/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9137136]

How do we save /lit/?

[Anonymous No.9137139]

>>9137136
We don't.

[Anonymous No.9137144]

>>9137136
Actually read women, and stop being weird aspies that fail on all accounts of being an intellectual

[Anonymous No.9137160]

When people suggest things for others to read, actually read then. This was on /sci/, but he suggested I read Arithmetica by Diophantus, which I will be reading after Introduction to Arithmetic by Nicomachus.

[Anonymous No.9137164]

>>9137136
Save it from what exactly?

[Anonymous No.9137171]

>>9137136
More redpilled shit, more white identity politics, more right wing politics allowed

[Anonymous No.9137172]

>>9137136
by everyone joining that dude from toronto (me) to go deliver books to carliclaire

[Anonymous No.9137178]

>>9137171
for people like you to be crucified

[Anonymous No.9137179]

by shutting it down. /lit/ards will actually read something instead their (you)posts

[Anonymous No.9137181]

>>9137171
>identity politics
>redpilled

ahahahaha nice spooks nerds

[Anonymous No.9137185]

>>9137136
nuke it from orbit

[Anonymous No.9137187]

>>9137171
We're trying to make it better anon, not autistic.

[Anonymous No.9137189]

terminate /pol/ posters with extreme prejudice

[Anonymous No.9137224]

If you hide shit threads the board is one of the best on this site.

[Anonymous No.9137249]

Reminder that every single board problem (for all boards) comes down to the userbase so you can never fix a board

[Anonymous No.9137253]

Beg butters to come back

[Anonymous No.9137254]

>>9137171
Strangely this might be true. Used to be that /pol/ showing up would cause arguments and derail threads, but now the 'white pride' stuff is basically a completely ignorable meme.

[Anonymous No.9137290]

>>9137249
I wonder if there is any practical way to subtly influence a userbase to change. The userbase of /x/, for example, has significantly decreased in interest and intelligence to the point where it is nothing but schizophrenics and mind-numbing shitposting. There needs to be some system to revert this.

[Anonymous No.9137298]

>>9137290
heroic posters who devote time to raising the level of discussion

t. HD and Ovid poster

[Anonymous No.9137308]

>>9137298
>tfw finally memed someone else into taking over my job on two authors

>>9137253
this.

[Anonymous No.9137327]

>>9137308
I resent that. I memed myself thankyou.
Same thing with Middlemarch

[Anonymous No.9137329]

>>9137171
stop, i'm spooked out

[Anonymous No.9137388]

>>9137171
fuck political identities remember george washingon?

[Anonymous No.9137417]

>>9137327
Oh come on I had to sperg about HD for far too long to get two people to read her for you take credit.

I think you could do a good job taking up Pushkin. It's been a spell since anyone memed him and he has a nice Nabokov inlet. Think about it.

[Anonymous No.9137433]

>>9137417
I haven't go into him yet, but I'll look into it.
Consider memeing the Ugaritic Texts in exchange (they take the stylistic tendencies of Gilgamesh to the extreme).

[Anonymous No.9137488]

>>9137136
1. get rid of the philosophy posters who don't talk about actual lit

2. frogposters/r9k shitposters

3. not much hope for this one but, the usual Green/DFW/Pynchon/Lovecraft/etc posters who literally post the same meme thread every day, sometimes multiple times a day, which knocks real threads off the board. Important note: I'm not referring to threads with actual discussion, but the meme threads that get one or two greentext replies and then 404 a day later.

[Anonymous No.9137532]

Delete /pol/ and sjw garbage.

>>9137488
Also this.
Philosophy belongs in /his/ unless the thread is based around a specific book.

[Anonymous No.9137643]

>>9137532

No, philosophy belongs in /lit/.

[Anonymous No.9137653]

>>9137643
>Philosophical discussion can go on either /lit/ or /his/, but ideally those discussions of philosophy that take place on /lit/ should be based around specific philosophical works to which posters can refer.

[Anonymous No.9137663]

>>9137643
philosophy is a humanity, therefore discussion about philosophy belongs on the humanities board.

there are some literary works about philosophy, those can be discussed on /lit/, but would also be at home referenced in a philosophy discussion on /his/ as well.

[Anonymous No.9137682]

>>9137249
Lax moderation exacerbates issues significantly. There is tons of blatant shitposting on the blue boards that should be getting deleted and banned but doesn't. Once people start realizing that putting thought and effort into a post is just going to get them trolled, they stop giving a shit. Eventually everything is just shitposters trying to bait each other and create the next totally epic meme.

[Anonymous No.9137690]

>>9137653

>Philosophical discussion can go on either /lit/ or /his/

Glad that's settled.

[Anonymous No.9137699]

>>9137690
>but ideally those discussions of philosophy that take place on /lit/ should be based around specific philosophical works to which posters can refer.

[Anonymous No.9137708]

>>9137699

>ideally

So there's no requirement. Gotcha.

[Anonymous No.9137711]

>>9137699
>Ideally
You just answered your own question

[Anonymous No.9137722]

>>9137643
>>9137532
>>9137653

I was going to say Literature that does not or does not attempt to provoke any philosophical ideas is childrens stories, but then I quickly realized, even their main purpose is philosophical, offering insights and wisdom into life and the human condition.

Is mindless masturbatory smuttery, a novel without a hint of philosophical excitation, may as well read: Flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers

[Anonymous No.9137730]

More tranus

[Anonymous No.9137733]

>>9137682
why do you think 'clicks per minute' is not more important than 'good discussion'?

[Anonymous No.9137762]

>>9137733
Is that a serious question?

[Anonymous No.9137763]

>>9137708
>>9137711
Heh, that's okay I guess.

[Anonymous No.9137773]

>>9137722
has anyone ever successfully written a novel that can not be questioned or thought about in anyway?

[Anonymous No.9137779]

>>9137762
>Is that a serious question?
Yes, but I was not asking it in relation to your feelings, thoughts and views

But ok, yes, your correct point may be: good/best discussion = maximum number of clicks