/lit/ - Literature

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>Can you identify an in- or decreasing trend in post/discussion/prose / general quality as you sift through the archives (in retrochronological order, I presume?)
It is retrochronological order, yes. As for the post and discussion quality, that is difficult to say, as my search is often for certain bits and pieces that might interest me and not every single thread under the sun. I'm sure that if you were to look at a specific sort of thread, say Spengler, uncle Ted, Traditionalism and various others, you'll find various phrases and patterns repeating a near endless amount of times. Nobody would have the desire or the lack of respect for their own time necessary to check everything thoroughly. Overall however, of the boards whose archives I have sifted through even the slightest amount, /lit/ being the one I searched through longest/most often I wager, it seems to have some of the longest posts on average. Quality wise I really cannot say if it was drastically better before, so assume that it was.
>if your research has yielded any result so far, and you are furthermore inclined to sharing your findings, I will commend your effort.
It is not particularly insightful to anybody but myself, though I can comment shortly on how the situation seemed based on those few fragments I peeked at.
One thing I noted just today is that it feels like animosity towards anime reaction images only really started some 5 years ago and became a relatively common occurrence around 2016/17 up to the present. Now it's perfectly normal to see someone post anime while saying something, admittedly, quite stupid, and get called a dumb anime poster. Even a regular, run of the mill comment is made a hundredfold worse by the mere addition of an anime-related image. if you put anime poster in the search box however, you'll notice that from now to back in 2016 fills multiple pages of mostly derogatory comments, while between 2014 and 2010 there is almost nothing. Vaguely related to this, but back in those now faraway years it seems like crossboard shenanigans was more common. You'd occasionally have people waltz in and calmly state that they're from board X and ask for some book recommendation or an answer to a specific question, and while they weren't large threads certainly they weren't obviously inflammatory, nor were the posters themselves always treated with pure contempt. You even had other boards come in on elaborate tours for the hell of it.
For the most part I have saved posts related to the age old tradition we know here as "waifufaggotry", from both sides. It is agonizing.