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What was /lit/ like during the moot era?

>> No.12320475

>>12320465
less angry homos

>> No.12320479

>>12320475
fewer grammar mistakes

>> No.12320548

>>12320465
>Fewer homosexuals, fewer redditors, fewer cross-boarders, fewer bookshelf threads, fewer stack threads, less stringent moderation, more Marxists, more tripfags, more >startwiththegreeks posting, more moby dick posting, more dfw posting, more pincecone posting, more rand posting, more kafka posting, more critique threads, more tumblrs, more apolitical over all, more meetups, better original memes, quality of discourse was higher, average age of user was higher, less users, slower threads which lasted for days, there were more chart threads


/lit/ was unequivocally better back then.

>> No.12320553

>>12320548
>more tripfags

eh, good riddance.

>> No.12320555

>>12320548
forgot syntactical complexity and vocabulary were more advanced, people could quote poetry and literature from memory, there were actual writers on this board and less spelling and >>12320479 mistakes.

>> No.12320564

>>12320553
Says the cancer killing /lit/

>fewer homosexuals
I donno about that

>> No.12320576

It was more or less the same, albeit a tiny bit slower maybe. The only difference I can find is in the general taste of the board, as some books are way more commonly discussed now than they used to be in the past.

>> No.12320596

I was here when /lit/ was first launched. The contributors were of a higher quality then. I remember debating the relative merits of Proclean theodicy with a high-school teacher for example. Gradually /lit/ was infiltrated by leftist exiles angry at having been banished from /pol/. Edgy teenage atheists would make themselves know soon after. /lit/ entered a degenerated state for a time with perilously depressed intellectual standards. A reversal would come later as leftists and atheists became increasingly frivolous in the eyes of the typical poster. The post quality today is historically middling, but I have hope for the future.

>> No.12320599

it was kook wallpaper and it continues to function as such. you'll here people say things like how there used to be more dick-lovers and now the dick-haters have taken over but they're just dick-oriented thinkers.

>> No.12320604

>>12320465
A lot more elitist champagne socialists. They’ve all gone to /his/

>> No.12320612

>>12320564
>not knowing the difference between a tripfag and namefag
You don’t belong here newfag

>> No.12320617

I haven't seen a 'list your top ten favorite books and we'll judge you for it' threads in a long time

>> No.12320624
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>>12320479
>>12320555
Grammar and spelling undermining meme is sort of a necessary objective in remaking the culture though. (I didn't say this out loud.) And again, I don't give a fuck about your ideology. As an English board, you gots to be prepared for assimilation Brokowskis. The elitism thing only works with repeat use, and that is still two to three years off in my reckoning.

>> No.12320637

>>12320596
>Gradually /lit/ was infiltrated by leftist exiles angry at having been banished from /pol/.
Revisionism!
Storefront vanished and /news/ was invaded. Leftists may have shown up out of disgust, but it was always a mild Ayn Rand hating bunch.

>>12320612
Confused anon.

>> No.12320976

>>12320548
>more Marxists
>a good thing

>> No.12321009

>>12320465
Literally who
What's a book of his that I might know?

>> No.12321026

>>12321009
You’re reading it

>> No.12321129
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>>12320548
>more rand posters
Fret not anon for I am here

>> No.12321145

>>12321026
That was Stephen King iirc

>> No.12321211

The mods were a lot less autistic

>> No.12321228

Who cares its all a stupid waste of time and it always was

>> No.12321275

>>12320465
Best time ever on this board was /fitlit/
Only angry, overweight redditors dislike that broship

>> No.12321324

>>12320976
Eh, any ideological stance not based on reading infographics on 4chan is sorely missed.

>> No.12321333

The first version of the sticky got quints and moot banned himself because of it.
Otherwise it was much the same, there was less philosophy I suppose.

>> No.12321348

Reminder that /lit/ was originally a pleb board whose favorite novels were the ASOIAF series and over 90% of all discussion was about genre fiction.

>> No.12321374

4chan always sucks and always will.
I leave short negative replies like this all the time.
I've been here since 2008, killing your gay, ass site.
The removal of the administrator known as MOOT was just a convenient acceleration of my plans to rot this stinking website from the inside.
But whether I am presnet or no, the website will rot because it's D E A D and full of maggots.
Happy new year, hoping this will be your last.

>> No.12321381

>>12321374
Seething nerdlinger detected.

>> No.12321452

>>12320637
>confused anon
It’s not that complicated newfag. Shoo shoo go away

>> No.12321481

>>12321374
See you tomorrow anon

>> No.12321482

>>12321348
I enjoy ASOIAF and certain other genre fiction. I also read Spinoza.

>> No.12321542

>>12320976
I never said it was

>> No.12321564

There used to be a guy that would post videos of him driving at night and rolling down the windows of his car and yelling DAVID FOSTER WALLAAAAAAAAACE at random pedestrians, startling them. It was fun.

>> No.12321582

>>12320553
tripfags were the biggest faggots but honestly they contributed to the culture, i kinda miss d&e and actual butters

>> No.12321643

>>12321582
butterfly was awful, and barely read

>> No.12321663

>>12321542
Understood

>> No.12321667

>>12321564
Gib

>> No.12321822

>>12321564
How sincere.

>> No.12321828

>>12320637
Faggot

>> No.12321831

>>12321667
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXvAd7COpJY

This is the only one to my knowledge

>> No.12321835

>>12320564
Faggot

>> No.12321874
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>>12320465
less identity politics trolling/countertrolling
talked about dfw a lot
more consistently funny than it is now, although the peaks of comedy are higher now than they've ever been
more people used trips
less angry
less intelligent

>> No.12321887

>>12320548
and before that, it was really good
I was just for a month, then /mu/ found it and ruined everything with all the faggotry that this faggot says

>> No.12321907

if you weren't here before moot left, lurk for at least five years before posting

>> No.12321916

>>12320548
>more >startwiththegreeks posting
What a shithole

>> No.12321940

>>12320465
More techies. It was a better time.

>> No.12321962

>>12321907
>le ebin 4chin gatekeeper BTFOs the newfigs!
Um this is 4channel now sweaty, get the FUCK off MY site

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>>12321962

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>>12320548
>better original memes
ahem

>> No.12322323

Slower with more Stirnerposting.

>> No.12322376

pinecone actually posted once back then

>> No.12322401

>>12321831
Severely disappointed. I didn't know he'd do it like a vulgar dipshit

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>>12320465
a nigger amount. and ovens.

>> No.12322413

>>12321211
This.

>> No.12322433

I went to high school with moot

>> No.12322518

>>12320604
They stick out a lot more on /his/ and are easier to ridicule.

>> No.12322685

>>12321564
That reminds me of the seagull anon on /r9k/ who would post pictures of seagulls he fed at his gas station job for some reason

>> No.12322689

>>12320465
Slower and less angry homos

>>12320479
Cringe

>> No.12322693

>>12320548
>more Marxists and tripfags
>better
Other than that I would agree

>> No.12322711

moot used steal all our gets.

>> No.12323414

>>12320479
>being this normative

>> No.12323668

>>12320548
A lot of the Rand posters went over to /his/. I think /his/ took a lot of good posters in its early days, especially religious posters, most of whom left when /his/ declined in quality

>> No.12323691

>>12321831
Trash human being. Expected it to be a lot funnier than that.

>> No.12323700

>>12322401
>>12323691
Newfag reaction to sacred old 4chan in a nutshell.

>> No.12323710

>>12320548
The World was fair in Durin's Days

>> No.12323713

>>12323700
>2013
Not even old
this place has been cancer since 2008
Just dies already

>> No.12323727

>>12320976
>>12322693
The thing is that marxists used to create their own threads that were made specifically for discussing left ideology and so politics were rarely brought up to threads not dedicated to it any while, on the other hand, after /lit/ had got infested with /pol/ crossboarders you can see them sperging about jews, communists, liberals etc. every time they're given a chance to do so

>> No.12323768

>>12323727
as a marxfag I recognize a feedback loop where you start seeing people being dumb about economy in a thread and you sort of feel like answering them, even though 10 minutes later you realize the thread was about Winnie the Poo inspired asian plays or whatever.
It should all be sent to /his/, totally, but you have a million troyan horses like Peterson that make this stuff pop up over and over again.

>> No.12323795

>>12321831
lol why have I never seen this

>> No.12323804

>>12320548
>more >startwiththegreeks posting
Start with the Greeks is a newer meme.

>> No.12323809

Mostly gay erotic fiction

>> No.12323817

>>12320465
Just go read the archive you nerd.

>> No.12323840

>>12323768
I absolutely agree with you on that, but I guess that you miss the source of the problem, wich is that /lit/ doesn't mind at all people who get threads derailed in such horrible ways instead of collectively shitting on them

>> No.12323856

>>12323840
I think not showing the options section ruined /lit/. Back in the day you'd see most people saging for off topic, so you saged if you were talking about something off topic. Any new fag would get the proper way to enjoy talking shit without shitting up the board.

>> No.12323893

>>12323856
Yeah, that's pretty accurate. In fact, I'd say that this problem ruined quite a lot of boards, especially after they got invaded by the hordes of dumb newfags who came here after the elections. I wonder what will 4chan look like in 5 years with all these people getting settled here

>> No.12323894

>>12323856
Most people on this site have never properly understood how sage works, so I don't think it had much of an effect, really. Also I think it's arguable that sage doesn't serve much of a purpose on an imageboard. It's a holdover from textboards where threads would run to 1,000 posts and were not pruned. If you look at the use of sage on 2channel (almost every post is sage) compared to futaba (very few people use sage) you should get it.

>> No.12323900

>>12323768
/lit/ is better at discussing a lot of those things than /his/ though, or at least used to be, because some oart of the thread still has to be about literature.

>> No.12323909

>>12323894
>I think it's arguable that sage doesn't serve much of a purpose on an imageboard
It does on slow boards, and /lit/ used to be much slower.

>> No.12323913

>>12323894
sages helps keep the threads out of page 1 if they have nothing new besides inside jokes. it's a pretty decent service.
I doubt it'd be a good idea to have an option for people to delete threads they don't like, which is what some people assumed sage did if I'm not wrong. I can imagine, for example, /pol/ exploiting it in most boards.

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You now remember Quentin

>> No.12323924

>>12323894
>Not old enough to remember the sage image bump
Stop making me feel older than today already did. With regard to this board, you can see the use of sage back when the option field was still the email field. God I'm so fucking old, I'm going to read Logan's Run. yes I know the book version has carousel at 21 not 30, but fuck you

>> No.12323932

>>12323909
I don't recall there ever being many people who used it correctly on /lit/.
>>12323913
The common perception of sage is that it was something like a downvote. All it does it post to a thread without bumping it, while adding to the post count. So if it gets spammed enough that a thread hits the bump limit then you force a thread to be pruned. That's where the wrong idea of how to use it came from.

>> No.12323940

>>12323804
>t. newfaggot

>> No.12323944

>>12323932
/lit/ had reminder to sage threads when it started getting used less. obviously not a fight they won, but it was particularly good at it for a period before that

>> No.12323956

>>12323940
If it doesn't go back to 2010 or earlier then it's new to me.

>> No.12325220

>>12321211
What are they doing wrong?

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>>12320548
>better original memes

>> No.12325262

>>12325249
biz has the best memes

>> No.12325267

>>12321907
I lurked for three years before i started posting regularly desu.

>> No.12325279

>>12321381

Upset his bra bomb didn't work.

>> No.12325286

>>12323932
People using sage to lash out had nothing to do with people not knowing what sage does.