Hiro approved meta thread

[Anonymous No.17671787]

This seems like a silly rule to me. Why don't we get rid of it? I think doing so would bring in a group of people passionate about reading and writing stories.

[Anonymous No.17671798]

Some boards go to shit and never come back. /lit/ is now one of those boards. Take this as an opportunity to read more and be here less

[Anonymous No.17671802]

>>17671787
No. The board will only go to shit even more.
BAN PICTURES IN THE OP to improve the quality of the board tenfold

[Anonymous No.17671827]

Fan fic threads are higher quality than the pol threads, twitter screencap posts, muh soggy knees incel threads.

[Anonymous No.17671842]

>>17671827
we don't need more threads, we need less threads

[Anonymous No.17671853]

>>17671798
This. Leave this rotting pile of carcasses behind for greener pastures, and let the zoomer hyenas feast upon the putrefying heaps.

[Anonymous No.17671857]

>>17671787
No

[Anonymous No.17671867]

>>17671787
Some of the greatest works of literature were fan-fic like the Divine Comedy or The Illiad, I don't see why it shouldn't be allowed here

[Anonymous No.17671881]

>>17671787
The only decent thread on the board gets fucking slid by a mod
This place is shit
>>17671027

[Anonymous No.17671896]

>>17671842
then start by culling off topic threads that have nothing to do with literature or writing like 95% of the threads and then when you've done that, start removing low quality literature and writing threads like fan fic.

[Anonymous No.17671897]

>>17671881
Kys and go back

[Anonymous No.17671913]

>>17671827
>muh soggy knees incel threads
these are the highest quality posts on the board though, hands down

[Anonymous No.17671930]

>>17671896
Yeah I'd be alright with that. Except the fanfic which is for literal man children
>muh Divine Comedy was fanfic
then go write your Divine Comedy elsewhere

[Anonymous No.17671946]

Mods, I applied 5 times over 13 years to be a janny. I wanted to help. I wanted to make things better. You said “no thanks.” Now you want more jannies again! Suck my fucking cock you pieces of shit, I hope this website burns

[Anonymous No.17671951]

>>17671787
no. go petition for /smutlit/ since that's what you really want. not that it matters, the board is effectively ruined anyway.

[Anonymous No.17671958]

>>17671802
>BAN PICTURES IN THE OP
this is what we need

[Anonymous No.17671960]

>>17671897
Nice try tranny janny.

[Anonymous No.17671981]

how to fix /lit/:
every OP must meet a character limit
no more images
hire a hitman to kick Butterfly's teeth in

[Anonymous No.17671991]

>>17671787
>Well that's silly!!1!1!! Why aren't we aloud to make the quality of this board even lower???? lmao
Kill yourself faggot.

[Anonymous No.17672005]

>>17671991
people like you make this board far worse than fanfic posters ever would

[Anonymous No.17672006]

>>17671991
>Why aren't we aloud to make the quality of this board even lower????
I think fanfic threads would raise board quality

[Anonymous No.17672032]

>>17671867
>Some of the greatest works of literature were fan-fic like the Divine Comedy or The Illiad
Leave, leave, and never come back.

[Anonymous No.17672035]

>>17671946
Same, not quite as long.
Time to let this shithole burn. Glowniggers successfully used reddit to undermine this place.

[Anonymous No.17672042]

>>17671827
None of those types of threads ought to be allowed either.

[Anonymous No.17672053]

>>17671897
Tranny jannies should have a flag for all their posts or be permabanned for pretending they aren't jannies.

[Anonymous No.17672059]

INCREASE WORD LIMIT

LIT AND HIS = 5000 WORDS
OTHERWISE = 3500 WORDS

DO IT

[Anonymous No.17672062]

>>17671853
>greener pastures
like?

[Anonymous No.17672069]

>>17672059
>>17671981
based

[Anonymous No.17672094]

>>17672059
no, hell no, i'm not trying to read long winded effort posts about how you've decided to become an esoteric caveman because you can't get a gf or whatever which never has anything to do with literature

[Anonymous No.17672104]

>>17672094
dont come here then

[Anonymous No.17672110]

>>17672062
actually reading books

[Anonymous No.17672113]

>>17672005
What, people who actually read? Most of you faggots haven't, stfu.
>>17672006
Just noticed I made a typo in that comment, my bad.
Anyway, how will people discussing Watt-pad stories and those shitty comics they advertise on YouTube (idk the name of them but I'm sure you'll know what I'm talking about) raise the quality of this board?
If anything, if these faggots really must, they really should have their own board dedicated to fan-fiction—far, far, away from this one.

[Anonymous No.17672139]

>>17672113
>shitty comics advertised on youtube
lol the only ads i see on youtube are for grammerly (writing's not that easy!), what kind of wack shit are you watching?

[Anonymous No.17672146]

>>17672059
>>17671881
>write 5000 words
>if redditors don't slide it
>jannies do

[Anonymous No.17672155]

terrorist manifestos are not literature, ban that shit.

[Anonymous No.17672157]

>>17672113
It was a joke you autistic retard

[Anonymous No.17672167]

>>17672155
retard, go back

[Anonymous No.17672172]

>>17672059
No one is going to read your shit bro

[Anonymous No.17672176]

>>17672104
take it to /lonelyesotericcavemen/, this is the literature board

[Anonymous No.17672190]

The only way to fix this is to ban politics outside of /pol/. They're just as cancerous as bronies.

[Anonymous No.17672198]

>>17672113
>they really should have their own board dedicated to fan-fiction
I wouldn't mind that at all

[Anonymous No.17672227]

>>17672190
they need to make a blue politics board where it's possible to discuss politics without insane clowns trying to poison everything

[Anonymous No.17672238]

>>17672167
if u want to talk about dudes from netflix specials, take it to /tv/, it's not literature

[Anonymous No.17672244]

>>17671787
>people passionate about reading and writing stories
So people antithetical to what /lit/ is: a shitposting board?

[Anonymous No.17672250]

>>17671802
That'll just kill the board outright.

[Anonymous No.17672252]

>>17671787
>I think doing so would bring in a group of people passionate about reading and writing stories.
The type of people who think Goku × Anne Frank is deep

[Anonymous No.17672254]

>>17671798
>go to shit
/lit/ was shit on day one though.

[Anonymous No.17672258]

>>17672227
>where it's possible to discuss politics without insane clowns trying to poison everything
Because insane clones don't already poison all the blue political discussion already occurring.

[Anonymous No.17672261]

>>17671867
>The Illiad
You mean the Aeneid

[Anonymous No.17672281]

We have a writing general thread up at all times . If you put your writing anywhere else you are simply vain and need attention

[Anonymous No.17672286]

>REMINDER TO HIDE BAD THREADS
>HIDE GENERALS
>HIDE SHITPOST THREADS
>HIDE LIFE ADVICE THREADS
>HIDE RELIGION THREADS
>HIDE CAMUS THREADS
>HIDE DFW THREADS
>HIDE GREEKS THREADS*
>HIDE BLOOD MERIDIAN THREADS*
>HIDE TOLST & DOST THREADS*
>HIDE NIETZSCHE THREADS*
>HIDE WAGNER THREADS*
>>>>HIDE ZOOMER THREADS<<<<<
>>>>HIDE /POL/ THREADS<<<<<

I currently have 87 threads hidden. The board becomes a slow-moving but comfy and literate place.

> * not to say these aren't worth reading, but the way they are discussed on /lit/ is incredibly annoying and juvenile.

[Anonymous No.17672291]

>>17672139
I'm not sure but I think it was because my sister is actually into reading that drivel. Obviously I encourage her not to read that shit but I have my own life and can't spend it trying to control her's. Otherwise I'd say that she is a completely normal girl (though a bit autistic kek).
I don't have proof but I'm sure Google advertises shit based on where you are and who you know, and I think her interest where contaminating my YouTube ads.
I sound like a schizo but yeah, I usually just watch stuff that interests me (mathematics, art, music, philosophy, politics, economics, technology, etc., etc.) so I know that shit wasn't trained off of my data.
>>17672157
Assuming you're the second guy I replied to, sure what you said was retarded but why should I automatically assume you are being insincere when there are plenty of people in this very thread who actually do believe what you said? Should I just assume that everything I read is completely sarcastic? I like to think that I can detect irony pretty well but sometimes you sarcastafags really need to just to fuck off.

[Anonymous No.17672315]

>>17672291
t b h i wouldn't mind seeing an ad for something besides grammerly and aflac once in a while. i watch skatevideos, college lectures and dj sets, always get the same ads

[Anonymous No.17672316]

>>17672261
He's a retard who repeats Reddit talking points, I doubt he has read any of those, if he reads at all.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.17672327]

the rule should be expanded on to include any and all fiction which is effectively just pompous fanfic, including but not limited to modern journalism and history books printed in the united states

[Anonymous No.17672328]

>more fictionfags
no thanks

[Anonymous No.17672344]

>>17672328
I'd rather have fiction threads than "Was Marx based/cringe" thread #1232

[Anonymous No.17672348]

>>17671787
I can see why it would be implemented, fanfiction is rarely known for good quality, or even of okay quality. There would be a lot of shit flung at the author, who might be quite possibly underage, creating too much drama.
But it does feel a bit too broad. There is good quality fanfiction, only it mostly belongs to the pre-internet era, so people are rarely aware it even is fanfiction.

[Anonymous No.17672359]

>>17672348
>There is good quality fanfiction, only it mostly belongs to the pre-internet era, so people are rarely aware it even is fanfiction.
I feel like fanzines would have been a cool subculture to be active in

[Anonymous No.17672361]

>>17671802
This

[Anonymous No.17672364]

>>17671802
how the fuck do we get hiro to do this?

[Anonymous No.17672374]

>>17672348
i could see this place easily getting overrun by fan fiction if that rule were removed. it's like when they repealed glass-steagall, "hey there hasn't been a banking crisis since we implemented glass-steagall, so i guess we didn't need it after all!", ten years after repeal, massive banking crises. sure, we don't have a fanfic problem, remove the rule, suddenly every fanfic fucker on the internet pours in.

[Anonymous No.17672388]

>>17671802
Just imagine: no more twitter screenshot threads, no more bait headlines, no more lame sòyjak and gigachad memes

[Anonymous No.17672397]

>>17672388
>>17672364

[Anonymous No.17672402]

sffg was a mistake, let's not make another one

[Anonymous No.17672408]

>>17671787
The solution (and this goes for all other boards) is permanently banning all American IPs. Simple as.

[Anonymous No.17672415]

>>17672315
Yeah, kek, I know what you mean. Getting the same fucking ads everyday is absolutely annoying. I used to get Grammarly ads a lot too but now I'm just getting an ad from some chad who talks about the perfect diet and shit. I don't know if you know what I'm talking about but this guy says shit like
>If you want to get in shape don't do cardio. I know sounds crazy but it's true...
>How do you think these actors got in and out of shape so fast?
>You can still eat the foods you like while losing belly fat...
Super fucking annoying.

[Anonymous No.17672419]

>>17672402
that is one thread i scroll by completely unperturbed, i barely even notice it, maybe kinda pleb but it's non-toxic

[Anonymous No.17672431]

>>17672402
/sffg/ is carrying the board, what are you on?

[Anonymous No.17672435]

>>17672419
yeah, as long as they stay in there, it's fine

[Anonymous No.17672448]

>>17672402
what are you smoking
>>17672431
this, it has good memes, funny shitposting, and good discussion, and a more congenial, friendly atmosphere than the pissing contest that is the rest of the board.

[Anonymous No.17672449]

>>17672315
On a side note, I actually tried out Grammarly once and it was ok but I felt kind of dirty using it (I wouldn't judge people who used it but for me it didn't feel right after a while).
You know what is really distressing though? Have you ever written a paper in Google Docs? Recently, they've added this feature where they autocomplete words and phrases for you. When this fucking app tried to do that shit for me I got so annoyed.
Seriously, are they going to start thinking for you as well know? I'm sure this kind of shit will ultimately drop our IQ, kek.

[Anonymous No.17672455]

>>17672415
oh ya i got some of those, the only ones that make me annoyed enough to switch to using brave for that youtube session are ads for junkfood, i do not want to associate doritos or wendys with whatever i'm trying to watch, that kind of marketing is effective and quite nasty, there was a burger king ad in the 90s that used "smoke on the water" by deep purple while a giant cheese burger flopped across the screen, and now to this day when i hear that riff i still think of a burger, more or less ruining the song

[Anonymous No.17672470]

>>17672374
Well, I didn't say it should be completely removed, just that it might need a broader definition of what is an absolute no and what is allowed under certain conditions. There might be some wild activity for a week or two, but then people would realize no one here really talks about fiction that much and their short attention spans would make them move on.

[Anonymous No.17672484]

>>17672449
bro my work uses microsoft cloud and the outlook webapp has that shit too! i just type "thu" and then i can just hit tab like 4 times and it fills "thursday works me, thanks" or whatever, and it's always telling me how my word choice "reduces impact" im like yeah i know, thats why i chose that word to reduce the impact because i want my boss to know im not a hundred percent sure about the thing i was saying, not every email is a marketing funnel sales pitch

[Anonymous No.17672485]

>>17672448
Fuck off samefag. Redditors ruined lit

[Anonymous No.17672489]

>>17671881
Great example of everything wrong with the board

[Anonymous No.17672627]

>>17672344
It's absolutely bizarre that the majority of the literature board has deep acrimony for literature.

[Anonymous No.17672634]

>>17672485
On day one? /lit/ has never been good.

[Anonymous No.17672642]

>>17672455
kek, that's hilarious. There are a couple of songs that I actually first heard in an ad. Sadly though, I couldn't actually bring myself to really listening to them on their own (even though they were genuinely good songs) simply because in my head they were registered as "ad music". It's a shame but that's how things are sometimes
>>17672484
Exactly, I hate that shit. The fucking app is designed to castigate you for putting a little bit of fucking emotion in your text or writing in a slightly unconventional way. It's like it's meant to kill your "unique writing voice". I hope that in the future, little kids aren't subjected to this kind of thing so much but it seems unlikely.
I mean for fuck sake, could you imagine if Shakespeare were forced to sit down and write on one of these fucking apps? Christ, I really hope are literary future isn't as bleak as I think it's going to be (not that the present is so good now).

[Anonymous No.17672647]

>>17672402
Sffg is comfy and on topic. I go in there sometimes and I don’t even read genre fiction...

[Anonymous No.17672659]

>>17672642
>It's like it's meant to kill your "unique writing voice".
That's because a "unique writing voice" isn't valued by the people who made or use the app. Take a business writing course, and you'll see.

[Anonymous No.17672671]

>>17671787
I'd rather ban philosophy and religion threads first before allowing fanfic threads.

[Anonymous No.17672678]

>>17671802
>BAN PICTURES IN THE OP
bring back text boards but then also delete the imageboard as well

[Anonymous No.17672712]

>>17672671
Mysticism belongs on /x/

[Anonymous No.17672752]

>>17671787
Who the fuck reads the rules on 4channel (formerly 4chan)

[Anonymous No.17672777]

>>17672659
Kek, of course, I get what you mean. I'm in school studying mathematics right now and Academia is pretty much the same.
Reading older papers and textbooks, it's obvious that it wasn't always like this. Nowadays scientific papers all sort of read the same, even when they aren't really even scientific.
I have noticed though, that this sort of strict, bland writing style—by which I don't mean to say formal since even formal writing can be soulful—is really only followed by lowest rank in academia.
The type of shitty papers in sub-scientific fields that have a need to sound more "sciencey" usually read all the same but the papers written by genuine geniuses always carry a very distinct voice.
I'm probably biased and I'm coming off as slightly elitist but I'm sure other people know what I'm talking about.

[Anonymous No.17672810]

>>17672671
Sending all of you faggots back to re$dit is the only possible fix

[Anonymous No.17673133]

>>17671787
Wait is this a real rule? So I can’t post my fanfics in writing gens? Or recommend good fanfics? Call me a fag OP but in between moby dick I’m reading cute date fanfics.
>>17671827
Unironically this. Some fanfiction are genuinely fun/good too.

[Anonymous No.17673196]

>>17671787
I want to thank you for creating containment thread for all those whining faggots. If only we could send all of them to /qa/ this board would considerably improve. You are doing the God's work.

[Anonymous No.17673212]

If fanfics are allowed, you better believe I will post only the finest NTR/Cuckolding fics.

[Anonymous No.17673274]

>>17671802
Removing the ability to post images will significantly improve this imageboard

[Anonymous No.17673328]

>>17672250
If this board can't survive without muh pictures then it doesn't deserve to exist. Images only matter in a discussion of manga/comics, both of which fit on other boards better, especially given that nobody here is analyzing those mediums for literary merit.
>>17672678
This.

[Anonymous No.17673366]

>>17671787
/Lit/ is a good board because it is always on guard about its badness, but it's really no worse from three years ago, it just thinks it is 24/7.

[Anonymous No.17673384]

>>17671802
>>17671787
Just Jezebels, and 5oyjacks

>>17672053
Mandatory janitorial namefagging would be desirable site wide

>>17672059
Paste in is your fren. You goons need to post the first paragraph along with it every time in the /crit/ threads

>>17672286
... or not-bump them

[Anonymous No.17673405]

>>17673366
I feel it's definitely got worst in at least the last few months

[Anonymous No.17673711]

>>17673366
shitposters like to flaunt that moot post about how the site never actually got a sizeable boost in posters or shiposts during summer but I am 100% certain board quality sitewide deteriorated significantly right about the time cities started locking down last year

[Anonymous No.17673774]

>>17671867
>iliad
>fanfic

Why are you even on lit

[Anonymous No.17673779]

>>17673711
It definitely changed a bit, but it's already pretty much back to normal how it was years ago. I'm not saying there can't be permanent negative effects, but it's really not anywhere rn.

You can actually make a sizeable different on /lit/ by making good posts.

[Anonymous No.17673911]

>>17673366
Three years ago is still post-2016. 2014 was maybe the last good year.

[Anonymous No.17673940]

ayyoo newfags, there's a reason text-boards went the way of the dodo. No one used them, even the people who claimed to want them didn't use them. Stop wishing for it.

[Anonymous No.17674065]

Just go on sigchan if you want a high quality board anons.

[Anonymous No.17674225]

I’m reading an entertaining romantic fanfiction right now and it’s held my attention longer than half of the pseud novels posted on this board. You all are mad that a 15 year old girl can write better than your rip-off Hemingway works you never plan to publish.

[Anonymous No.17674240]

>>17672094
>long winded effort posts about how you've decided to become an esoteric caveman because you can't get a gf
if gf distract grug from deep shaman thoughts, then grug no like gf

[Anonymous No.17674497]

>>17674225
>I was entertained, so it's good
Pleb

[Anonymous No.17674527]

>>17672810
Nothing more Reddit than being obsessed with "philosophy" and "religion".

[Anonymous No.17674858]

>>17672062
Goodreads, obviously.

[Anonymous No.17675039]

>>17671787
>I think doing so would bring in a group of people passionate about reading and writing stories.
Fanfiction threads means more pop culture consoomer fags will infest the board then there already is. Such a thing will only detract the quality of the board even further.

[Anonymous No.17675524]

>>17674497
Yes, feel-good easy reads that emote CUTE and COMFY are good and I will be called a pleb, I will be called a fag and I will wear that badge with honor.

[Anonymous No.17675537]

Just ban wojack and frog posters like /a/ does. Problem solved.

[Anonymous No.17675538]

>>17675537
Wtf I love /a/ now

[Anonymous No.17675542]

>>17672250
>That'll just kill the board outright.
based!

[Anonymous No.17676559]

>>17672364
You don't. Hiro does absolutely nothing wrt the site. The real managers are a few high-ranking mods.

[Anonymous No.17676608]

>>17671787
we should ban general: they are against the spontaneous nature of 4chan, threads are places for discussion and not your useless chatroom, they also become echochambers with the more time that passes.
And we should also ban names: this is a place where everyone is anonymous because you don't post for building yourself a reputation, you post to give your opinion and partecipate in a discussion; people shouldn't look at your name but at your content.

[Anonymous No.17676617]

>>17671787
Commandeering thread for the campaign to permaban Butterfly

[Anonymous No.17676639]

>>17671991
Based