Don't delete this thread, janitors and mods, it's within the rules Hiro outlined.
There are principally two things killing Veeky Forums that no one is addressing;
1. Threads which have no relation to Veeky Forums e.g. "What is purpose?" and "Is x drug Veeky Forums?"
2. Beginner threads e.g. "Is this worth reading?" "What does Veeky Forums think of x?" and "What is some x literature?"
In order to restore Veeky Forums to its former glory, every single thread which breaks these rules must be deleted and a message given to the poster saying "not Veeky Forums" or "read the sticky"
I suggest the janitors start doing their job and implement fascist order (who cares if the threads decrease) and institute a culture of high quality posts.
And before any newfags or people from Ribbit start crying, kill yourselves!
Henry Parker
I agree
Charles Taylor
>thinking Veeky Forums was ever good
Thomas Watson
Is whineposting Veeky Forums?
Chase Rodriguez
Typical reddit revisionism
Xavier Ramirez
Do mods have a shadow banning option in admin toolset? I hope they secretly bumplock all /pol/,/r9k/,memers,lazyfags,frogwojak,fantasy,religion garbage from here.
James Edwards
How has Veeky Forums been lately? I stopped browsing a couple months ago and this was usually my home board. Haven't been in the Veeky Forums mood and busy with uni.
Has their been a reddit influx?
Adrian Long
Hiro allows a thread per board to discuss the issues.
>I came here in the past two years
You have to go back.
Grayson Anderson
Your second category is more Veeky Forums than this plea for a hugbox. Stop taking yourself so seriously on an icelandic birdwatching forum.
Liam Lewis
Over the past two years it has been filled with more and more beginners not reading and people who don't read the sticky.
It has also been filled with repetitive threads on figures such as John Green which clearly break the rules but the janitors will not delete them because they think that the very fact Green is a writer is reason enough to keep the threads up.
The reason Veeky Forums has become so bad is a direct effect of having bad janitors, people who probably themselves don't ready many books and lie in their applications.
How do I know? No one who actually reads often would allow all these beginner threads to stay up.
We have a sticky for a reason.
It is time to overhaul this corrupt site.
Kevin Morales
All you people fighting over the english teacher positions sure fail at encouraging those who want to learn.
Juan Lopez
>hugbox
These two rules have been a part of the already established rules for years.
Go back to where you came from.
Daniel Adams
redditors have more option to go on dozens forums with many users which cater to their needs.If they come here they are just stopping by while they are harvesting memes.
Zachary Jackson
People will be encouraged to learn and read when they come to the board and see high-level discussion which they have difficulty understanding.
By seeing this, they will have a desire to find out what people mean and go ahead and read the books.
By filling the board with beginner questions without direction to the sticky creates a culture of newfags who only ask questions.
Gavin Bailey
>ask questions
The bastards.
Hunter Perez
No, I do not mean that.
I am specifically referencing the two points made in the OP.
Kevin Morris
You're probably right, there's already so few places for anything other than pop-level discussions of books. But regardless I always assume when i'm talking to someone on this site that they need somebody to show them how foolish they are to take philosophy so seriously that anyone of different or less schooling is a cretin.
Nathaniel Green
Well janitor apps are going on so maybe some litizens will take some action
Wyatt Gomez
They have been closed.
Dylan Wright
Oops well still they were going on recently. New jans may be coming soon
Tyler Gutierrez
OP here.
Another thing the mods and janitors don't tell you is that when you apply for a janitor application and get accepted, you literally have to sign a legal document and share ID to prove who you are.
This is why nobody who actually cares about this board would become a janitor, it is too personal.
Only the retards and crazies who sit on here all day become janitors or people who do it in passing but they have jobs and their own lives etc.
Another case of only bad people gaining power.
Jaxon Parker
>dude don't take philosophy so seriously lmao
Kill yourself cretin
Brandon Martin
Yeah. I'm sure you're proud to be you. Good luck with that.
Jack Diaz
wow this thread again. apply to be a janitor or shut the fuck up and stop shitting up the board with this thread every day. get over that some people want to talk about different books than your self.
remember if you must respond to this shitpost, put sage in the options field
Ryder Bennett
Self esteem is a spook
Ayden Cruz
We have a wiki for a reason.
Logan Ramirez
Did you even read the OP?
The people who mostly post on this board have shifted from people who actually talk about books to fags like you who post;
>"Haha guys should I read x?" >"Is x worth reading? I hear he's pretty good"
Kill yourself and go back to where you came from. No one has attacked any specific author or book.
Adam Green
Some of the many shitposting I saw while browsing. There was a lot more but they were semi lit related so I left them out
Nathaniel Collins
Most of the topics newfags ask are in the archives. They get very repetitive after a while.
Josiah Clark
Good post.
Those are all shit.
Anthony Price
Also since when did lit become the haven for English homework?
Joseph Anderson
B
David Lopez
Have you tried making real friends? Maybe if you did you wouldn't care so much about an imageboard.
Zachary Kelly
>he says whilst posting in one
What's it like not being self-aware? Loser!
Aiden Nelson
>redditposting on my home board Get out
Jaxson Flores
Discussion about Philophical/Political thinkers needs to be reserved to specific works and not the ideas themselves which should go to Veeky Forums
Justin Moore
I'd agree with the janitors, but I know plenty of smart anons IRL who post here. I think it's just a smaller number of them, who by nature of their interests, become steadily and steadily more specialised in certain circles. I know there are some really good Kierkegaard threads still, and that's not due to the general board culture, but just a few regular posters who are very into him.
Thomas Flores
>janitors I was with you until that. Janitors are not going to go to the newbs house and force his ass to read the fucking sticky, pick a book all on his fucking own like an 18y/o+ big boy, and fucking read it and think about it before proofing his post for him.
The John Green thing I don't know about because he's been memed for way longer than two years because I've been ignoring it longer than that.
>more disagreement after janitors The "technically Veeky Forums" meme I have a lot of space for, even if to ignore it instead of report it, because that's some of our best content.
Essentially you were right about not reading the sticky (the old short one worked better for that) and too many beginners who think nobody else reads so they don't have to. Veeky Forums isn't dying though; the problem is it's expanding at speed.
Carson Ramirez
>you literally have to sign a legal document and share ID to prove who you are this wouldn't be a problem if you were wholly legit or bent; your problem stems from being dull enough to think you might be interesting. go OP and samefag a good thread and try to not take credit for you if some of your fellow cretins like it.
Ryder Cox
The cancer killing lit is faggots like OP trying to change and inherently shit place