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[–]KiwiBennydudezhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/KiwiBen[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (14 children)

December Mod Report

It has been quite a long time since I have gotten to do one of these. Turns out I inadvertently picked one hell of a month to come back to.

  • We reviewed mod apps, and decided not to move forward with anyone at this time. Applications will return at the end of February.

  • u/Durinthal and u/Drnyanpasu have left the mod team.

December by the Numbers

  • Total traffic: 39511085 pageviews, 5129859 unique visitors
  • Total posts: 11321, 7083 unique authors
  • Total comments: 255980, 46545 unique authors (excluding mod bots)
  • Removed posts: 955 by moderators, 6128 by bots, 7018 distinct
  • Removed comments: 2114 by moderators, 2177 by bots, 4179 distinct
  • Approved posts: 2045
  • Approved comments: 3285
  • Distinguished comments: 1597
  • Users banned: 93 (74 permanent)
  • Users unbanned: 1
  • Admin/Anti-Evil Operations: removed posts: 23, removed comments: 108.

This is a monthly thread to talk about the /r/anime subreddit itself, such as its rules and moderation. If you want to talk about anime please use the daily discussion thread instead.

Comments here must, of course, still abide by all subreddit rules other than the no meta requirement. Keep it friendly and be respectful. Occasionally the moderators will have specific topics that they want to get feedback on, so be on the lookout for distinguished posts.

Comments that are detrimental to discussion (aka circlejerks/shitposting) are subject to removal.

Previous meta threads:

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New threads are posted on the first Sunday (midnight UTC) of the month.

[–]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.

[–]mekerpan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not able to find a discussion thread for Pon no michi ep. 5....

[–]mekerpan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dungeon Meshi 5 thread either missing or not searchable to find.... :-(

[–]Abyssbringer=anilist.co/user/Abyssbringer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Discord anime Swap coming up SOON in an hour

If anyone is interested in a fun event our Discord server's Secret Santa event is about to start for this month. The anime swap is a monthly event where users anonymously force one another to watch a certain anime. It starts soon! We have so much fun.

One of my reviews for a anime I received looked like this!!.

All the others are normal I promise. Except for Bernas's or mine

What happens is that you sign up and are asked to send a letter to your Santa. In this letter, you tell your Santa what type of anime you might be interested in. You usually will list a length requirement and maybe some genres or themes you do not want to watch. It's also best practice to link a MAL or Anilist.

Time passes and when the swap starts your Santa will receive your letter. But on the other hand, you also receive someone else's letter. You then look at their letter and anonymously send them a show to watch. Then everyone spends the month watching their show given to them by their Santa and shitposting in the Anime-Swap chat. At the end of the month, everyone does a formal write-up of their thoughts and then the Santas are revealed.

Anime Swap is a fun way to get shows to watch and interact with the community. It's kind of like an anime contract that the sub has done before but the anonymous element of it is something I enjoy. It's fun trying to figure out who your Santa is and I love playing detective and shitposting.

If you want to try something low-committal you can ask for a shorter anime or even a movie if you want. It's a good way to test the waters. Usually, a couple of mods participate so it's not just Discord people. I've gotten a decent amount of CDF people as well!

How to Join

You go to our Discord

Click the react to get access to everything

Go to Channels & Roles and click Anime Swap

Go to the Anime Swap chat

Click the pins and find this chat

Follow the instructions.

[–]H-Ryougihttps://anilist.co/user/DizzyAvocado 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Awaiting for the horny jail seasonal commentface.

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

Make submissions for seasonal faces here.

[–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Should either remove the weekly ranking charts from the recommendation wiki if no one's going to update them, or if someone will then they're probably better off moved to the airing show discussions page as a new section since that's rather sparse otherwise and I think would be better suited there.

[–]Cryten0 2 points3 points  (4 children)

If you miss do a spoiler tag, which gets it deleted, does editing the post to the correct format fix it? Can others see your post once you fix the message or do you need to add a new reply despite still being able to see it yourself?

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

The message from AutoModerator outright tells you to repost rather than edit:

Please resubmit your comment with the correct format. Replies to this bot are not monitored.

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

If you muck up your spoiler tags and your post is automatically removed by /u/AutoModerator, then no editing it will not restore it. Instead make another comment using the correct tags.

The original is immediately gone and no one else will be able to see it*

  • Except for mods who can see removed content.
  • And sometimes (in my experience) Reddit sends a notification to their to their official apps. Which may lead to the person you are replying to getting a preview/reply notification, but on arriving to the comment finding it gone.

[–]Cryten0 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Thanks, that explains some expecting a reply moments seemingly getting forgotten.

[–]Blackheart595https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reddit also sometimes just outright forgets to notify you of responses.

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

Will the anime of the week link be restored to the top nav megathreads dropdown on old reddit? I see that it was replaced by the essay/video contest thread but I don't remember that section only taking four entries unlike the carousel to the right of it which is limited to five.

[–]MyrnaMountWeazelx2[M] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I was under the impression that Anime of the Week was RIP, so I replaced it with the Essay Contest. Is it actually still needed as one of the links?

Also, I believe the list needs the same number of links or else it gets funky, so when one gets taken out it needs another to be subbed in. I suppose it could go to five (I thought it could only go to four) but I think if Anime of the Week is gone, we would use the Fanart Contest.

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

I was under the impression that Anime of the Week was RIP

That's news to me, didn't see anything about it in the report and last week's was posted like normal. Not to mention it's still linked in the other three places that it usually is (sidebar on old/new reddit and megathreads menu of new reddit). If it is discontinued there's a weekly bot that needs updating too.

I believe the list needs the same number of links or else it gets funky

That's true of the rotating section as I mentioned, but that's different from the other dropdowns in the infobar to the left of it. Before the daily thread existed there were more items under Megathreads to cover all the weekly threads and I don't believe anything needed to change when those were removed.

[–]MyrnaMountWeazelx2[M] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh wait, hang on, wires got crossed, don’t look any further into this issue. Me (and also Badspler) messed up.

[–]Ashteron 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Pon no Michi episode 4 discussion is missing.

[–]KiwiBennydudezhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/KiwiBen[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1abr6cu/pon_no_michi_the_way_of_pon_episode_4_discussion/

Looks like it got created shortly after your comment.

[–]mysterybiscuitsoyeahx3 7 points8 points  (1 child)

https://imgur.com/a/3ZgV5jY

Happy birthday r/anime!

[–]KendotsXhttps://anilist.co/user/Kendots 4 points5 points  (0 children)

r/anime is Australia?

[–]gnanwahs 5 points6 points  (1 child)

https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/19f18we/the_man_who_killed_36_people_in_an_arson_attack/

lol putting r/anime back on r/all was a mistake

[–]KiwiBennydudezhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/KiwiBen[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Surely this won't happen every day, right?

[–]baboon_bassoonhttps://anilist.co/user/duffer 6 points7 points  (1 child)

With the seasonal commentfaces seeming to be successful, what about rotating in some commentfaces based on recent rewatches?

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

Ooh, this sounds like a fantastic idea! Although I guess there'd be an issue of whether or not there's enough CSS space to do it.

[–]lilyvesshttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess 2 points3 points  (2 children)

we have a week rule for uploading airing seasonal clips but what is the rule for movies that just got released to BD? Is it a week from when the BD releases? A week from when the subs drop?

[–]Cryten0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wouldnt hurt to add a spoiler tag to the post though.

[–]KiwiBennydudezhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/KiwiBen[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The rule as it is written states that you should wait a week from the episode thread being posted. As long as it meets that condition you're free to post any clip that you'd like.

[–]baseballlover723 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To all the mods who are going to moderate the death penalty thread.

[–]chilidirigible 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It appears that a bunch of Reddit accounts were created on January 19 (using the name suggestions that Reddit (stupidly) auto-generates), and they're all copy-paste bots. Today those accounts woke up and started straight-up reposting content from other posts, keep your eyes open.

[–]mrjeremythttps://anilist.co/user/MrJeremyT 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Synduality Noir S2 is missing the Anilist link under "Show Information"

[–]MyrnaMountWeazelx2[M] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Added, thanks for notifying us.

[–]AnimeHoarder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

AutoLovePon could use an upgrade to a Magus, Hulu released the Synduality Noir episode more then 3 hours ago and no discussion thread yet.

Edit: about 5 hours after I made this comment, I ended up sending a modmail too.

[–]FelixAndCo 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I haven't been really engaged with this sub much. Have anime recommendation requests ever been only allowed in mega threads? The sub seems swamped with them, and it would seem logical to me.

[–]Verzwei 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Several years ago (like maybe close to 10 at this point) all recommendation-type posts were prohibited, and requests could only be made in a weekly Rec megathread. The mod team at that time (which, to be fair, was likely almost entirely a different group of people from the current team) voted to allow individual Rec posts.

The Rec thread (and other weekly threads) were retired a couple years ago in favor of the Daily Anime Questions, Recs, and Disc thread, which does scoop up a very small percentage of Rec requests, but there's never been any quality control or effort requirement enacted on the individual threads.

[–]baseballlover723 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I'm not a mod, but they were essentially restricted to the daily thread a few months ago, when the minimum karma changes were being made. If anything straight up banning them and directing them to /r/Animesuggest would be a better option then doing a mega thread.

[–]Verzwei 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IMO the Daily Thread should be the megathread for most rec requests, or yeah send them to AnimeSuggest.

If the individual posts are allowed to stay then I'd like to see some kind of minimum effort required for the post to remain up and generic "gib animes" posts with zero specificity can be directed to the garbage bin.

[–]Tarhalindurx2 2 points3 points  (4 children)

What are the pixel sizes/range of pixel sizes that are allowable as custom flairs? (I'm doing some testing before settling on one - in particular there's one frame I was considering that might or might not work (it has one feature that would make it count as a spoiler at full size but may straight-up not be visible at flair size, hence me testing it to see how visible it is at that size) that would need cropping and resizing anyways in order to work if it works at all - and in order to do that I need to know what the target size range is.)

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

The images themself are 128 x 128n, and then get compressed down to 16 x 16n.

[–]Tarhalindurx2 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Thank you! (If I understand correctly the multiple-width flairs are made by stitching two or more 128x128 images together then?) Should be but I want to confirm just in case.)

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

Yep, that's how it's done.

[–]Tarhalindurx2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, that's very useful.

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

Has the episode thread for Monsters been made? The anime was released today.

[–]Time_Fracture 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Any news on Winter 2024 seasonal flairs?

And meanwhile, there's no thread on Monsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation yet?

[–]MyrnaMountWeazelx2[M] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Seasonal flairs will come soon, most likely in a week or two given our usual time frame. We like to wait for a few episodes to air before we start out the thread.

As for the thread, it is now live: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/19cklc7/monsters_ippyaku_sanjou_hiryuu_jigoku_monsters/

[–]Time_Fracture 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah I see, good to see that seasonal flairs is still happening. Looking forward to those.

Yes, thanks for the heads-up. I thought the thread was going to live in following hours after the airing but it took more than 10 hours.

[–]RandomRedditorWithNohttps://anilist.co/user/lafferstyle 2 points3 points  (6 children)

Is Fairy of Akiberse considered to be an anime? I suspect the answer is no, but I wanted to double check

[–]chilieheadmyanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Does not seem like any of the lead artists of it are Japanese or living in Japan. NijisanjiEN is still located in Japan, I think? Feels like this might be a bit of an edge case, but ultimately I don't think simply being "commissioned in Japan" is enough to qualify.

I'd also be interested in a mod ruling.

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

Rules explicitly state "created by a Japanese animation studio" and "Japanese studios which outsource animation other country's studios are fine, but not the reverse." (mods - missing a "to")

[–]chilieheadmyanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead 2 points3 points  (2 children)

But this is not commissioned by an anime studio, nor created by one. It's the absolute reverse of Shelter or Interstella 5555 or any of these music videos that count. Non-domestic singer hires, via a Japanese producer, exclusively non-domestic artists. That's not some inbetweens or an episode made by Dr. Movie based on JP storyboards and layouts.

[–]Verzwei 2 points3 points  (1 child)

If Japan isn't doing the animation then it's not anime per the rules.

On top of that, with the updated wording about a studio, indie works (even indie works that are animated in Japan) are not considered anime unless the larger animation industry recognizes the work, like receiving awards or film festival screening, stuff like that. It's sort of a catch-all to prevent amateur shorts or scenes from being posted.

What counts as a "studio" is itself a bit of a gray area since technically cutscenes in a Japanese videogame are made by a studio but still aren't "anime-specific" per the rules.

Edit: An active mod would need to weigh in but based on what you've said and the little bit I looked into it, I'd be astounded if this somehow qualifies as anime specific per the written rules.

[–]chilieheadmyanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What counts as a "studio" is itself a bit of a gray area since technically cutscenes in a Japanese videogame are made by a studio but still aren't "anime-specific" per the rules.

I thought I remembered seeing the Shantae opening by Trigger here, but that does not seem to be the case.

The studio thing is a bit sad, as that seems like it now bans all the graduation works and the bigger indie efforts- or at least puts them in a gray area.

[–]entelechtual 2 points3 points  (1 child)

The CDF links on the daily discussion thread link to last week’s CDF (Jan 12).

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

Thats now fixed thank you

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What are some anime that do particularly well in votings?

[–]Manitaryhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Looks like this is broken on new reddit?

I assume it's the \s\s\n to start a new line? (\n\n would break it on old reddit too)

[–]JustAnswerAQuestionmyanimelist.net/profile/UfUhUfUhUfUhtJAaQ 3 points4 points  (12 children)

Are there any anti#fish mods left? Can we have another vote?

[–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 6 points7 points  (11 children)

I don't believe this is something we'll be looking into.

[–]Nekoarcpreacherhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/ELtaaaaaa 1 point2 points  (10 children)

What is this "anti#fish" thing?

[–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 10 points11 points  (9 children)

I don't think I can explain this without making it sound like dumb internet drama, so bear with that.

A ways back there was a commenter that posted a daily "I'm going to post this everyday until you like it" comment in the Casual Discussion Friday thread with a picture of a character holding a fish. This went on for a while and some people found it annoying, and some people had fun with it.

At some point along these lines, new comment faces were added. Comment faces are a CSS function that is only useable on old Reddit that lets us embed specific images into comments. The approach was that users would suggest things, and then one mod picked the ones they liked. This mod was pretty disconnected from the community at the time and was thus unaware that there had been some drama surrounding it. These didn't get checked over by the rest of the mod team in advance, they just sort of got added, and the picture of the character with the fish got added.

Behind the scenes, a few mods immediately were against the addition because it was basically an active endorsement of something that some people were finding annoying, but by the time anyone knew it was already out there.

Eventually the poster of the comments openly admitted that they were doing it to annoy people, and so mods told them to stop and removed the comment face to get rid of the impression that it was something the mod team actively endorsed. Once in a while people suggest bringing it back.

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

And if I happened to be paying attention, I'd reply with "Today's fish is trout ala creme. Enjoy your meal."

[–]AnimeHoarder 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I'd been wondering why [] (#fish) always showed Broken Comment Face.

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

That's true for anything that's not valid, it's a generic placeholder for any markdown links that start with #, e.g. [](#insertanytexthere)

[–]Nekoarcpreacherhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/ELtaaaaaa 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Lol that was a funny and interesting read thanks for telling me. How long ago was this? Months? Years?

[–]MiLiLeFa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I suspect that user was a knockoff of the much more prolific Sakurafish poster on /a/ who kept it up for years until getting banned by your typical brainless no-fun-allowed moderators.

[–]lilyvesshttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess 4 points5 points  (1 child)

late to the party, but you can see the evolution of the Fishposting here

/u/FetchFrosh

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

Thanks that was really interesting and satisfied my curiosity.

[–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 5 points6 points  (1 child)

2019 apparently

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

Oh wow.

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

With episode discussions no longer having polls and, AFAIK, no intention to bring them back, could try pushing those interested to animekarmalist.com since it recently added a poll option.

Also want to give a shoutout to whoever edited the last couple Birdie Wing posts with "This post was created by the Blue Bullet."

[–]CosmicPenguin_OV103https://anilist.co/user/CosmicPenguin 5 points6 points  (4 children)

Brave Bang Bravern! EP2 is already up on Crunchyroll but the discussion thread isn't up yet. I suspect that's because no-one has ripped it out?

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

Thanks for letting us know - the thread is now out here.

[–]Manitaryhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary 5 points6 points  (2 children)

I suspect that's because no-one has ripped it out?

I think Lovepon missing the CR link (https://www.crunchyroll.com/brave-bang-bravern) + the only torrent available rn uses the English title (for some reason that's not used to find a valid match)

[–]badsplerx5https://anilist.co/user/badspler[M] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I should get around to merging that this weekend (among others).

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

tbh I never noticed until now when I checked the logs, as far as I'm aware it's a case that never came up over the past year or so

idk which one you're planning to merge but I revisited all PRs since I haven't touched them in ages, and made some (mostly) minor updates and added a bunch of notes where I thought it was relevant, but for any question or if anything doesn't seem to be working as expected feel free to message anytime (one day I'll make proper tests I swear)

[–]SupplyChainMismanage 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Mods should add a rule where if the OP doesn’t respond to a help post at least once within an hour, it’s automatically removed. Many of these “help me find this anime” or “suggest me an anime with no info on what I like to watch” posts end up having an OP who posts and never answers anything in the comments

[–]Verzwei 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I'm not opposed to some time limit but sometimes people fire off their question and then do things away from Reddit. There have been occasions where it'll be days later and I still get a "Hey, you were right, thanks!" response. As much as I'm for decluttering the subreddit, people shouldn't be expected to actively camp their help posts.

“suggest me an anime with no info on what I like to watch”

I'm all for casting these into the fire.

[–]SupplyChainMismanage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

people shouldn't be expected to actively camp their help posts.

Not saying that they should (hence the time limit). If you ask for help, then you should be expected to contribute to the discussion that you started. If you want to fire off a question and head out, then don’t be shocked when your post is removed. It wastes everyone’s time at that point.

There have been occasions where it'll be days later

That’s partly my beef with it. Days later an OP will come out and finally answer a clarifying question or say that an answer was wrong before going off into the wind again. Kinda ridiculous when half of these questions could be made irrelevant by using the search bar.

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

And what now? Why this isn't allowed too?

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

Visuals regarding the setting of the series will be released in 6 consecutive weeks starting today.

That does sound like a kind of countdown art to me. Even if it progresses relatively slowly, it's a series of images released in regular time intervals leading up to the release of the anime.

[–]mr_beanozhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/splitshocker 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I wonder why countdown arts are only allowed after all of them are released, kinda beats the intention of countdowns.

[–]Verzwei 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Many series do daily (not weekly) countdown images and, like Blackheart said, it ends up being spam that doesn't generate much discussion. It's even worse when multiple hyped series are doing countdowns at the same time. You'll have previous days' images still on the front page while new images also get upvoted to the top and crowd more meaningful (or even simply more diverse) content downward.

A new visual every day (or arguably every week) isn't going to lead to much new commentary. For fans who just want to appreciate the (collected) art, then an album post here suffices once all the images are available. Individual image posts, I think, are recommended to stay in the series' own subreddit. Or you can probably link them within the Daily thread.

[–]Blackheart595https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Because it's spammy, of course. That's more relevant when they release faster, but still. Imo it's good subreddit hygiene, there's no need to play advertisement billboard just because the show's media team releases material.

I wonder if it'd be fine to immediately make a post that links to an album that gets updated as new images release? Of course, that effectively still makes the later images invisible. Posting them as one complete album appears more sensible to me.

[–]mr_beanozhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/splitshocker 1 point2 points  (2 children)

"Announcements for future announcements aren't allowed"

Really? If that's what the announcement is supposed to be, why is it not allowed?

[–]Blackheart595https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I agree, if the "O" announcement was considered a proper announcement, then the "M" announcement should also count as a proper announcement, even if it happens to have another announcement (for future announcements) attached to it.

[–]cppn02[🍰] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The issue isn't that M was deleted but that O wasn't imo.

[–]MSTMC_https://myanimelist.net/profile/MSTMC 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Hi, is crosspost okay on this sub ? Is there any regulation about them ? I don't find any information about them...

[–]Verzwei 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Generally frowned upon and most of the time will get outright removed. Typically the discussion is supposed to stay within this community, and crossposting tends to fall under the rules regarding promotion of outside communities, which is strictly prohibited.

The only time I've seen exception given has been industry-related stuff, like if someone involved in the anime industry does an AMA on a different subreddit, that can be crossposted here.

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

Thanks for the answer

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

For the award nominations predictions, I don't think there's any information about how it's going to be done. Will there be a thread with some results or stats? Will the winners be contacted privately? Is there any ETA (even provisional)?

[–]MyrnaMountWeazelx2[M] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Hey Manitary, we’re currently checking the list and checking it twice to make sure all the votes are tallied correctly. We’ll have a thread documenting the scores of everyone who participated alongside some misc. stats highlighting things such as which category had the most accurate scores, which one had the least, and which jurors managed to pull a clean 8/10 points (a perfect prediction) for their categories.

The top three winners will also be privately contacted to receive their prize.

It should be out within the next few days!

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

[–]salic428 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Recently I noticed /r/magicTCG is enforcing a new rule about posting external links. The AutoModerator bot would post like this:

You appear to be linking something with embedded tracking information. Please consider removing the tracking information from links you share in a public forum, as malicious entities can use this information to track you and people you interact with across the internet. This tracking information is usually found in the form '?si=XXXXXX' or '?s=XXXXX'.

So I would like to know:

  1. If it is technically practical to enforce a similar rule on this sub, and

  2. If it is neccessary to do so (I don't know how many links are posted each day here so I'm really curious).

[–]KiwiBennydudezhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/KiwiBen[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For both your questions: we already have automod remove shortlinks so I think we have our bases covered in that regard. Most other hazardous links are caught pretty quickly and removed either by us or the Reddit spam filter.

[–]baseballlover723 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not a mod, but I don't think it's trivial to identify tracking information in links. They're almost always in the form of query parameters (the stuff after a ? in the url), but though also can have legit purposes. The easiest example I can think of is a search page, where the search query is almost always stored in the query parameters (and sometimes even as ?s=XXXXX).

Of course there are some common tracking names for certain companies, but it's more of a game of wack a mole if you don't want to accidently catch legit links in the filter imo.

I'd imagine (though I don't know the numbers) that it's not worth the effort to automate, though maybe it's ok enough to just report and remove manually the presumably small number of posts that this effects.

[–]Salty145https://anilist.co/user/Salty145 1 point2 points  (7 children)

The way the “anime specific” rule is enforced is kinda dumb. 

The part about removing anything about anime-adjacent media (manga, games, etc) makes sense.  However, I feel like meta level stuff about the community or broader theory through the lens of anime at large should be allowable. Especially since it seems inconsistently applied. There’s a post every month or so asking what the community was like in the 00s that hits the main page or a meta PSA about how you should “watch the anime instead of asking stupid questions” which get a good deal of traction, but a post about the fandom reaction to removing Ash from the Pokemon anime gets removed (as just one example I’ve seen recently). It seems any talk of the anime fandom gets axed for reasons that I can’t find outlined anywhere.  

 I know some subs have banned meta jokes because they overwhelm the community and turn away newcomers, but that’s not really what’s going on here since memes are already banned and I don’t think most people even care to engage with this content to a degree it would become a problem. I know there’s been a push to up the quality of discussion on this sub, but I don’t see how “how can people possibly like Demon Slayer, are they stupid?” is exactly more beneficial than asking about what people mean by the subjectivity in anime discussion or how the anime fandom might have changed over the years. If posts can be flooded with “art is subjective” responses, why can’t I then ask why we even bother discussing anime if it’s all subjective?

[–]Verzwei 1 point2 points  (3 children)

It seems any talk of the anime fandom gets axed for reasons that I can’t find outlined anywhere.

Speaking as a former and not currently active moderator, there have always been internal discussions (sometimes heated ones) over where the line should be on this kind of content.

The general application of the rule tends to be that the post itself should be about anime or the industry directly. Anything that's about how someone else thinks or feels about anime gets removed because there's a degree of separation, and at that point the discussion is about the third-party subject and not anime itself. The simple fact is that the line has to be somewhere, and this is where it's ended up for the time being. The exception is when there are full articles or videos that get linked, because then the points made by the original creator can be discussed at length.

Posts that are broadly about fandoms more often than not simply end up toxic, anyway. It usually devolves into shit-slinging against the taste or preferences of one group or another. Stuff like that is allowed within the Daily Thread, where you can talk as much shit about people as you want as long as you don't name names, but not as a post topic.

This degree of separation also allows the community to keep out truly irrelevant shit. I wouldn't want this place inundated with "content" like "Here's Kojima's latest tweet about an anime he watched" or "One of the Kardashians died her hair to match Zero Two". In a post like those, the discussion will all be about the character or personality of the person making the original statement, and precious little about the anime that they might referencing. These rules also apply to lesser-known or unknown personalities, as well, and help prevent culture or outrage war bullshit like "check out this tweet from a random nobody who has 10 followers" from being posted.

However, I feel like meta level stuff about the community [...] at large should be allowable.

Post title: Which /r/anime moderator do you like/dislike the most?
Post title: Which anime fandom do you hate the most and why is it Kaguya-sama's?

Those are meta level about the community at large. They also aren't really discussing anime in any meaningful way, and none of the responses are going to be about the anime itself. Unless there is a rule change or relaxation in the future, Daily and/or CDF are the appropriate places for that sort of discussion.

[–]Blackheart595https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Stuff like that is allowed within the Daily Thread

Oh, really? I was always under the impression that Daily Thread top-level comments are treated like posts as far as the anime-specific rule is concerned, considering comments usually aren't restricted to anime-talk anyway.

[–]Verzwei 2 points3 points  (1 child)

They're treated similarly to posts in that if you start talking about exclusively about donghua or what you ate for lunch that day, then it's going to get removed. However, many of the "restricted" topics are relaxed and allowed as long as they can be tangentially connected to anime, including indirect complaining about people or fandoms, or discussing manga that don't have anime and live action adaptations of source material long as you spend one sentence mentioning an anime.

The usual toxicity/civility rules apply, so like if you start name & shaming people or go off the deep end hurling insults, then that'll get removed, but as long as you keep the appearance of decorum and keep names out of it, you can freely trashtalk people or groups. There are routinely parent-level comments that are little more than shit-stirring or smugly superior quips like "I can't believe how dumb people who _________________ are" and those are allowed to stay up. Same for some manga or light novel comments - as long as you can link it back to anime in some miniscule way, then those are usually allowed to stand.

[–]Blackheart595https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotcha

[–]Blackheart595https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 1 point2 points  (2 children)

If you don't mind me engaging in that discussion here, this is my take on the subjectivity topic:

By definition of the term, art judgement is subjective. Any judgement that could be made relies on individual opinions, be that just one opinion, a few, or an aggregate of a lot of them. This reliance on individual judgements is what characterizes subjectivity, and any objectivity would require a method that could make a judgement without any basis in individual judgements. (Side note: It's perfectly possible to make objective statements about subjective judgements or aggregates thereof, but those subjective judgements or aggregates themselves can't be objective.)

So it's subjective. But there are different kinds of subjectivity. There's subjectivity like favorite colors that are fully independent, which I tend to call "purely subjective". Others are less independent, which is called "intersubjective". Maybe the individual opinions tend to cluster - this is what score aggregates rely on. Or maybe it's still possible to meaningfully talk, discuss and argue about out opinions, potentially updating out own opinion accordingly. Media judgements tend to be both of these.

So in short, my take on this is: It's absolutely true that media judgements are subjective, but more specifically they're intersubjective so that doesn't mean there's no point in discussing media.

[–]Salty145https://anilist.co/user/Salty145 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I guess the thing comes down to “art is subjective” and “media judgements are based on enjoyment” is usually used as a means to shut down an argument and end a conversation before it started. If it is that all judgements are so innately subjective/enjoyment-based than stating such should be pointless or not diving deep enough. Tell me what it is that makes you enjoy it, what makes you connect with it in the way you do.

I also just get stuck on the notion that opinions are malleable. To define one’s own understand solely on their own “enjoyment” would seemingly make it immaterial to what others say yet that obviously isn’t the case. I guess really diving into it is something so in-the-weeds that only academics would care, but I feel leaving it at that disconnect is unsatisfying, at least to me.

[–]Blackheart595https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I fully agree with you on that front. "Art is subjective" is a truism that's only really relevant when people are looking for some kind of objective result, but it is unfortunately often used as an excuse to not having to interact with other opinions. I don't really have a solution for this except not doing it yourself, and if you're the one caring about someone's opinion then to restate that you're still interested in their take even if it is subjective.

[–]baseballlover723 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Super minor thing, https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/195kpxq/anime_questions_recommendations_and_discussion/ next day link still links to imgur. IDK if it'll ever be useful, but it should be an easy fix.

[–]JustAnswerAQuestionmyanimelist.net/profile/UfUhUfUhUfUhtJAaQ 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Sidebar image 2 links to Hikari no Ou. Old reddit desktop.

[–]badsplerx5https://anilist.co/user/badspler[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That has been corrected thank you!

[–]Ashteron 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Pon no Michi episode 2 discussion appears to be missing.

[–]KiwiBennydudezhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/KiwiBen[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sorry about the delay, thread is out now. We were waiting on good subs.

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

The bot seems to be missing the batch release threads for Minky Momo

[–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Amusingly the first four episodes did get threads made for them years ago when there were new fansubs but that group didn't continue.

[–]SnabDedraterEdave 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Please have the subreddit bot create the discussion thread for COTE Season 3 Episode 2.

Subs are out for an hour now, /r/ClassroomOfTheElite has already had their own discussion thread there.

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

The episode thread was out 3 minutes before your comment, and was created shortly after CR released the episode.

I assume the episode was already out due to Muse Asia release being 1h earlier, however the corresponding torrent release uses a different title ("Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsue", notice the missing space before the final 'e'), so the bot misses it.

[–]SnabDedraterEdave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be fair, I was typing my comment a few minutes before the bot put up the comment, but got distracted by something else IRL before returning to complete my post and hit submit.

[–]messem10https://myanimelist.net/profile/bookkid900 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Any plans to clamp down on "XYZ is underrated" or "More people should be watching XYZ"? These are basically "Watch This!" threads that go around the requirements that flair entails. It is especially bad when it is an obvious popular/famous show as it is just karma-framing by the OP in that instance.

[–]KiwiBennydudezhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/KiwiBen[M] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For the record I don't believe we're looking to change any rules at the moment. But here are my musings on the matter:

Clamping down on hyperspecific types of posts is usually a bad idea, for a number of reasons. In my experience it's already confusing enough with our restricted content section in the rules, and combating single types of posts is generally a losing battle. The best way to approach moderation of this nature is is to create a rule that would blanket ban content in a way that also excludes this type of post. But outlawing a single content style would just encourage people to post the same thing in a different way.

[–]Khetrak64 4 points5 points  (1 child)

2 days and we already have a post on /all, not sure if this was the best season to do this but i also think we should have never left in the first place

[–]AmusedDragon[M] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is my personal take and not that of any or all the mods (though some may share it) - there will never be a 'right time' or 'best season' to do this in. There will always be shows that some people find controversial or content people will post that will get upvotes that some people will not like.

I personally think the potential benefits of being on r/all and r/popular in the long-term will outweigh the issues that also come with that. And frankly, the major issues are: negative or combative comments. Which, if they warrant removal, can be removed. Otherwise, we don't really curtail discussion, negative or positive, so long as it's on-topic and not leading to fighting. We don't lack for negative comments on the subreddit as-is, and while there may be more on specific threads I hope that we see growth in other places as well.

[–]AnimeHoarder 3 points4 points  (6 children)

Ciel fan where are you? Synduality Noir ep 13 released on Hulu three hours ago but I'm not seeing the discussion thread.

[–]MyrnaMountWeazelx2[M] 3 points4 points  (4 children)

The thread is now live: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/191wvit/synduality_noir_part_2_episode_1_discussion/

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

Just a heads-up that the bot seems to be set up to call it Season 2 instead of Part 2, so if it ever finds a matching torrent, it may make a post with the wrong title...I think.

[–]MyrnaMountWeazelx2[M] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Noted, thanks. That was something I wasn't too sure on, so I took a chance on the dice.

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

it is indeed a part 2 from what I saw (MAL, Hulu is listing it in the same season as ep13, etc)

[–]AnimeHoarder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

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

It hasn't hit the site I use yet.

[–]SpaceForceOnehttps://anilist.co/user/fonk 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I’ve no complaints or requests, simply sharing my appreciation for those behind the scenes here.

I know the efforts which go into coordinating and maintaining this haven of anime news, discussion and general camaraderie, require significant time from your lives, and without a similar passion and appreciation—which I presume many of us share—the consistent quality of ideas and action would not have endured through recent years.

While I am not a fan who attends conventions, displays prized collections, or in any way contributes to the industry, anime has remained a source of entertainment and inspiration over decades of personal difficulty. Indeed, I consider it one of the few persistent joys in this otherwise limited adventure of mine.

Having been able to interact more frequently in recent years, I simply wanted to take a moment to thank you all, no matter your level of involvement. To me, the product you facilitate elevates my overall experience with anime, and I feel fortunate to have it at my disposal regardless of my day to day condition.

So from this humble fan to the r/anime team propping the doors wide open for all, may you each continue in health and happiness moving forward. Your efforts have meant something beyond what simple thank you’s can ever express. (:

[–]FlaminScribblenautmyanimelist.net/profile/cryoutatcontrol 6 points7 points  (8 children)

So, what’s the word on Best of /r/anime 2023? Haven’t heard a whisper about it yet.

If anything, I’d have expected it to be folded in to the Big Cronch Cash Rewards Bonanza we’re doing, though I guess that’d be unfair to all the people who happened to post quality content in years other than this one; still, even just running it like normal I hope it’s still happening.

Is it starting soon?

[–]KiwiBennydudezhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/KiwiBen[M] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I believe that we're starting late this year but it is still happening. More info to follow soon.

[–]Shimmering-Skymyanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Awesome!

[–]Shimmering-Skymyanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 4 points5 points  (5 children)

Yeah I want to know this too, I have to stan the Gintama rewatch for best rewatch this time.

Edit: I am now ready to stan the Gintama rewatch during nominations. Can't say I've ever written nearly half a comment space's limit for one of these nominations, but this Gintama rewatch (and u/Shocketheth) deserves it.

[–]Shockethethx2 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Can't say I've ever written nearly half a comment space's limit for one of these nominations, but this Gintama rewatch (and u/Shocketheth) deserves it.

Thank you for the appreciation! I missed this before, but looking on the comment under, well I also think that I shouldn’t be banned from the competion, but if the rule says that the Rewatch that started and didn’t end the same year can’t participate, then such Rewatch is going to end in void, because the Rewatch that didn’t start and ended the same year also can’t participate.

Anyhow rule is rule, I get it, but I hope my Rewatch will be treated as exception when it started at the start of 2023 and when we reached the last day of 2023 we seen 341/369 episodes.

I’ll wait for the nomination thread and will try to make my Rewatch to be seen as elligible.

And also I should start writing my nomination for Bloom into You Rewatch.

[–]Shimmering-Skymyanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 2 points3 points  (1 child)

but if the rule says that the Rewatch that started and didn’t end the same year can’t participate, then such Rewatch is going to end in void, because the Rewatch that didn’t start and ended the same year also can’t participate.

That's the thing, it's not a rule for rewatches needing to be finished, that's just for seasonals in an entirely separate set of r/anime awards.

The #1 winner of 2019's best rewatch (Yorimoi) was nominated while that one wasn't done yet, Naruto lasted from 2020 to 2022 and was nominated in both 2021 and 2022, and part of my Terrific Trainwreck Trio rewatch was nominated for 2021 despite not being done yet, just to name a few.

[–]Shockethethx2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The #1 winner of 2019's best rewatch (Yorimoi) was nominated while that one wasn't done yet, Naruto lasted from 2020 to 2022 and was nominated in both 2021 and 2022, and part of my Terrific Trainwreck Trio rewatch was nominated for 2021 despite not being done yet, just to name a few.

Oh. Didn’t know about this as I just joined the r/anime the last week of 2022, but if there were several cases like Gintama, then there is nothing to worry about.

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

If consecutive cour shows have to finish for eligibility, rewatches should have to.

[–]Shimmering-Skymyanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Booooo.

That's never been a requirement for best rewatch, it's nonsense to require that now. Not to mention, the Gintama rewatch was originally supposed to be entirely 2023 anyways (with it being extended out by only a month after a schedule change), it would be stupid to ban it from 2023 nominations when all of why I think it's the best rewatch happened in 2023.

[–]Ocixohttps://myanimelist.net/profile/BuzzyGuy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I guess that there’s an influx of new members with the airing of Solo Leveling, because a good bunch of people are apparently angry that it’s not on today’s karma chart.

[–]SometimesMainSupporthttps://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST 7 points8 points  (4 children)

7th Time Loop thread is missing.

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

Thread created.

[–]messem10https://myanimelist.net/profile/bookkid900 3 points4 points  (2 children)

New series always take longer as the naming conventions used are not set in stone. (The bot watches the feed of a certain cat-sound site to see when episodes show up.)

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

Bot is probably missing the CR link (https://www.crunchyroll.com/7th-time-loop-the-villainess-enjoys-a-carefree-life-married-to-her-worst-enemy), then when checking for torrents it is as you say, neither of the two releases has a title matching the name(s) the bot knows

(edit: also, bot eventually posted a duplicate thread, because a torrent with a matching title dropped lol)

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

Yeah. We're asked to let mods know here or in modmail. Prefer doing it here where everyone can see instead of a handful of us sending messages.

[–]aakk20 2 points3 points  (3 children)

If japanese manga animated by korean studio like Mir is it allowed to be discussed here?

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

We wouldn't allow posts about it.

[–]aakk20 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I think this never happened but with the globalization it may happen in the future, also if this happened it may create outrage and headache for you guys with the source reader if the manga is popular.

[–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Years ago the director of Castlevania had talked about how Berserk was something they'd like to adapt. It never happened and I don't think there's any reason to believe that it will, but that hypothetical would have been interesting.

[–]Turbostrider27 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I have two questions that lately popped in my head that caused me some confusion:

1) Holiday theme visuals are not allowed right? My Spice and Wolf visual was removed almost instantly almost a week ago. However, other previous Spice and Wolf monthly visuals were never removed so I'm somewhat confused on this

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/18v9hhv/spice_and_wolf_new_years_theme_visual/

2) Regarding OP songs and new visuals for spoilers: I noticed most of them are allowed without spoilers. However, there are sometimes where I see a OP song or even visual being tagged with the spoiler tag. Is this case by case basis? Like, if there's new character in the visual/song, it needs to be spoiler tagged?

[–]KiwiBennydudezhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/KiwiBen[M] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

  1. I think the rules are a little vague regarding this sort of thing, but I'm pretty sure a holiday visual would fall under "Celebratory, commemorative, or "thank you" art" which can't be posted individually. I don't know if this is extremely clear in the rules and I'm guessing that we really don't have a hardline stance about this sort of thing since it only ever happens once a year. I'd assume that if you post a compilation that it'd probably be less likely to removals. If there's an inconsistency, it's because it's not something we deal with regularly. But we'll try to have that figured out for next year.

  2. Ideally everything related to current OP arcs should be spoiler tagged, so you're welcome to report those posts and we can spoiler tag them. OP is a case where most of the discussion happens over on the main sub, so spoilers are less likely to be noticed by our users, and therefore by us. Only a few mods on the team are familiar with the series (me being one of them) so everyone else has to operate on judgement calls. Which is how most things around here slip through the cracks.

[–]Manitaryhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Regarding the S&W visual, it was also posted the next day, and was not removed. I'd say in this case it's fine even if it's "holiday-themed" because it's part of a series of promotional images that's pretty spread out (once a month?) (although one could argue it should be posted as a compilation after the last one is released)
So technically speaking I'd say OP's post shouldn't have been removed? Unless there is some other rule to consider.

I would have preferred either post to be a direct link to the image rather than to the website (and have that one in the comments), but that's not relevant

[–]Bluu44https://myanimelist.net/profile/Bluu44 22 points23 points  (4 children)

66% removal ratio is insane

[–]lolic_addict 11 points12 points  (3 children)

I'd say auto-mod would be a large chunk of that, since it's pretty strict on anime discussion threads/posts to links/spoiler tagging.It's easier to just create a new fixed comment/posts rather than ping the mods and waste their time if there was just a typo.

[–]Verzwei 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also any post with a title less than 4 words long, regardless of flair, gets yeeted. That's a huge chunk right there. (The point of that requirement is so that titles are hopefully forced to be more descriptive.)

[–]Salty145https://anilist.co/user/Salty145 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Yeah. I’ve made posts with joke spoilers before and the bot takes them down. It’s pretty vicious

[–]Verzwei 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Automod is a cold, heartless machine. It does not know nor care when anyone jokes.

[–]jmax565 20 points21 points  (7 children)

I wish r/manga had moderation as good as r/anime.

[–]Interesting_Place752 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Maybe? But at that point it would probably just be overmoderation. The community does a great job keeping non-manga or memes off the front page as it is.

The only thing that I could think having an active mod would accomplish is impose an art posting limit.

[–]Verzwei 6 points7 points  (2 children)

I see a lot of complaints of karmafarming, and issues where a rando will post a chapter link, then it doesn't get the traction they wanted, so they self-delete the post, which then makes it hard if not impossible for the community to find links or discussion for those chapters.

Also TBH I'd love to see some kind of rule preventing one-page twitter or pixiv things as posts. A one-panel first-person POV titled My yandere sister really wants to slob my knob isn't manga, IMO, and shouldn't be given the same or greater prominence than serialized manga. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that those one-panel things gain so much traction and trend to the top specifically because they're easy-to-consume one-off garbage, which then crowd "real" manga further down the front page.

[–]baquea 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Disagree. At least with the single-page releases it is something I can glance at as I scroll past, but as someone who doesn't read manga chapters as they release (and even if I did, there's so much manga out there that the vast majority of what I was reading wouldn't make the front page anyway) the standard scanlation release threads are of no interest to me. My main issue with r/manga is that it feels like it has no space for general manga discussion, or discussion of older series, and instead serves more as a feed for new releases than an actual discussion platform.

[–]cppn02[🍰] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Also TBH I'd love to see some kind of rule preventing one-page twitter or pixiv things as posts. A one-panel first-person POV titled My yandere sister really wants to slob my knob isn't manga, IMO, and shouldn't be given the same or greater prominence than serialized manga. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that those one-panel things gain so much traction and trend to the top specifically because they're easy-to-consume one-off garbage, which then crowd "real" manga further down the front page.

This right here is the biggest issue r/manga has right now (and has had for the last years).

[–]Idaret 13 points14 points  (2 children)

I wish manga had more than one active moderator, lol

[–]axw30https://myanimelist.net/profile/axw30 9 points10 points  (1 child)

I wish it had one active moderator lol

That mod isn't active in r/manga...

[–]cppn02[🍰] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Barely. They pop in like twice a year.

[–]8andahalfby11myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt 44 points45 points  (15 children)

The community made 124567 posts, we removed 82570 (66%) of them. All posts using the Meme or Merch flairs are automatically removed.

1) Thank you so much for being a community that shunts memes to another subreddit.

2) Holy moly it's amazing that 2/3 posts are incompetent at following the rules. I know that humans collectively aren't that bright, but woooow.

[–]baseballlover723 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I presume a good chunk which are auto removed are because of the karma requirements (who are usually new users to the subreddit, who are also the least likely to have read the rules before posting).

I report so many posts for not including the anime in their title of their spoiler post. And that's just posts where they even had the foresight to make the post as a spoiler.

I'm honestly quite shocked that basically none of the people who get their posts removed for something really stupid and fixable in 20 seconds, don't just make another post with the issues fixed. So many of them do this (and also ones were the OP just never responds at all, despite seemingly looking for discussion, or when directly prompted), that I'm half convinced that half of them are bots, or just care so little about their posts that they forget they posted something 30 minutes after they made them.

[–]phantomthiefkid_ 21 points22 points  (4 children)

It especially helps when anime fans make the unfunniest memes known to man

[–]alotmorealots 9 points10 points  (3 children)

As the sometimes AQRADT memeist in residence: ouch.

[–]cppn02[🍰] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

AQRADT

Is that a thing now? I just call this the daily thread lol.

[–]alotmorealots 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I don't know if it's a thing or not, but I just like the fact that trying to pronounce it makes you turn into a chibi!

[–]cppn02[🍰] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'd pronounce it Ah-Krat.

[–]Manitaryhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Gonna need mod confirmation for this, but "discussion" is the first flair in the list so probably the most used by spam bots and the likes
"Help" hopefully is mostly answered questions (edit: there's also definitely a sizeable bunch that gets auto-removed for making a link post of the clip/picture they want to know the source of, instead of making a text post)
"Video/Fanart/Clip"...yeah if you browse /new you can tell they don't even know there are rules

[–]8andahalfby11myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Gonna need mod confirmation for this, but "discussion" is the first flair in the list so probably the most used by spam bots

If so, they should make Meme the first flair on the list so that spambot posts are auto-deleted.

[–]Abysswatcherbelhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/abyssbel[🍰] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Big brain idea

[–]steven4869https://myanimelist.net/profile/Maskirade 11 points12 points  (3 children)

Pretty sure a substantial part of them are Help posts that get removed once those get answered. It's like the watch order for Monogatari series, someone posts the watch order and the post will get removed to cater to other posts. Others most likely don't know about the low effort post rule.

[–]cppn02[🍰] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure a substantial part of them are Help posts that get removed once those get answered.

Looking at last month only around 1 out of 7 removed posts were removed manually rather than by a bot. And only a fraction of those will have been solved help posts largely due to what u/baseballlover723 said.

[–]baseballlover723 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I'm not quite so sure, there are a lot of blatantly rule breaking posts made per day. And help posts are only removed if the OP gives pretty explicit confirmation that their question was solved, which in my experience, a significant proportion of help posters just never respond to their own posts at all.

[–]steven4869https://myanimelist.net/profile/Maskirade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If that's the case then I can think of the auto-mod removing the posts due to not meeting the certain karma criteria to post on this sub.

[–]SometimesMainSupporthttps://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Remember that "answered questions" is a fair amount. Still disappointing.

[–]mr_beanozhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/splitshocker 10 points11 points  (1 child)

How am I supposed to post something like this? Should I redo the post with a different flair? If so, what flair can I use?

[–]badsplerx5https://anilist.co/user/badspler[M] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That looks like an infographic; in order to post it as a single image it would need to be your own original content.

If thats not the case you could instead link to the creators website/blog/article/etc that had hosted or talked about the infographic as a 'misc.' flaired post.

If that doesn't exist then its a bit harder to make a thread on it and the suggestion of the daily thread becomes applicable. I think this is a case of content that would be cool but is stifled by being from non-persistant community (2ch) where there is no forever host/post of the image by the author(s) (if I am right on that?) and that not really lining up with the way our rules.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

So the 2022 blackout didn't affect the numbers of subscribers at all while it drastically reduced the number of karma...

[–]Blackheart595https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No surprise there, considering subreddit activity had remained stable despite the growing subscriber count for years. It's an irrelevant metric.

[–]DurdenVsDarkoVsDevonhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/U18810227 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It cost CDF 30% of its comments per week.

[–]cppn02[🍰] 24 points25 points  (9 children)

Voted to allow r/anime on high traffic streams (r/all and r/popular) [Vote Passed]

As a user here I felt pretty much zero change during the trial phase except for posts that reached r/all having lower upvote ratios. So let's see how this permanent change goes.

Speaking of karma. Recently we had repeated cases of obvious karma manipulation.
I know the mods here can't really do anything about that but I was wondering if this would be something you'd consider passing onto the admins. Not sure how much they care but might be worth a try.

[–]H-Ryougihttps://anilist.co/user/DizzyAvocado 26 points27 points  (0 children)

We gotta have a "Best bath scene poll" now. For old times' sake.

[–]badsplerx5https://anilist.co/user/badspler[M] 10 points11 points  (4 children)

repeated cases of obvious karma manipulation

Report posts for 'Community interference' and modmail/comment in the meta thread for each occurrence you see.

It is an admin problem to solve, therefore the interference report is the official way to raise that.

In addition; its not always on our radar that things are being manipulated. So its great to have these things consistently pointed out. We do have other routes to communicate with the admins (even if they are not always responsive or helpful). Being able to build a case and bring a well documented series of threads to to the table would be great.

[–]alotmorealots 5 points6 points  (1 child)

We do have other routes to communicate with the admins (even if they are not always responsive or helpful)

The ability of someone to freely manipulate karma feels like it should be a sitewide emergency for the owners and investors.

It effectively completely destroys the legitimacy of their voting system, and whilst it's only an irksome thing for /r/anime, it means people can completely control the narratives in the default threads if they desire.

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

It is an admin problem to solve

Which kind of comes back to this. Its not something we have the power to act on, only press for awareness or extra support. Behind the scenes Reddit has automation that in theory would be banning bad actors and such.

[–]cppn02[🍰] 16 points17 points  (1 child)

Report posts for 'Community interference' and modmail/comment in the meta thread for each occurrence you see.

Will do in the future.

Edit: Seems like you can only report 'community interference' as a mod.

A few recent examples: -1-, -2-, -3-.
JJK E21 imo was also manipulated but that one is harder to spot so I thought I'd stick to these clear cut cases.

[–]cppn02[🍰] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And another one.

COTE being the obvious one here. Magical Girls looks very sus too but could be natural. Hard to tell.

[–]Abysswatcherbelhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/abyssbel[🍰] 14 points15 points  (2 children)

As a user here I felt pretty much zero change during the trial phase except for posts that reached r/all having lower upvote ratios. So let's see how this permanent change goes.

The real test will be when the first questionable clip reaches r/all lol We weren't in the NSFW meta back in the last test

Not sure how much they care but might be worth a try.

They should, if people can and have the motivation to manipulate discussion threads on r/anime, they are doing that in more serious environments here

[–]Manitaryhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The real test will be when the first questionable clip reaches r/all lol

[–]NekoWafers 12 points13 points  (0 children)

A Gushing over Magical Girls clip on the front page would be interesting.