/lit/ - Literature

>>19713945
i've browsed, at some point in the last decade, almost every board on this site. the video game boards alone are completely impenetrable to me. i actually like video games and i still can't understand a single post on any of those boards. it's like they come from a different universe

There’s two. /lit/ and /his/

Fourchin needs a /ph/ - Philosophy & Theology

Also a /ko/ - Korea

>>19713945
Because nobody reads?

I think it's an awful idea

they know who much i would dominate if they made a religion board. when mods see my penis theres fear in thier eyes

>>19713963
>/ph/ - Philosophy & Theology
Would be full of the most generic early-2010s-tier counterproductive atheist/Christian debates, /lit/ shouldn't be the designated religion board, but at least it filters out the retards who want to come and keep on doing mindless surface-level teenager debates.

>>19713988
>atheist
From some of the people there for philosophy, but they’d establish generals and most the atheists would be on lit discussing books

>>19713945
Fuck off faggot. WE NEED A BOARD FOR WRITING TO DEVELOP AND FURTHER EDUCATE OURSELVES

>>19713975
BENIS IS DED
:D :D :D

>>19714009
I thought of that after I posted. A writing board would be great.

>>19713945
>Why can't literature have a couple more boards?
because that's gay and retarded

>>19713945
>vidya gaymes have 8 boards
>sportball has at least 3
>/a/ can't even get a /manga/ board so people can have discussion up without getting knocked off by 2-post threads of seasonal moeblob waifubaits
>we have an entire board just for faggots/troons to discuss chopping their cock off

hiroshima moot is a fucking faggot

>>19714016
Would you be allowed to publish your work in a serialized fashion on that board?

>>19713945
I agree we need a board to discuss philosophy but /lit/ is enough for literature.

>>19714031
I don't see why not. Probably just become a namefag and post regularly.

>>19713945
too diffuse, you hate the shitposters but nobody reads for fun anymore. just a religion board? have fun being invaded by the calvinist /pol/ lads. just a philosophy board? hope you enjoy 10 pages of neo-marxist critique by illiterate marcuse acolytes. /lit/ is good enough as is.

>>19713945
I don't really think it's necessary tbdesu. I feel like the generals are good enough for the things you listed. However, I wouldn't mind a place for all the religitards to go to, so perhaps it's not the worst idea.

How exactly do you think it would foster deeper conversations when the same conversations can be had here on /lit/?

>>19714166
a 4chan religious board would just be nonstop raided by assblasted troons

>>19713945
There isn't enough depth in lit for the speed it flows at. Dividing it in two will spread it thinner. The reason you're not having a deep conversation about any lit is because you cannot samefag a deep conversation about lit. The problem is you, not too few boards.

>>19714182
I am perfectly okay with that

>>19714166
Well, I noticed that the general Vidya board often talks about RPG games. That's fine. But there's also a board specifically for RPG. The posters there seem to be extra passionate about the topic, and dedicated to deeper discussions. I figured the same might occur with a philosophy board. I could be wrong though.

>>19714102
Is there anybody that does it on this board?

>>19713945
It's a great idea but like... people don't read. Very few people think written language is beautiful. It's a blunt tool to everyone else.

>>19713967
I just read your post, idiot. And you read OP's post . Idiot.

>>19714204
If there is, I haven't noticed. I think mods would probably delete the posts unless they're replies to a "write what's on your mind" thread, which is more reason to have a writing board imo.

>>19714223
I've only been here, somewhat frequently for two weeks and haven't seen anybody do it. I would share my writing if I could be anonymous, and if it was allowed. So I'm definitely in favor of a writing board, if people and mods don't want it here.

>>19713988
I agree but I’ve also read the best most informative and civil arguments on philosophy and theology on 4chan. There are a lot of retarded people here, but those rare few make up for it

>>19714223
we can barely keep /wg/ up we dont need an entire board for writing

>>19713945
>There's 8 different boards dedicated to video games
Bullshit.

>>19713945
There are eight boards for vidya only because /v/ is such an enormous overpopulated shithole that mods thought their only hope for getting it under control would be to divide it and conquer several smaller /v/s. It didn't work.

/lit/ is an underpopulated shithole and splintering it would not improve its situation whatsoever.

>>19714120
Better to have a containment board than be infested with cancer.

>>19714223
the closest would be /qst/ which is for "interactive fiction" spawned from /a/ and /tg/ but i think a long form serial would be ok as well. i don't think mods would care.

>>19714206
Written language is beautiful but I'm too dense/uneducated to comprehend it all.

I need a place to discuss Buddhism. Ironically the anons of this board have helped me a lot with Buddhist texts, but it's the mods that keep deleting the threads even though they have proper discussion. I do feel like seperate religion and philosophy board is necessary, while there would be shitposting early on, eventually anons would stick to their generals like /tg/ or /vg/.

>>19714319
Bro, you're beautiful. Just because something's incomplete doesn't mean it isn't still great

>>19714318
Well, I guess I'll see if people will be annoyed and start making a series for here. Perhaps I'll start next Thursday.

>/qst/
I didn't know that board existed. They look like my type of people. Thanks for the heads up. I'll try not to abandon you nerds.

>>19713945
you really think normies enjoy reading?

>>19714332
>while there would be shitposting early on, eventually anon
I'mma stop you right there. /his/ was supposed to level off into a board that spoke Greek, discussed the trading and distilling and political implications of port wine, and documented early Mongolian hunting eagle harness fashioning. To get a good history or ancient language or humanities book, you still need to come to /lit/. A religion and philosophy board would not give you good books.

>>19714385
Wouldn't the Anons who want to discuss philosophy and religion simply move to the new board? It working pretty well for /xs/.

>>19714412
The ones who want to discuss it without reading books would. Hence /his/ being what it is, while the old general on /lit/ which inspired it was mostly bibliography dumps.

>>19713945
This board is already too slow. If anything it should be merged with a faster board like /pol/ or /hm/

>>19714454
>pol/ or /hm/
Disgusting.

Religion belongs on /x/.
Philosophy belongs on /lit/.
Namedropping and making ideology jagerbombs belong on a relevant subreddit or discord %.

>>19713945
Because this board is already slow.

>>19714030
/tttt/ is a containment board. If anything we should get rid of /adv/. Shits all just ">tfw no gf" ad nauseam

>>19714009
Nigga, you can barely sustain one general nevermind an entire board

>>19713945
why would our Mongolian basket weaving forum need a philosophy board???

>>19713963
if you deport the philosophy threads from /lit/ it would be a 5 thread per day board

>>19713945
Look at what happened to /his/

>>19718603
What happened to /his/?

>>19713963
We need
>/ph/ Philosophy
>/re/ Religion

>>19718920
No we don't
>>19718871
Same thing that happened to the history channel

>>19718564
Which is a good thing. Slower boards tend encourage more thoughtful responses.

Is /lit/ moving too fast for you? Do you see any discussion here in danger of getting buried?
As was noted here /a/ desperately needs its /ma/, so it can be a fair point on more actice boards, but your suggestion here is ridiculous.

>>19718994
>Same thing that happened to the history channel
Are you saying that ice road truckers and aliens have taken over /his/?

>>19713945
Nobody here even reads!

>>19713945
the only extra board this site needs is /capeshit/ so that /tv/ can finally be usable again

I like it that /lit/ is more like a forum for those who read, in general. More eclectic and eye opening.

>>19713945
Religion board would either be amazing or 200 posts a day of endless bickering

>>19719161
The latter is reddit.

>>19719175
Do they call each other damned and act holier than thou at every sentence? I hadn't even thought of the /pol/ calvinists

Making new boards is pointless and you may as well just turn the place into reddit if you want sub-communities. They wouldn't help anything, you'd just find those boards would be dead and they would come back to /lit/ to post their usual topics anyway. It's redundant.

>>19719050
>Is /lit/ moving too fast for you? Do you see any discussion here in danger of getting buried?
Yes. By the nature of the medium, fewer people have read the same books so threads need a longer lifespan than other boards to generate the same level of discussion. Effortposts only exist on slow boards.

>>19719204
This is a slow board.

>>19713945
I genuinely want a dedicated space we can talk about fanfiction because sometimes it can slap but also so we can find true cringe together

>>19713963
>/ko- Korea
>404
goddammit you got me

>>19719277
Make a general

>>19719319
Against the rules.

>>19719264
no it isn't. we need to shed another ~1.5k posts a day to be at the optimum rate.

>>19719289
I was saying there should be a /ko/
Would relieve /mu/ of their dancing girl plague

>>19713988
>but at least it filters out the retards who want to come and keep on doing mindless surface-level teenager debates.
newfag?

>>19719507
Probably not a terrible idea with the rise of Korean media. People have on multiple occasions attempted to argue that Korean manhwa should be allowed on /a/ and most /a/ users pushed back against this, wishing to maintain the distinction between Korean and Japanese comics. Ultimately they get told to go to /co/ which primarily focuses on Western (trash) comics and isn't really a suitable board for them either.

/v/ has 8 sub boards because /v/ is a disproportionately popular board and is extremely cancerous. Adding additional sub boards has actually only increased the cancer by siphoning away every subculture and demographic group that actually plays videogames into a tiny little community that can then not self-sustain and simply dies.
Creating sub boards only divides the posting audiences and weakens both boards, while creating an inflammatory environment that is usually stoked by crossposters. We already see this between /lit/ and /his/, thanks in large part to /his/ being a containment board.
If you haven't been on 4chan since before the creation of /v/'s sub boards then you lack the practical experience to know what's going to happen when you start splitting boards.
There is ultimately just not that much new discussion to be had under the topic of literature THAT A POPULATION WILL ACTUALLY BOTHER SUSTAINING. If you want uber niche conversation about topics only you and 2 other people on the planet care about, find a traditional forum that does not prioritize content by user engagement instead of wrecking a 4chan board for no discernible gain.

>>19719396
>wg
>sffg
Whatever you say lazy fuck

>>19713945
poetry board
>99% of the threads are bitching about Rupi Kaur
>1% of the threads are about Iliad/Odyssey/Divine Comedy/Paradise Lost
>no threads about lyrical poetry or anything from the 19th or 20th century
plays board
>99% Shakespeare
>1% musical theaterfags
short stories board
>dead on arrival
novels board
/sffg/ the most active thread at all times with everything else focused entirely on the usual suspects
>philosophy and religion board
blue board /pol/

>>19719858
>doesn’t want to get nuked by jannies
>ur just lazy bro

>>19714454
The only board lit would be even remotely close to merging with would be /mu/ or /p/ for some kind of "creative media" board and even that sounds like a bad idea, especially since there are Korean coomers on /mu/.

>>19719857
99% of videogames are complete trash, that people are not encouraged is a good thing, you would be healthier smoking 4 packs a day than remaining a "gamer".
the /mlp/ board was a great success, you no longer have pony leakage, and 4channel needs a new one to deal with Marvel/DC capeshitters urgently

>/v/ has moar boards
>we should be moar liek /v/
You should be banned and possibly shot if local legislation allows.

>>19719880
Neither of those have ever been nuked on the grounds of being generals. Did you come here from another board where making generals got you taken down by janitors or something?

>>19719898
Family… anything fanfiction is against the rules, not generals.

What this board actually needs is to allow me to post whatever topic i want, even if it isn't literature related. /lit/ should just be smart-/b/

>>19719984
isn't that the write what's on your mind thread

>>19719941
Where? I don't see any rules about fanfiction

>>19717653
nope /adv/ needs to stay to contain those fags. A decent amount still leak over tho.

>>19720089
no one reads what other people write on wwoym thread: it's just histrionic neurotic wrecks diary desu posting then waiting for (you)s that never arrive.

>>19720148
could say the same for the whole of 4chan

>>19720158
Not really, there are discussions about niche subjects on this website that you would be hard pressed to find elsewhere on the internet. You are being overly reductive.

>>19713963
get outta here k-pop fag.

>>19719127
they would also benefit from a /YouTube/ board.

>>19714285
>>>/v/
>>>/vr/
>>>/vrpg/
>>>/vg/
>>>/vm/
>>>/vgm/
>>>/vp/
>>>/vst/
Eight

>>19713945
It probably wouldn't help, This website sucks unless you're looking for something specific. I don't want to overstate it either, because I think the same of youtube. Browsing for entertainment, it's a fucking garbage waste of time no matter how the board is categorized or whatever. I only come here right now out of pure compulsion, like muscle memory of being used to clicking on something.

>>19720100
Read the sticky