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Comment by ed25519FUUU | Hacker News Reader

This one is a little peculiar to me. It looks like this person was just taking what "Q" wrote on 8kun and adding it to a website. It wasn't a discussion board or place where theories originate from. Though it looks like he took the website down on his own.

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I've previously visited the site mentioned in the article and it's basically an RSS reader for "Q" posts.

The webmaster didn't create any of the posts, just republished them so people wouldn't have to visit 8kun.

About a month ago it added a user posts section with comments- something like imgur.

It also added a lot of metadata to Q posts and related discoverability features.

For example, the page for a Q post that mentioned James Clapper and WWG1WGA would have a photo and "bio" of Clapper, definition of WWG1WGA, and show recent related posts based on the metadata for the lingo and person.

It was a lot more than an RSS feed.

Qmap definitely had a direct relationship with Jim Watkins and 8kun. The full of extent of their partnership is not yet known but it appears Watkins was doing part of the infrastructure hosting for Qmap. There is also strong suspicion that Watkins either writes the current incarnation of 'Qanon' or directs whoever is writing the posts.

Other than them both use vanwatech as their CDN, is there any other connection? Genuinely curious.

Also, have you seen Jim Watkins or heard him speak? Let's just say I'd be very surprised if he's capable of maintaining the qanon movement.

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