This board.

[Anonymous No.15155639]

>post is about an author or an influential book, encourages discussion and critique of the subject matter
>3 replies, 2 posters
>post is either a forced meme, a picture of a semi-nude woman or thinly veiled politics
>288 replies, 114 posters
This board needs to be turned into a /general/ board, with topics getting their own individual threads because right now, "Please take the time to read what others have written, and try to make thoughtful, well-written posts of your own. Bump replies are not necessary." is a completely unnecessary rule.

[Anonymous No.15155653]

>>15155639
/lit/ unironically needs a revolution

[Anonymous No.15155660]

>>15155653
So who are we going to be guillotining?

[Anonymous No.15155669]

Don’t forget the countless eceleb threads.

[Anonymous No.15155673]

>>15155639
Correct, there especially needs to be a recommendation request general to end what is essentially books for this feel posting
Philosophy posters who don’t read anything and so don’t want to discuss any specific books would be nice to get rid of with a general too. Philosophy should only be discussed around certain books and thinkers to prevent adhd-addled zoomers pretending they understand authors they have not read

[Anonymous No.15155691]

>>15155660
quentin

[Anonymous No.15155696]

>>15155660
Discord trannies, /pol/ raiders, tourists, shitty jannies, people that make shitty posts.

[Anonymous No.15155699]

>>15155660
trannies and coomers please fucking christ if I see /accgen/ on this board I will have a panic attack

have a /christgen/, /esogen/, /philgen/, hell /sffg/ already exists

[Anonymous No.15155701]

>>15155639
it hurts anon

[Anonymous No.15155710]

who is the chick in op

[Anonymous No.15155717]

>>15155639
/lit/ is only for engaging in top-notch literary banter with some cheeky lads.
If you want to read, read. If you want to discuss literature go chat up oldfags who read in cafés and restaurants, those are generally historians or ancient language specialists.

[Anonymous No.15155724]

>>15155660
is butterfly finally banned?

t. anon who stopped browsing lit regularly because of that person

[Anonymous No.15155726]

Are there even enough thread topics that people are interested in for that?

[Anonymous No.15155735]

>>15155724
she's still here but what's your problem with her?

[Anonymous No.15155748]

>>15155639
wheres the third part with her actually smiling and the true conclusion?

[Anonymous No.15155749]

>>15155717
Fuck off tourist. You undoubtedly came to this board within the last year, possibly only in 2020. Even just a few months ago there was fairly regular discussion of literature and the sense that almost everyone read regularly, i suspect that the catholarp zoomers who don’t actually read anything told people on other boards that /lit/ was an epic place to discuss philosophy, so now we have more than half the threads taken up by people discussing philosophical works they’ve only read the Wikipedia page of. The discussion of fiction and creative literature is so low now because you have to have read it to discuss it, and none of the tourists read anything

[Anonymous No.15155756]

>>15155696
can someone write a manifesto to unite the /lit/volutionaries against their common enemy?

[Anonymous No.15155759]

>>15155735
fuckin nosy much? she ruins and derails every thread she appears in, making them about herself.

>>15155639
yes, don't you know? /lit/ doesn't actually read.

/thread & /board

[Anonymous No.15155760]

>>15155660
Newly found christians, woman hater incels and pol tards.

[Anonymous No.15155769]

Do I have to bait or meme now to get people to discuss my topic, be book or writer?

>Was Pushkin a nigger!?
>Shakespeare, pffft; shit.
>Why can't women write?

[Anonymous No.15155774]

>>15155769
be it*

[Anonymous No.15155780]

>>15155760
based. It's like some of these guys are so obsessively despising women, that they cannot form even one thought that doesn't revolve around them

[Anonymous No.15155786]

>>15155749
>anon playing oldfag with me
>not realizing that "top-notch literary banter with some cheeky lads" is a word-for-word reference to a 2014 opinion poll on /lit/
>believing /lit/ was ever a generally good place for discussing literature and that the shit we see today is in any way a sign of decline

Nigga I was there when "tao lin pls go" was an ubiquitous meme, I was there at the time of the anti-natalist craze on /lit/, I was there when Pynchon and Vonnegut where the most memed authors on here and nobody even knew who Evola or Gunénon where. And I'm not even an oldfag, but I still have a vastly longer experience of this board than you have it seems. This place has always been a meme place, the only notable difference is the increasing importance of obscure philosophy, religiosity and earnest racism/ /pol/ edginess in the last few years, and by last years I mean since 2015 at least. In some respect this has been good for the development of literary discussions, in some respect it has been bad. But "nobody on /lit/ actually reads" is just as tired and just as semi-accurate a cliche as it is always been. Take the good things and leave the rest, but have no illusion about the kind of place this is.

[Anonymous No.15155796]

>>15155660
Anyone who doesn't like Spinoza (pbuh).

[Anonymous No.15155800]

>>15155639
The political economy of /lit/ posting. General topics that everyone can relate to without needing to read a given book will naturally have a greater capacity of potential replies; Specific topics that deal with a text or specialised subject will have a far lower potential pool of replyants. Taking into account time, given that /lit/ is no longer a slow board (in the temporal sense) and a thread can be shunted after ~three hours of inactivity, the pool of potential replyants shrinks further as not only do they have to exist, but they also have to be within a similar—and increasingly limited—time period as you. General threads do not face this issue, as they will always have all users of /lit/ as a potential replyant, and will be constantly bumped due to this, leading to a snowball effect of popularity. The more popular /lit/ becomes, the more exacerbated this problem becomes. And the greater the prevalence of general threads, the greater audience the board can attract. It isn't uncommon to see anons say that they post off-topic stuff on /lit because a) everyone does it, and b) you get better replies on /lit/ that /pol/ or /r9k/ or /mu/ or /tv/, rendering /lit/ as essentially a "high brow" /b/. Replies become less likely the further you stray from /lit/ canon (as far as that exists anymore, even the meme trilogy is forgotten), leaving any actual literature related content at such a huge comparative disadvantage to general threads that they are doomed to extinction from the beginning. You cannot be the change you want to see, because frankly, the majority of people don't want to see your change. Once you become even decently read in a particular subject or genre, you realise just how lonely /lit/ can be.

[Anonymous No.15155809]

>>15155749
Yeah I've had a feeling that too many tourists have been trying to co-opt /lit/ as their new home board or something all at once while bringing nothing to the table except their inflated self-worth from browsing now the "cool intellectual board." It's honestly so depressing and bleak, you really can't make these types of people leave with just the creation of a few generals to try and corral their sub-par posts. The board is far too compromised at this point, now that midwits have the idea that /lit/ is some kind of fashionable intellectual space. Things will never be the same.

[Anonymous No.15155820]

>>15155809
The only option I can think of is getting a really aggressive janny who actually enforces board rules

[Anonymous No.15155878]

>>15155809
>>15155820
>these retards crying about /lit/ being "compromised" when I had to watch it being slowly submerged by /pol/'s rising shitwaves over the past 6 years
I'm sure you sorely miss the "good old" 2018 /lit/.

[Anonymous No.15155908]

>>15155735
>>15155759
Still not as bad as /brit/pol/
ie. 100% off-topic tripfags, plus a woman who only talks about nothing else other than her life

jannies are hated because they ban legit anons, yet don't ban tripcunts

[Anonymous No.15155953]

>make a thread asking for nothing else but /lit/ to post passages they like
>11 replies, dies
Do you faggots seriously just not read books?

[Anonymous No.15155973]

>>15155908
The Finnegans Wake schizo seems to be reporting threads that have any mention to the book in the comments, so I'm holding off discussing the injustice of Joyce's body being left in Switzerland.

[Anonymous No.15156025]

>>15155800
Great post

[Anonymous No.15156036]

>>15155639
This has happened across this site, just took longer here

Different (lower IQ, younger) userbase, ironically the exact kind of thing certain of those types are unhappy about happening in other contexts

[Anonymous No.15156043]

>>15156036
noticed that too, ha

[Anonymous No.15156060]

>>15155735
A conceited namefag pseud? Gee I wonder.

[Anonymous No.15156071]

>>15155760
Aren't those three pretty much one and the same group of people?

[Harmodius !SPQRgUJdp. No.15156085]

>>15155800
The influx of illiterate /pol/tards and underage plebbitors from /r9k/ obliterated the old userbase and dragged the even the slowest and most efficient boards down the same pit of of shit that is nu-4chan. But what's more fucking sad is nobody even knows where the fuck the anons who were fed up with the rampant normalfaggotry went, and given that nearly alternative to 4chan is pretty much dead i doubt they settled there. 8kun doesn't even have a /lit/ board and Lainchan is a nest of bugmen who hold no interest in literary discussion despite having a literature board, let alone wizchan and lynxchan which always appealed to the lowest common denominator.

[Anonymous No.15156090]

>>15155724
>getting this triggered by a simple namefag
jfc do you need to lie down on a couch when you see a tripcode as well

[Anonymous No.15156122]

>>15156085
>bugmen
you’re part of the problem

[Anonymous No.15156131]

Hey here's an idea:
Jannies doing their jobs and enforcing board rules.

[Anonymous No.15156150]

>>15155660
Pol posters/racebaiters, coomer posters, discord/teddy raiders, incel baiters, Guenon posters, Land posters, Christian larpers/baiters, and any other off topic poster except for London frog.
>>15155800
This
/lit/ is being used by off topic posters thinly veiling their threads because it’s slower and they get a better response here then /tv/ or /pol/. We either need generals, much stricter moderation or you should just be IP banned from posting for your first month on the board so that you’re forced to lurk. Otherwise, it will be the next /mu/ or a /pol/ colony in about 2 years

[Harmodius !SPQRgUJdp. No.15156153]

>>15155800
The influx of illiterate /pol/tards and underage plebbitors from /r9k/ obliterated the old userbase and dragged even the slowest and most efficient boards down the irredeemable pit of shit that is nu-4chan. But what's even more dismal is that nobody knows where the fuck the anons who were fed up with the rampant normalfaggotry on this website went, and given that nearly alternative to 4chan is pretty much dead i doubt they decided to settle there. In hindsight, the alternative imageboards never attracted a large userbase, and since 8kun hasn't ever had a /lit/ board, whilst Lainchan is a nest of bugmen who hold no interest in literary discussion despite having a literature board, and the remaining alternatives (wizchan/lynxchan) are chock full of the same plebbitors who killed 4chan, I guess it's more convenient to remain on this shit board in the hope that it won't get even worse than it is now.

[Anonymous No.15156158]

>>15156131
they should use their discretion too
isn't there a reason to report about circumventing rules or something, i see that all the time with "is there a book about why white girls love BBC" type of posts

[Anonymous No.15156189]

The benchmark for /lit/ like four years ago was familiarising yourself with the canon and the greeks and now the first thing you see when you come here is like 'durrr hey guys im lookin to get into eco fascism whats a good book about trees and hitler and shiet durrr'

/pol/ has truly ruined this website, and /lit/ always seemed to be somewhat exempt from it all because to engage in the culture here you had to read, and read difficult works. But the place has been flooded with retards to the point where reading, say, Gravity's Rainbow is not the stick by which posters are judged by and instead the goalposts have been shifted to the point where you can skim a wikipedia entry on whatever the fuck and get 300 replies

[Anonymous No.15156201]

>>15156189
>The benchmark for /lit/ like four years ago was familiarising yourself with the canon and the greeks
ur delusional if u believe this
>Gravity's Rainbow is not the stick by which posters are judged
and that's a good thing

[Anonymous No.15156210]

>>15156150
generals are a sure fire sign of the death of a board i feel. in theory they're ok but generals being made is always symptomatic of a terminal illness in a board's culture, only this one is, ahem, a foreign illness from /pol/

[Anonymous No.15156222]

>>15156201
People shouldn't be judged on their thoughts on Gravity's Rainbow, but when a board upholds actually good work as tenets of its culture, it brings about better posters and posts. Pleb filters do work.

[Anonymous No.15156226]

>>15156201
>and that's a good thing
Long walk, short plank, plox.

[Anonymous No.15156234]

>>15155639
surf the kali yuga mate we are surrounded by apes

[Anonymous No.15156238]

>>15155710
>chick

[Anonymous No.15156245]

>>15155660
People who attack a philosopher without having read him extensively.
That is, let's all just commit suicide.

[Anonymous No.15156271]

>>15156189
Imagine really thinking this. "Start with the Greeks" began as a meme because people would incessantly make threads like "where do I start with Kant/Nietzsche/Hegel/Marx", i.e., the exact same problem you're bemoaning in your post. Nothing has changed except there's more politics and more traffic in general, which means threads die quicker. So if you want to discuss War and Peace, better hope there's some other Anon who has read it online to reply to your thread. Smaller chance of that happening if your thread lasts for 4 hours instead of a full day as it was back in the day

[Anonymous No.15156274]

it seems like every blue board faces with these type of problems. and i blame /b/ turning into nothing but a coomer board. this website doesn't have a random board. so people who want to discuss random shit does it on blue boards

[Anonymous No.15156321]

>>15156222
no, things just become memes. stop being a cop and let people discuss whatever they want as long as it's literature related, and stay out of the threads you don't like. it's literally that simple

[Anonymous No.15156347]

>>15155796
cringe, you've shitted this board already stinkey pajeet

[Anonymous No.15156354]

>>15156347
It's sad, spinoza is an actually good philosopher too

[Anonymous No.15156366]

>>15156347
>You're touching, hearing, smelling and shitting God as we speak
kek

[Anonymous No.15156389]

>>15155639
the quality of this board drastically dropped once pol thought they were intellectual (1st wave or retards) and got their favorite swedish nazi youtuber to read mishima and other garbage (2nd wave of retards)
I was there to see how each day the number of trad larpers and other garbage "books that confirm my held right-wing beliefs" threads grew.
they don't read, they just larp, it's 2000s new atheist intellectual gentlemen but with american "christians"

[Anonymous No.15156904]

>>15155660
Guenonfags, /pol/

[Anonymous No.15156918]

>>15156389
Fuck off, you commies are just as bad.

[Anonymous No.15156942]

>>15156245
>People who attack a philosopher without having read him extensively.
I don't need to smell shit to know it stink nigga

[Anonymous No.15156955]

>>15155796
based

[Anonymous No.15156958]

>>15156918
where are the commies, anon?

[Anonymous No.15156975]

>>15155639
>This board needs to be turned into a /general/ board, with topics getting their own individual threads

No, all it needs is mods to delete off-topic and duplicate threads.

[Anonymous No.15156991]

>>15156189
>The benchmark for /lit/ like four years ago was familiarising yourself with the canon and the greeks
That was always a tongue-in-cheek meme and never a real benchmark, just like the "don't read translations" meme which iirc started at around the same time (give or take a couple months).

As for the getting 300 replies on a shit thread, I distinctly remember making a cat thread on /lit/ when I was bored and getting over 50 replies in less than an hour (at the time /lit/ wasn't that fast so that was a big deal). Meanwhile the King Lear thread I had made a couple days earlier had died with only 12 replies. It's always been more or less like this.

Agree with you about /pol/ ruining the site however. They keep shoehorning their bullshit everywhere so that even the native shitposting culture of each board gets swallowed in a neverending stream of /pol/ nonsense.

[Anonymous No.15156998]

>>15156918
Commies are also /pol/.

[Anonymous No.15157003]

>Commies are also /pol/.

[Anonymous No.15157004]

>>15156389
>>15156918
Low iq buzzword politics should go and stay go

[Anonymous No.15157201]

>>15155660
dostodrones

[Anonymous No.15157207]

>>15157201
based

[Anonymous No.15157242]

>>15155639
Mods should just start banning off topic threads, it's not that fucking hard.

[Anonymous No.15157580]

>>15155756
I doubt anyone here can write

[Anonymous No.15157794]

>>15155660
happy to see that no ones replied with loliposters yet

[Anonymous No.15157812]

>>15155660
loliposters

[Anonymous No.15157823]

>>15155660
Frenchies

[Anonymous No.15157841]

>>15155696
If you believe that "Discord trannies" make a significant number of the posts here, you are the one that needs to go.

Off with every head that's been occupied rent-free. We need the space!

[Anonymous No.15157912]

>>15155639
>post is a picture of a semi-nude woman or thinly veiled politics
This has been going on for a while for most of this site and its getting unbearable. If mods did their damn job and kept /pol/tards in /pol/ everything would be fine but boards all over are turning into dumpster fires because they do nothing.

[Anonymous No.15157944]

>>15155639
I hate this image. The slight shift in facial expression, going from glazed over eyes to smugness. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.15157969]

>>15157912
As long as the gook gets his ad revenue and data to sell to analytics services, why bother enforcing standards?

[Anonymous No.15157983]

>>15157944
its ok anon u dont have to look at it

[Anonymous No.15157990]

>>15157983
the fact that it exists is justification for suicide

[Anonymous No.15158000]

>>15157990
>>15157944
she doesn't look smug to me

[Anonymous No.15158003]

>>15158000
she does to me

[Anonymous No.15158006]

>>15158003
ok but my opinion got trips. take that into consideration

[Anonymous No.15158007]

>>15157990
nooo don’t kill urself ur so sexy aha

[Anonymous No.15158013]

>>15158003
Maybe it's because you don't interact with attractive women?

They are people just like anyone else. They are not a different beast or anything :3

[Anonymous No.15158014]

Without a decent moderation, /lit/ will end like /fit/.
Years ago I went on /fit/ to discuss trainings for football and got some good advices, last year I went there to discuss boxing and the whole thing turned into /pol/-lite "niggers lmao" with memes here and there.

[Anonymous No.15158622]

>>15155639
This thread is no better than the threads you are criticizing.

[Anonymous No.15158628]

>>15158014
The elephant in the room is that years ago /pol/ attracted a new breed of normalfag and now they have thoroughly entrenched themselves into every part of the site. They ruined 4chan, worse than the likes of chanology did back in '08, at least they were a creative bunch. That's not to mention the smartphone explosion that brought the internet greater corporate influence and cultural homogenization by centralizing the web, like some kind of globalization for the internet.

[Anonymous No.15158931]

>>15155653
we must decapitate all incels guenanons and /pol/posters

[Anonymous No.15158942]

>>15158931
that's a good start

[Anonymous No.15158962]

>>15155749
>catholarp zoomers
this. 10 years ago 4chan was unilaterally atheist. then r***** became atheist and 4chan seethed with secondhand cringe, and the age of christlarper dawned. it's been going to shit ever since between r_td rapefugees, literal boomer infestations, phoneposting zoomers, pewdiepie watchers, /tv/ crossboarders, incels and /r9k/ washouts, ethots, philosautists, and other unsightly human garbage.
>>15156153
>nobody knows where the fuck the anons who were fed up with the rampant normalfaggotry on this website went,
seriously, where? the intelligent posters have been leaving in droves, i can tell they've gone, even though anonymous, you can recognize patterns in posters. i feel so lonely, it's like my family has been drifting away. they aren't on irc and aren't on pisscord certainly. other anon have expressed awareness of this same phenomenon.
>>15156189
wikipedia is the single worst thing that ever happened to humanity. it's responsible for the death of /his/ as well, and attracts 14 year old autists like shit to flies.

[Anonymous No.15158973]

>>15156389
i'm almost ashamed to read mishima because of that homosexual vidyoomer. he needs to be assassinated and all his followers sent to gulag.

[Anonymous No.15158983]

>>15157580
we had /write/ thread for a while. i started them and they took off for a while, other anons posted new ones. but they fell to the wayside because the larping 15 year olds here dont have the attention span to write even a short story. tapir anon is okay but his threads never generate quality long discussions, they're just a prompt. even pigeposting is dead now.

[Anonymous No.15158985]

>>15158962
>i feel so lonely, it's like my family has been drifting away
So true

[Anonymous No.15159054]

Which book is she thinking about /lit/?

[Anonymous No.15159078]

>>15155639
>>15159054
What's her name?

[Anonymous No.15159083]

>>15159078
Literally in the file name you fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.15159090]

>>15159083
Guaranteed (You)s

[Anonymous No.15159102]

>>15159054
>>15159078
coomerposters need to be drowned

[Anonymous No.15159109]

>>15155639
NOT EVERYONE HAS READ YOUR GOD DAMN BOOK

[Anonymous No.15159229]

We should seriously do something about the state of the board though. Is there any way to contact the moderators? Or at least create polls and see if making generals would be a good choice? Or anything really

[Anonymous No.15159679]

>>15155953
That was boring as shit why are you so salty no one liked your thread

[Anonymous No.15159723]

>>15159229
I report shitty off-topic threads all the time and they don't get deleted. The mods are fucking garbage.

[Anonymous No.15159754]

The trouble with posters from /pol/ is that they're just fucking stupid. Look at the idiot "intellectuals" they cling to. Ben Shapiro, Nick Fuentes, all these fucking idiots. Give me a break. Back around 2015 we were already having discussions about right-wing literature, but at least then we were talking about guys like De Maistre. Most of the modern userbase of /pol/ unironically has a room temperature IQ. These are the same idiots who believe in QAnon, how can we expect them to have an intelligent conversation?

[Anonymous No.15159788]

>>15159754
>nu/pol/ redditor arguments are r*ddit tier
>this somehow means third positionism is unintellectual
Nice strawman, fag.

[Anonymous No.15159817]

>>15157823
why

[Anonymous No.15159961]

>>15159754
>shapiro, fuentes, and qfags
>anything but bullied relentlessly on /pol/
You're just like the types you presume superiority to, completely unfamiliar with a topic you present yourself as authoritative on.

[Anonymous No.15159985]

>>15159754
the only thing /pol/ are really quite adamant about is the Jew thing, you dont see them collectively agree about much else.

[Anonymous No.15159988]

>>15159754
>Ben Shapiro, Nick Fuentes
>a jew and a spic
>/pol/
Those are the people that alt-lite redditors like, the nazi larpers here do not credit shapiro (though some of the christlarpers like the spic)

[Anonymous No.15159989]

>>15159754
de maistre was the ben shapiro of his time to be quite desu

[Anonymous No.15160040]

>>15159988
>n-no, p-/pol/ doesn't like th-that, we- I mean they're more complicated!
/pol/ are retarded enough to both be racist and to suck the cocks of the people they're racist against.

[Anonymous No.15160062]

>>15157841
>t. discord tranny

[Anonymous No.15160084]

>>15160040
go make a ben shapiro thread on /pol/

[Anonymous No.15160101]

>>15160084
No U.

[Anonymous No.15160135]

>>15160084
I looked at the archive out of interest and it's either about them wanting to have sex with his sister, or how Shapiro is awesome and Fuentes is crap or vice versa. They cannot get enough of those two, it's crazy.

[Anonymous No.15160144]

>>15160135
Is it not just them calling Ben a kike? I left /pol/ before Fuentes was ever a thing so idk about him

[Anonymous No.15160156]

>>15156942
You sure?

[Anonymous No.15160165]

>>15160144
Can you please knock off the low IQ nonsense? I really don't care whether you still go to /pol/ or not, I just want you to fuck off from here.

[Anonymous No.15160173]

>>15160165
Ive been posting on /lit/ since 2012 so it's not very likely that Im going to leave.

[Anonymous No.15160174]

>>15156958
Brb, rc car time.

[Anonymous No.15160190]

>>15160173
Sure you have.

[Anonymous No.15160212]

>>15160190
well enjoy your impotent delusions

[Anonymous No.15161443]

bump

[Anonymous No.15161460]

>>15161443
>>15158014
Yup. Prime example is the candle thread at >>15154306 . There are few recommendations or discussions of actual books, mostly just shitposting.

[Anonymous No.15161489]

>>15155639
>novel
lol I bet you watch talkies too

[Anonymous No.15161541]

>>15158014
the faggot is you!
>hey guys I'm a white collar hobbyist doing football/boxing/anal fisting 3 days a week so clearly I'm unique and need an optimally designed plan by professionals
>what do you mean just do what I can??? discuss the latest in exercise science for my unique needs
fuck off.

[Anonymous No.15161584]

>>15161541
I'm not him, but I just don't understand why so many posters here prefer /pol/posting and reposted memes over an actual discussion.

Am I crazy? Is anyone else here just looking to try and have a genuine conversation with someone due to isolation? Fuck.

[Anonymous No.15161886]

>>15158962
Yeah I know that feel

This is my tenth year as well

[Anonymous No.15162006]

>wonder why /lit/ has seemed especially shit, flooded with lazy tourists recently
>remember that nearly everybody is in isolation right now, stuck at home
How could I not have realised?
At least there’s a chance things will be slightly less shitty again in a few weeks/months.

[Anonymous No.15162011]

>>15157841
kys tranny

[Anonymous No.15162080]

>>15155639
Welcome to 4chan retard. Just blew in from Nigger lover town?

[Anonymous No.15162254]

>>15155878
>/pol/'s rising shitwaves
What specifically do you mean? Posting about politics generally?

[Anonymous No.15162261]

>>15155953
/lit/ is not your personal dopamine dispenser.

[Anonymous No.15162288]

>>15155639
>thinly veiled politics

The worst shit. "Books for a young man who both adores and hates women." It's fucking embarrassing. I've cast at least three threads about cybertexts into these waters and reeled in maybe one reply per.

[Anonymous No.15162300]

Can't complain unless you remember Randposting.

[Anonymous No.15162309]

>>15162288
They always write in that outdated, faux-intellectual style that they can never quite pull off.

[Anonymous No.15162424]

Reminder that the "leftist discord" is a boogeyman used by /pol/ posters to justify their shitting up the board. I have not seen anywhere near enough left-wing threads on /lit/ to justify them being considered a problem. All the threads that shit up the board are /pol/-type shit.

[Anonymous No.15162439]

>>15155639
i would penetrate that women

[Anonymous No.15162892]

/lit/ is ultimately suffering from the same problem lots of boards are suffering from: shoddy moderation.

The moderation on this site needs an overhaul. It clearly can't manage as things stand. Something needs to be done about the mods.

[Anonymous No.15162907]

>>15161541
Fat fingers typed this post

[Anonymous No.15163126]

>>15159078

[Anonymous No.15163305]

>>15159754
Zoomers and boomers have infected /pol/, boomers just care about money, and zoomers are liberals who just want strong borders. Also both think the political theater is important. Same people just get mad if books and writers like Spengler or Maistre are being talked about.

[Anonymous No.15163429]

The problem is that the mods rely on reports to take action. By the time a moderator has seen an offending post, it would've already passed 100+ replies. The mods do indeed punish off topic posts, they just do it way too late, after the damage has already been done. /lit/ needs roving mods who browse the board and strike down offending posts as they sprout. The board is treated as a sort of high brow /b/, a place where you can discuss the usual /b/ and /pol/ topics but with slightly more intelligent peoole.

[Anonymous No.15163675]

>>15155639
i want to have sex with that girl

[Anonymous No.15163892]

>>15163675
There are two girls.

[Anonymous No.15164007]

Is this where I'll tell my grandchildren the revolution began?

[Anonymous No.15165007]

People here are talking about muh laziness,muh low effort post and how invaded this board is, making it an insufferable place. Then just create your own community of high-iq-free-from-adhd heavy-readers-atheist-chad-oldfags. If you don't want to because you want to preserve this place then try to DO something here. If you don't do anything and you're still bitching about the current situtation then kys. If you're pretexting that the layout the this board makes it impossible to improve anything then also kys

[Anonymous No.15165014]

>>15155724
Based, i hate that tranny

[Anonymous No.15165034]

>>15165007
People should be reading the sticky and they clearly aren't because they're redditors who think it's the funtime shitpost site and nothing else. People are trying to improve things, an anon started an /askgen/ yesterday to try to soak up some of the unecessary rec threads.

[Anonymous No.15165050]

>>15165034
the rules of the sticky must be enforced, if they aren't then who is in control must be laid off for someone else to enforce them. If it's impossible to change who controls this place then it is doomed for good

[Anonymous No.15165107]

>>15155660
Butterfly

[Anonymous No.15165398]

does this place even have jannies? i looked at the application forms last time they went up and it seemed like a whole lot of rigamaroo just to have rather useless privileges. i mean who can be arsed

[Anonymous No.15165854]

>>15155660
people replying to and interacting with namefags. those shouldnt just be banned, they should get euthanized in real life too. im 100% serious.

[Anonymous No.15166465]

>>15165398
apparently we had one janny. about 6 months ago anons got pissed about the absolute STATE of the board and prodded janny. he rolled out of his cheeto dust encrusted bed, looked the board over, and said he didn't see the problem. then went back to cooming or fooooding or whatever jannies do.

we've had 10+ daily guenon threads for a year now and no one does shit.

[Anonymous No.15167230]

>>15163126
kek i fell for it

[Anonymous No.15167307]

Where else is there? I only come on /lit/ for /sffg/ now, though I'm not really into sci-fi or fantasy. I've tried reddit but they're far more infuriating than this place ever has been. I just want to read people's casual discussions on books.

[Anonymous No.15168259]

>>15158014
/fit/ was really helpful if you were depressed sad cunt like me but now it's husk of what it really was

[Anonymous No.15168379]

>>15167307
now that zoomers have become literate enough to post on the internet and someone taught boomers how to use a web browser on their ipad, the internet as we know it has died. what you're looking at is the bloated corpse of it.

[Anonymous No.15168391]

>>15168259
/fit/ was ruined by lookism and those types of people

[Anonymous No.15168408]

>>15158014
/pol/ ruined every board

I loved /fit/ back then but once the more knowledgeable anons started recluding themselves in their generals, like oly, pow, fraud, it started to go to shit, because they would stop giving advice in the normal threads.

Now those anons aren't even in their own generals.

Around here /pol/ loves to make asses of themselves in Jordan Peterson threads. I wish we had less of these, so those people wouldn't come here. The good thing is that the more knowledgeable anons aren't recluded to certain generals.

[Anonymous No.15168521]

>>15160084
literally outed yourself as a /pol/ tourist, retard

[Anonymous No.15169604]

bump

[Anonymous No.15169666]

>>15159754
Shalom, did you order a 2012 vintage /pol/ 'intellectual'?

[Anonymous No.15169684]

>>15161541
Top quality post, I am a white collar hobbyist and I've made plenty of shit threads like that in /fit/ over the years

[Anonymous No.15169693]

>>15168521
dont be a nigger

[Anonymous No.15169697]

honestly what else do you people expect? this is an anonymous imageboard where anyone can post
it was never meant to be a place to learn things

[Anonymous No.15169731]

I really love this bitch

[Anonymous No.15169799]

>>15155639
>>15155660
>/philgen/
>/christgen/
>/religen/
>/marxgen/
>/morelitgen/
>/stylelit/
That will isolate almost all of the cancer here. In my opinion, things like religion and Marx aren't really /lit/, but they're made it pretty clear that they won't be leaving. /morelitgen/ (or something named better) would be for things like "Is Twin Peaks /lit/?" or "What's your favorite /lit/ vidya?" /stylelit/ is similar but about the tangentially related lifestyle shit (book covers, translations, shelves, buybags, etc.) After that, it's just a question of quality control.
>Ban tripfags/namefags
>Ban jezebelposters
>Ban Twitterposters
>Ban frequent off-topic posters (e.g. posting an economic rant in an Iliad thread).
>Ban repeated low-effort posting (spelling/grammar errors, syntax, lack of capitalization)
Obviously won't happen because it would need more jannies, but it would be fucking sweet.

[Q No.15169899]

God this entire thread. I want to talk about particular books and subjects as well but we can’t just go around basically pruning all the threads we don’t like

[Anonymous No.15169903]

>>15155735
She does bring down every single thread she appears in with jezelbelposting, marxshit, or both.

[Anonymous No.15170472]

>>15169899
We can and we should. Or we should make sure that there's more moderators.
That + refining this anon's >>15169799 suggestions and we've got ourselves a literature board.

[Anonymous No.15171276]

>>15169899
I don't see what's fun about /lit/ becoming /polreddit/. Standards are what keep communities quality.
>>15170472
This. idk why most people in this thread are so defeatist. It's very doable as long as the mods give it an honest chance.

[Anonymous No.15172615]

>>15171276
>Standards are what keep communities quality.
you are getting angry because you aren't able to control what gets posted here and you never will
part of the 4channel learning curve is realizing you are just an anonymous poster and you shouldn't get mad about or take seriously what you read here
it used to be the basic rule of the site in the old days but people have long ago forgotten about it

[Anonymous No.15172784]

>>15172615
>it used to be the basic rule of the site in the old days but people have long ago forgotten about it
Don't tell lies. Complaining about newfags, "summer," jannies, and general board quality is a tradition on our venerable forum.

[Anonymous No.15173127]

>>15171276
>standards
>community
>quality
You piss into an ocean of piss and now you have the gall to ask for something other than piss?

[Anonymous No.15173281]

>>15172615
>you are getting angry because you aren't able to control what gets posted here and you never will
I think rather you are getting fearful for those same reasons. Nobody can control what is posted in the first instance, but if you're posting here you are riding the /lit/ train and have to deal with the board community here. You're already getting pissy about there being a board culture and certain standards, and other anons have made that happen and in effect made you post your pleb-shit opinion.

[Anonymous No.15173345]

>>15155639
This place is shit. Last time I regularly browsed was in January. I've came back three times since then and every time I come back it's the same garbage threads with 300 replies every time. The only thing that would work is strict moderation banning all the people here who clearly don't enjoy reading or discussing literature and only come to meme or make shit posts about politics, sex, gender, pop culture, their blog, etc etc. But, that will never happen.

[Anonymous No.15173352]

>>15155749
>Even just a few months ago there was fairly regular discussion of literature and the sense that almost everyone read regularly
This board has been total garbage since AT LEAST last August. Probably preceding that by a long time.

[Anonymous No.15173384]

>>15158962
>the intelligent posters have been leaving in droves, i can tell they've gone, even though anonymous, you can recognize patterns in posters. i feel so lonely, it's like my family has been drifting away. they aren't on irc and aren't on pisscord certainly. other anon have expressed awareness of this same phenomenon.
Left this place. I infrequently browse 4chan and when I do it's only /int/. Even then, I haven't browsed in over a week. I spend my time learning language, playing videogames, hanging with close friends and discovering myself. There is one good literary discord server I was in but all the other literary discords I've been in were garbage. I won't share it with you because I have no incentive to. I have things I want to do right now. I do pity you. I will tell you, get desperate and make risky decisions. It is worth it in the end.

[Anonymous No.15173423]

>>15173345
>every time I come back it's the same garbage threads with 300 replies every time
There's even the same complain thread like this one just about every day, yet nothing ever changes.