymously. Posting is ephemeral, as threads receiving recent replies are "bumped" to the top of their respective board and old threads are deleted as new ones are created. Any nickname may be used when posting, even one that has been previously adopted, such as "Anonymous" or "moot". In place of registration, 4chan has provided tripcodes as an optional form of authenticating a poster's identity. As making a post without filling in the "Name" field causes posts to be attributed to "Anonymous", general understanding on 4chan holds that Anonymous is not a single person but a collective (hive) of users. Moderators generally post without a name even when performing sysop actions. A "capcode" may be used to attribute the post to "Anonymous ## Mod", although moderators often post without the capcode. In a 2011 interview on Nico Nico Douga, Poole explained that there are approximately 20 volunteer moderators active on 4chan.
a lolicon board was created at /l/ (Lolikon), but was disabled following the posting of genuine child pornography and ultimately deleted in October 2004, after threats of legal action. In February 2004, GoDaddy suspended the 4chan.net domain, prompting Poole to move the site to its current domain at 4chan.org. On March 1, 2004, Poole announced that he lacked the funds to pay the month's server bill, but was able to continue operations after receiving a swarm of donations from users. In June 2004, 4chan experienced six weeks of downtime after PayPal suspended 4chan's donations service after receiving complaints about the site's content.
On January 21, 2015, Poole stepped down as the site's administrator, citing stress from controversies such as Gamergate as the reason for his departure. On September 21, 2015, Poole announced that Hiroyuki Nishimura had purchased from him the ownership rights to 4chan, without disclosing the terms of the acquisition. Nishimura was the former administrator of 2channel between 1999 and 2014, the website forming the basis for anonymous posting culture which influenced later websites such as Futaba Channel and 4chan; Nishimura lost 2channel's domain after it was seized by his registrar, Jim Watkins, after the latter alleged financial difficulties.
He has past "jobs" listed but no educational history or certifications. He also lacks descriptions of the what the job entailed or responsibilities that went with the positions held. There's also a distinct lack of contact information. Granted I haven't made a resume or CV in some 10-15 years but I find his to be particularly lacking.
The second item Furber left off his CV is far more significant than being a moderator on a dodgy website full of conspiracy theorists, trolls and pranksters.
He's the original 'Q', author of the first "Q drops" upon which the Qanon movement was based (incorrectly believing the author was a high placed American government official, probably military, CIA, etc).
Later on, the trip code for the Q account was taken over the Jim Watkins (and his son, Ron) who was a private in the American military at one point. Not that he spent that time fighting...
In 1998, while still enlisted, Watkins created a website for Japanese pornography called "Asian Bikini Bar". By hosting it in the United States, he was able to circumvent the strict pornography censorship in Japan.
Anyway, Paul was pissed of by the ridiculous stuff Jim and Ron then posted as Q, and the way they used it to drive traffic to 8chan rather than to 4chan. But by then he'd seen the Qanon movement take off unexpectedly strongly, and decided to keep denying he was behind it.
However linguistic analysis has now shown the odds of Paul not being Q are less than the odds of being struck by lightning.
So there you have it. The whole 'Q is a deepthroat spilling inside secrets on a conspiracy' is total bunkum, and the people who bought into that idea are not as good at knowing how likely stuff is, as they think they are.
Baconqueen13 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:54 pm
He has past "jobs" listed but no educational history or certifications. He also lacks descriptions of the what the job entailed or responsibilities that went with the positions held. There's also a distinct lack of contact information. Granted I haven't made a resume or CV in some 10-15 years but I find his to be particularly lacking.
His full CV probably does contain the education and stuff, but the website I got that information from (linkedin) charges money to show those parts of the CV.
I listed it to show how normal he is, and how UNLIKE he is to being the mysteriously informed American patriot image of 'Q' that people have built up.
