/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20398874]

>guy mispronounces/misspells a word
>everyone jumps to correct him
>no one replies to what he actually said

[Anonymous No.20398893]

>>20398874
It's mispronounce's*.

[Anonymous No.20398903]

>>20398893

[Anonymous No.20398916]

>>20398874
>guy learns to use that to his own benefit and starts a business to manipulate the many

[Anonymouṡ No.20399027]

>>20398874
I agree, /lit/'s pedantry and childish one-up-manship (pouncing on irrelevant mistakes) are annoying. But a bigger problem is their rabid depth-first attitude.

I see this happen over and over again:

— OP says something vaguely interesting. Let's call his thesis ABCDE.
— First poster jumps on A and makes a comment, say A1234.
— Second poster jumps on this and zooms in on A1.
— Third poster starts fighting with second poster.
— Everyone piles in.
— OP's B,C,D,E are completely forgotten.
— Occasionally someone tries to back off & see the big picture
— His post goes ignored in the frenzied handbag-swinging mud-fight.

I can't endorse the XKCD guy's politics but he nailed this phenomenon perfectly here:

https://xkcd.com/761/

[Anonymous No.20399040]

>>20399027
> But a bigger problem is their rabid depth-first attitude.
It's not a problem, it's a feature.
>"But it derails the discussion!"
Derails it away from what?
>"From OP's~"
OP is a faggot by definition, and conversation is intrinsically a collective effort. It doesn't matter if OP wants to talk about ABCDE - as long as other anons prefer talking about A and subdivisions of A - whether due to having curiosity or original takes or simply because it baits them - A is the only thing that matters.
>"but muh big picture"
Doesn't matter if nobody cares. Things that only one anon = nobody cares about exist to be ignored.

You can't stomach natural discourse without limiting it with autistic and arbitrary rules, which make just as much and frequently even less sense than intuitive preferences of a mob. You might be actually autistic, just like the XKCD guy.

[Anonymous No.20399121]

>>20399040
>It's not a problem, it's a feature.
Heeey, I know where you come from

[Anonymouṡ No.20399182]

>>20399040
Sometimes what you say has merit. Sometimes just kicking the can down the road does lead to good places. But you're blithely assuming it will always be a good thing and that's just nonsense. Mostly it doesn't.

>Doesn't matter if nobody cares. Things that only one anon = nobody cares about exist to be ignored.
Selection bias. You're assuming that because a thread has 199 posts of random slapfest and one post of X, only ½% of people are interested in X. But you're forgetting that many people might see the thread, think "that's interesting", open it, maybe read OP's idea, then see what's happening, close it and give up. I do that quite often and if I do it, lots of other people must.

You'll probably say "well such people must fight for their ideas or perish!" Well, that's what happens, and of course they will lose. But you're wrong to assume it's automatically a Good Thing.

[Anonymous No.20399232]

>>20398874
>literary board
>writes plural's like this and doesn't differentiate then/than and there/their/they're
>complains

[Anonymous No.20399245]

>>20399027
I believe you're misusing the emdash.
>verification not required