The truth behind #fortune

I'm sick and tired of this age-old "omg i wanna do fortune how do i got fortunes????" faggotry that's rampant in /b/. To end it, here's the story behind the whole unfortunate #fortune thing.

In mid-2007 it was decided that anonymity would no longer be enforced in /b/ and so the name field that had been gone for so long was brought back. A new feature was also introduced, called "fortune," which worked with the #fortune command. To make it work, you had to put #fortune in the now non-existent name field. Fortune only worked (and still works) in /b/, nowhere else.

But then, after a while, things got a little out of hand and suddenly there were namefags galore. Due to the abso-fucking-brick-shitting-enormous name faggotry, the name field was quickly taken down. The guys who have fortune now had it when the name field was taken down, and now they're permanently stuck with it.

So no, you can't do fortune. It's simply impossible. The fortune fags are just pulling your fucking gullible newbie leg, so stop asking how to do it.

STAWP LYING!!

How do I do it?

nice boat

If you put #fortune in the name field in another board, then go to /b/, you'll still get a fortune.

i wanna fortune waaha waahhahah waaa

lmao

Lulz

lolwut?

#fortune in the name field.

Lol. Wut?

#fortune is easily done with forced anon, and easily removed at any time.  OP has no idea what he's talking about.

Since the subject has been brought up, can someone explain to me how namefags are fags?  Is there really that much of a difference between someone you don't know posting a block of text from god knows where in the world and someone else you don't know posting a block of text except they have an arbitrary, meaningless identifier to them?

amidoinitrite

OH YEAAAAAAAAAAH

new fag

lol

huh?

ada

www.lost.eu/69842

4chan = fortune
also the symbol for the site resembles a four leafed clover

Fortune works on /s4s/ now. Also, the name and subject fields are back on /b/.