/litgen/ - Literature General

Im a different guy than that other guy do you want me to do anything to help you with this new boatd?

>>2

Suggestions for rules,

board etiquette,

banners et cetera.

Any thing you can think of.

If you would like, I can make you a janitor.

Suggestions:

1. Posters should be encouraged to read between 150 and 250 pages a day,

perhaps less depending on page size, font and layout.

2. Threads should begin with an author, piece of literature, essay, philosophical/ economic dilemma et cetera

3. Posts should have thought put in to them,

be of reasonable length,

not be contrary for the sake of it,

not be a moral diatribes et cetera

This is just a general sketch.

If there is any one there who would like to elaborate on these or suggest others I am willing to flesh it out to any extent.

We should get a good idea of Rules and Etiquette before focusing on popularity.

Popularity is irrelevant if the product is not great.

I suggest we make the product great and then do some thing else.

We may be able to get a small group of good posters to figure out the rope from halfchan lit to do this.

I need help from others, though.

Let us reform the rules until they are perfect.

Some new/ revised suggestions:

(If any one is seeing this, I am open to suggestions,

provided they come across as sincere)

1. We should construct a reading list,

consisting mainly of Philosophy, History and Fiction.

2. Perhaps one should even go so far as to have a structure as to how to post and start threads.

There should be some sort of platform that separates our board from the others.

We should attempt to become the board from which other posters will talk about:

an "elite".

This of course involves banning and discouraging those who do not conform to our strict rules and advice toward etiquette. We should always be improving as opposed to not.

As said in the last post 150 to 250 pages is my suggestion as to what one of these "elite" would read a day, but this can be lowered or raised depending on what others think.

I need responses for this to happen, though.

3. Again, a structure could be outlined as to how one could "eloquently" start and post in a thread.

Eloquence may not exist in itself, as in, it may be a construct,

but we should still prop the construct up,

fill the board with substance and make ourselves a reputation.

Any thoughts are welcome,

provided they are sincere and "eloquent".

>>5

I think we should also have belief critique threads, where users post their beliefs and other posters find logical fallacies, flaws, or inconstancies in them.

>>6

Sure, I will try and sort out a short text on "general Rules and Guidelines" and then you can tell me what you think.

Also, I will send you the email asap.

>>7

last email adress died, here is another

g2947579@trbvm.com

>>8

Okay, I forwarded the last email to the new address.

Tell me what you think:

Guidelines

1. 100 to 250 pages a day is suggested.

2. Reading a variety of Philosophy, History and Fiction is suggested.

Reading Suggestions

Philosophy

Essays and Aphorisms and others/ Schopenhauer

Phenomenology of Spirit and others/ Hegel

Utopia and others/ More

Ego and its own and others/ Stirner

Genealogy of Morals and others/ Nietzsche

Critique of Pure Reason and others/ Kant

Enquiry in to the Human Understanding and others/ Hume

Fiction

Gogol

Pynchon

Wallace

Goethe

Sophokles

Dante

Milton

Shakespeare

(Feel free to improve upon this, this is from the top of my head)

Rules

Threads must begin by referring to an author, a piece of literature, an essay, a philosophical or economic dilemma or the positing of a belief for the purpose of critique.

Posting other things may result in deletion and a ban.

(any suggestions welcome)

This needs to be fleshed out before I make a stickied and locked thread about it.

>>10

All good, but I can't give feedback on the suggested authors as I haven't read most of them. I have however read much of Plato/Socrates and Aristotal, and have basic knowledge about the pre-socratics. This has been very useful for discussions on lit, as they influenced all of the philosophers you listed and had many similar ideas. They also had a useful logical way of thinking of the world.

I recommend getting someone more well read to help with the suggested reading, and adding in The Apology and The Republic in the mean-time.

>>11

Okay,

I will wait until we have more suggestions and then recreate the list including Plato, Socrates and Aristotle when it occurs.

Perhaps we need another sincere poster.

How do you think we could organise that?

New Email: tao95502@haqed.com

Maybe we could private message users on other lit forums who seem sincere?

>>13

The other 2 emails did not work?

Should I forward it again?

>Maybe we could private message users on other lit forums who seem sincere?

How would we get their attention?

>>14

Tell them what our goal is. At first it will be hard, but once a few join, our discussions will attract them. Also, finally got the email

>>15

I have to go now

>>16

Sure. Bye.

>>15

Will I not get banned for advertising?

>>17

The way private messages work is that they only are shown to one user. Very few users would report you for that, and very few moderators would ban you for that.

Also, does this seem like a good idea?

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/34pnur/who_were_the_first_redditors_and_what_did_they/cqwvscr

And can you not post pictures on this board?

>>18

I was not even aware you could do this on 4ch,

but perhaps we should do this.

It would need to be "tripfags" however,

if we wish to identify them.

>And can you not post pictures on this board?

I can change it if you like,

I just thought it was unnecessary on a literature board.

>>18

>They posted thousands of posts and replies to their own posts in order to engineer what kind of community they wanted it to be.

Yes, this is what we should do.

Either just the two of us for now or one or two more sincere posters and then we can fill the board over time with various "discussions".

I will work on the Rules again and once I have improved them I will repost them.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Any one can start a thread at this point,

the more the better,

provided it remains with in the rules.

>>19

I meant other websites, such as reddit or voat. I don't know think its possible on here

>>22

Voat?

Never heard of it.

I have never been on reddit.

I have only been browsing lit and lainchan.

Do you go on reddit regularly and if so,

are you of any users there who may be interested?

Apologies for taking so long to reply.

It was 2 am where I live when you posted.

*aware of

Is any one still here?

If they are,

I think we should begin making threads between just the 2 (?) of us,

so that we can create the illusion of a bustling board.

If any one is there,

I would prefer if they responded.