/pt/ – Petrarchan

>>8953 is this place just three people talking to themselves? >>8962 i'm glad they are getting their exercise at least

>>8953 is this place just three people talking to themselves? >>8962 i'm glad they are getting their exercise at least

>>8969 I'm neither of those posters, so is that four of us in this thread? Also it was way more dead than this for a while. It still looks like it's picking up to me.

>>8970 The end of the lit.salon discord brought users I guess

>>8971 what happened to lit.salon discord? care to share some gossip?

>>8975 think the guy who ran it got bored of running a social club for mal-adjusted NEETs, which is what every single discord server turns into approximately three days after being established.

>>8975 Basically what >>8977 said. Someone took something as very srs bzness and threatened to dox people in a 10 page dissertation written by Chat GPT listing all the ways they had been wronged. It was ridiculous (a good reminder that we share the Internet with teenagers), I can't blame the admin for not wanting to manage a daycare. That said, I am grateful: the neet's dissertation was uploaded on a pdf website, and thanks to its algorithm I discovered a whole genre of "Terminally online and wronged" passive aggressive pleas for justice against mods and janitors of the Internet lol. So much petty drama.

>>8977 i personally feel like book clubs work best in reddit like places. where the conversation is not rapidly continuous and people take their time to think before responding. same line of reasoning for why I don't care for irl book clubs. it could just be that I'm not a quick thinker though.

>>8975 Basically what >>8977 said. Someone took something as very srs bzness and threatened to dox people in a 10 page dissertation written by Chat GPT listing all the ways they had been wronged. It was ridiculous (a good reminder that we share the Internet with teenagers), I can't blame the admin for not wanting to manage a daycare. That said, I am grateful: the neet's dissertation was uploaded on a pdf website, and thanks to its algorithm I discovered a whole genre of "Terminally online and wronged" passive aggressive pleas for justice against mods and janitors of the Internet lol. So much petty drama.

>>8977 >>8983 thanks for sharing to >>8983 though, you might be wrong about that person being a teenager. you'd be surprised at how many people like this are adults. not even young adults

>>8977 >>8983 thanks for sharing to >>8983 though, you might be wrong about that person being a teenager. you'd be surprised at how many people like this are adults. not even young adults

>>8988 Yeah, I'm using in IQ years

>>9180 i think you have to have and write down a lot of very bad thoughts so that you can have better thoughts

>>9180 Better 100 banal thoughts than one soyjack

>>8951 (OP) I suspect the lack of pictures is to blame. This is an image board not a text board. I'm afraid it won't survive on the wit of its users alone (not for lack of trying). We need pictures. >>9183 I like this picture. >>9180 You can share pictures, you don't have to talk.

>>9181 Like the "morning pages" exercise, in which you barf three pages of bad ideas every morning to be able to get to the good ideas.

>>9183 better 100 soyjax than 1 openai / GROK / anthropic screed

>>8951 (OP) I suspect the lack of pictures is to blame. This is an image board not a text board. I'm afraid it won't survive on the wit of its users alone (not for lack of trying). We need pictures. >>9183 I like this picture. >>9180 You can share pictures, you don't have to talk.

>>9216 Image posting is somewhat of an art that requires a desktop interface, because the phone environment quietly disincentivizes mass curation of a gallery of pictures to choose from. Posters who post text-only (or a few soyjacks someone else posted on Discord/other private chats) are telling not only on their technical acumen but also their age. Inside the smartphone screen all forums bleed together into the same UI, because there's only so much you can show or express in mobile web design, and sites are separated by their URL and color of the background. In short, there are a glut of low-quality posters on this site who should be excommunicated immediately. One day I will personally fly to Copenhagen to shake some sense into Admin to start curating his own website. One day, one day...

>>9219 Maybe every post should require a picture.

>>9219 point heard, and agreed to a certain extent. i really don't like removing posts even if i don't think they're very good because frankly we don't have many to spare, and also because i really really don't want to be the archetypal power-tripping janny. but i will start checking some IPs and banning those who *exclusively* contribute rightoid/soyjak/culture war posts. this feels like a fair arrangement.

>>9219 too bad for petrarchan that i gave up posting on my desktop when i went to college and lost my decade long reaction image collection. probably better for me though. now i just have a minimal amount of images to choose from on my laptop, mostly wallpapers.

>>9290 I like your virtue ethic/aesthetic. I think you'd probably be fine with a list of naughty words if they were just words considered uncouth in like 2006 and you already cultivated something close to the clientele you want. As it is now, culture as become a little too stupid for that. Apropos >>9219 Fuck this shit. I'm old and on desktop and will probably never post an image. The worst thing that happened to the niche forum I used as a teen was someone posting an image thread. It made the new post notification on the general forum useless and dragged everyone's cognitive capacity down by at least a dozen IQ points. Print culture was superior to that of the fleeting, entertainment-focused image. It is only through this beautiful text that your lowly pictures have any context.

>>9224 my admin uses the word 'rightoid'

>>9229 it scared me too but i think he was talking through chan culture, you don't really see liberal posts unless you count cuck shit but call me stupid for assuming all that stuff is trolling

>>9266 having folders of reaction images is bad for the soul take the looking-shit-up-ad-hoc-on-google-images pill

>>9267 my soul does feel better not having it in my life, but it's not the same as delving into the vaults to find the perfect image vs randomly looking up something.

>>9289 I have absolutely zero intention to censor political views / be the thought police / start handing out bans to people for saying naughty words but if you want full transparency I am a socialist. Frankly it should not matter. As I hope is self evident the (deliberately unstated) primary subject matter of this board is literature and the arts, which for the most part should be at arms length from politics. Rightoids you are perfectly welcome to be here, echo chambers are for leddit and bluesky and so forth, but if you start saying TND or anything awful like that you will get banned. Black lives matter! Is it possible to say that with a straight face by now?

>>9289 >it scared me too Hilariously pussyass post.

>>9290 Basically, the philosophy is this: as some of you know, I am a bartender in real life and as far as I am concerned I do the same job here. Bars do not have signs on the walls with topics you are allowed to discuss, they do not kick you out for using naughty words (Sam Smith pubs excepted), they do not (as a rule) selectively choose their customers on the basis of political alignment. Rather, they cultivate their clientele with the rather more sophisticated and elegant system of vibes. The decor, the music, the drinks, the prices, the location, the name, the opening hours, the lighting, the size, the barstaff, the seating arrangements.... every single variable in a bar is (consciously or unconsciously) chosen to produce a certain vibe, and therefore to attract a certain archetype of customer. This website works in the same way. The intention is for this website to be more or less self-selecting, in the way that a good bar is self-selecting. It should have a sort of inertia that means that people who like the site are also well suited to the site. This funny sort of courtship can be a little difficult, especially when we have ugly images on the front-page or when senseless arguments constantly bump to the top. But here too the analogy to a bar is appropriate. Sometimes as the bartender you have to throw your hands up and accept that your job is to serve the people who walked in the door. A bar with arrogant and stupid people is bad, but a bar that throws out people for being arrogant and stupid is worse. The best bar is one where people who are being arrogant and stupid realise from the countenances of their company that their behaviour is unwelcome. From this principle stems my intense hostility to over-moderation. I don't normally talk this much about principles and so on, in fact I might delete this at some point, but I hope to those of you who are dedicated enough to visit the board regularly this has been an illuminating (or at least mollifying) testimony.

>>9290 I like your virtue ethic/aesthetic. I think you'd probably be fine with a list of naughty words if they were just words considered uncouth in like 2006 and you already cultivated something close to the clientele you want. As it is now, culture as become a little too stupid for that. Apropos >>9219 Fuck this shit. I'm old and on desktop and will probably never post an image. The worst thing that happened to the niche forum I used as a teen was someone posting an image thread. It made the new post notification on the general forum useless and dragged everyone's cognitive capacity down by at least a dozen IQ points. Print culture was superior to that of the fleeting, entertainment-focused image. It is only through this beautiful text that your lowly pictures have any context.

>>9291 I really do like this site but this post is one of the most fedora-tipping things I've ever seen

>>9299 It's actually pretty hard to keep the cool affect when you're discussing a topic as inherently neeky as your philosophy of imageboard moderation, but I stand by what I wrote.

>>9299 When you mature past 18 (physically, or in your case, mentally), sincerity and vulnerability stop being perceived as weakness. You are insecure, because you have nothing to contribute. I thank Admin for clarifying his stance and impetus for creating /pt/.

>>9299 You're retarded

>>9299 I want to apologize for calling you retarded. This was not kind or useful

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>>9334 ah, to be a picrel sommelier ...

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