Meta post about the state of the board

[Anonymous No.15992105]

Preface: meta posts are allowed.
Merge this board with /his/ and just call it /hum/ for humanities. As of the creation of this thread, these are some of the active threads:

>any booktubers worth their salt?
>beautiful name you liked from literature?
>/alfred janny/
>do you take the cover off
>words words words words... (pic of Spinoza attached)
>post pleb filters
>Took me 25 hours to read a 600 page book. How bad is this?
>post artwork, get a book recommendation
>modernity bad
>Spanish or Chinese?
>Any horrible takes on the Iliad?
>Any books which channel the energy of pic related?
>Books that will help me overthrow the international banking system?
>Literature & $€X
>Read "Sex and character"
>I told a girl im gonna take a stinky fix my brain rn
>Have you ever read a book that has LITERALLY turned you fucking insane?
>Any of you /lit/tards spin poi?
>Should I pretend to be a black woman to get published?
>Is he the most /lit/ songwriter?
>Post shelves
>Whats some lit that give off more of a seared bite than other novels?
>Are dog owners or cat owners better philosophers?
>books on indoor chicken farming? how to deal with the smell
>[Literally anything] Was never really tried.
>This is going to be my first manga I read,
>Wagner: Wagner
>Nietzsche? More like NEET-zsche!

>inb4 no fun allowed
This is what /lit/'s sticky says:
>/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc. If you want to discuss history, religion, or the humanities, go to /his/. If you want to discuss politics, go to /pol/. Philosophical discussion can go on either /lit/ or /his/, but those discussions of philosophy that take place on /lit/ should be based around specific philosophical works to which posters can refer.
>/lit/ is a SLOW BOARD! Please TAKE THE TIME to read what others have written, and try to make THOUGHTFUL, WELL-WRITTEN POSTS of your own. Bump replies are not necessary.
What's the point of board rules if nobody adheres to them? More than half the threads at any given time are complete filler made as a sort of "humorous" statement. Nothing thought provoking and nothing warranting discussion in such threads, just made to get replies, drown other threads as well as itself and then to create a new one. There is no point in having a literature board if maybe 10 posts are about literature and the rest are about "philosophers" - but are super vague and don't follow the guidelines of the sticky (i.e. they're not about a singular work or a thought within some work, they're just there to namedrop a certain philosopher and that's it).
The board should either have almost constant /general/s or just be merged with /his/ into one global humanity board - most people post on both and just oversaturate them with meaningless drivel.

[Anonymous No.15992112]

>>15992105
>Merge this board with /his/ and just call it /hum/ for humanities.
Stopped reading here. Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.15992139]

>>15992105
>The board should either have almost constant /general/s
Stopped reading here anon

[Anonymous No.15992150]

Forgot to add - propose your own solutions for making the board better, because it isn't interesting to pretend that what we currently have is any good.

[Anonymous No.15992154]

You should merge with another website

[Anonymous No.15992155]

>>15992105
make a philosophy board

[Anonymous No.15992193]

>>15992105
>>/lit/ is a SLOW BOARD! Please TAKE THE TIME to read what others have written, and try to make THOUGHTFUL, WELL-WRITTEN POSTS of your own. Bump replies are not necessary.


Funny how this isn’t even true anymore. There’s a new catalog every two days. All these problems you complain of can be solved by less shitposts and more quality posts. Essentially the only way to improve /lit/ is reduce the post output. A slow board is the greatest incentive for quality posting. Why put effort when it’ll disappear in a few days and be lost under a mountain of shit in the archive? Indeed, 4chan by design selects for fleeting shitposts and attention grabbing images by format. If you want quality discussions, obscure forums and Reddit are better suited.

4chan is a simulation of a coffee house, not a parliament. Your complaints are ludicrous. Take this board for what it is and move on

[Anonymous No.15992199]

>>15992105
>The board should either have almost constant /general/s or just be merged with /his/ into one global humanity board
I agree with the rest but this is fucking garbage. Generals are cancer and there's especially no need for them on a literature board. There's no need to merge with /his/ or create a philosophy board, it's fine the way it is. The board just needs to be actively moderated, but it won't happen because the mods don't care.

[Anonymous No.15992202]

Yes bring all the haploautists here.

[Anonymous No.15992203]

Instead of using your energy to create a better thread you create this bullshit meta thread. It's easier to condem threads then make your own.
Really this board is just to hang out with the more pretentious and '''''intellectual'''' side of 4chan, and people have fun here. It's filled with antagonisms and anons grabbing eachother by the throat. It takes effort to write a high effort post and it takes effort to engage with high effort posts. Most people come here to escape and communicate, but often despise other boards. So they come here and use thinly veiled literature threads to provoke a response, usually it's just to make people laugh or upset, sometimes just to vent their feelings. Is it really that bad?
I know that there are some hyper autistic people here that would want this place to become more serious and talk about 'deep' philosophy and 'deep' literature, these guys are boring as hell and need to be shot.
Fuck jannies.
Keep evading bans.
Keep shitposting.
Love you /lit/.

[Anonymous No.15992204]

>>15992105
>or just be merged with /his/ into one global humanity board
/his/ was created so that all the navel gazers and god botherers could have their own containment area and leave the rest of us to actually talk about literature
unfortunately they didn't fuck off like they were supposed to so /his/ is just a festering heap and /lit/ is still crawling with vermin like before. now there are two shitty boards instead of one.

[Anonymous No.15992207]

I'm really tired of people making low-effort complaint threads. Honestly they're worse than what they complain about. None of you know how bad it was during the peak of coordinated and invasive Guenon spam. And the threads always end with some stupid solution like "Let's kick out the philosophy people" and this merger idea. Fuck you all. There was actual mod abuse just weeks ago over the Horia Belcea spam which, like the Guenon spam, was actually invasive and annoying. But no, you idiots focus on shit that you can easily ignore and that's always been a thing. Fuck you all.
>OP somehow manages to complain about the Alfred Janny threads
Literally tilting at windmills at that point. Can we make a meta thread about how these complaint threads suck ass? And these are the threads jannies never delete, unlike the last REAL meta thread that resulted in a mass ban for actually calling the jannies out on their bullshit.

[Anonymous No.15992223]

I agree that this is an issue but I don't see how merging with /his/ would help. Most of that board is retarded and underage. Philosophy would need it's own board, but that wouldn't help with the lack of quality content. I agree that we need generals for "Any books...?", "Bookshelves", "What language..." "I read 3 pages today..." etc., but the real issue is the moderation. Either it is nearly non-existent or it needs to be stricter. As far as we know there is only one mod on this board and it's butterfly.

[Anonymous No.15992227]

>>15992105
Copy and pasting from other thread
>Get a fucking life, you are the kind of person who wants to turn /lit/ in a dusty old library and when there comes a hot camgirl that starts mastrubating in a random aisle, instead of praising that behavior of bringing life to the library you report her to the police and perma ban her.

[Anonymous No.15992239]

Or
Delete /hiis/
Make an archeology/ archeogenetics/ military history board
Make a philosophy and humanities board
Mods start enforcing the original rules here strictly again, so only actual literature discussion allowed and no namedropping or generalised philposting

[Anonymous No.15992244]

>>15992193
>>15992199
I agree with you 100% but seeing how moderators don't really do their job (and will delete this thread since they're being criticized), I don't see many other alternatives other than merging or creating generals. This place is not the same as it was even 3 years ago - you're really lucky if your thread with 2 replies doesn't get lost in less than 24 hours, not 2 or 3 days.

>>15992203
>>15992207
Can't speak on everyone's behalf, but I've made many threads that tried to start discussion about a particular text or sometimes even a quote from somewhere - but threads like those would usually get something like 3 replies, one bump from a random anon, one genuine answer and another one by myself. And like others have indicated, why even try when you can post literally whatever you want in any low effort post?

[Anonymous No.15992245]

>>15992105
Modernity is bad

[Anonymous No.15992250]

>>15992223
>Philosophy would need it's own board, but that wouldn't help with the lack of quality content
it would, most of the retarded low effort meme garbage is about philosophy

[Anonymous No.15992254]

>>15992239
This. Namedropping threads should be deleted.

[Anonymous No.15992257]

>>15992105
The only wrong shit in this board are the jezebelposters, butterfly, twitter screencaps and the fucking booktubers
IF FUCKING JANNIES TOOK THE TIME TO WIPE THIS SHIT WE WOULD HAVE A BETTER BOARD
FUCK JEZEBELPOSTERS
FUCK BUTTERFLY
FUCK BOOKTUBERS
FUCK JANNIES
FUCK TRANNIES

[Anonymous No.15992266]

>>15992223
>I agree that we need generals for "Any books...?", "Bookshelves", "What language..." "I read 3 pages today..." etc.
No, those threads just need to be purged and the OPs permabanned. Keep purging until they fuck off, maybe shut the board down for a month.

[Anonymous No.15992269]

Sorry can't discuss things on /his/ there are too many nonwhites and shills. A philosophy board would just be filled with teenage takes from people who never opened a book in their life. /lit/ is the best we have and will have, so make the best of it with good threads.

[Anonymous No.15992272]

>>15992244
>Can't speak on everyone's behalf, but I've made many threads that tried to start discussion about a particular text or sometimes even a quote from somewhere - but threads like those would usually get something like 3 replies, one bump from a random anon, one genuine answer and another one by myself. And like others have indicated, why even try when you can post literally whatever you want in any low effort post?
How many effortposts do you make in all the other decent threads? I find myself sometimes spending a lot of time here but I barely ever post new threads. When I do there's a good 50/50 chance some will just get no attention, others get a lot. You can't control that. But you can control what posts you make in other threads. Make effortposts more often and you'll actually engage in serious discussions with people. Reply to other people who also make effortposts. People complaining because nobody go to their threads but who also don't go to anyone else's threads probably shouldn't be here. I don't mean that to be mean. I mean, if you have zero overlap with the people here, even the ones making effortposts, why bother staying?

[Anonymous No.15992285]

>>15992244
> but I've made many threads that tried to start discussion about a particular text or sometimes even a quote from somewhere
Then you did it wrong or there wasn't much to discuss about. The archive already is filled with gold nuggets, and if you lack the capability to lure anons in your thread then you should work on your creative writing and prose.

[Anonymous No.15992292]

>>15992269
>are too many nonwhites
/pol/tards are a big reason why /lit/ has become shit.

[Anonymous No.15992303]

>>15992105
/his/ is shit though, and also so different from /lit/ that a merger would destroy both boards.

[Anonymous No.15992305]

>>15992269
>A philosophy board would just be filled with teenage takes from people who never opened a book in their life.
precisely, a containment board to get those people out of our L I T E R A T U R E board

[Anonymous No.15992309]

>>15992305

[Anonymous No.15992317]

Please, please, please get the philosophyfags out of /lit/, by any means necessary

[Anonymous No.15992318]

>>15992303
/his/ is a spinoff from /lit/

[Anonymous No.15992322]

>>15992269
>make the best of it with good threads.
This won't happen when the board is nothing but shitposting and it's too fast for threads to stay up for a few days. It's kind of a catch-22 but the only solution is to get rid of the shitposters by force. Someone should probably take the initiative and pester the mods on whatever IRC they inhabit, I don't know how to do it or if it would help myself

[Anonymous No.15992338]

>>15992292
They don't read they just get offended, cope and shitpost. I wish them well but it's an inevitable outcome and it's sad to see.

[Anonymous No.15992351]

>>15992105
>What's the point of board rules if nobody adheres to them?
Freedom of speech requires a sufficient number of people in a community to respect their personal responsibility to make free speech work by not abusing it because nobody will stop them. This in turn requires at least some community policing to discourage those who would abuse freedom of speech using the soft power of social disapproval and ostracization (i.e. not feeding trolls.)
The problem with 4chan at large, and /lit/ in particular is that it has been completely overrun by disingenuous trolls who don't care about the open and free discussion of ideas, but to promote their ideology and to shut down any and all dissent. The community is completely rotten, filled with the most vicious fuckers on the internet, and is a completely lost cause at this point. Board-merging or rule-changing won't fix the issue, because the issue is with the community itself.

[Anonymous No.15992353]

>>15992322
Where does one even contact those near-divinity-like jannies

[Anonymous No.15992362]

Ban all Americans.

[Anonymous No.15992363]

WHY WON'T THE FUCKING MODS HEAR US

[Anonymous No.15992367]

>>15992351
>the issue is with the community itself
purge it

[Anonymous No.15992369]

>>15992203
Agree entirely. What are these threads everyone is hoping for? Do they not see all the discussion going on already? Even in these so-called shitpost threads the level of discussion is high quality. Nearly every other post appears to be written by someone who has done their share of reading and likely has a bachelor degree or higher. What does it matter that they synthesize and explore their views using curt and non-academic language? I love this board.

[Anonymous No.15992407]

>>15992105
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[Anonymous No.15992421]

>>15992363
The mods are malicious and actually behind the spam themselves. If you can prove it, which happened when people proved Horia Belcea spam and shilling was the work of a janny, they will start deleting critical threads and mass banning people. That's why they don't delete real spam, they're literally producing it themselves. They spend their energy banning their critics and destroying evidence instead.

[Anonymous No.15992426]

>>15992421
God fucking dammit why do we have the worst jannies

[Anonymous No.15992432]

this is the future you chose

[Anonymous No.15992441]

>>15992432
I HATE MODS SO GODDAMN MUCH

[Anonymous No.15992461]

>>15992432
thanks, this convinced me to take a break from /lit/

[Anonymous No.15992464]

>>15992269
/his/ is where that weird kid in school who was a wehraboo decided he'd SPAM his shitty retardation in. Anyone interested in primarily "military history" is an absolute plebeian.

[Anonymous No.15992469]

Hey lads, I have an idea, please hear me out
What if we migrate to a board on 8kun?
At least for some time until the fucking mods stop with their smug ass attitude
I might work, there should be no problem if we get some good jannies from the board that also hate the fucking shitpost the mods push themselves

[Anonymous No.15992484]

>Preface: meta posts are allowed.
Sure, and they are moved to /qa/ when mods notice them.

[Anonymous No.15992485]

>>15992105
I don't normally brag about the state of boards, but /lit/ has really descended. It's more of a blogging board now. We used to have pige threads and many many threads about books, and now the last pige thread died after five posts and wwoym threads thrive. Ofc we had a lot of shitposting before too, but this..

[Anonymous No.15992489]

>>15992193
funnyly, /lit/ is even faster than shitpost board

[Anonymous No.15992499]

>The board should either have almost constant /general/s
Create one, like /sffg/ did and see if it will work.

[Anonymous No.15992502]

>>15992112
>>15992139
>being this proud of your twitter attention span
Go take your amphetamines, retards.

[Anonymous No.15992514]

lit was always bad, you were just younger

[Anonymous No.15992533]

>>15992105
Alfred Janny

[Anonymous No.15992547]

Hardly anyone will discuss specific books, especially if they are not that famous.

[Anonymous No.15992550]

>>15992499
this, it's not difficult, just requires perseverance, give it a year or so and it becomes self-sustaining.

t. created a couple of generals on various boards

[Anonymous No.15992565]

>>15992105
>Being part of the problem

[Anonymous No.15992577]

>>15992565
At least is trying to solve it, faggot

[Anonymous No.15992583]

>merge /his/ and /lit/
Sure, let's just make it easier for polfags to invade so all the remaining quality threads would drown among bait without ever standing a chance.

[Anonymous No.15992591]

Why is /lit/ so dominated by frogs and nujacks? Such shit is to be expected from the television and video games board but for the literature board it's just bizzare.

[Anonymous No.15992605]

>>15992514
x was always bad is a poor argument. The old /lit/ I browse was focused mostly on fiction and philosophy with several creative writing threads. The average post length was FAR longer and the total daily post count was lower as well. This created a much more healthy environment for discussion. Jezebelposting was quite rare back then (and it was generally more rare on 4chan). The only development /lit/ went through that isn't strictly worse is the change from a more fiction-oriented board to a board with more philosophical and political discussions. In practice all it leads to is shitty bait threads full of retards swinging one word posts and reaction images at each other.

[Anonymous No.15992607]

>>15992591
Seethe, why is /lit/ so dominated by fucking jezebelposters?

[Anonymous No.15992608]

>>15992565
not doing anything is part of the problem

[Anonymous No.15992609]

>>15992351
>Freedom of speech
this is a privately owned and run website, you should have no expectation of freedom of speech here.
4chan is a lot more liberal in terms of what it allows than most other websites, but it still has limits.

[Anonymous No.15992618]

>>15992607
because we're not all gay shrieking powerless zoomers, anon

[Anonymous No.15992643]

>I don't like the way things are
well honey it aint just about you. I personally like /lit/ culture

[Anonymous No.15992658]

>>15992618
Cope seethe and dilate

[Anonymous No.15992665]

>>15992105
I’ve been on 4chan for many years, and I’ve thought about ways to improve boards, and read others suggest ways to improve boards.

You’re arguing for reducing the capacity of both lit and his, to create hum. I’m not opposed to hum, it allows discussion of topics that aren’t clearly his or clearly lit. But to remove his and lit, and replacing them with hum, is a bad idea in my opinion.

It doesn’t make sense to limit freedom and thread capacity, unless you want to make some argument for smaller boards having less shit threads and therefore better board culture.

But in this case, you should consider this. You didn’t make an actually good thread, you made a metathread. Perhaps you should spend more time actually reading books, instead of reading 4chan threads, and then creating good threads here.

It often seems that the people who want to change a board spend too much time on 4chan, instead of the activity the board is related to. In some cases this is okay, /fit/ for example can have several hours of daily discussion on topics, where people would spend less than an hour per day doing compound lifts.

But lit is not fit. You can’t actually read books and then spend more time on the board. I can read at a leisurely pace of 30 pages per hour. So I’d have to spend 10 hours on a 300 page book. If I want to discuss that book, I’d start a thread, and I’d probably discuss it for a couple of hours.

If you find yourself caring more about fixing the board than actually reading books, maybe you should check your priorities

[Anonymous No.15992674]

>>15992618
>I have to virtue signal how I'm not gay to people I don't even know by shitting up the site with softcore porn

Sounds very effeminate and homosexual

[Anonymous No.15992680]

>>15992658
hello powerless shrieking zoomer

[Anonymous No.15992685]

>>15992665
cool it with the spacing buddy jesus

[Anonymous No.15992695]

>>15992680
>>15992674

[Anonymous No.15992703]

>>15992674
>softcore porn
lol the girl in the picture is fully dressed and doing nothing but sitting on a sofa
perhaps you should have a bit of a look at yourself anon

[Anonymous No.15992704]

>>15992105
>"Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave. You know what's the trouble with you? You're an expatriate. One of the worst type. Haven't you heard that? Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers."
>-E. Hemmingway

[Anonymous No.15992710]

>>15992704

[Anonymous No.15992714]

>>15992704
>Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing
>mfw

[Anonymous No.15992725]

>I would like to have books be less mandatory to lit discussion
You don't like literature. You don't even have the sense to realise how little you read, and so include in your objections memes which have literary backing without the slightest hint of irony. It's kind of sad. It's like watching someone complain to /a/ that nobody wants to discuss boko no pico after so many anons recommended it, and knowing that the poster is serious in his perplexity.

[Anonymous No.15992727]

>>15992223
We should also get a fantasy containment general for all those lotr, got and harry potter threads up right now. Like /sfg/.

[Anonymous No.15992736]

>>15992714
Yes, also Joyce, Nabokov, Zweig, Beckett, Ionesco, Cioran and... Hemingway

[Anonymous No.15992753]

>>15992727
>lotr, got and harry potter threads up right now
a quick count shows 1, 1, and 0, respectively
considerably fewer than the number of shitty religion and pop philosophy threads

[Anonymous No.15992782]

>Remember: The use of 4chan is a privilege, not a right. The 4chan moderation team reserves the right to revoke access and remove content for any reason without notice.
The sooner that people realize that 4chan is flawed by design, and either move somewhere else or learn to cope with it, the better it will be for them, the shitposters and the circlejerking mongoloids that make up the moderation team.

[Anonymous No.15992806]

>>15992685
Sorry bud, I’m phoneposting, and being a discordfag has trained me to space small paragraphs.

If this triggers your autism, ask your doctor for gabapentin

[Anonymous No.15992826]

>>15992309
im sad now, i feel bad for all the dads

[Anonymous No.15992827]

All of these were in the catalogue for hours last night, some of them are still up:
>2 LotR threads with movie screencaps and /tv/ memes
>Joe Rogan thread with 200+ replies
>a thread about crushes on cute boys
>how exhausting slamming tinder thots is
>bait post about tfw no gf with a /tv/ meme pasta
>some zoomer rapper
>3 soijack threads
>The Avengers

All this against one neverending threat for White Fragility. /Pol/ isn’t taking over the board it’s people from /tv/ that were literal redditors 3 months who want a place to discuss pop culture.

How is there a thread about Joe Rogan for 24 hours? The jannies literally must just sweep the catalogue once a day.

The best thing you can do is just be vocally hostile (and always sage) any mid-wit fiction that is part of a popular movie franchise or television show.

[Anonymous No.15992833]

>>15992827
>>a thread about crushes on cute boys
can you post a link? i'd like to do some research on that.

[Anonymous No.15992834]

>>15992441
where is the trigger on that gun

[Anonymous No.15992842]

>>15992105
>>Are dog owners or cat owners better philosophers?
This is a high quality thread where we discuss authors and their pets.

[Anonymous No.15992843]

>>15992753
Two LOTR threads, one GoT, and one General fantasy thread. Sometimes its more.

[Anonymous No.15992850]

make a philosophy board
this should be the book board not the circlejerk archaic modes of thought board desu

[Anonymous No.15992873]

>>15992753
Shut the fuck up, the LoTR threads were just tired /tv/ memes that stopped being funny in 2018

[Anonymous No.15992875]

>>15992703
It's clearly from a foot fetish type site and she's in a risque although not technically lewd pose. It's basically softcore porn

[Anonymous No.15992882]

>>15992105
>Preface: meta posts are allowed.
No they aren't anymore, they haven't been for years

[Anonymous No.15992888]

>>15992607
I'll have a cuppa, thank you very much.

[Anonymous No.15992891]

>>15992461
You can leave a board forever if you want to, its really not that hard its pretty easy actually, I've even forgotten when I even left them you just stop thinking about them, I haven't looked back. I've left every single board except this one, and I'll get out of this shithole soon as well

[Anonymous No.15992897]

>>15992105
Reading posts like this never fails to make me quit caring about the /tv/ and /pol/ spam and just start replying to them like if they were in their proper board because the ideas here are so stupid.

[Anonymous No.15992924]

>>15992727
I think generals are the worst thing you can do to a board; they just reduce the number of active on-topic threads

[Anonymous No.15992966]

>>15992105
some things, like "post shelves/stacks/currently reading" are board staples
maybe they aren't very high quality, but there is a place for them

[Anonymous No.15992978]

>>15992891
You are here forever, fuckhead

[Anonymous No.15992987]

>concern troll gets 100 replies

[Anonymous No.15993004]

>>15992978
Yeah that's what they told me on other boards too over a year ago lmao

[Anonymous No.15993023]

>>15992966
>board staples
Yes, the staples of cancer on this board. There's nothing worthwhile in those threads, it's the imageboard equivalent of "booktubing" – nothing but vanity and superficial small talk. There's no place for it.

[Anonymous No.15993025]

>>15993004
>bragging about being too cool to post on 4channel in a post on 4channel

[Anonymous No.15993033]

>>15993023
No, because they don’t actively encourage participation from people who don’t read.
A thread about comparing The Avengers and The Iliad is much worse

[Anonymous No.15993034]

>>15993004
I've been there, I quit all boards for over a year. I got sucked in again through using the archive to find information on some subjects. Good luck though, I'm trying to leave too right now.

[Anonymous No.15993036]

>>15992112
Seconded

[Anonymous No.15993049]

>>15993033
>this cancer is slightly less tumourous than this other cancer
Cut it all out

[Anonymous No.15993057]

>>15993049
>this thread about books on the /lit/ board is cancer
Lol

[Anonymous No.15993060]

>>15993049
True, just start deleting every thread not specifically about a book again including this one.

[Anonymous No.15993070]

>>15992873
>Shut the fuck up,
do you ever wonder why nobody ever takes you seriously anon?
>>15992875
it's quite clearly from a cosplay site and you are so obsessed with the fact that you don't have a girlfriend that you see porn in everything.

[Anonymous No.15993071]

>>15993057
See >>15993023

[Anonymous No.15993076]

>>15993023
rubbish. shelfie threads are at least on topic. i have got more good recommendations from seeing a bookcase belonging to someone who otherwise has quite similar tastes to me than i would have got otherwise.

[Anonymous No.15993079]

we have too many liberals and women here so it can never be good

[Anonymous No.15993084]

>>15993079
>coronavirus?
Kek

[Anonymous No.15993086]

>>15993076
>good recommendations
Are you admitting shelf threads are nothing but veiled recommendation threads? That doesn't work in your favour.

[Anonymous No.15993099]

>>15993086
Bad bait

[Anonymous No.15993109]

>>15993086
>Are you admitting
this isn't a courtroom, anon. i think you've been at the john grisham books again.

[Anonymous No.15993118]

>>15992112
agreed. this is my refuge from /his/, i really dont want to be on a board woth those types. rather have a board aboit primary sources, that would pit some of the filter i like from /lit/ on it instead of stale 5 yo history memes by some youtuber.

[Anonymous No.15993122]

>>15992105
Merge the board with /pol/ and make it Religion & Politics

[Anonymous No.15993134]

>>15993086
Wouldn't you say getting book recommendations is one of the most relevant reasons to browse this board?

[Anonymous No.15993155]

>>15993070
I like how you haven't actually disagreed with the fact that you are an effeminate faggot because the way you insult other people is on par with how women actually insult others. Stay salty, bitch

[Anonymous No.15993155,1]

lmao Jannies indeed deleted this