Has anyone here ever learned anything or engaged in a meaningful

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Has anyone here ever learned anything or engaged in a meaningful discussion about books on this board, ever? I've lurked and posted occasionally for maybe a year. In that time, I've had one short discussion about Infinite Jest that made me reconsider my distaste for it. I almost had a conversation about Henry James once before the thread imploded into pompous shitheads talking in empty, holier-than-thou greentexts. But those two instances aside, I don't think I've ever seen any meaningful content here. Even the attempts at expression boil down to vapid non-statements like ">tfw doesn't know Witty BTFO the Neech" or "Pynchon > Tennyson." Do you all do anything but guzzle redpills, ogle patrician stacks and mutter cliches based on what wikipedia says about Harold Bloom?

It's a serious question. I'd say put the hyperbole aside, but I'm not speaking in hyperbole.

Second question: When you inevitably answer that /lit/ is a cesspool of illiterates who haven't yet realized that postures mean nothing when the poser isn't seen, where do you go to discuss literature with people who actually read?