As described by Sherlock Holmes, The Diogenes Club is a gentleman's club, a place where people can sit in comfortable chairs and read "the latest periodicals" but where nobody is allowed to talk or even cough!

This subreddit is similar: discussions are not allowed because high quality content is what matters more.

Posts should include:

• Interesting and well written articles;

• Book recommendations;

• Musical performances;

• Cultural matters but without the social aspect.

There will be no talking, coughing, whispering or commenting allowed, with the exception of "The Stranger's Room", a weekly sticky text-post.

If you would like to help moderate and become a regular contributor, message the moderators!

"There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere."

• Sherlock Holmes
  ("The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", by Arthur Conan Doyle)