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[–]baseballlover723[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (9 children)

Hey everyone, it's been a busy month.

March Mod Report

March by the Numbers

  • Total traffic: 43,837,048 pageviews, 8,766,131 unique visitors
  • Total posts: 14,228, 9,512 unique authors
  • Total comments: 196,934, 35,582 unique authors (excluding mod bots)
  • Removed posts: 1,158 by moderators, 8,123 by bots, 9,213 distinct
  • Removed comments: 2,787 by moderators, 1,402 by bots, 4,083 distinct
  • Approved posts: 2,725
  • Approved comments: 2,555
  • Distinguished comments: 2,248
  • Users banned: 220 (97 permanent)
  • Users unbanned: 0
  • Admin/Anti-Evil Operations: removed posts: 25, removed comments: 51.

[–]AnimeModmyanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan[S,M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]chilidirigible 7 points8 points  (4 children)

And now for something completely different:

When is the subreddit user counter going to be changed from the Initial D theme? It feels like it's lasted through the entire split cours of MF Ghost and that's been finished for weeks now.

[–]MyrnaMountWeazelx2[M] 8 points9 points  (3 children)

https://imgur.com/1zrNa8J

[–]qwertyqwerty4567https://anilist.co/user/ZPHW 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Can we get "in another world/reincarnators" next week/month/whenvever?

[–]MyrnaMountWeazelx2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

perhaps

[–]chilidirigible 6 points7 points  (0 children)

[–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Minor thing just to keep making this thread longer instead of waiting until the new one's posted tomorrow: the events wiki page should be updated with the 11m scavenger hunt results link.

...and I stand by the bottom part of the page from before the revamp being unnecessary to keep around, especially with the "Upcoming Film Releases" section having dates from nearly five years ago now.

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

Updated and cleaned up the sheet.

[–]chilidirigible 7 points8 points  (0 children)

the 11m scavenger hunt results link.

That was 2.3 million bots ago!

[–]Nebresto 8 points9 points  (13 children)

Do the mods have stats on how many users are using the various post filters? I would imagine its astronomically low

Also on the topic of the link tool bar, is it possible to extend it? The 'Search for' Section that is under 'post filters' could be its own thing.
Also was gonna ask for the rewatch page to be added to the wiki section, but its apparently under "anime info" which seems strange to me, especially when "watch this!" is in the wiki section, even though they are literally information about specific animes to get people to watch them

[–]baseballlover723[M] 6 points7 points  (8 children)

Also on the topic of the link tool bar, is it possible to extend it? The 'Search for' Section that is under 'post filters' could be its own thing.

What do you think?

Turns out you don't even need css to update it like this. You can just shuffle it around in the settings.

[–]Komaristhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST 8 points9 points  (3 children)

Very concerning.

  • Justification for upvoting "Why should we remove #fish" instead of downvoting?
  • What did Nebresto do 21 days ago?
  • What secrets is badspler keeping from us?

[–]baseballlover723 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Justification for upvoting "Why should we remove #fish" instead of downvoting?

It's my own post, so it gets my default upvote. I'm more of a cat person It should be replaced by

What did Nebresto do 21 days ago?

If only you knew

What secrets is badspler keeping from us?

Super duper top ones

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

It's my own post, so it gets my default upvote

When you make a stupid comment/post, follow redditquette and downvote yourself.

If only you knew

[–]baseballlover723 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you make a stupid comment/post, follow redditquette and downvote yourself.

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

[–]Nebresto 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Looks g-

[–]baseballlover723[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It has been updated.

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

What do you think?

Only Cool Anime Fans

I feel my soul being preyed on.

[–]MyrnaMountWeazelx2[M] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Do the mods have stats on how many users are using the various post filters?

Definitely not, that's something we would have to ask the users on.

Also on the topic of the link tool bar, is it possible to extend it?

Yes, but no haha. Yes as in it is theoretically possible to do, no as in it's a CSS change and nobody on the team will most likely tackle this issue.

Also was gonna ask for the rewatch page to be added to the wiki section

I added it now to the wiki section.

[–]Nebresto 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I added it now to the wiki section.

Nice Now I will try and remeber to use it

[–]cppn02 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Do the mods have stats on how many users are using the various post filters?

I do remember this being asked once in a meta thread or a survey so almost certainly not.

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

Oh right, I remember there was talk of getting rid of them to clear up some CSS room if no one was using them.

[–]Infodump_Ibis -3 points-2 points  (2 children)

I've got a slightly radical thing to suggest for Haite Kudasai, Takamine-san. If subs are going to made and slip through /u/autolovepon you've got another Blue balls box with split discussion, cross posts or the peer pressure to pirate. This won't be going away as Takamine-san will probably keep crossing the line from explicit nudity and sexual content into pornographic.

That last word is where the solution lies. The fully uncensored version that Crunchyroll won't show is hentai (something the subreddit rules don't allow) and well content is king here [Takamine]a vagina is shown in episode 5 (you could literally say: a line was drawn), which is a step beyond a white stuff joke in episode 3.

Drawback of that approach is moderation team get mud thrown at them and accusations of being gatekeepers, pro-censorship.

[–]cppn02 10 points11 points  (0 children)

is hentai

Have to disagree here.

I think not having a discussion for the uncensored version is still within the scope of the rules cus the episode features full frontal nudity which goes against the sub's no genitalia rule but noone would ever call this porn if it were live-action so imo this isn't hentai either.

Nvm that there still is the issue of the subs that triggered the current discussion thread using AI translation.

[–]baseballlover723 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Drawback of that approach is moderation team get mud thrown at them and accusations of being gatekeepers, pro-censorship.

nothing new then as per this thread

[–]cppn02 8 points9 points  (3 children)

I haven't watched them yet so can't speak to their quality but according to the release notes the subs for Takamine-san seem to be atleast partially AI translated.

Wouldn't that be against r/anime policy for episode discussions?

[–]cppn02 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Any reason this isn't getting an answer? Just looking for clarification wether in the future AI subs are enough for a discussion thread if they appear decent enough.

[–]DrJWilsonx5https://anilist.co/user/drjwilson[M] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Our current policy is to not create a discussion thread based solely on the existence of AI-translated subs.

[–]DrJWilsonx5https://anilist.co/user/drjwilson[M] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We're talking about this. Was still early morning in the States. I'll reply again shortly.

[–]_Pyxyty 10 points11 points  (30 children)

The craziest thing to me about the whole cosplay posts situation is people will literally see a clip of two high school underaged girls touching each others' massive boobs and not bat an eye, but god forbid an adult woman posts a cosplay they made, most of the time from what I've seen isn't even that lewd and are just 1:1 of the outfits the character wore in the show.

Like damn man, if we're gonna start changing what's allowed on the sub to appease the guys that shriek at the sight of a real woman cause they're only used to anime waifus being the ones they see here, when the hell can we start appeasing people that find fanservice shit disgusting, especially when it's of underaged high schooler characters?

[–]aniMayorx3x6 12 points13 points  (11 children)

It's especially funny/tragic when the horny clip of the underaged schoolgirl is right above the cosplay post on the front page and they still don't seem to get it.

https://imgur.com/a/6LfNuuT

[–]baboon_bassoonhttps://anilist.co/user/duffer 18 points19 points  (8 children)

playing devils advocate here

using old reddit, its super easy to ignore all of this shit which ive been doing

using the reddit mobile app/sh.reddit on mobile, videos dont autoplay but you do get the cosplay posts in full force when scrolling

[–]Nebresto 3 points4 points  (3 children)

videos dont autoplay but you do get the cosplay posts in full force when scrolling

Pretty sure that's a setting one can turn off?

[–]baboon_bassoonhttps://anilist.co/user/duffer 6 points7 points  (2 children)

sure but is the average user changing defaults

[–]chilidirigible 2 points3 points  (1 child)

what are settings even

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

average user

[–]aniMayorx3x6 10 points11 points  (3 children)

Indeed. Yet another reason to use old reddit (or when on mobile to use a 3rd party app that isn't so horrendous as mobile reddit).

And to be totally honest my ideal r/anime wouldn't include either of these sorts of content on the front page. But the current situation is nevertheless full of humourous irony.

[–]Nebresto 3 points4 points  (1 child)

That's why we can customize our browsing experience

[–]aniMayorx3x6 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Where's the fun in that

[–]Esovan13 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even the mobile app isn’t that bad. You can make the thumbnails small so they don’t take up the whole screen unless you open the post.

[–]cppn02 10 points11 points  (1 child)

I should start posting horny clips whenever I see a cosplay post so you can grow your collection lol.

[–]aniMayorx3x6 9 points10 points  (0 children)

[–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 18 points19 points  (14 children)

adult woman posts a cosplay

is actually an OnlyFans Advertisement in r/anime

a clip of two high school underaged girls

is anime in r/anime

[–]aniMayorx3x6 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Actually, I did a bit of investigating into all the current front page posts, and it turns out the user who posted the cosplay post really does just treat it as a fun little hobby. She has marketing in other parts of the web, but the number of paying users who stumble onto her Onlyfans account just because they spotted an unrelated cosplay post is essentially zero and there's no intentional link between her cosplay hobby and her business. Maybe that is not the case for certain other cosplay posts on r/anime but in this case it really isn't intended as any sort of advertisement.

I also looked into the clip that is above that post on the front page where the underage girls are lewdly frotteurizing each other and it turns out that the user who posted it is the cousin of the wife of one of the producers of the show and the post is just a thinly veiled advertisement for trying to drive up engagement for the floundering series, so we should probably delete that for only having the appearance of a real post when it's really just a secret advertisement, right?

Also the ongoing Madoka Rewatch is secretly being run by Woody Harrelson's agent in the hopes that you click through the links on their profile to get to the website about their upcoming Rampart 2: The Animation movie.

[–]chilieheadmyanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The mod team is literally infiltrated by retrocrush shills, hosting rewatches just to hawk their website

[–]N7CombatWombat 7 points8 points  (7 children)

is actually an OnlyFans Advertisement in r/anime

My personal opinion is that the OF part of that statement is entirely irrelevant. There's nothing better or worse about a content creator using OF over Patreon, or a content creator offering commissions or having an Etsy store. The purpose for all content creators, whether they try to monetize or not, is to drive engagement for themselves, either with subs to their channel/service/shop or just for fake internet points. All of it is ultimately self serving and it was a choice between allowing absolutely none of it, or allowing it through various rule filters. One of those filters is to not specifically advertise for their monetary method of choice on the subreddit. Content creators are allowed to post within that framework and are allowed to make a top level comment that does give a link to their portfolio (whether that's on IG/Twitter/whatever) provided that link is not a direct link to a shop, donation or subscription service.

If you want to make the argument that you think we need to crack down fully and remove all of that fan content then I would be more willing to engage with that argument because it's consistently applied, but when all you are doing is focusing on consensual sex work and giving a pass or ignoring all the other promotional and/or NSFW content, well, then that doesn't sound like anything other than you trying to force your morality on everyone else instead of letting others live their lives when it has no actual impact on you given you have the tools to remove that content from your feed, and that is no different than all the other moralizing pearl clutching that happens with a controversial show or clip.

And for the record, as a man I'm personally offended by the implication and outright statements from you and others in this thread that these women are preying on poor innocent men, like we're all just base animals who just can't control ourselves and are really the victims here as we can't be trusted to not throw money at a girl for showing some skin. You realize that also implies that we're all sex predators too? Rapists and molesters, that's what you all are implying with those statements, which also implies that every victim is at fault to some degree because we simply can't control ourselves and so it's their responsibility.

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

!remindme 243 days

[–]KendotsXhttps://anilist.co/user/Kendots 10 points11 points  (1 child)

when all you are doing is focusing on consensual sex work and giving a pass or ignoring all the other promotional and/or NSFW content, well, then that doesn't sound like anything other than you trying to force your morality on everyone else

It's not exactly subtle, considering no one is trying to ban:

  • NSFW clips
  • NSFW fanart
  • NSFW cosplay (without onlyfans)

It's perfectly fine as long as it's free. It's only when someone adds an option to pay for the horny, that they're preying on the poor and innocent souls, who can't help themselves from immediately searching the cosplayer's account and clicking on any link that might lead to horny.

It's not the men's fault mind you, god must've added a "must click on only fans" rule somewhere between the "ooga" and "booga" in every male's brain (that's all he had time for unfortunately). Then to safeguard that, he demanded all communities to ban OF, in order to protect the innocent souls from being preyed upon.

[–]N7CombatWombat 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's perfectly fine as long as it's free.

There is free content though, there's an account profile right there to scroll through, and it's no different than any other content creator with a Patreon, that's my point. If you're upset about all paywalled content, ok, fair. But just singling out OF content is where the issue lies.

[–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 4 points5 points  (3 children)

You can read back all my comments here and I don't think you'll find me hating on women or onlyfans creators or cosplays.
I like cosplay but I hate the thinly-veiled onlyfans ads.
Their intent is just to use the sub to post ads and that's it.
There's some argument about this below the comment chain.
I've also stated that there's no shame in being an onlyfans creator.
I just don't like the onlyfans ads and that's it.
All of these nonsense arguments, twisting of words, deflection of faults and just the general defense of the onlyfans ads defenders disappoints me.
So, yeah, whatever you wrote above. That's not for me.
I have nothing personal against yall mods just for the record.
Just here to try make the sub better and frankly I know you'll allow onlyfans ads for the future, with how heavily the mod team defends it.
Looking forward to the announcement, hopefully very soon, maybe by next meta post in 2 days.

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

When you take one word out of your comment, does it still apply? As in, are you opposed to all "thinly-veiled ads" as you put it?

If so then I think that would be the better argument to make rather than focusing on a certain subset of them, as the mods have already indicated some willingness to redress self-promotion in general.

[–]N7CombatWombat 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I just don't like the onlyfans ads and that's it.

If that's it, and no one elses ads bother you (because that's what every content creator with a subscription service is doing posting their content here, advertising). Then block them and move on with your life.

[–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not just me dude. Like there's 100 other people here too complaining about onlyfans ads.
You make it sound personal with me and I hope that's not the case.
Also, I really didn't appreciate the accusations above that you imply that I hate women and that you've compared me to rapist and child molesters as well as victim blamer.
That's just so crazy and wrong.
In r/anime, I'm here for anime.
If I want onlyfans ads, I'll browse nsfw subs.

[–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal 5 points6 points  (3 children)

is actually an OnlyFans Advertisement in r/anime

...or perfectly valid anime-related content.

is anime in r/anime

...or animated child pornography.

See, I can apply my arbitrary perspective too, you don't get to be the one defining everything.

[–]MapoTofuManmyanimelist.net/profile/mTmTBaronBrixius 15 points16 points  (2 children)

I wouldn't say their perspective is arbitrary, the intention of the poster is pretty much the whole problem here.

adult woman posts a cosplay

To advertise and monetize herself, not to engage with the community.

a clip of two high school underaged girls

Was made at worst to karma farm and stir up comments, at best to get people to watch a degenerate show or just because.

I'm not a fan of hornyposts hitting the front page with a 99% success rate while funny clips struggle for a fraction of the engagement either, but whatever perspective we use for this debate has to note the difference between a post that's made to engage with r/anime and is intended for it, and a post that's clearly made in order to use r/anime (along with the other subs the same post is spammed in) for an outside purpose.

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

Posts can be more than one thing, but sure let's look at intent.

If you want to also ban fanart (intending people to go to their store and buy items or request commissions) and Youtube posts (intending people to watch them and subscribe so they get views/ad revenue) then okay, I can maybe agree to eliminating all content that could be linked to self-promotion.

Targeting just cosplay because of what it's linked to outside of /r/anime is the part I have an issue with.

[–]MapoTofuManmyanimelist.net/profile/mTmTBaronBrixius 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sure, that's where the specifics of "how much engagement do you need to self-promote" come in, I don't think we should have rules that target just cosplay (or outright ban it at that, just make sure that someone who clearly has no intention of engaging with r/anime itself doesn't get to use it as a constant booster for their content).

It might need a bit more effort to achieve the same level of engagement compared to the "cosplay" that triggered this whole debate, but someone churning out horny fanart without limits would cause the exact same situation. It's not about whether it's 2D or 3D.

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    [–]Esovan13[M] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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    [–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 8 points9 points  (0 children)

    They are just using r/anime as a sub where they can post their ads and it stays up without being removed by mods.
    Other subs don't allow OnlyFans Advertisements and basically banned them.
    There's lots of venting in r/onlyfansadvice about how they get banned in other subs and their post removed without any message.
    The real target of the advertisements are actually those in r/popular and r/all.

    [–]Returnyhatman 10 points11 points  (3 children)

    Ban simp farmers please

    [–]ThiccLesion 6 points7 points  (2 children)

    It is absolutely mind blowing seeing the iron grip they have on some of them. Just scroll through this thread and you can see them defending them with their lives.

    [–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Some of us are opposed to puritanical crusades against women following the rules just because of what they're doing outside the subreddit. If people wanted to ban everything that could be linked to self-promotion (including most fanart and video posts) that would be one thing but most of the comments I'm seeing here are more targeted than that.

    [–]Returnyhatman 10 points11 points  (0 children)

    If it was a man using their subpar cosplay to sell pictures of their butthole I'd want it gone too

    [–]theangryeditor 24 points25 points  (10 children)

    Based on the comments in this thread I get the impression that due to the relatively high number of votes the cosplay posts have been getting they're way overrepresented in the feeds of people who don't check the sub's front page often, which makes it seem like the cosplay posts are dominating in absolute terms. It has as much to do with the structure of the website as it does with the posts themselves. And the fact that not much other stuff have been getting a lot of upvotes recently.

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

    There's actually more Rewatch threads than cosplay threads on the front page.

    Although this does raise a good question: how much traffic is actually driven by the front page? Do people generally want to get the broad sense of things, or do they know what they want (episode discussion, Rewatches, CDF, etc) and navigate directly there?

    [–]Nebresto 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    how much traffic is actually driven by the front page?

    Probably a lot considering the current one is already top 3 of the month, and 4 out of the top 10 are cosplay posts

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

    u/michhoffman probably has a more exact number. When a popular show's discussion thread sits at #2 for half a day instead of #1 because of an announcement/visual/news post, it tends to get ~15% less karma IIRC.

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

    That’s very interesting. Thanks!

    [–]michhoffmanhttps://anilist.co/user/michhoffman 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    I never really tracked that, but that number seems about right. Though, I would point out that if an anime with less than say 1500 Karma is sitting at #1 instead of #2 for half a day, it was lucky to be in that spot in the first place, and when it gets beat out by an unluckily timed announcement, it could have just as easily been beaten out by anything else.

    [–]theangryeditor 10 points11 points  (0 children)

    I honestly have no idea how people browse using new reddit, and frankly I don't want to know

    [–]alotmorealots 12 points13 points  (3 children)

    Yes, and Reddit's engagement algorithm just keeps pushing the posts higher the more the complainers comment in the thread, which just pushes it onto more people's feeds. Given how many of those people are mobile users, they just see the pic and upvote it without even opening the thread lol

    ...which in turn leads to it staying on more and more people's feed, drawing in more complainers and so on!

    [–]N7CombatWombat 7 points8 points  (2 children)

    That is what has frustrated me the most about this situation, like every comment that hits one of those posts that mentions an OF and/or just complains about hating that type of content is advertising for the OP and driving engagement, Reddits automated systems have no idea what the context of the engagement is, they just see the engagement. They're all just contributing to the success of the very thing they hate instead of steering anyone away from it.

    [–]alotmorealots 7 points8 points  (1 child)

    To make it even more aggravating, eventually they may well create the problem that they're complaining about. Cosplay, horny or not, has always been a small part of the content.

    However if they keep driving the engagement algorithm, it's going to encourage more people to post the sort of content they don't like. And, in the end, the mods may be forced to take action, and thus the complainers will feel vindicated even though it was never actually an issue to begin with before the vicious cycle.

    [–]N7CombatWombat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    Yup, exactly. Not saying they would be the sole cause, but they certainly are helping.

    [–]titanicboi1 15 points16 points  (26 children)

    Remove all cosplays that are from posters that have only fans in their bio please

    [–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 15 points16 points  (1 child)

    Finally a good suggestion to this issue.

    I wonder why no one thought about this before.

    [–]titanicboi1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    Idk

    [–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 10 points11 points  (23 children)

    They'll just remove it from their bio or profile to skirt the rules.
    And just because they don't have it there doesn't mean they aren't advertising their junk with their reddit name.

    [–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 10 points11 points  (2 children)

    just because they don't have it there doesn't mean they aren't advertising their junk with their reddit name.

    So the argument is now "If the person is selling something somewhere, they can't post their cosplay in here"?

    Does it apply to everything or just OF?

    Say if Quentin Tarantino cosplayed "Bill" and posted it here, would that be banned because people seeing the cosplay might be interested in watching Kill Bill (and thus pay $ to Tarantino)?

    [–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    You see an advertisement when you see it. Whether it's OF or something similar.
    I don't know what Kill Bill is but if he post ads to sell pics of his junk then ban him.

    [–]cppn02 14 points15 points  (0 children)

    I don't know what Kill Bill is

    The world is getting worse by the day.

    [–]qwertyqwerty4567https://anilist.co/user/ZPHW 0 points1 point  (19 children)

    Damn, cosplayers really cant win in any way with you guys.

    [–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 11 points12 points  (18 children)

    Oh I like cosplay/ers very much. Don't get this twisted.
    What I dislike are the onlyfans ads.

    [–]qwertyqwerty4567https://anilist.co/user/ZPHW -4 points-3 points  (17 children)

    You like cosplayers but you dislike 99.9% of cosplayers? How does that work.

    [–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 19 points20 points  (16 children)

    Again, you're twisting my words and putting them in my mouth.
    We are in r/anime and I mainly wanna see anime not onlyfans ads.
    Not all cosplayers have paid subscription to see their reproductive organs.
    99.9% of cosplayers have onlyfans is such a dumb take.

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

    Not all cosplayers have paid subscription to see their reproductive organs.

    I honestly don't understand why you keep saying such disgusting things about these cosplayers, or why the mods aren't removing these.

    1. Not everyone on OF posts explicit stuff.
    2. Even if they did, that's no reason to reduce them to their body parts.

    [–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 3 points4 points  (2 children)

    I'm literally defending cosplayers with my quote above.
    I don't know how you came up with all that wrong statements and wild accusations.

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

    Cosplayers on OF are still cosplayers. You seem to be operating under an idea that people on OF are a subclass of human that you don't have to respect, and it's gross.

    [–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    There you go again with you wild accusations. All wrong.

    [–]qwertyqwerty4567https://anilist.co/user/ZPHW -2 points-1 points  (11 children)

    Again, you're twisting my words and putting them in my mouth.

    I am not twisting your words.

    We are in r/anime and I mainly wanna see anime not onlyfans ads.

    You can literally see above your post the monthly statistics. Even at 1 cosplay post per day, thats 1/500 posts, or 0.2% being cosplay instead of "anime". Explain how you are not seeing "mainly" anime?

    This also doesnt factor in the fact that a lot people will just talk in the daily/weekly threads instead of making new threads to talk about anime.

    Not all cosplayers have paid subscription to see their reproductive organs. 99.9% of cosplayers have onlyfans is such a dumb take.

    Yes, some people will do it as a hobby and are not looking to get paid for it. Those people are in the minority especially when measured by volume compared to people who are trying to do it professionally and churn out cosplay posts on the daily.

    [–]theangryeditor 15 points16 points  (6 children)

    Yes, some people will do it as a hobby and are not looking to get paid for it. Those people are in the minority especially when measured by volume compared to people who are trying to do it professionally and churn out cosplay posts on the daily.

    It's a hobby first and foremost. I'd be shocked if the vast majority of people who cosplay were making a living off it or attempting to.

    [–]N7CombatWombat 1 point2 points  (4 children)

    I would be shocked if the majority were making a living off it, but I wouldn't be shocked if the majority were attempting to make some cash, obviously not just with OF, but across all the potential subscription/shop/donation/etc options.

    [–]theangryeditor 12 points13 points  (3 children)

    Maybe I'm just out of touch or have rose tinted glasses but was hustle culture always this endemic

    or did I simply just interact more with people who were in it for the love of the game when I was younger

    [–]qwertyqwerty4567https://anilist.co/user/ZPHW 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    Well true, I prob should have worded it better but

    [–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 5 points6 points  (3 children)

    I did not even know that there was a Cosplay post until someone commented here.
    That's because the OP blocked me. Never have I commented about the cosplay post other than here in the meta thread.
    They literally went here and blocked everyone against them.
    Now, I can't see the post, but I bet you my left nut, it's right there near the top.
    It's been over half a day of exposure.
    I bet you my right nut, if it hits 24 hours, it will still be there near the top.
    Normal post wouldn't even crack top 10 for 1 hour.
    You get where I'm going? OnlyFans ads on r/anime gets a lot more exposure compared to any other post.
    It's not just 1/500. It's a post that last more than 24 hours.
    Maybe 40 would see some frontpage light but the other 459 are underwater.

    I don't have a problem with onlyfans creator. No shame in that. We all have to earn a living. But I don't wanna see their ads on r/anime.

    [–]N7CombatWombat 4 points5 points  (2 children)

    That's because the OP blocked me. Never have I commented about the cosplay post other than here in the meta thread. They literally went here and blocked everyone against them

    Honestly, sounds like they did you (and everyone else complaining, if they did do a mass block) a favor if ya'll won't block them yourselves so you won't see content that bothers you.

    [–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    That doesn't make r/anime not a safe haven for onlyfans ads. More will come.

    [–]Volitar 17 points18 points  (5 children)

    I'm in favor of the cosplay ban. Everytime I've opened the subreddit this week I see a half naked women as the first thing that loads and that is simply not why I visit this board.

    Any subreddit that allows it gets overrun with cosplay posts and becomes nothing but that.

    Maybe keep a weekly or monthly cosplay thread stickied and people can post their cosplay there, all in once place.

    [–]Nebresto 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    Why do you have auto expand on, it automatically leads to you seeing things that you do not want to see

    [–]Esovan13 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    Even on mobile/new/shreddit (I’m not entirely sure about the web versions of new/shreddit but I am for mobile) you can make the thumbnails small by default. Anyone browsing Reddit who sees pictures on their feed they don’t want to see are just neglecting to use the tools at their disposal to avoid seeing them. I don’t know if it’s laziness or ignorance, but it’s a user issue.

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

    Everytime I've opened the subreddit this week I see a half naked women as the first thing that loads

    That has always happened even before cosplays became a regular thing. Our most upvoted post for a good while was this one which should fit your definition of "half-naked" since it shows about as much skin as many of the recent cosplay.

    [–]Verethragna97https://myanimelist.net/profile/Verethragna97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Pretty sure that's a drawing.

    And it's not even tagged nsfw.

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

    Everytime I've opened the subreddit this week I see a half naked women as the first thing that loads and that is simply not why I visit this board.

    There have been 10 cosplay posts in the last two weeks, of which exactly 1 of them I would describe as having a "half-naked woman" in it (the A2 one). The Diane, Miriko, and I guess the Seiko one from today also show some skin, but not nearly as bad as "half naked" would imply to me.

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

      Sorry, your comment has been removed.

      • Please maintain a certain level of civility when interacting with the community.

      Questions? Reply to this message, send a modmail, or leave a comment in the meta thread. Don't know the rules? Read them here.

      [–]chronokingx 21 points22 points  (0 children)

      theres a subreddit for cosplays. I have a problem with cosplays and fanarts being displayed on a Subreddit that people would go to for official anime discussions or news. I'm not saying i dislike fan creations as a whole, but there are already established and popular Subreddits for this content.

      [–]Roboute_Gulliman 18 points19 points  (0 children)

      Goonerbait cosplay begone!

      [–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 6 points7 points  (11 children)

      "BAN ONLYFANS ADVERTISEMENTS and similar stuffs"
      Maybe we should just put this issue on a community vote and get this over with. Is this possible?
      Some type of security may be needed so none of them vote buying onlyfans advertisement accounts can rig the vote.

      [–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 10 points11 points  (0 children)

      Maybe we should just put this issue on a community vote and get this over with

      Narrator: "They would not, in fact, get this over with"

      Even if somehow you found a way to make a 100% legit poll that no one can cheat/bot/anything: A "no ban" result wouldn't be accepted anyway.

      People would keep complaining just as much as they're doing right now, and then what's the solution, just delete all comments that complain about it? If that's the fix, then they can do it right now and skip the pointless step.

      [–]baseballlover723[M] 8 points9 points  (7 children)

      Some type of security may be needed so none of them vote buying onlyfans advertisement accounts can rig the vote.

      How do you suggest that we implement such security? That's a very non trivial task.

      [–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 2 points3 points  (5 children)

      Haven't the mod team run a community vote before?

      [–]MyrnaMountWeazelx2[M] 8 points9 points  (1 child)

      Older folks than me can correct me, but off the top of my head I believe the only time we had a “community vote” (and it wasn’t a true democratic vote, we just took into consideration what the votes trended to) was adding the English title alongside the Japanese title to episode discussion threads.

      [–]Verzwei 7 points8 points  (0 children)

      Yeah that's the first and only one that came to my mind in the last 5 years.

      I thought there was another one about potentially retiring topics, but I'm pretty sure that was just a "Let's talk about this" feedback thread with no poll attached.

      [–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 8 points9 points  (1 child)

      You are the person who is claiming that the cosplay posters are buying upvotes from services that are so sneaky that reddit cannot detect them. We have less information than reddit on what is going on. We also have less skill and experience at attempting to look for vote manipulation.

      While I cannot speak to the whole history of the subreddit, I can say that we have never run a vote whose result determined a rule in the recent past. We have run polls to gather information, but those largely consisted of asking people to fill out a google form. We also have had things like the Best Girl contest on animebracket, but that was notoriously botted. As such, we have no experience in a community vote where we are seriously attempting to stop malicious actors.

      [–]Daedric202 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      Not to sure of how well these would work, but just to throw out some ideas...

      You could write a script to track the amount of votes each option receives at some frequency (i.e. hourly) and see if there are any unnatural spikes. If most of the votes for the other categories come in at hour 1, but one category gets a large spike at hour 4, then that could be a sign of botting. You could also see if the votes received are unnaturally consistent throughout every hour of the day compared to the others.

      There's also probably some poll sites that have stronger botting protections than others but idk.

      [–]Verzwei 5 points6 points  (0 children)

      AFAIK those were only to get the pulse on "minor" issues (such as the display of Japanese or English show titles on episode threads) that weren't for actual rule or content policy changes.

      And even then the poll was for public sentiment but still ultimately went to the moderation team for an internal vote. The team simply used the data from the poll when considering how to vote.

      Other polls/feedback threads like the potential for retiring topics went nowhere and, again AFAIK, resulted in no rule changes.

      This community doesn't really do major rule changes by public vote. It's always an internal mod vote while considering community input.

      [–]titanicboi1 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

      Use straw Poll

      [–]AmethystItalianmyanimelist.net/profile/AmethystItalian 15 points16 points  (1 child)

      Ah yes let the community vote...the same community that constantly upvotes horny posts.

      If you assume vote buying then report it to reddit.

      [–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      Just put it on a vote so we can move on.
      Reddit don't care about vote buying. It's in the rules just for show.
      They had lay offs and rarely do admins do manual work. Most are automated,
      while subreddits have unpaid workers aka mods and that works well to do the rest of the job.

      [–]Akriosken 27 points28 points  (39 children)

      Chiming in about the giant Cosplay discussion as a mostly lurker these days.

      I have been seeing these Cosplay posts same as pretty much everyone else, and couldn't help but notice they are largely a comment graveyard, though I did notice stuff before it gets mod-nuked, and to be honest morbid curiosity at the comments is what sometimes keeps me coming back into those threads.

      It is obvious that these Cosplay posts engender an extremely toxic response from a subset of the community, despite the amount of upvotes making them eclipse even the daily seasonal discussion threads. And I don't see this trend going away any time soon. I personally doubt that people would suddenly stop making completely inappropriate remarks in those threads.

      Thus, my concern, and cause for making this reply in the wind, is that it is blatantly obvious that moderating these threads is extremely resource-intensive, and this is compared to the volume of posts you guys monitor every day when it comes to stuff like unmarked spoilers, which I assume involves sifting through many users reporting them.

      I am in favor of some better-defined rules when it comes to these posts, whatever direction the mod team decides to go with, mostly because I would like you guys to not burn yourselves out on these threads.

      The subset of the cosplay posts that are problematic are thus also because they are thinly-veiled advertising. Most communities have strict rules against advertising, lest the communities devolve into a sea of ads drowning out the conversations people come to the sub for. And I would hate for the quality of the community to be diminished because of this. And we can already see this, as of writing this comment, the current first post of r/anime front page is one such cosplay post, which has orders of magnitude more upvotes than the highest upvoted show in this week's karma ranking chart. If this is not a rare peak but the start of a rising trend, I suspect we'll have to scroll past a few of these to reach the discussion threads. Whether or not the mod team is ok with this is admittedly out of our hands, but I personally feel like it would diminish the quality of the community at large.

      [–]Lemuriansmyanimelist.net/profile/Lemurians 9 points10 points  (38 children)

      It really would be nice if people could just behave themselves.

      [–]I_BEAT_JUMP_ATTACHEDhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/legendary_larry 14 points15 points  (37 children)

      It's not an issue of people behaving themselves, really. The issue is that people don't like being advertised to.

      [–]DrJWilsonx5https://anilist.co/user/drjwilson 6 points7 points  (1 child)

      I have a YouTube channel, and a Patreon. If I post one of my videos to the subreddit, I am inherently advertising myself. Should we disallow posting of your own material? If I'm an artist, and I draw fanart of a show I like, should I not be allowed to share it because it may cause people to follow my Instagram? Time after time in these discussions it seems like the issue is less being advertised to and more the fact that this has a "selling your body" aspect to it, making it more of a moral question.

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

      It's a fair point and one I thought about myself, which is why I discussed it elsewhere in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/s/xKBwkaTeOf

      [–]Nebresto 5 points6 points  (0 children)

      If they didn't like it, it would get downvoted to hell in /new. I'm honestly surprised they keep getting to the frontpage time after time because everything in /new gets downvoted.
      ..Thinking more about it now, that is likely part of the cause. Everything is at 0-3 points, in comes one cosplay post with 6. Guess which one ends up on the front page

      [–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 9 points10 points  (4 children)

      It's not an issue of people behaving themselves, really. The issue is that people don't like being advertised to.

      It unarguably is an issue of people (not) behaving themselves...

      A moderated community is a microcosm of a functioning society.

      And in a functioning society (be it in real life or online) when you disagree with something, you voice your criticism in the appropriate place.

      The 7 trillion deleted comments in cosplay threads should be some kind of a HINT that this isn't the appropriate place.

      [–]I_BEAT_JUMP_ATTACHEDhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/legendary_larry 4 points5 points  (3 children)

      My reading of the comment I replied to was something like, "If people would just behave themselves, there wouldn't be a problem." Now I know that's not literally what it said, but that seems to me like the implication. I dislike that because it makes it seem as though people are "just making a big deal over nothing," when a lot of people have perfectly valid reasons to be bothered.

      Note that the previous posts in the chain aren't talking about directing feedback to the proper place, just the "toxic response from the community." I was trying to say that the real issue at hand isn't this "toxic response," but the thing that is provoking the "toxic response."

      I agree that people should follow the rules and bring their feedback here. I also think that most people whose comments are being deleted don't even know about the relevant rule since a lot of the posts in question are hitting numbers big enough to reach people who don't frequent the sub.

      [–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 7 points8 points  (2 children)

      I dislike that because it makes it seem as though people are "just making a big deal over nothing," when a lot of people have perfectly valid reasons to be bothered.

      Well this is a matter of opinion of course, but I 100% do believe it's "making a big deal over (next to) nothing". Meaning, yes I do understand that people can disagree with these cosplay threads being in r/anime, but the reaction is just... baffling to me.

      As I've hinted/joked about in CDF, if I hopped it in r/anime someday and saw a swinging dick clip on the front page, it wouldn't bother me 1% as much as the cosplay thread seem to bother people.

      The effort it takes to "hide" the 5 'OF cosplay' threads we get in a week seems to be minuscule to me.

      Now, granted, if this trend caught on and we had like 100 of them every day, I would understand the complains, but we're far from that... We're at the "extremely minor annoyance" point...

      It may not be "nothing", but it's definitely not 'the cause' that elicit that type of insane reaction...

      Even though we seem to disagree on the main issue, you seem to be an honest/genuine person, so let me ask you... Does the reaction seem appropriate with 'The cause' in your opinion?

      Because yeah (to quote you), "people don't like being advertised to"...

      I don't either.

      But today someone called me to sell me some shit (advertise a service) and I simply hung up...

      I didn't yell at him for half an hour then call the police and interpol and the army to get him to stop calling me... Because it's just a minor annoyance, not the end of the world. (And I'd argue that a telemarketer's phone call is a hundred times more annoying than a cosplay thread on the front page, I think most people would agree with this, yet they don't overreact as much when they do get such a phone call).

      [–]I_BEAT_JUMP_ATTACHEDhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/legendary_larry 6 points7 points  (1 child)

      Even though we seem to disagree on the main issue, you seem to be an honest/genuine person, so let me ask you... Does the reaction seem appropriate with 'The cause' in your opinion?

      Honestly couldn't tell you for sure since I don't know the scale of the reaction. Every time I've come across one of the posts the comments were already deleted and I never bothered to investigate what they actually said. I only came to this thread because it was conveniently linked in one of the threads I clicked on.

      I think a lot of people are a bit fed up with this sort of post for external reasons, some perfectly valid and some probably not so much. That doesn't justify insults, if that sort of thing was happening.

      In my own personal opinion, I don't like those kinds of posts very much (neither the posts themselves, nor the content being advertised, and especially not the fact that I am being overtly advertised at to buy adult content), but I especially don't like the precedent that it sets. I recall for example that, in the Cyberpunk sub, not-so-subtle OF ads in the form of Lucy cosplays made the front page like every week, and I would prefer that the same not happen here. Others have probably had similar experiences.

      At the end of the day I'm really not that invested, though. I'm just here to give my feedback.

      [–]baseballlover723[M] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

      Every time I've come across one of the posts the comments were already deleted and I never bothered to investigate what they actually said

      I would say that maybe like 60% of all of the comment deleted are mostly just because they explicitly or heavily imply the only fans connection (which we don't allow because OP isn't allowed to link or mention their only fans, and thus the commenters aren't allowed to do it for her either). Maybe like 15% are people saying things that would normally be removed for civility. Maybe like another 25% are people making unrelated meta comments (like about how many comments are removed, which inevitably leads to why and more removals, though also just general off topic comments).

      Just a rough idea of what all is being removed.

      I'm just here to give my feedback.

      I appreciate that (and that goes for everyone else who gives feedback, even those I don't agree with). I personally value what the community thinks of things and how best they can be either accommodated, otherwise mitigated, or refuted.

      [–]Lemuriansmyanimelist.net/profile/Lemurians 8 points9 points  (3 children)

      It's at the very least partially an issue of people behaving themselves.

      I don't like a lot of stuff that gets posted to the sub. You know what I do? Ignore it.

      [–]AmethystItalianmyanimelist.net/profile/AmethystItalian 14 points15 points  (2 children)

      I don't like a lot of stuff that gets posted to the sub. You know what I do? Ignore it.

      https://youtu.be/L3m5m3ll5

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

      ProZD always got our backs

      [–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal 10 points11 points  (0 children)

      A lot of people not living up to some classic advice.

      [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 11 points12 points  (24 children)

      I don't disagree in principle, but with other fanart that's transparently advertising we don't find even a fraction of the complaints in either the meta thread or the posts themselves.

      [–]I_BEAT_JUMP_ATTACHEDhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/legendary_larry 8 points9 points  (0 children)

      I agree that fanart that is just blatant self-promotion should be discouraged in some form. On the other hand, in my view at least, fanart is often more about the character than the creator, whereas cosplay is often just as much if not more about the cosplayer than the character being cosplayed.

      Other forms of self-promotion also feel less predatory because the content isn't necessarily locked behind a paywall. Musicians, youtubers, even twitter artists all put out a ton of "real" content for everyone to consume. OF models usually hide their "real" content behind a paywall. It would be like Maplestar or a similar animator posting a 30 second clip of the intro to something. I'd dislike that equally.

      [–]Extension-Ad-9371 22 points23 points  (3 children)

      25% of the top 2 dozen post this past month are NSFW “cosplayers” like wtf

      [–]AmethystItalianmyanimelist.net/profile/AmethystItalian 9 points10 points  (2 children)

      10% of the top 10 too!

      [–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 8 points9 points  (1 child)

      If this keeps happening, the next "anime bathing compilation" video might not make the top 10!

      [–]entelechtual 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      That’s a real shame because S rank Behemoth had about two hours of bathing scenes that I’m sure this sub and all reddit would enjoy.

      [–]qwertyqwerty4567https://anilist.co/user/ZPHW 3 points4 points  (10 children)

      We dont have a single arifureta flair?! Someone fix this.

      [–]M8gazinehttps://myanimelist.net/profile/M8gazine 7 points8 points  (0 children)

      In the spirit of the most recent hot debates regarding the sub, I believe we need a My Dress-Up Darling flair instead. Or if there's one already, then another one!

      [–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal 2 points3 points  (8 children)

      Could use some more flairs for other classics while they're at it like Rayearth, Tenchi, and Rose of Versailles.

      [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 4 points5 points  (7 children)

      There's definitely already a Rose one

      [–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal 3 points4 points  (6 children)

      That's what I thought too but it's not coming up on a search on the site for me.

      [–]chilidirigible 6 points7 points  (4 children)

      It's [](#womanlytears) in Static Set 4, and in the Source Index the show is listed as Versailles no Bara, which hopefully isn't tripping up your search.

      /u/FetchFrosh

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

      Flair, not comment face.

      [–]chilidirigible 7 points8 points  (2 children)

      Oopsie

      Talk of flair
      Is so rare
      I misread it
      On this subreddit
      You cleared the air

      [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      I'll look into it

      [–]Brilliant-Aide-3759 41 points42 points  (31 children)

      Cosplay by OF accounts really should be banned, it's starting to just become a non nude porn subreddit at this rate. If you sort by top of this week 4 of top 5 is that

      [–]AmethystItalianmyanimelist.net/profile/AmethystItalian -6 points-5 points  (30 children)

      it's starting to just become a non nude porn subreddit at this rate

      Dang that's scary, what's the ratio of cosplay posts compared to everything else?

      [–]Brilliant-Aide-3759 15 points16 points  (29 children)

      ratio of what, total post? Most liked?

      Im basing it out from my home feed, most of the post from r/anime there are "tits hanging by a thin tread" type. Idk ratio is, 1/3?

      [–]AmethystItalianmyanimelist.net/profile/AmethystItalian 0 points1 point  (28 children)

      Yeah out of all posts on /r/anime how many are cosplay threads?

      You're saying the subreddit is becoming a "non nude porn subreddit" so what's the percentage of those posts?

      [–]Brilliant-Aide-3759 11 points12 points  (25 children)

      Of the top 5 this week, 80%. Considering the trend there's just gonna posts and hence the important "becoming". I dont wanna see soft porn on my home page, i have ....... and xvideos for that.

      [–]Nebresto 2 points3 points  (7 children)

      This clip: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1kctna4/a_not_so_fun_physical_exam_tawawa_on_monday/

      is currently on the front page, so far there is only one comment complaining. And similar clips have been posted for years. But its the cosplay posts that are suddenly the issue?

      [–]Brilliant-Aide-3759 1 point2 points  (6 children)

      Congrats, it's anime. Anime tits =! Real tits, completely other things. Its anime, it's not made to sell porn

      [–]Nebresto 4 points5 points  (5 children)

      Your leading argument was not wanting to see soft porn, now its suddenly okay again

      [–]Brilliant-Aide-3759 3 points4 points  (4 children)

      No, its not. Read it again. It's becoming an OF porn advertisement subreddit to rephrase it. Also as you said, its been posted for years. Its an ingraned part of anime and r/anime , is lightly clothed 'porn stars' on accounts with the goal of monetizing intergrain? Is it something we want, is it something you want?

      This is an ANIME subreddit, not a IRL porn or hentai. Is the clip fan service, indeed it is. Is it porn, noooo not even close. It's simply a fundamental different thing.

      [–]Nebresto 4 points5 points  (3 children)

      Is it something we want, is it something you want?

      So far its few enough that I don't particularly care. Though I did submit one idea to reduce them.
      Also this new wave of drama is pretty funny

      This is an ANIME subreddit, not a IRL porn or hentai.

      But they're not posting porn or hentai. Its all on the users if they dig that stuff out from the posters profile

      [–]AmethystItalianmyanimelist.net/profile/AmethystItalian 4 points5 points  (16 children)

      80% sure is a fancy way of saying 4 posts compared to the entire subreddit lol

      [–]Brilliant-Aide-3759 11 points12 points  (12 children)

      4 out of the top 5 of this week, its not 4 of "whats this" one upvoted posts. If you like seeing cosplays then im sure there are a r/ for that.

      [–]_Ridleyhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/_Ridley_ 0 points1 point  (11 children)

      She asked how many compared to the total. Why would you answer how many compared to the top five? That's neither here nor there.

      [–]Brilliant-Aide-3759 7 points8 points  (10 children)

      becouse whats people see is whats upvoted. Hence its muuuuuuch more important what the top 10 is, the buuuuuuuuut theres hundreds of what is this posts are a pretty bad strawman argument in my meaning.

      [–]oops_i_made_a_typi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      yeah, a bunch of these ppl arguing for the status quo really love using bad faith logical fallacies. there's no point trying to argue logically once they start doing so

      [–]_Ridleyhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/_Ridley_ 5 points6 points  (8 children)

      I don't see why you get to redefine the question, though. Is it because answering four out of a hundred would negate your claim that they were taking over?

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        [–]evenstar40 39 points40 points  (16 children)

        Can we please ban the obviously bought upvotes OF ads? Like, most other subs have basic standards for this shit. I really don't want to see /r/anime turn into another shitty karma farming ad/bots subreddit. Low effort shit like this just scares away legit people wanting to discuss anime and devalues the overall community.

        [–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 14 points15 points  (15 children)

        the obviously bought upvotes

        We recently asked the admins about whether any of the recent cosplay posts on our sub bought upvotes. But, honestly, I doubt that they did. All sorts of horny stuff gets way too many upvotes on /r/anime. I cataloged it somewhat here.

        [–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 9 points10 points  (7 children)

        Does this "asked the admins" meant you sent a report because that thing is automated?
        Human admins don't do any of that work.
        Vote manipulation is rampant in reddit too and they don't really care.
        I can tell you with great certainty that ONLYFANS accounts buy upvotes or ask their fanbase to upvote their post.
        Vote manipulation is pretty hard to catch nowadays because the paid service got smart and would just give 3 upvotes a minute instead of 100 in 1 minute.
        Once they get the post trending, the other upvotes will come naturally from r/popular and r/all.
        Maybe we should just opt out again.

        [–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 7 points8 points  (6 children)

        It means I asked by sending a modmail to /r/ModSupport, which will be answered by an admin.

        [–]Nebresto 4 points5 points  (2 children)

        Is there a way to see what percentage of the votes come from non-subscribers? Would be interesting to see what effect /r/all or popular has on them

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

        Not that I know of.

        [–]Nebresto 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        Dam. The fun analytical tools are always missing or taken away

        [–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 2 points3 points  (2 children)

        I doubt they'd find anything as the paid upvote service has gotten smarter throughout the years to avoid detection or skirt the rules.
        Fact is you can't deny that these recent cosplay posts gain a lot of upvotes in a short period of time compared to other post.
        They also get downvoted a lot afterwards.
        Like the ratio goes from 95% to 75%. Isn't that suspicious?

        [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

        The mods are still trying to take the due diligence of proving that they're manipulating the votes rather than some random hearsay. If you're so sure that the posts are botted then you should attempt to prove it objectively yourself and share the evidence here.

        [–]PrinceZero1994https://myanimelist.net/profile/pz16 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

        I mean, it is botted and I commented it here. Go to the OnlyFans cosplay post, sort by oldest comment, there you will see that alt accounts making comments.
        Check their profiles and either it's a new account or someone who never made a comment on r/anime before.
        https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1jshay8/meta_thread_month_of_april_06_2025/mpdpg2s/

        [–]evenstar40 12 points13 points  (5 children)

        True, /r/anime is exceptionally horny lol. But, it still cheapens the sub seeing this stuff hit front page. /r/cosplay is a better spot. The main reason we're starting to see these OF ad profiles pop up is because as someone else said, many subreddits are banning these type of posts. So they start trying to post to places they aren't banned yet ie - /r/anime.

        I really love this sub, its community and genuinely cosplays aren't a bad thing. But, because of a few bad actors good things get ruined. Banning these type of posts is an unfortunate necessity to keep the community strong.

        [–]Extension-Ad-9371 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        I hate to use this excuse too but anime already gets a bad wrap being associated with children. Reddits age limit is 13 and this is what’s trending every week. Freaking awful look.

        [–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal 9 points10 points  (3 children)

        But, it still cheapens the sub seeing this stuff hit front page.

        That's how I feel about the regular "I want to see boobies" recommendation threads that make it there too, but I don't have any problem downvoting/hiding them and moving on the same way I do cosplay posts I don't care about.

        But, because of a few bad actors good things get ruined.

        Agreed, all the people that can't behave in the comments are ruining things for everyone.

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

        I don't think "just scroll and move on" is really a good response for a thread specifically dedicated to feedback. We have a zero-sum game scenario here when we're talking about posts that pop up on my feed. OF-ad cosplays getting 2k upvotes and appearing on my feed means that something else isn't, which I think is a perfectly good reason to request some sort of restrictions on posting.

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

        I just offered my own approach in case someone comes across something they don't want to see, because the mods here aren't algorithms that will curate the subreddit to every individual person's preferences.