More discussion of novelists and poets and less discussion of "lit humor", "redpill", general questions that are only slightly related to literature, & Science Fiction & Fantasy, I would think is needed for there to be a point to coming here in the first place.
Ethan Collins
Only if I get to mod
Carson Kelly
If you want more moderation go to reddit
Camden Rodriguez
I occasionally make blatant, completely unrelated to literature shitposts just to check if there are still mods left
Gabriel Kelly
I don't go on any board expecting serious discussion I just want to meme about things that interest me that normal people don't care about and to get recs. Why do you want serious discussion? At best you're going to get high school tier readings of authors who've been discussed to death by more competent people.
Carson Ramirez
honestly this is good advice, I mostly just hang out on [s4s] cause there's not even a fiction of serious discussion, just funposting
Leo Robinson
>if you want less redditlike retardposting go to reddit
Bentley Lewis
/r/literature is the reddit equivalent of Veeky Forums It's all seriousposting and I don't like it
Christian Price
Mods are always a lowest common denominator thing. For some strange reason, the only people who want to be moderators tend to be internet circlejerk namefag type people, the kind of guys who hang out in discords and use tripcodes. They're always strangely Reddity, strangely unable to take a joke, and they always end up obsessively hating their userbase and jerking off to their authority over it.
Even now, the only moderation the board receives is that some mod will ban an obviously tongue-in-cheek joke post because he saw it in the report queue without knowing its context.
A janitor on the other hand is OK for deleting extremely off topic threads. If he gets overbearing, you can just complain on /q/ and (ideally) he'll lighten up a bit.
Ethan Watson
memes aside, we should claim the Veeky Forums board on 8ch and migrate there
Tyler Taylor
Fuck off. I'm perfectly fine with the way this board is run.
Dominic Lewis
When mods wake up they have a surprise lol
Brayden Stewart
I'm all for this.
Colton Clark
More moderation's never helped achieve anything but the enforcement of a moderator's personal interests, opinions, and ideas.
I think some of you people forget that this isn't reddit, hackernews, or slashdot. It's the free-speech shithole of the internet where people come to let off steam. I'm not here because I want moderated discussion with usernames and fake politeness.
I'm here because I can call you a nigger for liking tolstoy and argue with you about it whether or not I actually even know anything about tolstoy. Every internet needs a place like Veeky Forums.
Gabriel Phillips
I propose we ban all frog and rabbit posters!
Jose Allen
Oh yeah, Foucault posters too.
Benjamin Parker
Ban everyone
Juan Williams
true, they are pointless now that we have lizardposting
Ayden Ortiz
Yes, but first there at least needs to be the mention of Tolstoy.
Evan Reyes
this was an audit I did a couple weeks ago. The amount of bait and low quality posts here is alarming.
honestly, I'm moving on to twitter. Been there a week, finding lots of interesting stuff.
Josiah Sanchez
except me and you
Tyler Sullivan
i like Veeky Forums when threads are full of bantz and porn and bookish attention whores and i also would like the sauce for thank you
Oliver Foster
it's Stoya, the sexiest woman on Earth
Xavier Howard
stoya has the best butthole in porn btw
Hunter Rodriguez
why is there always one faggot redditor who comes to Veeky Forums and instantly demands less freedom and for everything to be more like reddit?
Levi Reyes
Have you got any evidence to substantiate that absolutely ludicrous claim?
Cooper Stewart
you should check reddit while you're at it
Elijah Long
We just need to purge Veeky Forums of some of its worst members.
In a perfect world, /pol/ and /r9k/ would both be deleted. I think that would pluck up a lot of the weeds.
Logan Russell
...
Chase Collins
eh lets not go that far, we could just ban that one london frogposter for starters
Easton Ortiz
That actually happened once.
The result was /pol/posting on every other board increased about 1000x, so moot remade /pol/ to contain it.
You don't want to delete /pol/ and /r9k/ lest you unleash that again
Kevin Jenkins
thanks! what's your favorite sex scene in a book btw?
Benjamin Sullivan
>Does this board need moderation? This board needs excess
Connor Scott
>More moderation's never helped achieve anything but the enforcement of a moderator's personal interests, opinions, and ideas. >I think some of you people forget that this isn't reddit, hackernews, or slashdot. It's the free-speech shithole of the internet where people come to let off steam. I'm not here because I want moderated discussion with usernames and fake politeness. This.
Every good forum I've seen where the moderation was the moderators' ideas only has seen all the content die.
I belonged to one place which used be pretty wild, and when the moderators, who weren't content producers but people who like chitchat, tried to tame it back, all the PhDs left.
The moderators didn't see this as a problem but most of the content of the site worth a damn (number puzzles, competitions, zombie sightings) was designed by the guys who left. So yeah, you can not swear and also most the games end at the third level instead of having the potential for infinite regression. Everyone else will hang around for that, right?
The content from the mods is mostly "Wow you guys aren't producing enough content! I guess that must be my job now :DD How's everyone's family?", whereas before the mods set in we had people who were going to meet up and duke out their Edison v Tesla problems off board.
Nolan Rodriguez
Veeky Forums should be a pink board
Joseph Price
I wouldn't mind it
Grayson Lopez
I'd be willing to ride out the storm. If we refused to give in to their shitposting they'd eventually go away.
Basically, /pol/ and /pol/posting needs to be dealt with with an iron hand. Break their fucking legs if they won't get in line.
Xavier Russell
>Science Fiction & Fantasy It was all okay until this part.
>redditor Try not being such an obvious /pol/tard next time.
David Peterson
Get the fuck off my board, Reddit
Joseph Phillips
The best thing about Veeky Forums is the anonymity and hands off moderation. You really don't realize how amazing this website is or how much freedom we have. As others have said, if you want more controlled discussion where you are protected from "shitty" posts (which often means posts that you might find offensive), you should find another website with more strict moderation. Some people can't handle Veeky Forums's great design and philosophy and they should go elsewhere.
Jordan Baker
Board is fine. Excuse us for reading non-fiction and pontificating about the JQ.
Julian Sanchez
Cut down on University threads too. They add nothing to discussion and are a waste of time
Lucas Diaz
t. jealous brainlet
Jack King
u mad reddit?
Jordan White
lol ya totez good idea xd #resistance #imwithher
Charles Davis
Board needs less you.
Connor Reed
Well said, Captain Boobs.
Henry Butler
>labeling my thread as bait (when it was a legit question) >moving onto Twitter
Good, you're a fucking simpleton.
Bentley Cruz
why don't you fuck off then? this board has too much shitty moderation as it is whilst the trash threads stay up for hours
Aaron Murphy
your op is not even comprehensible
is it >less discussion of "lit humor", "redpill" [...] & Science Fiction & Fantasy
or is it >general questions that are only slightly related to literature, & Science Fiction & Fantasy
not that i give a shit what you mean, but learn to punctuation and capitalization before trying to tell Veeky Forums what to do, fag
Thomas Reyes
Mods can eat my ass. I know they'd love it, too.
When pic related blew up here and we actually discussed her faulty understanding of Baudrillard, threads were shut down quickly. Yet I see threads not related to literature here almost daily.
Fucking nu-males.
Ian Howard
I hate that place so much.
Nathaniel Ortiz
Veeky Forums is unironically the best board on Veeky Forums
Name a better board
John Gray
>Name a better board
For you?
Hudson Rivera
pol
Carson Ramirez
/fitlit/
Nolan Robinson
I just want people who browse this board to be happy
Lincoln Thomas
Agree. Conservatism is killing this board. Literature doesn't belong to them. We need to take it back.
Owen Murphy
I basically agree that there is too much pol posting on lit nowadays, but don't think 'conservative' opinions should be banned altogether. The problem with pol is that they just state their ill thought out opinions as fact, without giving an explanation or engaging with contentious points. E.g. 'x is degenerate' is just a guy's emotion charged reaction to something but on pol they espouse it as an evident axiom. An educated board deserves better, but if people can provide deeper explanations of their viewpoints, perhaps citing literature to do so, then this can be allowed.
Cooper Allen
gb2pl*bbit
Camden Jones
oy vey
Jaxon Cruz
>mods are gay it all makes sense somehow
Adam Morgan
/diy/ /adv/
Oliver Harris
I get banned from Veeky Forums sometimes, I don't break any rules but I just randomly get banned for a thread or reply. They don't seem connected or anything, just random shit.
Owen Powell
/h/
William Lewis
once i was banned for being an ewok
Jason Roberts
i was once warned for expressing my sexual interest in butters through prose. i think it's the only time they've had an issue with me.
Parker Evans
Why bother, same shit different imageboard except its so slow you'd be better off being pen pals.
Jason Anderson
>he wasn't here typical redditor, you know not of what you speak. Listen to the words of your elders and let those sleeping dogs lie.