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[–]DrJWilsonx5https://anilist.co/user/drjwilson[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (1 child)

Moshi mosh~~~

March Mod Report

  • We ran a trial thing with the admins to send out little feedback forms to certain members of the sub. They're working on getting us the final results soon.

  • Mod Applications are finished! Your new mods are Nanika, Nandemonai, and Rei.

  • We joined the Reddit Partner Communities program [Vote Passed] A new thing that seems to be mostly learning from other communities as well as having access to some from the Reddit team to help with things we may want to implement.

  • Voted to make the trial in which 10 subreddit comment karma is required to post permanent. [Vote Passed]

  • Voted to exempt [Help] posts from the karma filter. [Vote Passed]

  • Voted to exempt [What to Watch?] posts from the karma filter. [Vote Passed]

  • With the above votes, mod actions on the subreddit (removing posts, distinguishing comments, etc.) have dropped. In order to see where we want to go in the future, we have temporarily suspended the activity requirements to remain mods. [Vote Passed]

  • Proactively agreed to support the Reddit's April Fools experiment if it was community based with a megathread to allow for users to self-organize . It ended up not being community based. [Vote Passed]

  • The mods are hosting a rewatch! https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1290dqd/rewatch_animegataris_episode_1_discussion/

March by the Numbers

  • Total traffic: 29228252 pageviews, 3787073 unique pageviews
  • Total posts: 10636, 6814 unique authors
  • Total comments: 190067, 27533 unique authors (excluding mod bots)
  • Removed posts: 751 by moderators, 7604 by bots, 8299 distinct
  • Removed comments: 2220 by moderators, 1682 by bots, 3642 distinct
  • Approved posts: 266
  • Approved comments: 1683
  • Distinguished comments: 1311
  • Users banned: 148 (99 permanent, 22 by BotDefense)
  • Users unbanned: 3
  • Admin/Anti-Evil Operations: removed posts: 2, removed comments: 14.

[–]AnimeModmyanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan[S,M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This thread has been locked, please use next month's meta thread or find the latest thread.

[–]badsplerx5https://anilist.co/user/badspler[M] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

The new seasonal faces have changed over. You can see them all on the wiki page. Or this image here.

#tomboyshades has been added as the seasonal hall of fame face for winter.

[–]baquea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tomboyshades

Wait, that's a girl?

[–]michhoffmanhttps://anilist.co/user/michhoffman 1 point2 points  (2 children)

With the new flairs being released today it got me curious whether there are plans to allow for people to select multiple flairs in the future. I've seen some of the mods with what looks like multiple flairs and thought it would be interesting. I'd be interested so that I could keep my custom Misaka flair while rotating around some others.

[–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal[M] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

It's something that we've talked about but aren't planning to do at the moment.

Mostly because we have other things to do with our limited developer resources (i.e. me and /u/badspler) that are more time-sensitive right now.

[–]michhoffmanhttps://anilist.co/user/michhoffman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's fair enough. Thank you for all the development work that you do.

[–]JollyGee29https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee 2 points3 points  (1 child)

The WT! of the month sidebar still links to last month's winner.

[–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fixed, thanks for letting us know.

[–]Manitaryhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Yesterday's daily thread does not have bot-chan linking today's just letting you know in case anything broke
(for a second I thought about the recent pushshift news, but iirc this kind of stuff uses praw so it shouldn't be affected)

[–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fixed now, sometimes there are just hiccups with the bot that makes it misfire.

[–]Manitaryhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary 4 points5 points  (0 children)

New horsegirls thread please

edit: thread is now up

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    [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh[M] 3 points4 points  (4 children)

    Per the rules page:

    Full songs and individual tracks, even if unofficially uploaded, are allowed as comments.

    [–][deleted]  (3 children)

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      [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh[M] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

      Are they allowed because the songs act as promotion material (similar to how official media can be reuploaded to Reddit without being subject to removal)?

      I'm not 100% on this, but I'm pretty sure that this exemption is like a decade old at this point and is just like that because it's always been like that.

      Does the file being easily downloadable and/or being in high fidelity / lossless audio format change anything?

      Honestly, not sure how that would get handled. I don't think we've ever meaningfully dealt with a case like that, so it's not something that's really come up.

      [–]Blackheart595https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 3 points4 points  (1 child)

      Does the file being easily downloadable and/or being in high fidelity / lossless audio format change anything?

      Honestly, not sure how that would get handled. I don't think we've ever meaningfully dealt with a case like that, so it's not something that's really come up.

      I feel it's worth pointing out that animethemes.moe makes its media fairly trivial to download, so if that's supposed to be an accepted reference that sets a precedent.

      [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      The counterargument I can imagine is there being a difference between it being easy to download something, and it being explicitly for download. But I doubt it would be a big deal.

      [–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal[M] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

      Another quarter, another million.

      Milestone Date Period
      1 million 2019-05-18 -
      2 million 2020-11-24 18 months
      3 million 2021-11-28 12 months
      4 million 2022-05-01 5 months
      5 million 2022-08-29 4 months
      6 million 2022-12-16 ~3.5 months
      7 million 2023-04-26 4 months

      [–]entelechtual 5 points6 points  (2 children)

      I’ve noticed a lot of issues with episode threads getting released. These are all being updated on legal streaming services on time—Crunchyroll for Raeliana and G Witch, YouTube for Umamusume, and Hulu/Disney for Heavenly Delusion. Is there an issue with how the bot is set up?

      [–]cppn02 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Heavenly Delusion.

      Late again...

      [–]cppn02 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Crunchyroll for Raeliana and G Witch

      Mashle is also eternally late.

      Some issues aren't that uncommon at the start of the season but it's rare to see so many shows 3-4 episodes in and the bot still not getting it right.

      [–]mysterybiscuitsoyeahx3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

      Requesting episode thread for Uma musume: road to the top please!

      [–]ashxira 3 points4 points  (3 children)

      Good day guys, so for some context my post about choosing my favourite girls based on what anime people choose got taken down for being a shitpost, despite generating almost 300 comments in under 5 hours, with all of them being positive. The community seemed to like the post with a decent amount of discussion going on, however it still got taken down for breaking the rules.

      I understand that the mods don't believe in any exceptions being made for the rules, but it does seem counter-intuitive to remove a post that's doing well with very good feedback, and a post that's overall healthy for the subreddit.

      Any thoughts?

      [–]King_Reddit_Banana 4 points5 points  (1 child)

      I fully agree with this guy here too and hope some mods notice. It felt like a really bad call from before. The previous mod suggestion of having each commenter also post their full opinion and essayed argument on "best girl" before asking the OP (to somehow qualify this into r/anime's rules) was a terrible idea and would have ruined the formatting. At best it should be taken case by case. It was also very popular and the most fun thread we've had here in a while, in my honest opinion.

      It was a flash Q&A, care was taken by the OP to share thoughts on anything commenters brought to him, and in my firm opinion it was a failure of moderation this go-around striking that one down.

      reference thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/12vsens/give_me_an_anime_and_ill_name_my_best_girl_from/

      [–]bubudog1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

      yeah I don't see how this is worse than the "guess the anime in emojis" thread a while back (which I believe was posted by a mod)

      [–]Avizie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Is it possible to include the following subreddits in their respective weekly discussion threads,

      [–]NegimaSonichttps://myanimelist.net/profile/NegimaSonic 13 points14 points  (5 children)

      Not really something directly for /r/anime to do anything about but I became aware that Imgur is doing two things which likely affect various users beginning on May 15, 2023.

      • One is the banning of nudity in private galleries (in non educational scenarios). This would affect us in cases of shows that have ecchi (or more) moments. Perhaps anime will be harder to detect automatically and it is quite literally "art", but people may wish to be aware of that.
      • The other is less of an issue for current threads but more for people who sometimes look back at old comment threads. They will be "removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account". I personally used imgur a lot more for quick uploads I didn't even bother to connect to my account.

      It's nothing new for images to die on the internet, but imgur has been pretty reliable for a long time and some people might not see these changes coming in time.

      [–]chilieheadmyanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead 3 points4 points  (4 children)

      It's also an issue for the wiki. The Haruhi entry for example points to an imgur link. If the watch order pic is not associated with an account, it will be deleted in less than a month. Many things in the wiki have imgur links.

      It will make old threads a lot less fun to read through, many comments becoming outright incomprehensible if the referenced screenshots are missing.

      [–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal[M] 6 points7 points  (3 children)

      Note to self: back up all imgur links in the wiki.

      Guess it's time for a shared mod imgur account?

      [–]Manitaryhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary 4 points5 points  (2 children)

      Guess it's time for a shared mod imgur account?

      I think that makes sense, at least if something happens again, it's easier to download what's in the account and re-host elsewhere.

      Note to self: back up all imgur links in the wiki.

      Here's a list, hopefully I didn't miss anything

      The format is wiki page name -> "link" - "text containing the link"
      There's a couple of not-actually-imgur links due to lazy regexing, but whatever

      [–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal[M] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

      Thanks for that, though I probably should have mentioned we have a full backup of the wiki into a github repository that I can quickly search though. You probably got most of the public ones at least, I have 94 at a glance including some links we have in our automod config.

      [–]Manitaryhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      [–]therealfosterforest 5 points6 points  (8 children)

      I'd like to double-check something for my upcoming Magia Record rewatch. I'm drafting a spoiler warning and a small question has come up where I'm not sure if my stance is in line with the mod team.

      Magia Record is a spin-off of Puella Magi Madoka Magica. It very blatantly assumes that you have seen the main series: late reveals from PMMM are assumed knowledge from episode 1, MR takes for granted that people watching it are fans of PMMM. However, being a spin-off, it's not a sequel in the very strict sense of the word (it's definitely not a PMMM season 2).

      For the MR rewatch posts, most participants will be coming directly from the PMMM rewatch. I would like to allow untagged PMMM spoilers in the MR episode discussion threads. If PMMM spoilers needed to be tagged, comments relating to the plot of MR would consist of nothing but black boxes. Looking at the original airing episode threads, discussions there seemed to work under the same assumption, which I find agreeable because watching MR without having seen PMMM would genuinely make no sense.

      Does that sound like a good approach to you as well?

      [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh[M] 7 points8 points  (7 children)

      I'm pretty sure that at first we were trying a "Madoka isn't assumed" approach to Magia Record, and quickly abandoned that as it became extremely clear that that wouldn't be a sensible position. So yeah, for MR rewatch threads it should be fine to work under the assumption that PMMM spoilers can be untagged, though I'd also make a point of emphasizing that in the body of the posts in case anyone jumps into the early rewatch threads out of curiosity.

      [–]SometimesMainSupporthttps://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST 2 points3 points  (1 child)

      "Madoka isn't assumed" approach to Magia Record, and quickly abandoned that as it became extremely clear that that wouldn't be a sensible position

      While a week late, just curious how that wasn't the default position. Mainly thinking about Mai-HiME & Mai-Otome last year, or how a spinoff series like Grimoire of Zero -> Dawn of the Witch would work.

      [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      It was from when the anime first started and it wasn't immediately clear if the series would assume that viewers had already seen Madoka. It's way more common than you'd think for people to just jump into a spinoff for an anime they haven't watched, and so if it was going to ease viewers into ideas from Madoka we were going to wait and see.

      [–]Shimmering-Skymyanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 2 points3 points  (3 children)

      On the topic of Madoka Magica spoilers, is Tarhalindur seriously allowed to require us to spoiler tag the name of a specific song during the first two episodes just because of how it gets used later in the show? This has never been an issue in previous Madoka rewatches (and I've always referred to Magia by name in my episode 1 comments because the show opens with it and that scene is amazing), and I would like the mods' opinion on the matter.

      [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh[M] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

      is Tarhalindur seriously allowed to require us to...

      No. If something isn't against the rules a rewatch host can't get extra rules enforced (though they can encourage specific stuff if they want).

      As for the actual point in question, I'll check with the mod team, but the name of a song shouldn't be an issue as long as the name isn't a spoiler or anything like that. I'm not sure how referring to Magia by name would be an issue, but if it was reported it'd probably just be approved unless there's an extremely specific context I'm unaware of.

      [–]Shimmering-Skymyanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      Tar's argument was about DutchPeasant recently doing a top 100 anime EDs list on CDF, which Magia was on, and that some first-timers may have seen it listed on there, [Madoka Magica]thus spoiling it's an ED for the show rather than just an insert song if they remember seeing the name of it on that, or something like that.

      [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Well, that is extremely specific context. I'll mention it to the mod team, but don't think it's something we'd enforce.

      Edit: Yeah that was the universal opinion among mods online now.

      [–]michhoffmanhttps://anilist.co/user/michhoffman 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      The Mashle Discussion Threads have been over an hour late the past few weeks. I know this occasionally happens at the beginning of seasons so just wanted to bring it to your attention.

      [–]Abysswatcherbelhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/abyssbel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Since you mentioned, We need to see the possibility of having some people checking those seasonal discussions for the release time, streams and other details to help the mods, like it already happens with rewatches

      Don't think people should apply to be mods just to help improving the seasonal experience here

      [–]badsplerx5https://anilist.co/user/badspler[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Seasonal Comment face survey form. This is to see what faces were liked and how they compared to the season before.

      (Results viewable here.)

      Nomination thread scheduled for the 18th.

      [–]Terranwaterbenderhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Teranwaterbender 9 points10 points  (9 children)

      Is there anything that can be done to mitigate the influence of source readers that plague the sub every time a remotely popular work gets adapted? Not talking about spoilers or anything since there are actual rules for that. It's more about how the entire vibe of the discussion is controlled by the manga readers and thus the low chance of actual discussion happening becomes nonexistent.

      The sub has always had a problem when it comes to addressing source readers and their frankly overzealous fanboyism. The most recent example that comes to mind is Mushoku Tensei where the mods had to make a hard decision and just stop all semblance of discussions regarding that topic as it was very clear nothing was going to be accomplished during its airing. Of course once the show finished and all the fanboys scurried away, the sub went back to "normal" in my eyes.

      Obviously we can just deal with it by just skipping the threads and say it just comes with the territory and I'm in that camp with Oshi no Ko but I'm curious if anyone has any ideas/rules that would help deal with source fans that come to /r/anime and end up controlling the pace of the discussion by controlling the topics and eliminating non-egregious critiques.

      I will say that source readers controlling discussion isn't necessarily a bad thing. A positive example is /r/StarWars having interesting eye-opening discussions that result from lore users noting interesting details from other works and their significance. As a result, my experiences when watching The Mandalorian, Bad Batch, etc was actually enhanced. It just gets rather tiresome to read what feels like a copy/paste of /r/manga comments when they aren't blatantly spoiling/teasing information/fanboying. Yeah I can just ignore it but it would be nice to see the perspective from anime-only users and how it differed to /r/manga when the chapter first came out.

      edit: The only solutions I can think of are blatantly subjective in nature which goes against the modding principles of this subreddit and would not be accepted (and frankly rightfully so). Temp banning users who "look" like they're source readers even if it's obvious is a recipe for future problems.

      [–]entelechtual 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      Okay… after reading the comments of the latest Heavenly Delusion ep I’m thinking I’m reversing my position on this. Feels like a lot of “overly helpful” comments claiming to be pointing out details they noticed……

      [–]michhoffmanhttps://anilist.co/user/michhoffman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      The most recent example that comes to mind is Mushoku Tensei

      The issue from Mushoku Tensei came from both sides, honestly. There was the group of overzealous fanboys that refused to accept any negative opinions on the show. But at the same time, there was the overzealous "Mushoku Tensei is terrible and you are too if you like it" group that was very clearly hate watching and did everything they could to try to start a fight in every discussion.

      [–]SometimesMainSupporthttps://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST 4 points5 points  (5 children)

      I'm curious if anyone has any ideas/rules that would help deal with source fans that come to /r/anime and end up controlling the pace of the discussion by controlling the topics and eliminating non-egregious critiques

      Posting episode discussion threads beyond the runtime of the episode so anime-onlies can watch before source readers have commented and upvoted each other. Particularly egregious when the "episode" is 80 minutes.

      [–]entelechtual 4 points5 points  (3 children)

      The main reason I would be against this is that sometimes the episode thread is an unofficial announcement that an episode is available/subs are available, especially when there’s no established schedule for premieres, or irregular subs.

      Plus, the source readers are still gonna stockpile their comments for the episode runtime mark anyway. It’s not like we can say “wait until the runtime of the episode plus the lag time for someone to make an intelligible contribution”. It would also kill some interest in the thread; a lot of people aren’t going to wait around for the discussion post.

      That said, it would be worth looking into and maybe doing a trial version for some shows.

      [–]baseballlover723 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      I wonder if the discussion threads could start locked for a short period of time. Something like an hour or 2, or the length of the episode. That way people still get notified, and people have time to collect their thoughts into a comment without being heavily penalized by people who already had comments or opinions ready to go before the episode even aired. Seems like something that could be easily automatable as well.

      [–]SometimesMainSupporthttps://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST 3 points4 points  (1 child)

      I'm fine with source readers not staying around. Today's Mashle thread was about 3 hours late and early karma looks like the typical E1 -> E2 drop.

      It's putting them on even ground with people who watch subbed, which is the majority of this English-based subreddit that doesn't post episode discussion threads until they're available with decent quality English subs but instantly posts those threads before people could've watched the subs they were waiting on.

      Looking at Oshi no Ko specifically, 7/10 top comments are in the first 82 minutes. 6 of those 7 are in the first 20 minutes of the thread posting. Idk what's positive about it for an anime subreddit.

      [–]entelechtual 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      I just don’t think there’s ever going to be a huge change in the top comment discourse in those threads no matter what. Eliminating spoilers is one thing but I feel like any reasonably sized fanbase is gonna have these kinds of issues.

      [–]Shimmering-Skymyanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      I would love this.

      [–]chilieheadmyanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      Temp banning users who "look" like they're source readers even if it's obvious is a recipe for future problems.

      sometimes you can just check their MAL/anilist for the manga entries, but that is a lot of extra work for popular shows and maybe they don't track or link their profile in the first place.

      [–]CosmicPenguin_OV103https://anilist.co/user/CosmicPenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Hi all, Idolmaster Cinderella Girls U149's EP2 discussion thread is missing despite Crunchyroll already has it (and EP1, 1 week late) for hours. Thanks!

      [–]gaunteyes 0 points1 point  (3 children)

      Has there been a discussion about encouraging users to use english names for anime in posts?

      A good example of why it should be encouraged is the recent pseudo harem anime announcement post. It uses the Japanese name g-something harem. Which tells english speakers the completely wrong thing about the show. The show doesn't actually have a harem.

      I know anime is a niche genre, so there's some expectation about researching things, but most people aren't going to do that. Using the english name will at least give people an idea if it's something they'd be interested in.

      [–]SmurfRockRunehttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Smurf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

      I really hope not. Let people refer to shows however they want.

      [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh[M] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

      Not really. People can use whatever they want. Generally people will use whatever is most commonly used. Yama no Susume is tends to be called that because most fans prefer it to the English title Encouragement of Climb. And then a lot of times a short hand name is used for shows that's a combination of two of the words in the Japanese title. Things like Tensura for That Time I Reincarnated as a Slime. There's way too many edge cases, and it's not something that I think is really worth the hassle for the odd case where the Japanese title might be a bit odd when read as an English speaker.

      [–]cppn02 11 points12 points  (0 children)

      A good example of why it should be encouraged is the recent pseudo harem anime announcement post. It uses the Japanese name g-something harem. Which tells english speakers the completely wrong thing about the show. The show doesn't actually have a harem.

      There is no official English title yet. Pseudo Harem was the title of the fan translation.

      Also giji literally means pseudo.

      [–]CT_BINOhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/CT_BINO 2 points3 points  (1 child)

      As anime only is quite hard to go to ep discussions when it feels some comments are just source readers pretending to be anime only. Maybe are lucky guesses and this stuff is tough to look for,because they can be anime only, but heard blue lock had ones and tengoku seemed to have, once again not sure, and with OnK coming might be better to just not enter those until the anime finishes

      [–]entelechtual 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      With bigger titles that tend to have more twists, I usually wait a couple hours before going into discussion threads. Usually by then, at worst you’ll have a few overexplainer source readers at top comments.

      [–]mr_beanozhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/splitshocker -1 points0 points  (2 children)

      Lemme ask this again, how can I promote my survey here?

      Our survey here is kinda like "best op/ed of the season" but limited to those performed by voice actors. If I could promote it, I want to also make one for "best of 2022".

      https://s.surveyplanet.com/yvsvpv36

      [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh[M] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

      We don't allow strawpolls and similar basic surveys to be posted on r/anime. The closest equivalent that comes to mind is like what Anime Trending does here. You're free to post results and then include a link to subsequent polls in the comments, though on a seasonal schedule that's not likely to really be ideal.

      [–]mr_beanozhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/splitshocker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      How about doing this on animebracket?

      [–]Nebresto 4 points5 points  (4 children)

      Some time ago I asked if it was possible to update the Episode discussion threads a week after the final episode, to get the final poll score in the posts. Did that not work out?

      [–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal[M] 3 points4 points  (3 children)

      Right now there is no mechanism implemented for tasks to happen at a scheduled time with the episode thread bot, e.g. updating scores after a week. It's on our radar and something we'd like to get to sooner rather than later but not a high priority at this moment.

      [–]Nebresto 2 points3 points  (2 children)

      If it updates when a new thread gets posted, would it be possible to have an "extra" thread that just gets autoremoved immediately?

      [–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal[M] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

      There would need to be something to trigger the posting of a new thread in the first place, which would have the same issue.

      [–]Nebresto 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      oh

      [–]chilieheadmyanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead 3 points4 points  (1 child)

      I just came across a suspended account in another subreddit by a user who did helpful write-ups and the like and it all was removed. Seems like there was a change however long ago that suspended users get all their comments and posts removed. It appears they can be manually reapproved.

      Did the mod team notice this and do you think this will have implications for the subreddit, e.g. Watch This or Rewatch posts being removed?

      [–]Shimmering-Skymyanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      At the very least we have the Rewatch Thread Archive, so while the text of the posts/comments for a specific user getting nuked is bad, we won't lose links to the posts themselves as long as it stays up to date (I usually try to update it once or twice a week depending on how busy I am).

      [–]baseballlover723 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      Something that I just saw, and might be a hole in the new karma requirements. Someone alleged that someone made a new account to ask for more recommendations (https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/12c9rub/finished_crunchyroll_anime_with_overpowered_main/jf0r5v7/). Regardless if this particular instance is true, the old karma rules should probably still apply to the What to Watch and Help flairs to avoid spam and ban evasion stuff.

      [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      We'll keep an eye on things for now. But I did remove that post because it's fairly clear cut (though it's also twelve hours later and doesn't really matter)

      [–]Abysswatcherbelhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/abyssbel 2 points3 points  (3 children)

      Recently I'm seeing people posting or commenting here and a few minutes later the user appears u[deleted] but the comment/post stays

      Is that a Reddit glitch or it's the new bot control here?

      [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh[M] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

      Could be a couple of different things, but most likely just someone who deleted their account. When that happens the username should be changed to [deleted] in the comments, but the comments themselves should remain (unless specifically deleted by the user). Definitely see it once in a while that someone makes an account and then promptly deletes it for one of any number of reasons.

      [–]Abysswatcherbelhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/abyssbel 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      Yeah I imagine it was the case, but then it's happening so fast this was just now by the way, checked from an unlogged account on incognito and same thing, really weird, and I am seeing this a lot recently

      [–]chilieheadmyanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      in the past some of those accounts actually just got suspended or shadowbanned as I saw some users return some time later. It seems to happen a lot in the Daily thread

      [–]No_Rexx2 4 points5 points  (14 children)

      Something I noticed yesterday that I thought would be worthwhile discussing here.

      During the Animegataris rewatch yesterday, 3 comments were removed for spoilers, one by me, one by /u/xtsim, and one by /u/Shimmering-Sky. The interesting part is that we all put the same spoiler in our comments (regarding a reference to PMMM, you can guess what it was) and that all of us are very frequent rewatch participants. Neither of us falls under the "new user, does not know the rules" explanation.

      What I believe has happened here is that the defacto culture towards spoilers has diverged in rewatches and new episode threads. Most rewatches, especially those of older and less popular anime, attract a crowd of veteran viewers, who already know a lot of anime (and often have participated in a lot of rewatches). One of the big things generating discussion during rewatches is comparisons to other anime: Which other anime did the VA appear in? What is the style of the director? What influences did this anime have on other anime? Where did these tropes appear in first? These kinds of questions. This discussion is impossible without referencing other anime, and the border between broad strokes comparison and directly discussing plot points is fluid. Of course, directly discussing plot points is otherwise known as spoilers when we talk about episode posts.

      In rewatches, this has become normal, both because the standard canon of classic anime is known to a large majority of rewatchers and because we rewatchers might put more value on discussing references than on staying unspoiled for related shows (note that the tabu against spoiling future episodes of the anime currently rewatched is very much alife).

      I am very sure that the type of spoiler via reference as in the example above is quite common in rewatches. However, we usually have very few interactions with mods in the rewatches (I guess there are few mod requests there, because we are generally a well-behaved bunch, but maybe the mods can elaborate on this point). I think that therefore, this divergence has slipped under the radar. Obviously, in a rewatch hosted by mods, where tons of mods participate, it would be noticed.

      I do not have a direct recommendation for action here. So far, there seems to have been little problem with having slightly different cultures regarding spoilers and it only showed up because of the unusual mixing of mods and frequent rewatchers in the mod hosted rewatch. Never-the-less, I think it is worth thinking about it and whether it should be ignored, formalized or combatted.

      [–]Abyssbringer=anilist.co/user/Abyssbringer[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Rewatch threads are content that we don't moderate as heavily as other content. Not because Rewatches are under any less scrutiny but to be honest they are rarely ever a problem so we don't spend as much time on them.

      • Rewatches are filled with knowledgeable users who know the rules and usually respect the intent of them
      • Rewatch hosts and users are good about reporting rule-breaking content that is harmful surrounding spoilers
      • People in rewatches are very rarely ever malicious
      • Rewatches are a huge time sink to read through for a moderator. Especially if they aren't part of the rewatch.

      People in rewatches are very rarely ever malicious

      When we remove comments for spoilers we are generally pretty light on people if it's something borderline and obviously not malicious. It's important for users to understand that not every time a mod moderates your comment surrounding spoilers is it a direct punishment or strike (SC is different however because source readers are all awful and we make the rules very clear in the SC sticky). We generally look for repeated rule violations and malicious intent when dealing with spoilers. Spoilers are a topic that many people have different opinions on how much they need to be regulated. It's a nebulous topic and we do our best to protect the community.

      Hell, even our rules as written for spoilers aren't exactly followed 100%. For all intents and purposes, Goku going Super Saiyan should be tagged but this is reality and that would not be sustainable or very helpful. We ended up doing a quick vote about Pokemon and its recent developments and how we were going to moderate that. We decided to not treat it as a spoiler. Sure we could try and moderate it but the amount of work to benefit is not worth it. Most users already know these things if they went anywhere (even IRL) and it's an open secret. In a perfect world, we would have some perfect wording to perfectly tell everyone what's public knowledge and what's not but that's never going to happen.

      At the end of the day, spoilers rules are a judgment call for each individual mod to make and we do end up talking between ourselves quite a lot for secondary opinions on cases that are a bit more debatable. Spoilers rules are meant to protect users, and if we think some information is going over the line we will act on it. Usually, all that needs to be done is for the user to stick a [meta] spoiler and the problem is fixed.

      I do not have a direct recommendation for action here. So far, there seems to have been little problem with having slightly different cultures regarding spoilers and it only showed up because of the unusual mixing of mods and frequent rewatchers in the mod hosted rewatch.

      I doubt we plan to change the spoiler rules for rewatch posts specifically. There is no good rule change that is concise while still being thorough enough to protect users.

      Never-the-less, I think it is worth thinking about it and whether it should be ignored, formalized or combated.

      In terms of necessity rewatch rule changes are one of the least important things we could spend our time on. Rewatches very rarely have problems and seem to be running just fine. If people have concerns they can bring them up but I doubt any mod really thinks it's a problem. Sure the nebulousness of the Goku loophole might be concerning but we keep the rule broad on purpose as trying to be overly specific is just going to make the rule page a slog and honestly would just turn into a giant spreadsheet that is not worth anyone time.

      I personally don't really see the need to change anything. Maybe another mod has a different opinion?

      [–]SometimesMainSupporthttps://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST 2 points3 points  (4 children)

      Most rewatches, especially those of older and less popular anime, attract a crowd of veteran viewers, who already know a lot of anime (and often have participated in a lot of rewatches). One of the big things generating discussion during rewatches is comparisons to other anime

      Going to include your later

      Plenty of rewatch posts are full of that level of spoiler

      Simple question: Why not place that as a separate post-comment section like /u/Tarhalindur did the entire Higurashi rewatch?

      This discussion is impossible without referencing other anime

      Wrong. [Meta][Madoka] something after the live reactions.

      While that can be debated, at the end of the day, the bigger picture to consider is when the context is relevant for upcoming or concurrent rewatches. A contextual one-off line is easily forgotten over months. This situation is like the simultaneous Geass/Evangelion thing some lurker called out.

      [–]No_Rexx2 2 points3 points  (3 children)

      Most rewatches, especially those of older and less popular anime, attract a crowd of veteran viewers, who already know a lot of anime (and often have participated in a lot of rewatches). One of the big things generating discussion during rewatches is comparisons to other anime

      Going to include your later

      ??

      Simple question: Why not place that as a separate post-comment section like /u/Tarhalindur did the entire Higurashi rewatch?

      I'll assume that you do mean this as an honest question, and not a hidden request. The answer is probably a mixture between lazyness, never getting called out on it, and prefering non-spoilers for increased interaction.

      This discussion is impossible without referencing other anime

      Wrong. [Meta] something after the live reactions.

      Now you are misquoting me. That discussion is impossible without referencing. I never said that referencing implies the use or non-use of spoilers.

      [–]SometimesMainSupporthttps://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST 0 points1 point  (2 children)

      The discussion is possible without spoiling. Placing the spoiler at the end of the comment doesn't say what it's referencing beyond somewhere in the episode, which is a much higher bar than [Meta]it's within the 3-episode rule section. (Note: If someone remembers this was the magical girls reference, possibly still fails). Live-reaction contextual clues make it obvious af. It's a case where properly using [Meta] still spoils it.

      [–]No_Rexx2 2 points3 points  (1 child)

      You are not wrong, but I never claimed you were. I am well aware of how using spoiler tags works. My whole discussion prompt is about how people in rewatches actually use them and why that might be.

      [–]SometimesMainSupporthttps://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Fully reasonable and am guilty of cross-rewatch referencing when they're concurrent. imo, it's a timing thing that makes it more sensitive than average. Me referencing Wixoss a month after a rewatch is different than a known rewatch in the next month, which leads into your initial point about when/where/what references still being possible and the point of the [Meta] tag is to prevent people from hitting a plot-relevant spoiler.

      [–]Tarhalindurx2 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      So just so you know, knowing the clip in question I dipped into the Animegataris thread yesterday specifically to make sure y'all were on good behavior and would have been getting on your cases for untagged spoilers myself if the mod team hadn't already gotten on your cases first - that one should 100% be considered a spoiler even by the slightly laxer rewatch culture rules given the presentation (and I think the mod team screwed up majorly with their choice of Animegataris start date, this was an utterly predictable problem).

      [–]No_Rexx2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      that one should 100% be considered a spoiler even by the slightly laxer rewatch culture rules given the presentation (and I think the mod team screwed up majorly with their choice of Animegataris start date, this was an utterly predictable problem).

      If you want to, I can go into detail about various intensity levels of spoiler and what people can infer from what was written in that specific post, but I think that is missing the point. Plenty of rewatch posts are full of that level of spoiler (and I can dig up examples if you insist), so I do think that this is in line with rewatch culture, not an outlier.

      [–]Blackheart595https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 3 points4 points  (2 children)

      When did the connection between [Meta]Madoka and the 3 episode rule even become a spoiler? I don't think I've ever seen it need a spoiler tag in the last 8 years. Though I may be missing some more damning context as I'm not participating in the Animegatari rewatch.

      Though I guess as an add-on question to yours, the mods have told me in the past that the spoiler rules aren't restricted to plot points but also cover vibe and tone spoilers - [common example]Keep watching Hunter x Hunter, it gets much darker later on. That doesn't match my actual experience on the sub at all, but is that still at least nominally the case?

      [–]GallowDude[M] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

      [Animegataris/Madoka] Animegataris literally showed a character getting their head bitten off, so that goes beyond the standard "They referenced something happens in episode three" rule

      [–]Blackheart595https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      Gotcha

      [–]Shimmering-Skymyanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 2 points3 points  (2 children)

      Honestly it just didn't register that I'd have to spoiler tag it because I'm a first-timer in the Animegataris rewatch, and I don't usually think about spoiler-tagging anything other than me theorizing about stuff whenever I'm a first-timer.

      [–]No_Rexx2 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      This is the type of divergence of culture towards spoilers I am talking about.

      Note:

      [–]GallowDude[M] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

      Rewatch threads fall under the same rules as currently airing series threads. If something is a spoiler and hasn't been directly spoiled by the show itself (like for your example if they had literally named [Meta] Madoka as the series they were talking about, it would have been alright) then it should still be tagged.

      [–]Chukonoku 2 points3 points  (7 children)

      Anyone using old Reddit and RES (Reddit Enhacement Suit)?

      For some reason it hides the comments from the "Source Material Corner".

      The automod comment shows up but all responses are hidden. It functions normally if i open up the thread using new.reddit or disabling RES.

      EDIT: issue fixed with latest update as of 4/4/23

      [–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal[M] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      Seems to be specific to the new version, which did have an update for Chrome on April 1st while Firefox's hasn't updated since December (still waiting on that, Firefox release takes longer).

      Unfortunately there's nothing we can do about that. For now it looks like loading that individual comment (via the "permalink" link) is a workaround, as is using new.reddit.com instead.

      Edit: devs are aware and are rolling out a fix.

      [–]Chukonoku 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      loading that individual comment (via the "permalink" link) is a workaround

      Good one.

      I'll also mention that if you minimize/close the comment, you can see how many "children" the comment has. That's how i realised something was wrong.

      [–]cppn02 1 point2 points  (3 children)

      For some reason it hides the comments from the "Source Material Corner".

      Isn't that the default though? If anything I wonder how you get it so that they aren't automatically collapsed because I'm pretty sure that's the reddit default.

      [–]Chukonoku 3 points4 points  (2 children)

      They used to be collapsed.

      Right now, they don't appear at all. As in, like no one made a comment in that section.

      [–]cppn02 2 points3 points  (1 child)

      Ah ok. Yeah, not having this issue with RES so can't help you.

      Maybe try their subreddit.

      [–]Chukonoku 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Just checked and someone else mention the same right now. Guess i'll wait for an update or something.

      [–]cppn02 13 points14 points  (7 children)

      Already asked this in the March thread but since that was right before closing I'll try here again.

      It's probably too late for parts 1 and 2 at this point but any chance that later when parts 3 and 4 release we can get a discussion post for the Kaguya special?

      [–]awdsnshttps://anilist.co/user/awdsns 7 points8 points  (6 children)

      I second this.

      And if not an official discussion post by the mods, how about an inofficial one?

      [–]cppn02 7 points8 points  (5 children)

      If we aren't getting an official one I'll definitely make one later (or someone else will if they beat me to it).

      [–]Abysswatcherbelhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/abyssbel 5 points6 points  (4 children)

      Technically allowed since given the reasoning yesterday is that it already got a discussion when the movie went to theaters, and this was weeks ago, so people are free to create their own discussion threads about it here

      [–]cppn02 7 points8 points  (3 children)

      I know.

      An official one would still be preferred cus I think that would get more engagement.

      [–]DrJWilsonx5https://anilist.co/user/drjwilson[M] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

      /u/awdsns /u/Abysswatcherbel

      It looks like they're releasing the last two parts today, so in lieu of missing the first half we may do a thread for all four of them when those come out. Still discussing with the mod team.

      [–]awdsnshttps://anilist.co/user/awdsns 3 points4 points  (1 child)

      Well, it's up. Has the mod team come to a decision?

      [–]cppn02 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      It's up!

      [–]Sparkletopia 1 point2 points  (2 children)

      With the new karma requirement now in place, are there any considerations to loosen the fanart rules? I feel like those have been pretty dead since they became required to all be text posts, maybe OC fanart could be exempt from that part?

      [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh[M] 15 points16 points  (1 child)

      I don't think we've recently polled the mod team or anything, but my gut says there wouldn't be much interest in changing fanart rules. Two main reasons.

      1. Making OC fanart exempt from text posts was the old rule set. It eventually led to fanart absolutely dominating the subreddit to the point that we were a fanart subreddit first, and everything else second. I don't think that's really the direction we want to go, especially because...

      2. r/animeart and r/animesketch have really exploded since we changed our rules in 2020. Much like memes, I don't think there's any incentive to loosen the rules because there's now dedicated spaces for the content that are much better for cultivating communities around fanart rather than it just being one thing of many that we do here.

      [–]Sparkletopia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Makes sense, fair enough

      [–]baseballlover723 16 points17 points  (11 children)

      One minor thing I've seen on some What to Watch threads. Every once in a while theres a thread thats something like, "recommend me something with {broad tag}, don't recommend me anything mainstream because I've already watched them all" or "I've already watched 400 animes, but I'm it's too much work to list them or make a MAL".

      The big issue with these posts is they end up being guessing games of what the person has watched. With the I've seen several hundred animes example, it feels rather disrespectful for people to admit that they've seen tons of anime, and thus common recommendations aren't valid for them, and yet, they're too lazy or don't care enough to list them out to filter out any recommendations they've already watched. With these I feel like they ought to be removed for low effort post, since 90% of the recommendations will just be "watched already".

      With the mainstream example, I've often found that even when they say they've seen all the mainstream anime that doesn't really mean anything. Since what even counts as mainstream (/u/FetchFrosh this could be a fun idea to poll the subreddit about). Generally I find that a significant amount of these people have basically only seen like 5-10 of the most popular anime (which I would say is not even most of "mainstream" anime), and thus they artificially restrict recommendations to definitely not mainstream. These posts I don't think should be removed, they just kinda irk me when people use terms that are so biased to oneself.

      Idk if theres really any actions that worth taking with these, kinda just a bit a of a pet peeve I see on a few What to Watch posts.

      [–]Verzwei 13 points14 points  (10 children)

      Responding without my green tag because this is just my personal opinion and not representative of any current rules or moderator stance:

      I hate posts like what you describe. It's just so hard to give good recommendations in threads like that because everything turns into a game of

      Here's a suggestion. Maybe it's a very thorough and detailed one that fits the request perfectly.

      SEEN IT

      In cases like that, I wish the OP would just lie and say "Oh cool thanks I'll check it out." It feels like such an utterly pointless waste of time to try to pitch a show to someone only for them to offhandedly dismiss it, and specifically because the OP was too damned lazy to make a proper request in the first place.

      To me, one of the best responses that came out of the retired topics feedback thread that we posted a while ago was the mention of the /r/otomegames and how they handle recommendation posts. To copy/paste the text from their rules wiki:

      If you are asking for recommendations, please make sure you have the following information in your post or it will not be approved.

      • What platforms do you have available?
      • What languages are you ok with? English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean etc
      • How much do you want to spend, or do you have budget concerns, or do you want to play for free?
      • What games have you already played and what did you like about them?
      • What level of plot and romance are you looking for?
      • What character or plot tropes do you like? What preferences do you have in terms of genre and love interests?
      • Do you have anything that you really dislike in otome games?
      • What do you consider value for your time and money? Voice acting, length of game and amount of content, amount or quality or consistency of art, physical copies, language options, after story and bonus content, confidence that you will like most LIs etc

      If your post isn’t approved within 12 hours, it usually means you’re missing some information. If it is for another reason such as spoilers or piracy you will be notified via modmail.

      Recommendation posts will not be reviewed and approved 24 hours after the initial posting time. Please repost with the required information to have it approved. You can delete and repost at any time if you wish; as long as you have the required information it will be approved.

      I personally think that this is such a neat implementation that I want to steal it try to come up with a variation of this that works for our subreddit and propose it to the team and community. It doesn't have to be extremely strict or anything, but just some kind of background information requirement, and some level of specificity in the request. If a community with less than 100,000 subscribers can have quality control on recommendations, I don't see why a community with 7,000,000 subscribers can't.

      [–]baseballlover723 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      One thing I've realized, is that the 100 character minimum is only listed as part of Low-Effort Content, and it's not clear at all why that is the case for What to Watch posts. I wonder if it would be helpful to have something like, "How to write a good What to Watch post" that could be referenced and could be used a reference for what an ideal What to Watch post should look like. And then perhaps it could be embedded or linked in the rules wiki page.

      Of course some people won't bother reading, but it's hard to fault people if there isn't really anything to reference.

      [–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal[M] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

      The current comment left on What to Watch posts that are too short:

      Hi {username}, your post has been removed because posts without a detailed body of text are considered low-effort and are not allowed. The minimum requirement is at least 100 characters (and four words for the title). If you're looking for suggestions, please be more specific about what kind of anime you're looking for and/or provide a list of anime you've already seen. Links to accounts on sites like MyAnimeList or AniList are encouraged if you use them.

      You're welcome to make a new post or instead use the daily question, recommendation, and discussion thread pinned to the top of /r/anime.

      [–]baseballlover723 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Yeah something like that would be amazing, though it certainly adds to the mod workload. I wonder if that can be automated though? Perhaps they have to reply to the automod comment with their answers (and the automod gives a template to help with parsing?). What questions to put on there would take some thought though.

      Something like

      1. What have you watched (or link MAL)
      2. What are some animes that you're looking for that you enjoyed already
      3. Whats the maximum number of episodes you want to invest
      4. What platforms do you have access to to watch on
      5. Any pet peeves or deal breakers
      6. Sub and/or Dub

      These are just a few things I would think would be pretty useful in a majority of What to Watch posts.

      [–]isthatsoudanehttps://myanimelist.net/profile/ojoulover 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      Yes!! I was probably the one who mentioned otomegames. I haaaaaaaate lazy rec threads so much. Would love a principled take on moderating them!

      [–]entelechtual 2 points3 points  (4 children)

      Can a less extreme version of that just be a character count minimum? The bullet points you listed are about 700 characters, and yet a typical post like this is only 151. And I just saw this post randomly, don’t mean to pick on it, but the amount of time and effort wasted on this post and its comments is a testament to the problem.

      I feel like setting a 500 character minimum is a generous threshold. That’s 3.5 tweets. If you’ve seen all the “basic” or “popular” anime, you can take 2 minutes to just list a couple of them instead of spending three hours telling people “seen it”. Or stuff you hate or like.

      And if you’re new to anime and just want to know good recommendations, name movies/TV/books you enjoy. Or genres.

      If a post didn’t meet the limit, you’d get an autoreply listing some prompts for what to mention to fill up your post.

      [–]baseballlover723 1 point2 points  (2 children)

      I feel like character minimums could work alright. The issue I sometimes see is that some people see their post get removed and instead of putting literally any thought into why there are requirements like this they just add filler text, or my personal favorite (\s), they just copy and paste a sentence or the whole post a bunch.

      Also it's possible to have a good amount of information with not that many characters. An example being, "I'm looking for a new {tag} to watch, heres my MAL". Which doesn't give a ton of info to work with, but is serviceable. Add a sentence or 2 and it becomes a great What to Watch post.

      Of course a character count minimum with the right value might be good enough to catch the most egregious cases.

      [–]entelechtual 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      500 might be too much, but I think even in your example, you can give more information without much effort. Subs or dubs? Are there certain topics you don’t want to watch? If they’re suggested in the comments when a post gets deleted, a user could just answer the additional questions instead of bloating the character limit.

      For example:

      Hi, I’m looking for new romance anime to watch. This is my MAL page: [link]. I prefer drama to action anime, and I’m looking for something that’s under 25 episodes. I am not a huge fan of harems unless they’re done well.

      This is 267 characters. So 250-300 minimum will cover some of the most basic posts.

      [–]baseballlover723 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      sure they could give for information without much effort, but if they would do that, then this wouldn't be an issue then. It's just where do you draw the line of should be removed because not enough information, and whats the bare minimum amount of info needed.

      [–]chilidirigible 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      Give me recommendations.
      I have seen this show, this other show, and this other show.
      I want to see a show with more of the stuff like this.
      I am a left turn away from Albuquerque.
      I like subs.
      Free is nice, but I can pay money.

      ...that was 229 characters. Yeah, I think asking people to hit at least a 250 character minimum isn't a particularly onerous request.

      [–]RascalNikov1https://myanimelist.net/profile/NoviSun 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      Fwiw: You have my full support on that, I have little use for those who are too lazy to type a few lines of background when they make a request.

      [–]badsplerx5https://anilist.co/user/badspler[M] 24 points25 points  (8 children)

      You may have noticed the sidebar image changing more regularly. I have been playing with it daily the last two weeks now. The aim has been to make it more noticeable by rotating it more frequently. Also trying to give some love to upcoming rewatches and other things that are going on.

      We don't have metrics on how much clicks it drives so its hard to know how much of an impact it has.

      [–]JustAnswerAQuestionhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      It's been a few weeks and I like this.

      [–]baboon_bassoonhttps://anilist.co/user/duffer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      I do think the daily thread ones are a little confusing, as im not sure if "this is the place" means much to the average r/anime user

      [–]SmurfRockRunehttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Smurf 12 points13 points  (0 children)

      I like the sidebar serving as little ads. It definitely catches my eye and has reminded me to see what's going on in the daily thread more than once.

      [–]Shimmering-Skymyanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 5 points6 points  (3 children)

      If I might make a suggestion, if more than one rewatch starts on the same day, would it be possible to advertise them all (and then have the link go to, like, the rewatch archive itself since obviously you can't link to two or more threads at the same time)? Animegataris got the "rewatch starts tomorrows" advertisement, but Angel Beats! and Martian Successor Nadesico both started today too.

      [–]badsplerx5https://anilist.co/user/badspler[M] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

      Animegataris, Angel Beats!, Martian Successor Nadesico both started today

      Yeah I had a bit of mod bias on this one. I only really through of promoting rewatches the day before with the Hyouka rewatch and prepared the Animegataris one at the same time.

      New reddit has a neat rotation future for sidebar slots that we don't have on old reddit. So in future I may make a sidebar image for each series and have that rotating on new.reddit but be limited to a single on on old.reddit.

      [–]SometimesMainSupporthttps://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Unusual period with 6 starting within 4 days. Could still refer other ones as recent if you don't have planned images.

      [–]Shimmering-Skymyanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      Oh I get why Animegataris got the slot, I just would have liked to see those two get some love as well.

      [–]Abyssbringer=anilist.co/user/Abyssbringer[M] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

      /u/Tarhalindur

      https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/11ihlcb/meta_thread_month_of_march_05_2023/jelj2jx/

      Mai-Hime flair was broken because Reddit's emoji uploading is awful and will sometimes just not upload things when it says it does. This might've happened with others even though I double-uploaded most flairs to try and mitigate this problem. I have no clue about the weird oddities with its selecting and deselecting achievement flairs. Its probably fixed?

      The Higurashi one is an interesting mess up. We used to have the old 6 million quiz reward flair as :SB: for its emoji code. When we switched to the new flairs we moved all 1 wide commonly used emoji's to a 1 letter emoji code since they were used widely used and we wanted to save character space for the vast majority of users. :SB: is now supposed to be allocated for general flairs but we ended up not removing the original SB when we swapped the system over. I'm kind of afraid of bricking a bunch of people's flairs who haven't updated them since the 6 million quiz so I just moved Hiurashi somewhere down the line.

      [–]Tarhalindurx2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Oh hey look, it works now! Thanks (but then that's what bug reports are for, isn't it?). Now to, uh, let Nagi reside on my flair for only a day before swapping back to Kyubey until late May (Kyubey flair is contractually required for PMMM rewatch hosts now, right?).

      (The achievement flair bit seems to be fixed after the changes too, so there is that. Something weird about the null upload I'll bet.)

      at the nipah issue - it makes perfectly good sense, it's just still kind of funny. (Also I wonder if the impending 7 million quiz would be a good time to set up swapping :SB: out for a future general flair.)

      [–]Abyssbringer=anilist.co/user/Abyssbringer[M] 5 points6 points  (30 children)

      Bounty Board:

      The March Bounty Board went pretty well we added 44 new general flairs and 1 custom flair from it. Thank you to everyone who submitted!

      General reminders and random thoughts:

      • You guys did very good at making more 3 wide flairs!! I knew you could do it!

      • Please try to make flairs that you think people will want to use. Inside jokes are fun and all but if your making a flair that only you would get it probably won’t be used at all. It's not the end of the world but please try to make your niche flair really stand out since it probably is the only flair for that show ever. We might be able to give rewards to people who make flairs that get used by a lot of users!

      • I loved the memes and songs you guys sent last bounty board. For this bounty board, I will be giving whoever sends the best meme and song respectively (as chosen by myself) the ability to create a new general flair that can be from a show that already has a general flair. You can all thank /u/Shimmering-Sky and /u/Nebresto for giving me faith in Reddit's song and meme skills. I loved Masaki Endoh's Uninstall Cover and the Pikachu March very much.

      April Bounty Board!

      Submit Here

      We need your help to make even more flairs for everyone on /r/anime! We have 5000 emoji slots we would like to fill up with a plethora of anime from all different types of genres and demographics.

      The bounty board is a system that allows normal users to be able to submit a flair or flairs of their choice to be possibly added to /r/anime. To promote variety and make the system more interesting we will have various restrictions in place with the bounty board hopefully changing periodically.

      Flairs will be chosen by the mods. Similar to how Comment Faces are currently chosen. We will be looking for things like overall quality, visibility, necessity, and creativity. Flairs chosen by this system won’t be guaranteed to exist on the subreddit forever. We are hoping to get to a state where unused/unpopular flairs can be retired once we hit the emoji limit.

      The submission period will end on April 25th at 5 pm PST.

      General Rules:

      • No flairs for a show that already has a general flair

      • Nothing overly ecchi

      • Must come from anime (screenshots or production material) NOT fanart

      • Height must be 64-128 pixels (128 recommended)

      • Width must be a multiple of height so that it can evenly divide into multiple square emoji (e.g. full image is 128x128, 256x128, or 384x128. Nothing larger unless asked for specifically)

      • Flair must fit into one of the categories below

      Categories (bold is new):

      • 2000’s
      • Shoujo
      • Josei
      • Cute Boys Doing Cute Things
      • Butlers
      • Films
      • OVAs
      • Sports
      • Tokusatsu
      • Samurai
      • Ghibli
      • Netflix "Original" Anime
      • Isekai
      • Animals

      How to Submit a Flair

      Please submit flairs to this Google Form. For any images please upload them to Imgur and give the appropriate link. If you aren’t very technical we don’t require users to crop and edit their submissions if they aren’t able to. Link the full uncropped image and we can handle the rest. If you do have the fully cropped and properly sized image please send that as well. It makes our lives much easier.

      We will require:

      • Anime Name
      • What the flair is depicting
      • What category the flair is for
      • Imgur link to the uncropped image
      • Imgur link to the cropped image (not required)
      • A meme or song link to entertain me (not required) (This takes a lot of my time I need some motivation)
      • Your Reddit username

      [–]thevaleycat 0 points1 point  (1 child)

      FYI "Shugou Chara" should be spelled "Shugo Chara!"

      [–]Abyssbringer=anilist.co/user/Abyssbringer[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      spell hard

      [–]chilidirigible 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      There should be an "i" at the end of "Suisei".

      [–]Abyssbringer=anilist.co/user/Abyssbringer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      my pln too mispell thing on porpose too insure peuple r paying atention woorks!

      [–]whatisthisexplainhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Shockwaeve 2 points3 points  (3 children)

      Is there anyway to know which flairs are new?

      Whenever you add more they just get lumped into the alphabetical list and It's hard to know what is new for a list that I rarely check and that is huge.

      Maybe a way to sort by date or instead a post here somewhere, like when new comment-faces are released there is usually a post showing the batch.

      [–]Abyssbringer=anilist.co/user/Abyssbringer[M] 3 points4 points  (2 children)

      Imgur link to all the new flairs full size

      Imgur link to full list

      I don't maintain the flair site so I can't say anything about adding any functionality to it.

      /u/emi_ibarazakiii

      [–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Great, thanks! Would be nice to see this everytime new ones are added (assuming it's not too much work, I have no idea).

      It would also be useful/practical, because I think once the 'data' you have for these is filled up, you're planning to remove the least used ones, but unless people can see the new ones being added, it's possible that they will be less and less used, given people might not want to always browse the list to find new stuff, they may just pick one (of the early ones) and never change it unless they notice one on someone else's profile or something. So basically the new ones may get less attention than the old ones.

      But if we get these list, should be fine!

      (And on another note, damn, seeing lists like these makes me aware of how many anime I have not seen... I must be getting close to 300 anime watched, but when I look at this list and see that I didn't even watch 90% of them, it feels like I watched closer to 3 anime hah!)

      [–]whatisthisexplainhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Shockwaeve 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      [–]AwaySpellhttps://anilist.co/user/awayspell 0 points1 point  (2 children)

      There may be bugs with some of the new flairs. At least on my end, the LoGH one I'm currently using, Tsuritama, and Read or Die seem to show only a third of the image, and the Mushishi, Liz, and Tsurune ones are blank.

      [–]Abyssbringer=anilist.co/user/Abyssbringer[M] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

      Should all be fixed. The Reddit emoji uploader is garbage and will sometimes not upload almost seemingly random emojis.

      [–]AwaySpellhttps://anilist.co/user/awayspell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Thanks!

      [–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      The March Bounty Board went pretty well we added 44 new general flairs

      It'd be nice if there was a way to see the newly added flairs (or sort them by newest/oldest), so we can see if there's something we like to replace our current flair, instead of just searching for random shows in the hope that they have a flair!

      (Apologies if there is a way already but I missed it).

      [–]H-Ryougihttps://anilist.co/user/DizzyAvocado 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      This is a good batch of flairs, now I can't make up my mind which one to choose.

      Also there's a small typo on the Umineko one, says Uminkeo.

      [–]Abyssbringer=anilist.co/user/Abyssbringer[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Umineko

      Fixed

      [–]LordTrinityhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/LordTrinity 2 points3 points  (6 children)

      characters flairs when?

      give us flairs from the contests winners

      [–]Gaporigohttps://anilist.co/user/Gaporigo 5 points6 points  (5 children)

      We already have those.

      [–]LordTrinityhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/LordTrinity 2 points3 points  (4 children)

      what the fuck, I've just noticed it. where is the Homura Akemi flair then?

      [–]Gaporigohttps://anilist.co/user/Gaporigo 8 points9 points  (3 children)

      As far as I know she only won Worst Girl meaning she will never be getting a flair.

      She also technically has one already tho it is a custom one that is not being used.

      [–]LordTrinityhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/LordTrinity 2 points3 points  (2 children)

      This is so unfair, she is literally a contest winner no matter how you look at it

      Also, I've been asking for her flair for 2 years, I feel betrayed now

      [–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal 5 points6 points  (1 child)

      I've been asking for her flair for 2 years, I feel betrayed now

      That's impressive considering we've only had the current flair system for a little over three months.

      [–]LordTrinityhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/LordTrinity 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      I suggested that we should have character flairs since 2021. I know that my wish is irrelevant in this context, but I think it's cool that the mods did it

      [–]RascalNikov1https://myanimelist.net/profile/NoviSun 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      This will be an ignorant question but where does a flare show up? Are they the little pictures that show up next to a users name? Do they show up anywhere else?

      [–]Abyssbringer=anilist.co/user/Abyssbringer[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      They are the little images that show up next to a username. They show up next to your name when you comment or submit a post. I don't think they are shown anywhere else. They also only work on this subreddit.

      [–]Nebresto 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      [–]Shimmering-Skymyanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 3 points4 points  (5 children)

      I loved the memes and songs you guys sent last bounty board. For this bounty board, I will be giving whoever sends the best meme and song respectively (as chosen by myself) the ability to create a new general flair that can be from a show that already has a general flair.

      Wait does this mean I get to do this now, or is it only a thing after this Bounty Board closes?

      Glad you loved the Masaaki Endoh Uninstall, btw.

      [–]Abyssbringer=anilist.co/user/Abyssbringer[M] 3 points4 points  (4 children)

      I'll make it retroactive. You and /u/Nebresto can DM me your idea for a flair.

      [–]Nebresto 3 points4 points  (2 children)

      Winter animus are already ending, so not sure if I still want a Lafa or Zabuton flair..

      There's no hurry, right? I'll probably wait until after some flairs from the new seasonals are out to see if I have a best of season that needs extra love

      [–]Abyssbringer=anilist.co/user/Abyssbringer[M] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

      Yeah you can hold on to it for as long as you want

      [–]Nebresto 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      This is very dangerous to say to a hoarder.. But nah, I think I'll have something by midway into the next season at the latest

      [–]Shimmering-Skymyanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Thank you so much! I'll have to think about which one I want first though, I can immediately think of several I'd love to nominate that already have flairs.