This website is dying and we shouldn't try to save it. Is

/r/books is the only place

What about real life?

I don't know what's worse, the shitposting here or reddit, which is full of virtue signalling pseuds and people who unironically read YA

Revive /book/ !

>>8937306
Shitposting is the life-blood of 4chan. The signal-to-noise ratio is essential to the 4chan experience, newfag.

>>8937287
or you could go to r/literature which is the same as /lit/ without the ironic social posturing.

>>8937262
>I saw a vaguely political thread in my catalog
>You can only imagine my sheer horror and apprehension
>People, with different views and ideas than me! ON MY SITE! How can discussion be fostered if not in homogeneity?

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>>8937322
>knowing about subreddits
You're the type of cancer who tells people to go back to /r/the_donald and think you're BTFOing them when in actuality you're just proving that you're reddit newfag cancer

>>8937323
More like I saw yet another bait thread with vague relation to literature

>>8937334
we've got no choice though

there will be no home to return to anymore soon

>>8937323
> not knowing about the recent happening

this site has been dying for years but now theres no denying it

4chan is radiation now

>>8937322
>r/literature
subs even deader than /lit/ pham

>>8937262
I agree. in answer to your question, I honestly don't know.

>>8937322
My problem with /r/literature is that the post topics are frequently so narrow that I don't have anything to contribute. They should have more general discussion threads

>>8937360
Stop being dramatic. There are like 10 happenings a day now. This site is fine, hide threads that trigger you.

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>considering moving to a subreddit because I don't like le shitposting
Fucking go then, if you want a bunch of posturing retards sucking each other off instead of real discussion.

>>8937407
the thing is, /lit/ was actually good when it started and had an intimidatingly high level of discourse

now its just cross posters with lazy memes

>>8937407
The first and last time I went to r/books the first thing I saw was the catalog (thread list?)

It was

Harry Potter
LotR
YA titles I am not familiar with
John Green
Dune
Ender's Game
Kurzweil type nonfiction
Hitchens type nonfiction

and repeat repeat repeat

>>8937436
Aside from the undeniably shitty period right after some shit posted the 2015 list on imgur and /his/ split the same day, its been the same since 2012.

>>8937288
where have you been?
real life discussions died more than 20 years ago

>>8937442
That's because r/books is a board for casual discussion on bestselling page-turners, retard. I won't go to a fast-food place and expect fine cuisine either.
>>8937407
>a bunch of posturing retards sucking each other off instead of real discussion.
That's exactly what I used to love about /lit/ though.

>>8937446
Maybe for you, you lonely freak.

>>8937262
Its ours Kali Yuga
Our main goal, as anons, is to still on our feet among the ruins

IF ANYBODY HERE KNEW, DO YOU THINK THEY WOULD STILL BE HERE YOU STUPID MOTHREFUCKER

>>8937470
Honey, shhh. People are capable of visiting multiple websites. OP is just asking for other sites.

>>8937490
women are ruining this board

>>8937436
>board x used to be good!!!!

everyone has been saying this about every board ever.

>>8937496
>when your precious board is so fragile that the presence of women ruins it

>>8937509
Tangentially related, I don't think board /x/ is or ever was good

>>8937496
Then go away and the quality will improve.

>>8937455
Fuck off normie.

>>8937496
Women being here is fine, as long as they're not trying to sound clever or funny.

>>8937510
To be fair, the presence of women does degrade the quality of pretty much everything and anything. Primarily because men will suck up to them in hopes of pussy, but also because most women have nothing interesting or relevant to say.

>>8937373
no you faggot the last thing that's needed for a literature site is lightweight dilettantes like you to feel "included"

it's a good thing that the threads are narrow, it weeds out the pseuds

>>8937528
Women are smart, women are funny.
Get over it.

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>>8937287
>>8937322
Holy shit fucking kill yourselves.

>>8937334
go back to /r/the_donald
:^)

>>8937407
>if you want a bunch of posturing retards sucking each other off
that's all that happens here though. Leddit is too anti-intellectual, /lit/ is too full of shit. I want a new super sikrit club

>>8937509
deep&edgy era /lit/ was actually good and filled with creative, clever memes

>>8937322
r/literature is great if you're looking for salon articles about jon franzen

>>8937858
>Women are smart, women are funny.

Prove it

>>8937520
They used to have some fantastic pasta.

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>>8937858
>he watches cartoons for teens

>>8940048
hes apeing south park

>>8937496
/Pol/ massive invasion/immigration here is ruining it.

>>8938126
>Leddit is too anti-intellectual, /lit/ is too full of shit. I want a new place where people automatically think the same things I do and have the same attitudes and sense of humor
Fixed it for ya.

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>>8937322
Yes, that sounds like a great idea let's do that.

>>8937334
I hate to say it, but /lit/ wasn't always a bunch of /v/irgins and /pol/locks angry at women, there was only a flood recently when the idiots from those boards realized we had intelligent discussion here. I've been through just about every terrible wave /lit/ has had, and by far the /r9k/ and /pol/ posters are the worst. r/books guys come in here wanting to discuss Orson Scott Card and calling /lit/ pretentious, but they will usually leave after one day. /pol/fags shill that fat sweaty dude and his "comedy" "book" that's a bunch of black face obama pictures, complaining angrily about how women won't sleep with them, etc. etc. and they stick around for fucking months.

>>8937360
>this site has been dying for years but now theres no denying it

the sites always been shit

you've just gotten older and the novelty of shitpostings worn off

people have been complaining about the 4chan getting shit unironically since 2006

You could make /lit/ alternative in FreeNet.

>>8937334
not to mention, a bunch of /pol/ posters do lift content from r/the_donald, that's a well-known fact. Yesterday we had some dumbass australian video going on and on about anti-depressants and how French philosophy brainwashed the world. Where do you think that came from?

Go back. /lit/ is Catholic and Marxist. You belong with the protestant captialist virgins on /pol/ where you can suck eachother off to Ayn Rand and protocols of the elders of zion. You're not welcome here.

>>8937322
this might still be better than /lit/ being infested by /pol/retards

>>8937334
>being on /lit/
>implying that anyone on this board seriously gives two shits about your gay internet tribalism meme

I'm not going to tell you to go back to whatever board you came from because that would defeat the point of my post but seriously neck yourself f a m

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>>8937262
Why is it dying, OP? I've acquired hundreds of recommendations through lurking and had hearty keks through joining in the shitposting

>>8937288
Real life is dying which is why lit is dying. Fucking austerity.

Why's everyone talking about the /pol/ invasion like it's new? Seems to me it's been a recurring thing for years. Actually recently I was missing /pol/ because at least they were better than the /r9k/ invasion which seemed to have taken their place. I'll take race infographics over Chads and betas any day.

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>>8940262
>tfw you try to talk to a girl about race realism but chad already redpilled her

>>8940262
they're the same people, it's just bipolar mood swings.

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I prefer 4chan's shitposting over Reddit's feel good garbage and karma system.

Only problem is lack of qts

>>8940262
>r9k
>pol
They are one and the same

ya'll in need of a few fractions of whole brain radiotherapy

>>8937262
English language literary forums in general are dying because the academias in English-speaking countries are riding high on the whole "we need diversity in literature" and "we need to de-colonialize our curriculum" thing. People are reading this stuff in college as much as they used to, so there's fewer people wanting to discuss it online.

>>8940486
>"we need to de-colonialize our curriculum"
How can this not sound dystopian to everyone

>>8940581
It just means you'd read more home grown shit

>>8938218
>creative, clever memes
>I'm a huge Orson Welles

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>>8940186
You got the reference, shitbird.

>>8937323
>>I saw a vaguely political thread in my catalog
Then I must've hallucinated all those obvious bait threads by /pol/ and the countless threads that came after, when the first thread gets deleted and the op cries about janitors censoring right wing thought.

The e/lit/ist.

>>8940186
What's the topical news show for big boys? The Daily Show?

>>8940379
This pic is so comfy

The thing is, I don't mind /lit/ how it is right now.

There's so many shitposts around that when a GOOD post is made (containing insight/critique/understanding/etc), it REALLY stands out.

They can even set the tone for an entire thread.

>>8940998

agreed. i don't mind a bit of shitposting and humor in small doses. gives this place a more interesting (honest?) flavor than on the major blogs.

>>8937262
Lurkmoar faggot

>>8937323

I'm conservative, white/west pride, and I find /pol/ disgusting. You're not conservatives, you're just whiny beta males looking for something to hate. You embarrass me.

>>8937334
Wtf is reddit? (I'm so non-reddit that I don't even know what it is.)

>>8937287
Invading r/books and ignoring the retards already there doesn't sound that bad an idea.

>>8942068
Is there a way to remove the upvote system, force anonymity and easily attach pictures?

At this rate infinite chan seems like the way to go.

>>8940186
the cartoon was referencing a new york times article titled "Girl's Rule. Women are funny. Get over it."

>>8940208
downboats are the dream of safe space sjws desu

>>8942068
im all for a temporary coordinated flooding of /r/books with high level erudite discourse

but we gotta find a better place

bump for hope

>>8942308
>hates off-topic /pol/ shitposting
>I know! Let's go to infinitychan!