/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15265766]

>tfw /lit/ is a shitposting board now
How did it come to this?
>duuuh it was always a shitposting board
No it wasn't newfag. This place is worse than /tv/ at the moment.

[Anonymous No.15265775]

>>15265766
It was always a shitposting board, the quality of shitposts was just better

[Anonymous No.15265783]

>>15265775
I distinctly remember being here in 2018 and it being pretty decent. Still 4chan ofc but decent.
Utter dogshit now. Don't know why I stick around.

[Anonymous No.15265802]

>>15265766

Oh yes it was. Roughly speaking, an 80/20 ratio between funposting and something approximating real discussion (with maybe only about 1-3% overall being mid-high tier posts) has always obtained here. The other smart board, /sci/ likes to have a giggle as well but they're probably the best board for real discussion of the subject matter. t. old man who has been here for over five years

[Anonymous No.15265813]

>>15265783
It was way better up until like six months ago. and then it totally went to shit. I can't work out what happened.
>muh /pol/ and reddit
this descent happened several years after the mass infestation
>muh coronavirus
the descent started months before

[Anonymous No.15265824]

>>15265783
I have been browsing this board from 2017 and i honestly can't remember it being any better

[Anonymous No.15265836]

>>15265802
It was higher than 80/20, in seriouspostings favour. It's 4chan though, so it's never going to be below 50% shitposting. At the moment it's at over 90% recycled shitposts and not even funny ones at that (some faggots going to be here with soijak before the thread is through, without a doubt).

[Anonymous No.15265850]

>>15265775
TAKE ME BAAAAACK

[Anonymous No.15265872]

>>15265766
Moby-Dick thread has some comfy effortposting going on

[Anonymous No.15265891]

>>15265836

You know now that I think about it, there has been exactly one major cultural shift in the board which coincides with this time frame. So it's reasonable to lay blame at, if not his feet, then the feet of those who constantly spam him.

t. hylic

[Anonymous No.15265894]

4chan has always been about memes

[Anonymous No.15265910]

>>15265872

Yes, it got me to get my old copy off the shelf, I'm not going to (fully?) participate but I wish them well. Maybe I'll do a random chapter here and there, I like that one chapter where it randomly switches to dialogue lines in a play.

[Anonymous No.15265912]

>>15265824
this. you're just getting older OP

[Anonymous No.15265919]

>>15265891
Are you talking about Quentin?

[Anonymous No.15265926]

>>15265783
>>15265824
>>15265850
pre-2015 /lit/ was the best

[Anonymous No.15265949]

>>15265766

[Anonymous No.15265959]

>>15265919
Hes talking about the unmentionable

[Anonymous No.15265963]

>>15265836
>It was higher than 80/20, in seriouspostings favour. It's 4chan though, so it's never going to be below 50% shitposting. At the moment it's at over 90% recycled shitposts and not even funny ones at that (some faggots going to be here with soijak before the thread is through, without a doubt).

[Anonymous No.15265979]

>>15265959
Oh fuck, I'd pushed that faggot out of my mind. I haven't seen him in a while though.

[Anonymous No.15266076]

>>15265891
true

[Anonymous No.15266088]

guenonfag has fallen off, now accfag is spamming the shit out of this place. plus the other twitter faggots.

[Anonymous No.15266091]

>>15265891
Absolutely, Geunonposting was what triggered the fall of this board

[Anonymous No.15266147]

How to improve /lit/:
1. Ignore and report off-topic threads (it's not worth bumping these threads to complain about their quality).
2. Never engage in shitposting for the sake of it.
3. Don't start threads unless you know how to make quality and engaging threads.
4. Bully newfags, redditors, /pol/tards, etc.

The mods will never save us. We have to take this shit into our own hands.

[Anonymous No.15266174]

Every board i frequent feels like absolute fucking discord raid tier shitposting 24/7, it didn't feel like this 1 year ago.

[Anonymous No.15266268]

>>15266174
Which boards do you use?

[Anonymous No.15266279]

>>15265766
Normalfags are quarantined and bored, so they're coming to boards they would normally ignore. Same is happening on other boards, for example /ic/ is hitting an all time low with people complaining that the mods should delete the naked women and make /ic/ a blue board. No reason to think it'll get better, unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.15266505]

Does anyone actually sometimes feel an urge to physically harm shitposters? I see low-effort shitposting and it makes me want to wring Anon's neck.

[Anonymous No.15266659]

>>15266505
absolute midwit

[Anonymous No.15266840]

big bong

[Anonymous No.15266907]

>>15266840
What the fuck was that huge spike in 2019?

[Anonymous No.15266938]

>>15266840
i for one am glad that more people are reading :)

[Anonymous No.15266963]

>>15265766
the problem is the worthless fucking mods. shitposts/bait threads never get deleted. all you have to do is make a shitpost and add "ANY BOOKS FOR THIS FEEL" at the end, the mods will never delete even the stinkiest shitpost that does this because its "technically" book related.

[Anonymous No.15266989]

>>15265766
It's partly because of the quarantine, people flooding in from other places

[Anonymous No.15267211]

>>15266659
low-test weakling

[Anonymous No.15267220]

>>15265766
Trying to make an effort poses exposes you to the possibility of being proven wrong. While saying something ironically protects you since nothing you say is "serious". Consequently, mans ego incentivizes shitposting as a self-defence mechanism.

[Anonymous No.15267311]

>>15266963
That's a great pepe
The obscurity of the reference is gratifying for me

[Anonymous No.15267318]

>>15266840
So IS this all down to the quarantine? Is the fact that everyone's cooped up indoors the reason we're getting so much low quality shitposting?

[Anonymous No.15267332]

>>15267211
Wait do you actually take pride in having urges to physically attack people who aren't there over things they do on the internet?

Does attacking your handler when she won't take you out for ice cream make you feel high test?

[Anonymous No.15267406]

>>15267220
ngl, based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.15267413]

>>15267318
most boards have seen a rise, though some haven't. These are boards with a similar enough post count and they're all following the same trajectory. I would guess it is quarantine, but honestly the board has been getting shittier and shittier for years now anyway, proportional with the steady increase of posters. All we have done is fast-forward 2 years.

[Anonymous No.15267420]

Jap Moot won't do anything about this site unless he stands to either lose money or go to jail. Those are the only two things I can think of that would motivate him to make changes.

[Anonymous No.15267439]

>>15267220
people post their serious convictions on here all the time though. they're not intelligent enough to fear having their cherished beliefs dismantled because they can also just respond with a soijak or calling someone a nigger. people shit/troll because its funny.