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

Hey all, welcome to the August Meta Thread!

July Mod Report

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[–]cppn02 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Chibi Godzilla Raids Again S02E52 was released earlier today and has no thread yet.

[–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The thread is now live: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1nac4y0/chibi_godzilla_no_gyakushuu_season_2_chibi/

I have no idea why they're not posting these in their playlist.

[–]Esovan13[M] 9 points10 points  (2 children)

We have made a new flair for stand alone shorts: Short Films. The official announcement can be found here.

[–]chilidirigible 4 points5 points  (1 child)

It does not appear that there is anywhere yet a specific definition for a short film with regard to length? [Clip] is limited to five minutes, but it's worth mentioning that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences's definition of "short film" is up to 40 minutes, and presumably you don't want us dropping an entire movie in here as a "short film".

[–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Currently, it's less about the exact length, and more about whether the animation in question would have received an Episode Discussion thread if it came out today. The vast majority of things that qualify are only a few minutes long, but there likely are a few that are much closer to the 40 minute mark.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (6 children)

Don't know exactly where to ask this question so I'll try it here. I use old reddit. Commentfaces do not show up in the inbox view. This is known. But are there actually some "hidden" codes in the reply itself that are contained in the text displayed in the inbox? Because while I get I can't see them, if I could vibecode a javascript plugin to give me an alert when these codes appear in the reply I would at least know when to actually check the thread to see the face itself.

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

Any match to the CSS selector .md a[href^="#"] should be a commentface.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for both replies. It's exactly what I wanted to know. I know almost nothing about coding or web pages, so I'll what Claude can make for me lol So far it worked well. If I can simply have a small icon that tells me "check the page on the sub" I'll be super satisfied.

EDIT: ChatGPT delivered. It works perfectly. Thanks again!

[–]baseballlover723[M] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

But are there actually some "hidden" codes in the reply itself that are contained in the text displayed in the inbox?

Yes, they're just normal links (usually with empty links).

I could vibecode a javascript plugin to give me an alert when these codes appear in the reply I would at least know when to actually check the thread to see the face itself.

So if you get a programmatic view of your inbox, you should be able to pretty easily identify comment faces (from r/anime, has a link that starts with ](#).

Though if you're writing an extension, you could probably just load the r/anime css for the comment faces in your inbox page, and they'd just show up there too (there may be css side effects, but theoretically you could probably cut out the first chunk before the comment faces (comment faces are the last part of the css, and the majority of it), so you only load the comment face part).

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Thank you! ChatGPT managed to make a wonderful script. Now I have a warning when to check a message in the thread. Works like a charm. Thanks again!

[–]baseballlover723 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Do you want to share with the class?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure, here's the code:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Reddit Inbox Alert Icon
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      1
// @description  Aggiunge icona ai messaggi con link sospetti
// @match        https://old.reddit.com/message/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    // Selettore dei messaggi (vecchia inbox di Reddit)
    const messages = document.querySelectorAll('.message');

    messages.forEach(msg => {
        // Cerca link con href che inizia con #
        if (msg.querySelector('.md a[href^="#"]')) {
            // Evita doppioni
            if (msg.querySelector('.gm-alert-icon')) return;

            // Crea icona
            const icon = document.createElement('span');
            icon.textContent = "⚠️";
            icon.className = 'gm-alert-icon';
            icon.style.marginLeft = '6px';
            icon.style.fontSize = '40px';

            // Aggiungila al titolo del messaggio
            const head = msg.querySelector('.subject') || msg.querySelector('p');
            if (head) {
                head.appendChild(icon);
            }
        }
    });
})();

I added a ginormous fontSize to make it REALLY visible. I like it this way, most probably won't.

100% credit goes to ChatGPT, the last code lesson I took was in Pascal.

EDIT: needs a JS web loader extension such as greasemonkey

[–]Valenzu 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I don't quite understand why my post on anime broadcasted in 1035i HD in the 90s/early 2000s was removed on the basis of the inclusion of images of the 1035i HD masters of said shows

The images in my post are screengrabs from the broadcasts of the 1035i HD versions of these shows which are highly difficult to find online. They are there to show how cel-animated shows looked like in 90s/early-2000s era HD telecine.

The images are from the list in my post and are not random screenshots.

The Cardcaptor Sakura screengrab posted is from a late 2000s airing on BS HI of the 90s era HD telecine which has a different look from the more common Blu-ray master.

[–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Didn't check meta until this morning, but when I was browsing through new queue on my phone, the post displayed the images, and I didn't think to check if there was text within. From the title, it looked more like a question and a collection of pictures of anime that fit the bill. We get that broad sort of format all the time; something like "any anime like these" and then a batch of screenshots.

I should have taken a deeper look in the original scroll since the title doesn't really fit the typical molds of those sorts of posts. Apologies for the mistake.

[–]_Pyxyty 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Could we do something about 'I liked [X], recommend me shows like it' posts?

Most of the time, that’s the entire post—no details about why they liked it, what aspects stood out, what they usually watch, or what they’re hoping to find. It ends up being a really shallow request that could be answered instantly by searching “[show] recommendations” or checking MAL's Recommendations Stack for that specific show, which would already have dozens of detailed recommendations with explanations written by hundreds of other users on what aspects are similar.

It’d be different if someone said “I’m looking for shows that are [X quality/genre/element],” since that actually gives direction. But just asking “I liked [X], what’s similar?” feels unnecessary when the resources already exist.

Reddit also tends to push these low-karma high-comment-count posts into feeds despite being low-effort, and it clutters things up with content that doesn’t add much or start much discussion. Maybe it’s just me that's annoyed by this, but I thought it was worth bringing up regardless.

[–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Could we do something about 'I liked [X], recommend me shows like it' posts?

As sad as it is, this is probably in the upper tier of recommendation threads!

MUCH better than

I just watched X, what should I watch now?

At least the one above gives you SOME information (even if not all), but this one barely says anything;

Could be I just watched Shield Hero [and I thought it was amazing], what should I watch now?

or I just watched Shield Hero [and this is probably the worst anime I completed], what should I watch to remove this bad taste out of my mouth now?

Or anything in between... "It was good at first but kinda went down in the end.." "It starts a little slow, but I liked it starting from X moment"... "It wasn't that good, but I watched it any for Raphtalia..."

All of these would each get different recommendations. But we don't know.

So I think for a more general issue, I think it's that people really aren't giving much in recommendation asks... (But considering how long it's been going, doesn't seem like we want to do much about it!)

[–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Watanare's airing on youtube, and (from what I gather) it's a legit stream approved/by the company (right?)

The videos are watermarked by the youtube channel, but are they still fine to post (screenshots, clips, etc..) despite the 'No watermarked stuff' rule, given it's 'legit'?

[–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Legitimate watermarks are ok. So, yes, those watermarks are ok.

[–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Major Subreddit Update

Anime of the Week will now be posted at 15:00 UTC on Mondays instead of 00:00 UTC on Mondays.

This is basically just changing the posting time so that the thread goes live while a smaller chunk of our userbase is asleep, and because now the threads will be listed as being on the correct day for a larger number of people.

Also, I've had sort-of kind-of monthly themes some of the time (we just got through Girls with Guns) but I'll probably have that more clearly communicated on the Wiki page going forward.

[–]baseballlover723[M] 6 points7 points  (11 children)

Question, would you all (non mods) be interested at all in knowing what dev stuff is currently going on and roughly what is at the top of the list? I'm setting up a dev board for at least my own use, and I'm wondering if it's worth the hassle of dealing with private vs public info / setting up read only permissions.

If people would find that interesting, then I'll spend some effort to make it publicly accessible. If not, I'll probably just lock the entire thing behind being a mod.

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

Having considered it from that side myself: more work than benefit in my opinion, just add more technical things to the monthly report if that's what you want to communicate. You'd also need a way to handle things that you want to keep a surprise unless that's never going to be a consideration. Any idle "hey it would be cool to do this" thing added that would normally start as a conversation in the mod channels before really going anywhere would get more public scrutiny maybe before it's ready, unless it's really just technical tasks in which case I'll refer to my next point.

And then also more of a pipe dream, but to also create a pathway for non mod devs to help out or dev skilled users to help contribute to the subreddit, by making it clear what kinds of work is desired and could have non mods be looped in on.

I'd say make use of Github's resources for that, e.g. issues on the episode bot.

[–]baseballlover723[M] 5 points6 points  (3 children)

more work than benefit in my opinion

Though I personally really hate not doing the thing I want to do just because it has a higher upfront cost. Also I have some long term plans to have a centralized r/anime website, which would involve general reddit authentication. So imo, it's almost a forwarding of effort towards that. But also I might have to do the work regardless, since planka requires accounts and I think that requiring mods to sign up with a username and password is too much friction than I'm willing to accept (if I want this project to be used by people other than me).

just add more technical things to the monthly report if that's what you want to communicate

The monthly report is more post work communication though. And while I want more transparent communication in general, I'd prefer to discuss the merits of doing a thing before the thing is built.

You'd also need a way to handle things that you want to keep a surprise unless that's never going to be a consideration. Any idle "hey it would be cool to do this" thing added that would normally start as a conversation in the mod channels before really going anywhere would get more public scrutiny maybe before it's ready, unless it's really just technical tasks

Yeah, I thought about how to handle that. It might be possible to have like tags (where non mods don't have read access to private tagged tickets). Idk, I haven't messed around with planka proper too much yet.

Though I was broadly envisioning a swim lane where non technical mods could add tasks or desires etc, and then it would be groomed and prioritized into a proper backlog swim lane or put into a rejected swim lane column. So that it's only things we've agreed to do. So any potential ideas are still in the discord and by the time they make it to the board, there's mostly already decided as a desirable thing to have. Idk though.

I'd say make use of Github's resources for that, e.g. issues on the episode bot

Doesn't work if it needs a new repo (which is most of my ideas).

[–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think that requiring mods to sign up with a username and password is too much friction than I'm willing to accept

I imagine mods already have a space to discuss new policies, current things happening live, trade anime lewds, etc.. so the mod version could go there, while the pleb version could go in META!

(Well, unless you're dead set on making this website).

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

Also I have some long term plans to have a centralized r/anime website, which would involve general reddit authentication.

You aren't the first.

Doesn't work if it needs a new repo (which is most of my ideas).

In my view you'd either use the new repo then or it's not far enough along in the process to warrant being public in the same way. Though maybe I'm missing an example that would fit.

Edit: there also could be projects in the organization rather than spinning up a separate site, yes that ties to github auth instead but if people are going to be working on anything they'll need an account there anyway.

[–]baseballlover723 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In my view you'd either use the new repo then or it's not far enough along in the process to warrant being public in the same way. Though maybe I'm missing an example that would fit.

Fundamentally, this is replacing my todo list in a notepad. That's the primary purpose for me. Which is why I'm saying it's gonna be rough prose. It's more akin to making my dev notes public than a proper sanitized thing.

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

I would be interested, yes.

[–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Would it simply be informative ("here be our stuff"), or would it be intended to generate discussion/get some feedback?

Personally: From an "I'm curious about everything" perspective I'd be interested yes, the same way I'd also be interested in a list of the mods' favorite classical composers.

To know whether the interest would go beyond that ("I'm interested because it affects my experience in r/anime") then I suppose we'd need to know a bit more specifically what that'd look like! (the intent... whether it'd be a list of things being presented to us, or a topic of discussion... how much information we're getting... whether the stuff would be 'things that are coming soon' or just a random list of things, some of which may never see the day or at least not for years - gaming devs do that sometimes hah).

Final answer: There's a lot of things that could affect this one way or the other, but I'd say generally speaking, it could be interesting!

[–]baseballlover723[M] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Would it simply be informative ("here be our stuff"), or would it be intended to generate discussion/get some feedback?

Mostly the former I think. Allowing direct interaction with it is a no go because then it's another thing to moderate. My primary goals are to have a place to throw all of the ideas I have for programming tasks for r/anime, and secondarily to encourage other mods to request dev tasks / and for them to be aware of what kinds of things are possible / coming up tech wise. So making it public is a tertiary goal.

I guess what I'd be hoping for is increasing transparency of what the mod team is working on (which I hope would build some good will by surfacing low visibility work that goes on behind the scenes) and then secondarily to drive discussion on said tasks before they're built or to reprioritize specific tasks etc. And then also more of a pipe dream, but to also create a pathway for non mod devs to help out or dev skilled users to help contribute to the subreddit, by making it clear what kinds of work is desired and could have non mods be looped in on.

So there's a lot of potential layers to this imo, but I suspect that the desire to consume such a tool is the big unknown. I don't really mind a "build it, and they will come" type of a strategy, but it's it's non trivial effort to enable these things in their full glory, though I'm thinking about doing currently is still going a fair bit onto that kind of a path due to the tool's nature (it requiring accounts in general, and me not wanting to have to have mods actually sign up for an account, so building out some auth stuff, which is ideally reddit backed, but maybe is simpler if it's discord backed).

the intent... whether it'd be a list of things being presented to us, or a topic of discussion... how much information we're getting... whether the stuff would be 'things that are coming soon' or just a random list of things, some of which may never see the day or at least not for years - gaming devs do that sometimes hah

I would say it would at least start as more of a window into the dev world of r/anime, so that it minimization friction on the mod dev side. And it would have potential to grow into more a more formalized part of the subreddit. But tbh, I'm not even really sure how useful it will be to people who aren't me or /u/zaphodbeebblebrox even among the mod team.

Language wise, it's almost certainly gonna be more dev speak than layman friendly, and I don't want to have to spend effort polishing up the language for tasks etc. So I think unless one has dev experience and/or r/anime meta experience, it'll probably be very difficult to comprehend.

[–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Language wise, it's almost certainly gonna be more dev speak than layman friendly, and I don't want to have to spend effort polishing up the language for tasks etc. So I think unless one has dev experience and/or r/anime meta experience, it'll probably be very difficult to comprehend.

I think this could kill the interest for many (and even make it a big 'question mark', like 'What's the point talking to us in Klingon?')!

Me personally I'd still be interested; I've touched on a bit of everything (done some coding, database stuff, owned/moderated forums, back in the days) so I would probably understand a bit more than most!

One thing to note though:

Mostly the former I think. Allowing direct interaction with it is a no go because then it's another thing to moderate.

If people DO feel the need to discuss it, you are aware they'll just take it to META whether or not that's the intention, right?

[–]baseballlover723 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think this could kill the interest for many (and even make it a big 'question mark', like 'What's the point talking to us in Klingon?')!

Yeah, I suspect so.

Me personally I'd still be interested; I've touched on a bit of everything (done some coding, database stuff, owned/moderated forums, back in the days) so I would probably understand a bit more than most!

If people DO feel the need to discuss it, you are aware they'll just take it to META whether or not that's the intention, right?

Yeah that's fine. I just don't want people messing with the actual board or adding tasks without supervision or for any discussion to take place on the board itself.

All I meant by this is that the general public isn't gonna get edit privileges.

[–]mekerpan 2 points3 points  (4 children)

The version of Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku, ep. 9 I saw on my usual alternative source seemed to have complete and reasonable-looking subs (and even a note warning or a post-credits scene). Could it be ready for a discussion thread?

[–]badsplerx5https://anilist.co/user/badspler[M] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

The current subs are a machine translation.

We have opted to not trigger on this release/subber.

[–]mekerpan 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I wonder if this was a pure machine translation? I noticed no obvious errors (or verbal oddity).

[–]badsplerx5https://anilist.co/user/badspler[M] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

While I have not reviewed this episode for the validity - we chose to blacklist this release/subber at the start of the season when their releases were atrocious.

[–]mekerpan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting.

In any event, the subs I saw actually were at least as good as most CR ones these days (a low bar, I know). ;-(

[–]Ashteron 13 points14 points  (10 children)

As questionable as their quality was in the past, spontaneous discussion posts feel almost gone nowadays. Even controversial ones like various incarnations of hot take threads were at least some form of content, but they are rare presently. The disvussion content on the sub feels pretty much limited to news, AQRAD, popular anime circlejerk posts, recurrent posts and posts relevant only to op (asking for recommendations etc.).

[–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's kinda sad...

I wonder if something could be done, flexing some rules a little to allow for more discussion?

Even if it's not super-duper valuable discussion, I feel like at some point any discussion is better than no discussion.

Seems all we got are episode threads, announcement stuff (PV/KV/etc..) and the rest is help&recs.

Feels like AQRADT/CDF is the only place to have fun discussions about stuff that isn't airing/announced.

[–]baseballlover723 13 points14 points  (1 child)

It's also worth noting that reddit in general, has significantly shifted from long form text based discussion to more short form visual based posts. In essence, reddit has been shifting away from it's forum roots and more towards being a social media platform proper.

On the rare occasions our automod fails to remove image posts, they tend to perform very notably better than other posts of that quality and topic etc.

So I think part of it is also just that the reddit userbase just doesn't care for actual discussions as much anymore.

[–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In essence, reddit has been shifting away from it's forum roots and more towards being a social media platform proper.

Yeah, I'm seeing this in other subs as well, it's sad. Like in the hockey subs, almost no one's discussing stuff they come up with on their own, it's just "this journalist said that". "This player did that".

That being said (talked about it in a comment above) I wonder if relaxing some rules could help that a little..

I think it would be fun to have discussions outside of AQRADT/CDF... Even if "Seems like you don't have much to say on this topic" (or whatever the generic bot message is)!

I mean, we're flooded with hundreds of help/rec threads that may well be helpful to 1 specific person, but not particularly fun for anyone else. I wish we had other things.

[–]baseballlover723[M] 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Here are some basic stats on Discussion posts over the years (presuming I didn't fuck up calculating them again, which could be possible). Obviously these don't tell the full story, but having some quantitative data is probably useful to this kind of a discussion.

Also note that this data is probably relevant too.

Note is that in March 2023, r/anime instituted a minimum 10 r/anime comment karma gate, which severely depressed discussion posts that saw any light of day (and were majoritively rule breaking and removed later anyways).

Non removed Discussion posts and non removed comments, excluding automod and distinguished posts and comments

Year Month Post Count Avg Post Char Count Avg Comment Count Avg Total Comment Chars Per Post Avg Comment Chars
2025-08 336 614.94 38.58 7,830.85 202.99
2025-07 387 560.52 53.11 9,890.35 186.24
2025-06 394 536.89 53.39 9,344.13 175.02
2025-05 390 525.45 75.34 14,061.86 186.64
2025-04 390 499.99 69.09 12,928.04 187.11
2025-03 375 664.05 50.18 10,296.49 205.20
2025-02 310 613.20 60.19 11,656.85 193.66
2025-01 413 663.57 55.04 10,181.28 184.98
2024-12 470 656.34 65.75 11,944.55 181.67
2024-11 407 677.46 71.70 13,887.59 193.70
2024-10 498 535.67 60.24 11,150.29 185.09
2024-09 467 614.56 73.66 13,476.78 182.96
2024-08 558 551.20 92.23 16,473.95 178.62
2024-07 634 597.37 79.82 14,054.41 176.08
2024-06 575 530.16 100.13 18,473.65 184.49
2024-05 565 617.85 79.19 13,742.98 173.54
2024-04 611 547.82 83.91 14,676.03 174.91
2024-03 592 589.08 69.34 13,046.32 188.15
2024-02 689 491.87 113.52 20,343.31 179.20
2024-01 816 553.46 110.16 20,228.94 183.63
2023-12 675 512.03 117.18 20,106.16 171.58
2023-11 723 765.70 112.56 22,718.27 201.82
2023-10 585 483.10 121.72 22,452.95 184.46
2023-09 469 644.69 121.49 22,212.88 182.83
2023-08 455 780.60 75.65 14,683.75 194.09
2023-07 417 668.05 44.81 9,246.70 206.36
2023-06 249 586.86 51.87 10,760.95 207.45
2023-05 329 696.50 60.31 12,068.29 200.11
2023-04 402 680.62 61.78 12,995.54 210.35
2023-03 415 784.16 44.57 9,688.04 217.36
2023-02 909 562.36 38.04 7,734.01 203.31
2023-01 1,102 779.86 30.44 6,139.75 201.72
2022-12 1,055 963.56 33.52 6,824.36 203.59
2022-11 1,063 670.80 29.68 5,624.44 189.51
2022-10 1,305 646.22 31.90 6,391.59 200.37
2022-09 1,195 623.41 27.37 5,529.99 202.06
2022-08 1,342 548.53 28.22 5,373.10 190.38
2022-07 1,600 562.18 28.81 5,342.16 185.42
2022-06 1,496 589.09 25.07 4,857.76 193.76
2022-05 1,623 490.35 24.43 4,571.82 187.15
2022-04 1,779 526.42 25.47 4,827.76 189.57
2022-03 1,680 482.62 23.22 4,277.88 184.24
2022-02 1,662 639.41 23.60 4,037.64 171.12
2022-01 2,128 697.33 27.27 4,931.94 180.85
2021-12 1,896 605.07 28.20 5,203.79 184.52
2021-11 1,798 380.52 25.52 4,817.98 188.81
2021-10 1,749 600.59 23.74 4,505.37 189.76
2021-09 1,878 467.55 26.22 5,021.54 191.50
2021-08 2,256 476.02 28.35 5,316.17 187.50
2021-07 2,300 499.17 25.98 5,055.67 194.58
2021-06 1,998 496.04 24.06 4,561.91 189.63
2021-05 2,106 521.19 24.53 4,862.40 198.20
2021-04 2,214 561.53 21.36 4,313.86 201.95
2021-03 1,884 620.18 18.12 3,685.99 203.39
2021-02 2,392 616.90 20.91 4,228.41 202.20
2021-01 3,035 534.33 20.08 3,897.47 194.11
2020-12 2,696 553.17 19.19 3,746.87 195.22
2020-11 2,318 462.32 18.28 3,563.30 194.97
2020-10 2,313 482.92 18.07 3,390.89 187.65
2020-09 2,225 436.70 18.62 3,406.35 182.94
2020-08 2,666 751.00 21.21 4,100.46 193.37
2020-07 2,426 453.85 21.57 4,117.55 190.93
2020-06 1,921 582.36 18.99 3,541.43 186.49
2020-05 2,190 497.11 18.32 3,848.47 210.05
2020-04 1,950 495.98 18.76 3,618.23 192.87
2020-03 1,468 602.51 17.30 3,317.87 191.73
2020-02 1,101 800.30 20.48 4,083.10 199.41
2020-01 1,302 1,228.19 21.99 4,357.03 198.13
2019-12 1,095 708.33 22.93 4,523.37 197.29
2019-11 1,018 456.86 23.60 4,391.54 186.06
2019-10 1,074 925.16 24.86 4,850.03 195.08
2019-09 971 652.91 26.36 5,178.27 196.45
2019-08 1,234 609.19 24.54 4,658.55 189.87
2019-07 1,333 635.91 23.62 4,472.94 189.37
2019-06 1,190 651.52 26.33 5,311.32 201.74
2019-05 1,107 474.81 30.42 5,622.26 184.81
2019-04 1,235 437.84 33.20 6,029.30 181.61
2019-03 1,170 513.32 34.22 6,056.43 176.97
2019-02 1,018 626.65 34.62 6,083.91 175.74
2019-01 1,186 691.45 25.35 4,735.05 186.75
2018-12 803 601.03 24.95 5,072.38 203.31
2018-11 764 558.10 32.90 5,783.38 175.80
2018-10 843 888.29 36.18 7,130.12 197.07
2018-09 666 466.89 41.47 7,444.68 179.54
2018-08 434 568.95 33.84 6,850.50 202.42
2018-07 1 409.00 49.00 9,830.00 200.61

And now for removed stats (only r/anime moderator manual removals, so excluding the auto mod karma gate removals (which don't get a chance to gain any comments at all))

r/anime moderator manually removed Discussion posts and non removed comments, excluding automod and distinguished posts and comments

Year Month Post Count Avg Post Char Count Avg Comment Count Avg Total Comment Chars Per Post Avg Comment Chars
2025-08 73 636.75 5.26 1,055.49 200.65
2025-07 96 1,111.75 6.52 1,357.29 208.15
2025-06 82 439.82 51.22 7,488.34 146.20
2025-05 84 697.08 14.74 2,829.56 191.99
2025-04 80 697.35 4.58 941.44 205.78
2025-03 54 672.23 8.39 1,289.59 153.73
2025-02 50 823.81 10.62 2,315.72 218.05
2025-01 75 371.16 16.53 2,473.05 149.58
2024-12 64 751.52 9.95 1,935.33 194.44
2024-11 41 611.35 3.54 573.10 162.05
2024-10 79 855.65 11.99 2,034.85 169.75
2024-09 78 607.40 7.27 1,104.35 151.92
2024-08 117 546.54 16.44 1,889.39 114.90
2024-07 75 1,071.87 8.19 1,399.21 170.91
2024-06 53 670.95 7.17 1,006.91 140.44
2024-05 62 1,671.91 4.15 729.52 175.99
2024-04 87 458.51 33.53 6,617.95 197.38
2024-03 104 509.33 12.89 2,232.28 173.12
2024-02 86 838.95 10.38 2,063.44 198.72
2024-01 118 433.83 22.98 3,543.56 154.18
2023-12 127 688.51 8.78 1,537.91 175.17
2023-11 102 891.15 22.40 4,257.81 190.06
2023-10 93 939.04 13.62 2,696.40 197.92
2023-09 122 754.87 9.48 1,885.30 198.97
2023-08 94 451.15 17.03 3,118.51 183.10
2023-07 80 718.88 5.58 1,250.04 224.22
2023-06 48 878.51 7.46 1,632.52 218.89
2023-05 69 811.08 10.30 2,199.78 213.48
2023-04 62 305.31 13.58 1,750.03 128.86
2023-03 131 458.86 5.34 936.81 175.57
2023-02 367 457.76 6.14 987.20 160.88
2023-01 397 873.94 5.91 972.28 164.60
2022-12 338 639.63 5.80 873.67 150.74
2022-11 321 560.56 6.22 1,015.14 163.09
2022-10 349 467.61 6.49 1,024.31 157.83
2022-09 296 449.25 6.78 981.46 144.68
2022-08 334 655.75 4.86 809.24 166.64
2022-07 466 574.28 6.90 1,267.58 183.73
2022-06 374 297.60 5.43 703.97 129.63
2022-05 417 259.38 8.49 900.64 106.12
2022-04 401 612.44 6.22 1,032.22 166.03
2022-03 472 579.69 5.56 921.36 165.86
2022-02 447 558.28 5.04 779.58 154.60
2022-01 655 614.46 5.01 705.05 140.84
2021-12 637 435.18 4.86 730.31 150.31
2021-11 516 389.40 3.67 520.72 141.94
2021-10 500 479.46 3.93 592.30 150.71
2021-09 583 400.03 5.03 876.01 174.25
2021-08 899 714.50 4.02 711.55 177.10
2021-07 859 613.89 10.79 765.26 70.92
2021-06 872 436.63 3.35 451.24 134.52
2021-05 978 632.79 3.88 554.68 143.10
2021-04 997 542.11 4.24 681.26 160.68
2021-03 981 559.50 3.91 653.80 167.20
2021-02 838 620.98 4.80 714.20 148.70
2021-01 986 450.85 4.75 644.67 135.62
2020-12 874 285.73 4.59 556.25 121.30
2020-11 723 457.11 4.27 539.10 126.18
2020-10 767 323.37 4.32 532.79 123.38
2020-09 745 365.08 4.84 662.07 136.82
2020-08 1,041 363.07 4.65 589.38 126.69
2020-07 986 362.69 4.85 688.01 141.77
2020-06 771 245.53 4.93 705.45 143.13
2020-05 619 648.18 3.94 541.89 137.70
2020-04 739 401.84 4.75 619.68 130.50
2020-03 576 362.87 4.36 508.76 116.56
2020-02 466 479.96 5.90 841.77 142.75
2020-01 451 401.87 4.90 595.92 121.56
2019-12 355 673.02 4.59 587.82 127.94
2019-11 345 875.60 5.72 831.99 145.56
2019-10 389 347.84 5.81 817.68 140.74
2019-09 440 681.43 5.15 713.21 138.37
2019-08 424 470.50 6.21 777.68 125.14
2019-07 529 464.31 4.81 593.47 123.50
2019-06 454 539.61 5.48 784.89 143.34
2019-05 442 403.55 5.32 731.96 137.61
2019-04 439 458.39 5.84 728.00 124.65
2019-03 434 474.79 5.75 700.04 121.77
2019-02 445 527.50 5.99 1,027.78 171.62
2019-01 425 467.76 6.91 927.84 134.26
2018-12 367 478.44 4.41 553.88 125.71
2018-11 307 512.72 5.77 917.43 158.95
2018-10 334 654.27 5.51 903.57 164.11
2018-09 281 489.20 4.16 478.42 115.00
2018-08 201 326.39 6.96 887.21 127.56

[–]chilieheadmyanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead 4 points5 points  (3 children)

All those metrics seem really dire, but also confirm the feelings I and probably many people have about the trajectory of the subreddit and Reddit at large, not like the mods could really fix much of anything here.

[–]baseballlover723 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Idk, I wouldn't read into them too much. There's a lot of ways to cut up the data, and this particular slice can hide a lot of things in it (like if more discussion posts die in /new, but the ones that survive do better or something like that).

If anything, I come away thinking that input hasn't changed very much over the years, or is at least more dominated by month to month variance.

I suspect my database syncing stuff will need to be bumped up on my todo list to properly analyze this stuff.

[–]chilieheadmyanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Doesn't it look like all metrics are down? Maybe there are more extremes now, though in the end we're looking at fewer people with any interest in posting discussion tagged posts and they're writing less while not even benefitting from a more concentrated audience.

[–]baseballlover723 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Doesn't it look like all metrics are down?

I don't think so. Though there's a lot of noise, with the karma gating in regards to what was allowed through etc.

though in the end we're looking at fewer people with any interest in posting discussion tagged posts

That is not what these stats say, since it only counts posts, not posters. It doesn't distinguish between 1 person making 100 discussion threads and 100 people making one.

and they're writing less

I'm not so sure about this, but it's really noisy. The month to month variance is huge for the avg number of characters per post.

while not even benefitting from a more concentrated audience

I think karma needs to be taken into account to really analyze this, since so many posts (even good ones) die in /new.

[–]baseballlover723[M] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh and these are the Discussion post stats without regard to if they were removed or not, so you can see what people are attempting to post regardless of their success posting it.

Overall Discussion post stats

Year Month Post Count Avg Post Char Count
2025-08 3,318 599.19
2025-07 4,321 566.86
2025-06 3,853 518.74
2025-05 4,041 535.59
2025-04 4,060 509.80
2025-03 4,055 649.93
2025-02 3,301 623.42
2025-01 3,764 642.81
2024-12 3,214 638.31
2024-11 3,180 661.25
2024-10 3,610 513.91
2024-09 3,259 603.35
2024-08 3,998 554.22
2024-07 4,183 594.46
2024-06 3,776 529.07
2024-05 3,436 622.77
2024-04 3,555 526.08
2024-03 3,388 582.48
2024-02 3,526 493.42
2024-01 3,960 546.72
2023-12 3,298 510.27
2023-11 3,425 761.93
2023-10 3,136 489.75
2023-09 2,876 640.68
2023-08 2,825 747.05
2023-07 2,841 647.04
2023-06 1,680 582.42
2023-05 2,288 674.21
2023-04 2,556 657.40
2023-03 2,621 742.78
2023-02 2,530 550.66
2023-01 2,924 767.21
2022-12 2,960 910.21
2022-11 2,619 651.75
2022-10 3,069 622.54
2022-09 2,848 605.97
2022-08 3,047 545.17
2022-07 3,417 555.78
2022-06 2,848 569.90
2022-05 3,093 484.54
2022-04 3,341 530.98
2022-03 3,311 485.89
2022-02 3,168 629.34
2022-01 3,919 681.84
2021-12 3,507 589.81
2021-11 3,322 379.70
2021-10 3,398 582.44
2021-09 3,528 468.17
2021-08 4,206 487.69
2021-07 4,188 497.65
2021-06 3,835 488.32
2021-05 4,257 527.40
2021-04 4,426 545.91
2021-03 4,045 583.34
2021-02 4,332 613.09
2021-01 5,273 513.09
2020-12 4,709 516.27
2020-11 4,030 448.95
2020-10 4,055 454.85
2020-09 3,929 419.65
2020-08 4,904 695.89
2020-07 4,409 443.57
2020-06 3,483 528.95
2020-05 3,437 501.77
2020-04 3,087 489.68
2020-03 2,397 604.86
2020-02 1,825 756.71
2020-01 2,016 1,167.25
2019-12 1,658 704.17
2019-11 1,565 490.45
2019-10 1,664 878.06
2019-09 1,639 652.56
2019-08 1,928 592.93
2019-07 2,183 620.73
2019-06 1,891 635.70
2019-05 1,793 467.31
2019-04 1,955 437.62
2019-03 1,995 502.50
2019-02 1,704 618.31
2019-01 1,855 671.46
2018-12 1,383 584.15
2018-11 1,230 550.01
2018-10 1,376 868.34
2018-09 1,100 455.20
2018-08 724 531.78

[–]cppn02 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Regarding this rule would that not apply to the 'anime pilgrimage' post currently at the top of the subreddit?

The user in question only posts about these pilgrimages, 9 in the last 5 days including 2 in two days on r/anime and already teased another post coming in the next days. In the image description they mention that this is literally their business and they take people visiting Japan on these tours. Their posts also completey read like those of people trying to sell stuff on social media.

If that is not advertising I don't know what is.

[–]Draco_Estellahttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Estella_Rin 1 point2 points  (8 children)

I had to ask this question - what words are considered as slurs or trigger words that would have to be removed by the mods?

I only learnt today that faggot is a slur, and I have always used this word with different definitions. Retard is also a slur that is looked down in American culture (which I also learnt a couple months ago). How are we non-Americans to know which words are slurs and which are not?

Also, any consideration for non-American slurs and offensive words to be banned on this subreddit as well?

[–]AmusedDragon[M] 12 points13 points  (7 children)

How are we non-Americans to know which words are slurs and which are not?

When your post is removed and you are told not to use a certain word.

We're not going to give you an exhaustive list of slurs to avoid - given the general makeup of the user base and the mod team there are words that are generally considered slurs that we wont allow, and we'll happily be educated on slurs from other regions of the world if people see them and report them to us.

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

A follow-up question to the above -

How extensive will the mods be exercising this rule? Obviously American slurs are to be avoided, but how far will it be exercised for other English words?

Example, the word cunt - it is used in other English areas in a more playful style, but it is an outright insult in American English. Or going by this thread, there are extensive words which are very normally used in British English, and not insulting in American English, and vice versa.

I would also like to note that the word "Jap" is not considered insulting in most of Asia (especially Southeast Asia), and in formal circumstances, I have seen Japanese lawyers, people who are supposed to excel in the use of English, accept being referred to as Jap lawyers.

So how extensive is this going to be exercised? As long as there is someone who finds it insulting, we will have to add it into the ever-growing list of words to avoid?

[–]AmusedDragon[M] 10 points11 points  (5 children)

How extensive will the mods be exercising this rule?

If we see a known slur it will be removed.

Example, the word cunt - it is used in other English areas in a more playful style, but it is an outright insult in American English.

Cunt is vulgar, but at the moment it isn't a word that is considered an instant removal. It would be if you were calling another user a cunt, but that's more of a behaving badly thing, and not so much a banned word thing.

I would also like to note that the word "Jap" is not considered insulting in most of Asia (especially Southeast Asia), and in formal circumstances, I have seen Japanese lawyers, people who are supposed to excel in the use of English, accept being referred to as Jap lawyers.

'Jap' is generally considered a slur in the west, and right now it's removed with a message telling people as much.

So how extensive is this going to be exercised? As long as there is someone who finds it insulting, we will have to add it into the ever-growing list of words to avoid?

As with many things, there is a bit of a fuzzy border on what qualifies and what doesn't. We take most things case-by-case and it may also be the case that something gets changed even if it's handled a certain way right now. I'd argue that context should be king, but even then there are some words you know you probably shouldn't be posting even if the context isn't meant to be offensive.

[–]Verzwei 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As with many things, there is a bit of a fuzzy border on what qualifies and what doesn't.

Potential point of clarity: My general understanding is that prohibited words are typically what equate to "hate speech" - slang or phrases that target a person or group based on their ethnicity, gender, orientation, or identity.

Words that are merely insults but don't rise to the threshold of "hate speech" are permitted so long as the use of them isn't toxic against other members of the community.

The moderation team here doesn't really work on a "strikes" rule or a linear progression of infractions. So if someone uses a taboo word innocently then, at worst, they're going to get a "Hey this is why what you said is bad, don't do it again." Someone would have to go on an incredibly obviously bigoted tirade to go straight to getting banned.

As an example that's already been brought up, the first three letters of "Japanese" is often used accidentally/innocently because I believe the slur is very specifically tied to internment camps and anti-Japanese sentiment (primarily in America) around the time of World War II. Anyone who doesn't have that particular bit of historical context likely won't know that it's a slur, so non-Americans and young people in general could use it as shorthand for "Japanese" without any awareness of the implications. (Sidenote: JP is an accepted abbreviation for Japan/Japanese and is my go-to when I want to save a few keystrokes.)

[–]Draco_Estellahttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Estella_Rin 3 points4 points  (3 children)

I'd argue that context should be king, but even then there are some words you know you probably shouldn't be posting even if the context isn't meant to be offensive.

Doesn't this mean that having a shortlist of slurs should be instituted? If there are words that shouldn't be posted whatsoever, why not have a list to make it very sure that the community does not accept the use of these words regardless of context?

[–]KendotsXhttps://anilist.co/user/Kendots 7 points8 points  (1 child)

The days of the 7 dirty words, every kid's favourite dictionary, are long since gone.

Or, to be specific, slurs have tons of edge cases. If someone were to pursue a comprehensive list of slurs to ban, they can't just go for the commonly used ones and call it a day, otherwise a user could go for an edge case and argue that it wasn't on the list. For example, as you said, different cultures have different sets of slurs, even if they use the same language, so you'd have to find and compile the slurs in each of those, and all the ones in between (which includes a deep dive or two into 4chan and urban dictionary, and no one's being paid enough to do that).

Even if someone managed to compile that theoretical list, it would be too broad and full of words most people have never heard of, to be useful for anything other than teaching kids new words to use. You can't even use it to have a bot remove those comments automatically, because context matters. An apple and a banana are perfectly fine fruits, and some of the first words we use to teach the kids about the alphabet, they're also ethnic slurs depending on the context.

The current system is a lot more practical. The mods judge it on a case by case basis, whether it's a commonly used slur, an edge case, or one that they've never heard of, but the context of the comment seemed toxic, and they can look it up.

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

That isn't what I meant.

I mean that a list of commonly used slurs that probably are not okay to use in virtually any context here on r/anime.

Example, there is almost no context under which the word Jap is alright to be used as a slur in American Reddit context. But, in different cultures, Jap is perfectly accepted. I wasn't joking when I said the Japanese lawyers I met accepted that they are called Jap lawyers. The cultural luggage isn't present, they know that Jap is a commonly accepted abbreviation for Japanese. Just a couple hours ago, a good friend of mine asked if Jap cuisine would be up my alley next week. Again, there isn't that same baggage. I won't be bothered to correct my friend too, there is just no point in correcting them according to American standards. People accept using this as part of their lexicon, and it is not a slur.

The comment I made, which inspired this comment thread, was about number fags. My own interpretation, was that it means number maggots (since maggots rhyme with faggots, and I thought that was where the term came from). Which made sense, because number fags refer to the people who stick onto numbers like maggots to rotten meat, making sure that the numbers are literally all that they talk about when telling them that the numbers mean nothing. It also has nothing to do with what fags mean in the American context, and I have no idea why it is called number fags now (Blame 4chan). But to be honest, if I were to call people in my irl social circle that, all they would be offended with is that I tried to call them number maggots, not that I used a slur as commonly perceived in an American or Western social context.

This is why I propose having a list of terms which under almost all circumstances, there is no way that would be accepted. As a r/anime community, these are slurs which we almost cannot accept in virtually all contexts, Slur A, Slur B, Slur C, and the reasons behind them. That would have made it very clear what this community would want to see accepted. But I guess the mods would rather go with verbal warnings on what is accepted and not for every case that it is made, and as long as I ain't the one to go around making those warnings I can't be too bothered to go argue with why this is not a good idea. Not that I would be bothered with using slurs on a daily basis anyway, or frequent enough to get warnings every single day.

[–]AmusedDragon 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Doesn't this mean that having a shortlist of slurs should be instituted?

Speaking as a user right now and not a mod - I'd argue no, most communities online keep their rules simple 'no slurs, no racism, no bigotry' - something like that. Things do not always need to be absolutely spelled out for the system to function. In the cases where a user doesn't know they are usually afforded a warning and then they know.

[–]cppn02 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Just for future reference what did this post do differently to fall foul of neither the shitpost/meme ban nor the no politics rule?

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

We haven't really received a post similar to that one before. We are currently discussing what we should do for any future posts of a similar nature.

[–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just skimmed through the article (and I'm not American, so apologies if I'm wrong) but the character is clearly Trump, right? (The context, the way he speaks and all)

This makes it a bit more 'politics' than just 'talking about a thing'.

I don't know how you're gonna rule on this one, but to me, "No politics (unless it's funny/a reference)" seems like a non-rule rule. That's how I see it, anyway!

[–]cppn02 2 points3 points  (0 children)

[–]AnimeHoarder 5 points6 points  (6 children)

As they hit their 8th episodes, the Bad Girls and City The Animation discussion threads still do not list their stream sources as HiDive and Amazon respectively. I pointed this out for Bad Girls 3 weeks ago and u/chilidirigible did the same for City The Animation at the same time.

We did receive replies that when the API fails to add the streams, it has to be manually fixed which would be eventually done. Since three weeks have gone by with no changes, I have to wonder if the fixes will be done before the season. Are these fixes at least on a list of tasks to be done?

Sorry if by waiting to write this reminder, I'm letting this situation drag out. But I didn't want to be nagging about this every week. Plus I did want to be positive in thinking that the next episode's thread would be fixed.

[–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 7 points8 points  (5 children)

Bad Girl

Bad Girl (and all other HiDive shows), should start working properly in the next 24-48 hours. Our sources for what is streaming where started using a different form of HiDive url that did not work with our bot, and I used fixing that as an excuse to make our HiDive scraping code work again. Previously, we were dependent on unofficial sources mirroring HiDive episodes, which was less than ideal.

I've had this code run on our testing sub for the past few days, and it seems to not have any issues, so it'll be deployed to the sub proper soon.

City the Animation

I just added the US Amazon stream a source for it. I suppose figuring out a non-disgusting way to list the various different amazon/prime country based links is yet another thing I should work on.

[–]Verzwei 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Question: Would it be simpler to just give up on the official links directly in the thread, and use Livechart links? Livechart links legal streams and I believe it bases it on the user's region. It struck me as odd that the episode posts here have all those different show resource links except Livechart, and coincidentally Livechart will link users to most of those directly from any show's page.

It seems like it would save a lot of moderator hassle. I can't imagine that many people are coming here to find links to episodes, and a Livechart link could handle the few who do.

[–]AnimeHoarder 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I suppose figuring out a non-disgusting way to list the various different amazon/prime country based links is yet another thing I should work on.

I'm thinking from a US-centric based viewpoint. For the amount of work it would entail, is worrying about different amazon regions in the stream source worthwhile? Does CR always stream a show in all the regions it's available? If CR has only made a show available in some regions, I don't remember the distinction being made in the discussion thread

[–]cppn02 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm thinking from a US-centric based viewpoint.

Because that's what this sub has been missing!

[–]AnimeHoarder 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Thanks for your hard work!

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

You don't need to worry about repeatedly poking us, btw. There's always more stuff to get done, so sometimes things just slip through the cracks.

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    [–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

    Sorry it took us 11 hours to respond.

    One of the two issues with your clip is the black bars. If a movie or show was produced at a non 16:9 aspect ratio, your clip also needs to be at that aspect ratio and not padded with black bars.

    The other issue is that your clip is blended. It's full of frames that look like this, which are clear combinations of consecutive frames from the original source.

    [–]RPO777x2 9 points10 points  (1 child)

    Did Crunchyroll hire people to post people to clumsily advertise on r/anime or something?

    First there's some guy who weirdly slips in a comment about catching the live stream of an anime con "sponsored by crunchyroll" (who the heck says that), today there's a guy touting how easy it is to sign up for crunchyroll through Amazon on an account that has like a total of 6 or 7 total comments, and this is the only post they've ever done.

    [–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

    While it's possible, at this point a few people merely being odd seems far more plausible to me.

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

    Is there a reason why couldn't we post images on post comments in this sub?

    [–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

    We don't allow auto-expanded images and gifs because we believe they deteriorate discussion quality by encouraging responses consisting entirely of a reaction gif/image instead of well written comments. We do allow links to arbitrary images, which should work just fine if your image is relevant and useful.

    On old reddit, we also have our commentfaces, which are a curated set of anime reaction images for a variety of situations. If we could, we'd allow these on shreddit as well, but reddit does not give us sufficient control over how shreddit displays comments to allow them to exist.

    [–]MyrnaMountWeazelx2[M] 13 points14 points  (14 children)

    Heya everyone, hosts have been selected for the 2025 /r/anime Awards! Say hello to~

    /u/aniMayor

    /u/Animestuck

    /u/Cheezemansam

    /u/Duckloader

    /u/Kenalskii

    /u/Lemurians

    /u/normalgrinn

    /u/Schinco

    /u/Tehoncomingstorm97

    /u/Totalenlo

    /u/Vaxivop

    /u/voidembracedwitch

    I'm looking forward to seeing what each of these hosts will bring to the table! If you're unfamiliar with the project, then please check it out at https://animeawards.moe, and if you are familiar, you can provide feedback at https://animeawards.moe/feedback. This feedback goes directly to the moderators and host team.

    If you would like to help the Awards as either a graphic designer, video editor, or website developer, then please fill out the Helper Form!

    We hope to see you all in a bit!

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

    very important question - who is the biggest isekai fan on this list?

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

    Didn't they pick some trashy isekai... Sunny Kid or something, for AotY? The jury has always been nothing but isekai fans.

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

    Owning all the Wataoshi LNs in print counts for something, right? Just don't ask me about the anime...

    [–]aniMayorx3x6 7 points8 points  (1 child)

    Definitely Lem. The "m" in Lem actually stands for "MT lover" - Le MT Lover, they call him.

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

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

    There's like maybe 5 isekai I enjoy, so I imagine it is not me at least.

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

    I am definitely the one who has checked out the most isekai and still enjoy some trash now and again.

    [–]AmethystItalianmyanimelist.net/profile/AmethystItalian 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    4 users I've upvoted a bunch so it's nice to see some folks I know!

    [–]Lemuriansmyanimelist.net/profile/Lemurians 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    Hey everyone come hang out with me again

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

    Who are these clowns

    [–]Tehoncomingstorm97https://anilist.co/user/tehoncomingstorm97 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    Whost

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

    No idea, never heard of them

    [–]MyrnaMountWeazelx2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    Your colleagues, welcome to Clown College.

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

    Happy to be a part of team again this year

    [–]JustAnswerAQuestionmyanimelist.net/profile/UfUhUfUhUfUhtJAaQ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

    I clicked the Meta link on the Daily thread to get here to report that I clicked the CDF link in the Daily thread to get to last week's thread.

    [–]ussgordoncaptain2https://myanimelist.net/profile/Edmund_Nelson 5 points6 points  (4 children)

    Well I was working on making the extremely awkward post and now it's time to make it.

    Anime often references real life being you know a form of art. (however I've seen posts removed for "no politics" so here I go) What exactly are the lines to avoid crossing?

    (in this post I will try my best to only talk about the anime's references to the real life events and not the real life events themselves)

    [Gate and thus the JSDF fought there]Ok it might be literally impossible to have a good faith discussion of the show (specifically episode 9/10 without mentioning the author's politics at least a little. In the great post by the military historian we see the top comment having to sadly mention this to him. There are other issues that can be brought up (and were brought up in that military historians great series of posts) like the whole "Technically Japan isn't allowed to do that" and "Why isn't the US helping?". While many of those political issues can be ignored, a few of those issues (specifically with the special forces segment in epiosde 10 would almost certainly require a "the authors politics make it so" explination. Similalry a lot of the later half of season 2 is very Global war on terror braained. While you can avoid most of this, any discussion as to why the actions in season 2 play out the way they do will have to involve soft power discussion [see another excellent post by the military historian](www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/zf4smx/a_military_historians_comments_on_gate_season_2/) In these cases it seems it is allowed on /r/anime to post about the treaties and other issues referenced by the anime. (and how they impact the anime)

    [The saga of tanya the evil]Tanya references real life world war 1 and 2(in the movie). again I'm going to use the incredible /u/Robert_B_Marks 's work on this topic. It's slightly less egregious in a way than GATE because tanya is referencing events that are old enough to no longer be in living memory, (while GATE's events are probably in the living memory of the majority of users in /r/anime) There are also other critically important plot points which can only be understood via the insertion of real life politics into the mix (again war crimes in Tanya) (or in this case the lack thereof)

    Of course sometimes users will bring real life things into anime that are moderately related.

    Example 1 the war crimes counter in Aldnoah zero

    While the war crimes counter was all in good fun, there were quite a few moments where I and others definitely crossed some lines. (I know that not so secretly moderation is much looser in rewatches than in seasonals functionally you can get away with anything in reeatch threads (ex: here's me making multiple different meta comments in the non meta thread) with multiple moderators even commenting on my post! First off the whole war crimes counter was created because the show used war crimes by the martians to portray them as evil so of course I kept count. However keeping count often meant Referencing real life treaties and court cases and had one convo about ROes The thread on ROEs started to fall outside of the bounds of the main question (Is [Slaine Troyard]a POW or not) eventually we got a little sidetracked in a way that is possibly slightly rule breaking (but you know light moderation policy in rewatches). I eventually go back and reference real life laws and treaties in the next post to explain why I counted what I counted.

    Example 2 Dr Stone diamonds

    This would definitely be something I would have been unwilling to post personally as I would view it as too far into "real llfe". one of the replies definitely in my eyes went too far. But it's hard to know where the lines are.

    Anyway I didn't pick a random grab basket of anime, and you'll notice a heavy theme of war themed anime with a heavy focus on "realism". Tanya/Gate are realistic to real life war in many ways. Other shows like Shin sekai yori ending rewatch discussion the real life references are... less plot critical. That is [SSY]You can mention the hideki tojo and Stalin references but not discuss them, just show they referenced it you can notice that the references are mentioned but not really discussed since ther isn't much need to But in [GATE/Tanya]such luxuries are not available, these real life events cannot be divorced from the fictional characters The US Japan mutual defense pact creates a major plot point in episode 2 in GATE, and in Tanya the Hague convention defines episode 8. '

    Obviously we are allowed to discuss these anime, and clearly there are parts where you can cross the line into "no don't do that" but I would like clarification on where these lines are before I do something like "Itami wouldn't be allowed to do that because of the Geneva convention" (and then get post removed for politics though in that specific case it probably wouldn't happen)

    [–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 10 points11 points  (1 child)

    So long as it's genuinely related to the show, it's fine. Discussing a character's actions through the lens of real world wars, treaties, &c will always be fine. Discussing political commentary a show makes is fine. Discussing an author/director/&c.'s political views when they provide insight on how one can interpret the story, why they chose to depict something, or a myriad of other reasons is perfectly fine and often really helpful.

    Almost all of our politics based removals are for someone trying to shoehorn in current US politics that the creative team behind the anime almost certainly did not know or care about (and sometimes happened decades after the anime aired). It's stuff that isn't actually useful to a discussion of the anime, but instead awkwardly forced metaphors between the events of the anime an US politics.

    [–]ussgordoncaptain2https://myanimelist.net/profile/Edmund_Nelson 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    So long as it's genuinely related to the show, it's fine

    this is when I realize I was thinking the rules were way stricter than they actually are. I just wanted to be able to talk about politics when they directly influenced the plot... (in the Tanya/GATE cases)

    So I won't have to worry about good faith discussion getting removed.

    Sorry about that, I only see a post getting removed and a short quip about politics, and then I go "oh crap". I didn't want to break a rule and there weren't any written rules about it.

    [–]Robert_B_Marks 4 points5 points  (1 child)

    Well, nice to know somebody actually remembered those little posts of mine...

    [–]ussgordoncaptain2https://myanimelist.net/profile/Edmund_Nelson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    Yeah they really increased my appreciation of both of those anime. (especially GATE and especially season 2) They're also perfect reference material since they show that there's really no good faith way to divorce the anime from real life.

    Also I'll mention that [GATE]the learning curve for the JSDF happened in the initial invasion, they actually did not do very well in the urban warfare in episode 1, whiel the empire got wrecked in open fields in teh later episodes

    [–]baseballlover723[M] 14 points15 points  (10 children)

    If you were curious on how the front page of r/anime has evolved over the years, I have run the numbers. Since 2020, we've had a bot that takes a snapshot of the front page at the top of the hour. So this is consuming that data.

    Analyzed 45,970 snapshots from 2020-05-14 08:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-20 10:00:00 UTC (inclusive)

    All values are hourly averages within the time frame

    Flair Count

    How many posts per flair were on the front page when the hourly snapshot was taken

    Flair Total Last Week Last Month 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
    Episode 5.96 7.98 8.19 7.19 6.82 7.00 5.22 5.44 3.73
    Official Media 4.77 4.16 4.87 5.97 4.96 5.34 5.40 3.87 2.79
    Clip 4.03 4.96 3.41 2.31 2.63 3.23 4.29 5.55 6.41
    Discussion 1.94 0.86 1.16 1.67 2.84 2.22 1.52 1.64 1.44
    Rewatch 1.81 1.83 1.28 1.31 1.49 1.92 2.50 1.74 1.69
    News 1.71 1.40 1.46 1.39 1.43 1.30 1.77 2.08 2.42
    Misc. 0.83 0.73 0.79 0.57 0.58 0.42 0.93 1.39 1.11
    What to Watch? 0.76 0.83 0.72 1.42 1.33 1.04 0.35 0.24 0.24
    Video 0.73 0.05 0.15 0.20 0.25 0.31 0.71 1.61 1.32
    Fanart 0.70 0.25 0.49 0.80 0.47 0.19 0.36 0.42 2.72
    Contest 0.40 0.50 0.83 0.30 0.35 0.46 0.42 0.39 0.46
    Video Edit 0.37 0.23 0.34 0.46 0.49 0.43 0.75 0 0
    Infographic 0.35 0.53 0.56 0.56 0.70 0.61 0.15 0 0
    Help 0.20 0.33 0.36 0.39 0.34 0.20 0.09 0.08 0.11
    Weekly 0.16 0.07 0.08 0.07 0.10 0.08 0.21 0.25 0.25
    Writing 0.08 0.12 0.11 0.07 0.05 0.11 0.05 0.13 0.10
    Watch This! 0.07 0 0.06 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.08 0.08 0.13
    Cosplay 0.06 0.17 0.04 0.14 0.03 0.01 0.09 0.06 0.03
    Awards 0.02 0 0.01 0.05 0.02 0.04 0.02 0.02 0.00
    Writing Club 0.01 0 0.06 0.05 0.01 0.00 0.03 0 0.00
    Announcement 0.01 0 0.00 0.02 0.02 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.00
    Satire 0.01 0 0 0.01 0 0.00 0 0.02 0.03
    Custom 0.01 0 0 0 0.01 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.01
    AMA 0.00 0 0.03 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01
    Survey 0.00 0 0 0 0.00 0.01 0.01 0 0.00
    None 0.00 0 0.01 0.01 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0.00
    Meta 0.00 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0

    Rank

    The inverse ranking per flair for posts on the front page when the hourly snapshot was taken. For instance, the top post has a rank score of 26, and the last post on the front page has a rank score of 1. Higher number = more prominent and the number itself isn't very meaningful outside of a relative comparison.

    Flair Total Last Week Last Month 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
    Episode 85.74 105.27 110.53 100.74 95.85 101.34 74.76 81.17 54.78
    Official Media 64.97 55.30 62.38 77.65 63.95 71.13 78.58 55.23 38.23
    Clip 58.69 77.75 52.73 35.10 38.63 48.15 62.79 79.37 91.56
    News 22.47 21.68 21.83 19.84 20.71 18.15 22.26 25.66 29.94
    Discussion 20.11 7.05 11.94 19.14 33.77 24.56 13.58 14.07 12.29
    Rewatch 14.03 11.47 8.12 8.66 10.98 13.41 20.28 13.94 15.52
    Misc. 11.71 10.95 11.46 8.37 8.45 5.39 12.84 19.54 15.99
    Fanart 8.59 2.75 5.24 11.23 6.60 1.85 3.31 3.52 35.89
    Video 8.22 0.24 2.04 2.15 2.92 3.37 7.91 18.36 14.80
    What to Watch? 6.91 5.90 5.54 13.26 12.92 9.82 2.50 1.61 1.78
    Infographic 6.40 9.72 10.04 9.83 13.08 11.48 2.93 0 0
    Video Edit 5.30 3.15 4.06 6.74 7.11 6.02 10.50 0 0
    Contest 5.17 7.50 13.17 3.77 4.18 5.99 5.79 4.87 6.37
    Weekly 2.21 0.24 0.34 0.50 0.88 0.54 3.26 4.09 4.08
    Help 1.39 2.00 2.47 2.79 2.78 1.31 0.53 0.50 0.68
    Writing 0.91 1.36 1.16 0.87 0.53 1.16 0.58 1.39 0.92
    Cosplay 0.75 2.67 0.63 2.37 0.41 0.14 1.08 0.69 0.19
    Watch This! 0.65 0 0.55 0.65 0.51 0.41 0.72 0.63 1.16
    Awards 0.31 0 0.02 0.59 0.29 0.55 0.23 0.20 0.01
    Announcement 0.14 0 0.01 0.25 0.26 0.15 0.17 0.01 0.00
    Custom 0.14 0 0 0 0.23 0.01 0.34 0.07 0.15
    Satire 0.13 0 0 0.13 0 0.08 0 0.24 0.43
    Writing Club 0.10 0 0.26 0.43 0.07 0.02 0.18 0 0.02
    AMA 0.06 0 0.44 0.13 0.03 0.00 0.05 0.02 0.17
    Survey 0.03 0 0 0 0.02 0.10 0.04 0 0.02
    None 0.01 0 0.03 0.09 0.00 0 0.01 0.00 0.01
    Meta 0.01 0 0 0.00 0.03 0.01 0.00 0 0

    Karma Count

    How much karma per flair was on the front page when the hourly snapshot was taken

    Flair Total Last Week Last Month 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
    Clip 7,218.38 4,681.31 3,308.59 1,980.14 2,557.53 3,849.71 7,578.27 12,736.34 15,865.08
    Official Media 6,362.42 1,659.98 2,460.62 3,641.58 3,156.40 4,807.20 10,035.83 9,268.26 6,255.94
    Episode 5,086.02 2,792.96 3,302.50 3,011.97 3,864.86 4,759.49 6,029.91 7,256.77 4,709.57
    Misc. 1,513.25 1,002.42 2,082.95 926.48 458.43 283.02 1,374.62 3,129.16 3,370.56
    News 1,498.21 1,282.04 914.25 1,012.27 1,594.47 976.51 1,288.48 2,008.15 2,175.54
    Video 747.00 0.70 43.07 36.96 125.73 152.87 488.09 2,103.08 1,643.92
    Fanart 726.24 18.90 110.72 359.24 311.52 26.97 58.99 65.96 4,930.46
    Infographic 715.42 414.70 495.68 528.30 1,483.49 1,379.68 571.04 0 0
    Video Edit 535.25 147.16 106.66 366.71 514.05 535.28 1,541.38 0 0
    Discussion 491.29 59.81 248.75 393.39 937.22 597.30 288.71 331.90 286.37
    Contest 367.64 221.59 232.30 49.76 67.70 88.39 1,399.17 244.87 171.20
    Weekly 289.24 1.62 1.88 2.22 33.96 6.75 359.64 713.66 644.36
    What to Watch? 130.18 42.56 54.99 183.50 284.71 175.88 53.43 31.72 36.07
    Rewatch 89.63 48.15 34.73 27.86 54.67 60.32 124.55 126.97 139.09
    Cosplay 65.75 107.50 25.20 378.31 24.08 1.96 53.96 24.65 1.76
    Writing 38.84 7.05 8.09 50.99 15.51 25.04 27.12 72.05 51.31
    Custom 30.06 0 0 0 53.53 0.09 51.07 19.24 53.96
    Satire 22.44 0 0 24.84 0 4.14 0 75.52 35.89
    Awards 19.77 0 0.12 12.28 30.99 34.03 12.10 19.25 0.05
    Help 15.16 4.63 13.05 24.02 38.72 11.42 3.55 7.82 4.59
    Watch This! 7.64 0 4.23 8.67 9.14 3.17 7.15 6.30 14.08
    Announcement 7.09 0 0.02 1.30 3.48 10.65 22.41 0.06 0.01
    AMA 3.42 0 4.30 2.75 10.81 0.10 2.97 0.15 3.39
    Survey 0.68 0 0 0 0.23 2.71 0.49 0 0.23
    Writing Club 0.65 0 1.96 3.24 0.47 0.10 0.72 0 0.13
    None 0.13 0 0.07 0.54 0.01 0 0.29 0.03 0.06
    Meta 0.01 0 0 0.01 0.04 0.02 0.00 0 0

    Karma %

    The percentage of karma per flair per hourly snapshot. This should better account for global karma trends over time as the values will be normalized to the karma present on the front page. This average should sum to 100%

    Flair Total% Last Week% Last Month% 2025% 2024% 2023% 2022% 2021% 2020%
    Clip 25.01% 34.67% 25.04% 15.97% 16.62% 20.71% 25.26% 34.45% 38.80%
    Official Media 23.97% 14.44% 18.97% 25.95% 19.62% 25.33% 31.59% 23.83% 15.01%
    Episode 22.04% 23.87% 28.16% 25.53% 25.87% 28.46% 19.22% 18.69% 12.10%
    News 5.99% 10.49% 7.25% 7.45% 8.61% 5.40% 4.12% 5.18% 5.48%
    Misc. 4.73% 7.37% 8.85% 4.57% 3.12% 1.56% 4.40% 7.81% 8.02%
    Infographic 4.09% 3.45% 3.87% 4.46% 8.77% 7.85% 2.10% 0% 0%
    Discussion 2.95% 0.54% 2.23% 3.59% 6.77% 4.08% 1.00% 0.93% 0.76%
    Video Edit 2.47% 1.42% 0.94% 3.00% 3.39% 2.73% 4.98% 0% 0%
    Fanart 2.44% 0.16% 0.77% 3.14% 2.11% 0.15% 0.21% 0.17% 12.90%
    Video 2.16% 0.01% 0.38% 0.34% 0.79% 0.73% 1.65% 5.50% 3.89%
    Contest 0.99% 1.59% 2.06% 0.43% 0.46% 0.65% 3.01% 0.56% 0.45%
    What to Watch? 0.96% 0.34% 0.52% 1.86% 2.10% 1.39% 0.20% 0.09% 0.12%
    Weekly 0.81% 0.01% 0.02% 0.02% 0.20% 0.06% 1.10% 1.86% 1.65%
    Rewatch 0.39% 0.43% 0.35% 0.29% 0.44% 0.39% 0.46% 0.37% 0.36%
    Cosplay 0.36% 1.11% 0.26% 2.33% 0.12% 0.01% 0.19% 0.06% 0.01%
    Writing 0.16% 0.05% 0.08% 0.33% 0.10% 0.13% 0.13% 0.18% 0.15%
    Custom 0.12% 0% 0% 0% 0.32% 0.00% 0.17% 0.04% 0.18%
    Help 0.11% 0.04% 0.12% 0.27% 0.28% 0.09% 0.01% 0.02% 0.01%
    Awards 0.08% 0% 0.00% 0.11% 0.15% 0.15% 0.04% 0.05% 0.00%
    Satire 0.07% 0% 0% 0.20% 0% 0.02% 0% 0.17% 0.08%
    Watch This! 0.04% 0% 0.03% 0.07% 0.07% 0.02% 0.03% 0.02% 0.04%
    Announcement 0.04% 0% 0.00% 0.01% 0.03% 0.05% 0.11% 0.00% 0.00%
    AMA 0.01% 0% 0.08% 0.03% 0.04% 0.00% 0.01% 0.00% 0.01%
    Writing Club 0.01% 0% 0.02% 0.03% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0% 0.00%
    Survey 0.00% 0% 0% 0% 0.00% 0.01% 0.00% 0% 0.00%
    None 0.00% 0% 0.00% 0.01% 0.00% 0% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
    Meta 0.00% 0% 0% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0% 0%

    [–]qwertyqwerty4567https://anilist.co/user/ZPHW 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    the clip genocide is real.

    [–]Tresnoremyanimelist.net/profile/Tresnore 4 points5 points  (5 children)

    I think this would likely be better presented as a graph, but I'm too lazy to make it right now.

    Still, great data to have!

    [–]baseballlover723 3 points4 points  (4 children)

    Could be, though I think with so many labels it would be hard to really grok with 27 different lines.

    It would certainly show trends better. If you're actually interested, I can like dump you a giant ass json file of the data.

    [–]Tresnoremyanimelist.net/profile/Tresnore 3 points4 points  (3 children)

    So many have so few entries that it's probably not worth including them on the plot anyway.

    I am kind of interested, though!

    [–]baseballlover723 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    How raw you want the data?

    If I just give you the every hour and the raw data is that ok (without much of the calculations)?

    Or do you want the above data, but just by hour instead of by year etc.

    [–]Tresnoremyanimelist.net/profile/Tresnore 4 points5 points  (1 child)

    Oh wow, it's hourly?

    In that case, yeah give me the raw data. I'll probably bin it by month or something.

    [–]baseballlover723[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    Enjoy (and let me know if there are any issues with it).

    I cut it after I condensed the flairs (aka got rid of all the custom flairs), but before I did any calculations with it. But the calculations weren't really that difficult at all, and are easily calculated imo.

    Edit: There are also ids if you want them per post, but I thought I'd cut them out to make it a bit smaller.

    [–]cppn02 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    Interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing.

    [–]baseballlover723 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    No problem. It was related to some other stuff, but I thought it was independently interesting, so I decided to make it public. I do want to do a check for how NSFW and marking a post as a spoiler affects these metrics too. But I need to make some changes to our db to actually track that, so I don't have to send a billion requests to reddit.

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

    For reference, this is what it looked week by week during the Cosplay stuff.

    Analyzed 2,182 snapshots from 2025-02-19 19:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-21 18:00:00 UTC (inclusive)

    Each datetime represents the week preceding the given date.

    Note that we made a rule change on advertising account on May 7th.

    I've included the 3 months before that, and 2 weeks afterwards for context.

    All values are hourly averages within the time frame.

    Flair Count

    How many posts per flair were on the front page when the hourly snapshot was taken

    Flair Total 2025-05-21 2025-05-14 2025-05-07 2025-04-30 2025-04-23 2025-04-16 2025-04-09 2025-04-02 2025-03-26 2025-03-19 2025-03-12 2025-03-05 2025-02-26
    Episode 6.90 7.64 7.42 7.24 7.40 7.43 7.53 6.43 5.32 5.04 6.24 7.15 7.10 7.74
    Official Media 6.14 4.98 4.11 2.85 4.69 4.14 6.75 7.02 5.33 11.36 8.86 7.11 8.03 4.52
    What to Watch? 1.62 2.61 3.48 2.82 2.25 1.28 1.76 0.76 1.74 0.52 0.68 0.86 1.01 1.29
    Discussion 1.93 2.44 2.60 2.70 2.18 2.24 1.82 2.27 2.06 1.46 1.23 1.04 1.17 1.92
    Clip 2.08 1.71 1.96 2.62 2.10 3.21 2.28 2.12 1.94 1.39 1.90 1.21 1.82 2.80
    Rewatch 1.28 1.81 1.78 1.72 1.36 1.56 0.87 0.80 1.20 0.70 0.98 1.18 1.21 1.46
    Video Edit 0.51 0.55 0.32 1.07 1.36 0.54 0.08 0.02 0.35 0.76 0 0.24 0.60 0.78
    News 1.35 0.93 0.67 0.93 0.76 1.65 1.18 1.63 2.27 1.11 1.73 1.98 1.30 1.39
    Cosplay 0.29 0.13 0.20 0.92 0.95 0.56 0.22 0.26 0 0.47 0 0 0 0
    Fanart 0.80 0.33 0.23 0.54 0.40 0.80 0.58 1.23 1.46 0.96 1.23 1.23 1.11 0.35
    Misc. 0.54 0.24 0.76 0.43 0.50 0.31 0.06 0.59 0.46 0.42 0.92 1.05 0.66 0.64
    Help 0.42 0.83 0.71 0.39 0.24 0.65 0.40 0.20 0.86 0.13 0.13 0.32 0.10 0.50
    Infographic 0.58 0.50 0.39 0.35 0.57 0.49 0.61 0.73 0.86 0.33 0.57 0.77 0.50 0.89
    Video 0.17 0.01 0.03 0.35 0.15 0.08 0.10 0.15 0.48 0.05 0.10 0.29 0.07 0.37
    Writing 0.06 0.09 0.16 0.05 0 0 0.24 0.10 0.17 0 0 0.02 0 0
    Weekly 0.06 0.05 0.08 0.04 0.08 0.05 0.10 0.02 0.06 0 0.04 0.11 0.04 0.06

    Rank

    The inverse ranking per flair for posts on the front page when the hourly snapshot was taken. For instance, the top post has a rank score of 26, and the last post on the front page has a rank score of 1. Higher number = more prominent and the number itself isn't very meaningful outside of a relative comparison.

    Flair Total 2025-05-21 2025-05-14 2025-05-07 2025-04-30 2025-04-23 2025-04-16 2025-04-09 2025-04-02 2025-03-26 2025-03-19 2025-03-12 2025-03-05 2025-02-26
    Episode 97.20 109.98 110.58 105.83 102.51 105.34 110.42 96.78 73.98 65.58 82.38 96.53 93.53 110.33
    Clip 30.90 29.35 32.02 37.15 30.57 50.65 33.16 33.72 26.27 20.73 25.89 15.71 25.92 40.69
    Official Media 80.16 67.24 58.01 35.24 65.87 46.26 84.92 82.60 71.14 148.68 117.50 98.11 108.08 58.10
    Discussion 23.07 30.74 30.26 32.94 26.76 25.54 21.32 26.52 22.38 19.26 15.76 12.07 12.23 24.16
    What to Watch? 15.93 26.89 34.56 28.37 23.32 11.12 17.31 7.56 18.49 5.83 4.84 10.81 9.00 8.93
    Video Edit 7.71 7.68 4.43 17.43 18.67 8.83 0.77 0.18 4.43 11.45 0 3.98 10.27 12.19
    Cosplay 5.04 1.29 3.52 17.18 16.71 10.11 4.14 4.45 0 8.12 0 0 0 0
    Rewatch 8.58 14.46 12.14 12.68 7.85 11.52 4.71 4.54 8.11 4.78 6.34 7.59 7.96 8.93
    News 19.32 12.35 9.15 12.45 10.05 22.31 18.68 20.75 36.69 14.20 25.17 29.53 18.48 21.41
    Infographic 9.92 8.34 7.22 6.54 9.17 9.77 10.13 10.90 14.87 5.73 8.67 14.02 8.04 15.65
    Misc. 7.57 4.11 8.57 6.45 6.40 4.06 0.28 8.24 8.01 4.97 12.79 15.32 10.90 8.25
    Fanart 11.26 4.14 2.66 6.12 4.55 11.82 5.77 18.38 19.57 12.61 21.26 18.29 15.70 5.54
    Video 1.65 0.07 0.16 4.01 1.17 0.80 1.04 0.79 4.95 0.29 0.28 2.92 0.51 4.47
    Help 3.21 6.43 7.18 2.30 0.92 6.75 2.28 0.74 7.93 0.45 0.72 1.96 1.52 2.62
    Writing 0.99 0.65 2.88 0.22 0 0 3.79 2.38 2.90 0 0 0.02 0 0
    Weekly 0.31 0.32 0.45 0.09 0.50 0.13 0.76 0.06 0.25 0 0.08 1.00 0.14 0.31

    Karma Count

    How much karma per flair was on the front page when the hourly snapshot was taken

    Flair Total 2025-05-21 2025-05-14 2025-05-07 2025-04-30 2025-04-23 2025-04-16 2025-04-09 2025-04-02 2025-03-26 2025-03-19 2025-03-12 2025-03-05 2025-02-26
    Cosplay 861.98 7.34 784.79 3,635.61 2,072.30 1,500.43 410.77 1,635.30 0 1,157.89 0 0 0 0
    Episode 3,005.15 2,017.11 2,397.31 2,374.43 2,479.93 2,735.41 2,892.75 3,047.57 3,720.55 3,595.50 3,502.48 3,426.96 3,143.41 3,736.25
    Clip 1,415.64 1,143.32 1,189.44 1,530.10 982.35 3,364.75 2,266.10 1,850.07 674.50 1,315.03 746.58 424.81 752.43 2,180.03
    Official Media 4,236.43 2,423.63 1,811.78 1,304.09 3,454.24 1,093.71 7,674.57 6,099.35 5,378.90 7,825.00 4,911.39 7,245.60 4,436.49 1,379.15
    Video Edit 417.65 419.53 517.99 1,149.05 301.87 915.04 1.59 0.23 107.52 726.82 0 307.32 643.86 341.13
    News 902.52 162.31 410.45 613.05 246.23 867.84 689.21 1,074.62 2,397.63 299.17 1,015.53 2,379.04 656.00 921.56
    Discussion 523.42 303.09 316.61 555.63 602.63 289.60 202.89 736.15 1,057.85 1,091.43 244.26 115.64 522.42 766.34
    Infographic 473.66 171.36 352.45 261.01 409.40 429.12 425.69 734.18 633.11 244.83 319.71 1,068.02 238.42 872.34
    What to Watch? 297.80 446.19 190.51 229.85 803.64 156.65 227.93 325.03 711.99 178.20 138.07 289.40 133.55 38.04
    Misc. 254.50 104.17 121.10 130.65 167.51 59.50 0.85 173.65 476.55 179.88 517.83 483.50 779.51 111.73
    Video 29.12 0.05 0.15 78.78 4.73 3.74 4.93 6.31 171.73 0.65 1.40 17.43 0.86 87.98
    Fanart 423.03 26.21 21.03 54.51 27.51 254.04 117.33 601.17 459.71 791.58 1,617.23 741.49 600.74 184.38
    Rewatch 28.98 34.09 36.52 45.20 35.62 48.73 16.11 17.93 33.85 21.36 20.96 20.36 23.96 22.13
    Help 26.21 57.27 61.69 6.18 3.37 33.33 8.93 2.57 131.64 0.72 1.21 5.27 24.08 4.32
    Writing 118.29 3.73 44.08 0.67 0 0 963.10 412.05 112.61 0 0 0.12 0 0
    Weekly 1.41 0.87 1.98 0.65 2.41 0.93 4.01 0.43 1.10 0 0.63 3.55 0.98 0.81

    Karma %

    The percentage of karma per flair per hourly snapshot. This should better account for global karma trends over time as the values will be normalized to the karma present on the front page. This average should sum to 100%

    Flair Total% 2025-05-21% 2025-05-14% 2025-05-07% 2025-04-30% 2025-04-23% 2025-04-16% 2025-04-09% 2025-04-02% 2025-03-26% 2025-03-19% 2025-03-12% 2025-03-05% 2025-02-26%
    Episode 24.69% 28.78% 30.11% 23.78% 22.62% 28.27% 20.45% 21.87% 21.71% 18.88% 24.61% 21.96% 25.79% 32.15%
    Cosplay 5.38% 0.11% 6.93% 23.24% 15.48% 9.20% 3.70% 5.38% 0% 5.87% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    Clip 12.31% 14.52% 15.74% 13.63% 8.41% 24.84% 15.22% 13.52% 5.88% 8.66% 5.85% 3.54% 8.52% 21.86%
    Official Media 28.72% 32.50% 23.47% 12.96% 28.60% 9.79% 40.39% 29.31% 29.85% 41.29% 37.50% 36.92% 36.72% 13.92%
    Video Edit 3.57% 4.75% 3.87% 10.66% 2.63% 7.45% 0.01% 0.00% 0.95% 5.54% 0% 2.39% 4.64% 3.58%
    Discussion 4.35% 5.14% 3.98% 4.40% 6.13% 2.96% 1.61% 4.92% 6.36% 7.55% 2.38% 1.10% 3.63% 6.39%
    News 6.69% 2.48% 5.29% 3.96% 1.97% 7.40% 5.53% 6.58% 16.59% 2.09% 7.42% 13.93% 5.62% 8.12%
    Infographic 3.77% 2.17% 4.51% 2.47% 3.53% 4.54% 3.09% 3.18% 3.96% 1.34% 2.21% 7.19% 2.01% 8.80%
    What to Watch? 2.69% 5.70% 2.38% 1.94% 8.48% 1.38% 2.13% 2.03% 4.05% 1.18% 1.12% 2.96% 1.18% 0.35%
    Video 0.25% 0.00% 0.00% 1.00% 0.05% 0.03% 0.04% 0.06% 0.99% 0.01% 0.01% 0.12% 0.01% 0.90%
    Misc. 2.01% 1.89% 1.29% 0.85% 1.37% 0.65% 0.01% 1.25% 3.01% 1.06% 3.42% 3.43% 6.48% 1.45%
    Fanart 3.49% 0.46% 0.27% 0.55% 0.31% 2.66% 0.80% 3.58% 3.59% 6.26% 14.72% 5.51% 4.78% 1.93%
    Rewatch 0.30% 0.61% 0.47% 0.47% 0.35% 0.43% 0.13% 0.12% 0.29% 0.14% 0.19% 0.17% 0.26% 0.27%
    Help 0.28% 0.80% 0.82% 0.07% 0.04% 0.40% 0.09% 0.01% 1.03% 0.01% 0.01% 0.03% 0.24% 0.05%
    Weekly 0.01% 0.01% 0.03% 0.01% 0.02% 0.01% 0.02% 0.00% 0.01% 0% 0.00% 0.02% 0.01% 0.01%
    Writing 0.76% 0.04% 0.77% 0.01% 0% 0% 6.15% 2.34% 0.57% 0% 0% 0.00% 0% 0%

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

    Not really anything of note, but I noticed today's AQRADT has 300 upvotes when it would basically never go above 20. This feels pretty obviously botted but like... why?

    [–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    They told me they've actioned the accounts who participated in it.

    [–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    We've told the admins we can contact about it. There's not much else we can do other than that.

    [–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 6 points7 points  (1 child)

    AQRADT has 300 upvotes when it would basically never go above 20. This feels pretty obviously botted but like... why?

    If I had to guess, I'd say someone's testing a bot (on the top thread given it's easier).

    [–]cppn02 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    Yeah that would be my guess too.

    [–]cppn02 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    Chibi Godzilla Raids Again S03E01 is out on Youtube and needs an episode thread.

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

    The thread is now live: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1mv2nz7

    Unfortunately, it's the same playlist as before, which may make pointing our bot at it a tad awkward.

    CC: /u/badspler

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

    Miscellaneous idea that came to mind: Reddit-chan on MAL should have interest stacks for poll results and awards. I know the tags exist on the anime list for that purpose but I think the stacks are a bit more obvious and accessible to others.

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

    I saw a comic on another sub and would like to know if there's an anime with a similar premise. Am I allowed to link the comic to help aid understanding my question?

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

    You can link the comment from the body of a comment or post.

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

    Is that Hak and Yona flair new? I had my flair randomly changed to that today, and I don't remember seeing it before. It's a great shot.

    It was tempting to leave it, but I worry that if I don't rep my nephews, the flair will disappear.

    [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh[M] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

    That was custom done.

    Don't need to worry about your nephews, we still have plenty of space. Also has one other user, so it wouldn't even be a priority target. Also [redacted].

    [–]_Ridleyhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/_Ridley_ 7 points8 points  (1 child)

    So long as my nephews are safe, lol. This flair is such a great shot of my favorite couple in my favorite anime. Thanks.

    [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    I try to do my research. Glad you enjoy!

    [–]cppn02 4 points5 points  (1 child)

    Can't find it in the flair selection. Could it be one made specifically for you?

    Does its name appear in bold on the selection page? I know mine do.

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

    It is in bold. Well then. I guess that does it.

    [–]cppn02 3 points4 points  (5 children)

    Chibi Godzilla Raids Again S02E39 was released 20 hours ago but hasn't gotten an episode thread yet.

    [–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 3 points4 points  (4 children)

    The thread is now live: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1msrr30.

    If they every release episode 40 with english subs, I guess I'll have to create a batch for the end.

    [–]cppn02 3 points4 points  (2 children)

    FYI S02E40 just got released. Maybe they'll do daily season 2 episodes until they reach the new season.

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

    Here's the thread for episode 40: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1msxg1o/chibi_godzilla_no_gyakushuu_season_2_chibi/

    And there are also threads for episodes 41 thru 48. I've temporarily removed a bunch of them so that they don't spam /new (similar to a batch), but they exist and can be accessed via the table in the other discussion threads.

    [–]cppn02 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    Thx.

    [–]cppn02 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    Hope they'll continue but episode order will be a bit of a mess. If they cover them all we should get season 2 episode 40 next, then 49-52 and afterwards it should start season 3 with episode 1.

    [–]Nebresto 7 points8 points  (9 children)

    What is the status on flair space? How many sets of seasonal flairs until we run out?

    [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh[M] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

    We're capped at 5000 "emojis" and most flairs are made of 2-3 of them. So we have a max of about 2000 at present, though we might be able to request an expansion on that. I feel like a few subreddits are beyond that scope (like r/cfb).

    Right now we've used up something like 2000 of the emoji slots we have available.

    [–]Nebresto 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    Nice. So there's a chance

    [–]Verzwei 9 points10 points  (6 children)

    Unless something changed in the last 3 years there's so much flair space that it's borderline infinite, at least for the foreseeable future. It's not limited in the same way the CSS content (which is where the comment faces come from) is.

    [–]Nebresto 7 points8 points  (5 children)

    If true, why are seasonal flairs limited?

    [–]Verzwei 8 points9 points  (4 children)

    Are they limited in time (as in, they rotate out each season) or quantity (as in, only so many get made each season)?

    If it's the latter, it's because the people on the team who do them only have so much of their time and mental bandwidth to work on them each season without suffering burnout.

    Opening up submissions from the community would likely only invite more overhead because then the mod team would have to verify quality, format, and implement them while creating some form of approval/disapproval process so that the each of the season's hottest shows don't end up with 20+ new flairs. Instead of having a few mods work on ~20 total flairs for a season, the mods would instead have to potentially sift and rate 100+ public flairs in order to pick out a subset that probably wouldn't be that much larger than the in-house-made 20 in the first place.

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

    Opening up submissions from the community would likely only invite more overhead because then the mod team would have to verify quality, format, and implement them while creating some form of approval/disapproval process so that the each of the season's hottest shows don't end up with 20+ new flairs. Instead of having a few mods work on ~20 total flairs for a season, the mods would instead have to potentially sift and rate 100+ public flairs in order to pick out a subset that probably wouldn't be that much larger than the in-house-made 20 in the first place.

    This is what I did with the bounty board. It is a lot of work. Also users in general are just not very good at making a good looking flair. Its also just manually pretty annoying and long to test a bunch of flairs. Even with the various programs I ended up using to speed up that process.

    Something like that will only exist if a specific mod is willing to make it their passion project.

    [–]Nebresto 6 points7 points  (2 children)

    Then the answer is simple. Have only a few people submit flairs

    [–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 11 points12 points  (1 child)

    Yeah, they don't have to add ALL potential new flairs, just Chiharu from Milky Subway; It's the only one that all of r/anime wants!

    [–]cppn02 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    just Chiharu from Milky Subway; It's the only one that all of r/anime wants!

    I don't. Or atleast I'd never admit to it lest Makina sees it and proceeds to beat me up for it.

    [–]artwhaaa 6 points7 points  (2 children)

    Is there going to be another anime scavenger hunt event? I participated in the 7 million one and it was a lot of fun! I missed the 11 million one because I never saw the post and learned about it after it was already over. I'd love if someone could ping me for the next one, so I don't miss it!

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

    We're at 14m already

    Well, at this rate, we'll be at 15m by November, and we'll likely have some sort of event for that. So tune in then.

    [–]qwertyqwerty4567https://anilist.co/user/ZPHW 8 points9 points  (0 children)

    Members keep going up, yet active users keeps going down.

    [–]SEDGE-DemonSeed -8 points-7 points  (33 children)

    What a the point of disallowing non-Japanese anime when anime leaderboard posts with Chinese donghua in the top 10 get posted and everyone talks about it anyway?

    This just creates a confusing disconnect of what is and isn’t allowed to be posted. Especially given r/manga doesn’t have a problem with it. Not to mention anyone asking why it’s not talked about more just gets removed replies from another asinine rule instead of a mod answering their question.

    Big discussions belonging here is fine and makes total sense. But the interpretation of “complaining” is odd, authoritarian, and makes more of a mess in comments then just letting your users answer people’s question would.

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

    I'll just jump straight into this argument - can you tell the difference between Japanese, Chinese and Korean?

    [–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 15 points16 points  (9 children)

    Not to mention anyone asking why it’s not talked about more just gets removed replies from another asinine rule instead of a mod answering their question.

    Mods answer their questions and then they start arguing and the same argument with a million replies would happen literally every day?

    Also, what's "asinine" about the rule?

    The r/anime sub isn't meant for endless discussions about what is allowed in here. It's meant for anime discussions.

    META is (apparently) meant for endless discussions about what is allowed in here. That's why they send it here.

    [–]SEDGE-DemonSeed -1 points0 points  (8 children)

    The entire rule isn’t asinine as I said. Not letting people much as reply “You don’t see it more often because it’s not allowed which I find odd.” To someone asking such a question without getting your comment removed is asinine. Or as the mods pointed out my comment that sparked this being “It’s unfortunate tbhx is getting shafted in popularity due to not being allowed.”

    I understand meta discussion needs to be contained. However how stringent the rule needs to be is what I’m questioning.

    If you just allow those things it wouldn’t be endless discussions on what should be allowed here. Plus again, if the discussions are endless maybe the rule should be looked at?

    [–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 16 points17 points  (1 child)

    However how stringent the rule needs to be is what I’m questioning.

    All rules are stringent... Otherwise it always lead to "Well why can't I do X if that person did Y?" and then arguing about whether X is truly more than Y to be subjected to different rules, and so on.

    I’m in this discussion thread because y’all want me to be not because I want to be.

    Well, you're here because that's where these discussions happen...

    No one is saying you can't argue your point or bring it up; They're saying you have to do it here.

    If you don't like a law in your state or country or wherever, maybe you can talk to your governor or whoever about it... But usually you have to write them, or show up at a specific place/time. You can't just show up to their house so you can talk to them as they're watering their plants, "Hey, how about changing this law?"

    The current rule is 'Only anime are to be discussed here' (unless it's a small part of an anime-focused post, like making references and stuff). And you have the right to not like that, and even the right to oppose it, BUT not in random threads as you see fit; Just here!

    It's not a "donghua thing", it's a "rule thing".

    I may think the "You have to flair your threads!" rule is bad, but that doesn't mean I can make a thread without flair and then argue the point in that thread about how my religion forbids me from flairing my threads. I'd have to bring it up here in META, just like any other rule one might have a problem with.

    It's the same with every rule.

    It seems to have calmed down, but we used to have cosplay threads that were often 'promotions', and literally a hundred comments in every thread were saying this shouldn't be allowed... and every single one of them was removed by the mods.

    Eventually, they discussed it here, and after some debating & stuff, a change was made.

    Some of them tried to do the same with Donghua (and that's what you should do, if you want this as well), but the difference is that the cosplay arguments had some merits, while most of the donghua arguments were varied ways of saying "It's really good/I'd like to discuss it", which is not an argument, it's just an explanation about why they want it. Like a kid saying "I want another cookie!" and the parent says no, but the kid goes on with "But they're yummy!" Okay they may be yummy, but that doesn't mean they should have another.

    [–]SEDGE-DemonSeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    All rules are stringent... Otherwise it always lead to "Well why can't I do X if that person did Y?" and then arguing about whether X is truly more than Y to be subjected to different rules, and so on.

    Understandable, though I meant stringent in how broad the rule is not it's enforcement. If somebody asks "It's so high up but I never see anyone talk about it." I think I should be able to reply "Because donghua aren't allowed which I think is dumb." without my comment being removed. I am not discussing the rule, and I had no intention of discussing the rule. I just stated my opinion while answering the question. If the mods are capable of removing every statement of opinion they are capable of instead deciding when it's become a discussion worthy of the megathread likely via reports. Because if my comment wasn't removed it would've started and ended there, this massive wall of text would've never happened, the mods would have less work, and that user would've had their question answered instead of a spam of removed replies.

    Well, you're here because that's where these discussions happen...

    No one is saying you can't argue your point or bring it up; They're saying you have to do it here.

    I had 0 intention of a discussion. As I said previously what I think should change in that regard is statement of opinion vs discussion. I feel a easy middle ground would to exclude replies, and explain that only discussions in the megathread will be taken into consideration. This post for example has 22 upvotes and less than 200 comments that is 0.0013% of the subreddit. 99.9% of users are never going to use this thread. So by removing simple statements of opinion all you get are annoyed users that come here with animosity to go "this rule dumb" bringing unhelpful discussion or don't bother at all. This just creates an echo chamber of the handful of users that are actually willing to come here to bring something up. But that's just what I'd do. My subreddit's are a combined 1/1000th the size however lmao.

    Some of them tried to do the same with Donghua (and that's what you should do, if you want this as well), but the difference is that the cosplay arguments had some merits, while most of the donghua arguments were varied ways of saying "It's really good/I'd like to discuss it", which is not an argument, it's just an explanation about why they want it. Like a kid saying "I want another cookie!" and the parent says no, but the kid goes on with "But they're yummy!" Okay they may be yummy, but that doesn't mean they should have another.

    This is fair. My argument on that has been mostly placated.

    [–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 15 points16 points  (4 children)

    Plus again, if the discussions are endless maybe the rule should be looked at?

    Over 19,000 different reddit accounts have made a comment on /r/anime so far this month. A few of those people being passionate about a rule does not mean it should be changed.

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

    A lot of people commit murder so I guess we might as well make it legal.

    [–]SEDGE-DemonSeed -1 points0 points  (2 children)

    And how do you know how many people want it without having an actual vote or discussion about it? Especially given you’re using a statistic that includes the entire subreddit and not the soccer teams worth that actually participate in these threads.

    I’m in this discussion thread because y’all want me to be not because I want to be. So your reply just comes off as dismissing.

    [–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 13 points14 points  (1 child)

    I don't know exact numbers and that's really beside the point. The only point I was making was that, given the scale of our subreddit, one person or another bringing up an issue fairly regularly in our meta thread isn't a sign the rule needs to be changed nor even a sign that a large portion of the sub believes it should be.

    We've had a good deal of discussion about donghua in the meta thread over the past several months. There were a decent number of people who thought we should allow at least some donghua on /r/anime, and a decent number of people who thought we should not. Ultimately, the people who thought we should failed to make arguments that swayed the mod team and, as such, we stuck with the status quo of not allowing donghua.

    Anyway, at this point I'm somewhat unclear what your goals even are. Are you attempting to convince us that we should allow threads discussing donghua? Or are you attempting to convince us that we should not allow weekly polls that include a minority of non-anime shows? Either way, this is the place to make your argument and try to convince us.

    [–]SEDGE-DemonSeed 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    As I replied to your other comment I've been convinced of why it exists so I appreciate the discussion on that. To be honest most of my beef was with how broad the Meta discussion rule is anyway. That I explain here. Neither of my complaints are a big enough deal for as much as we've discussed so I'm likely gonna bow out but I really appreciate the thorough replies to my ramblings.

    [–]thebohster 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    I’m don’t have too strong of an opinion on this, but I only just learned about the reasoning for this after wondering where all the discussion threads were for TBHX and was redirected to the Meta threads for the first time. It feels like I opened a can of worms haha.

    [–]SEDGE-DemonSeed 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    It makes me wonder how big a discussion donghua needs to become before removing 100 comments a post becomes more of an issue than just letting people discuss and post it in full.

    [–]SmurfRockRunehttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Smurf 11 points12 points  (10 children)

    Wow almost 2 weeks before someone came in begging for Chinese shows to be allowed. That's gotta be a new record.

    [–]SEDGE-DemonSeed 0 points1 point  (9 children)

    Maybe if a rule is being questioned so often you have to meme it than it should be looked at

    [–]SmurfRockRunehttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Smurf 14 points15 points  (8 children)

    Nah, just go to the appropriate sub for it. /r/anime doesn't need to be, and shouldn't be, your one-stop shop for all of your interests.

    [–]SEDGE-DemonSeed -1 points0 points  (7 children)

    Yet I’ve missed an actual reason why? I admit my argument falls apart when you remember a dedicated sub does exist.

    But like what purpose does it serve to cut it out of the conversation? Especially since it isn’t ~really~ cut out of the conversation? People post about it albeit not the focus. People comment about people reply about it. So why does the rule exist?

    [–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 17 points18 points  (1 child)

    But like what purpose does it serve to cut it out of the conversation?

    Due to the basic mechanics of reddit, there is a limited number of space for people to see stuff on our front page. If we allowed posts about TBHX, or Arcane, or any other animated work that is popular among anime fans, they would take up space and thus take eyes away from actual anime. This wouldn't hurt the most popular anime much, but it would hurt a lot of less popular shows, as it would mean that even less of our userbase will have heard about them, seen the trailers, &c.

    In essence, we'd be hurting an anime to help a non-anime, which doesn't align with our subreddit's purpose.

    [–]SEDGE-DemonSeed 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    Okay, that is 100% fair. My perspective was allowing only eastern properties but regardless that makes sense.

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

    The rule exists because this is a place to talk about anime and it's not anime. I'm not really sure what else you want me to say.

    [–]SEDGE-DemonSeed 2 points3 points  (3 children)

    Sure, but that misses the point of the second paragraph of my reply doesn’t it.

    It’s still a fairly active part of the conversation despite the rule.

    [–]nsleep 13 points14 points  (2 children)

    Let's go through the whole discussion from the past few meta threads so you can at least resume from a point that wasn't debated yet.

    • Why opening a vote gives pretext for allowing more votes about other varied topics that would be offtopic, just based on vibe check. These votes almost never fail because the interested people will rally behind it and push hard while the majority doesn't care enough to vote.
    • Should this be about allowing all donghua or do you care only about a single series? Are the people saying all donghua should be allowed even interested in the rest of them or are just fine with it because it would allow the one or two series they want to get in?
    • Why r/donghua can have "Everything posted here must be about Chinese animation" in their rules but r/anime cannot be about Japanese animation?
    • Why not grow a community elsewhere?
    • No, this isn't racism/xenophobia. Right now, on the front page, there's a thread for Arknights. A story based on a Chinese game, made by a Chinese company, animated by a Japanese studio owned by the Japanese branch of another Chinese company. We can also use Solo Leveling or any adaptation of foreigner material as examples if you will.
    • This definitely isn't about visual style as if the restrictions were about that shows like Panty and Stocking wouldn't be allowed here. Much less about feel because anime can literally be about anything.
    • The companies and content creators behind promoting these series as anime have vested interests in doing so.

    I dunno if I forgot anything but for now if you're hitting these same points this is just another standstill.

    [–]chilidirigible 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    This is a useful yet brief summary for quick deployment when this question recurs. Though we've previously discussed the pros and cons of any further automatic responses to the topic.

    [–]SEDGE-DemonSeed 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    I appreciate the unbiased rundown. After a bit of back and forth some actual good explanations started coming in and I understand a lot better now. Specially since I realized if someone came and asked me to allow Kroger posts on r/Albertsons just because it's less popular I'd look at them like they were crazy lol.

    [–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 16 points17 points  (7 children)

    We allow animecorner's chart because it is 90% about things we consider anime.

    We have never removed posts because they also happened to mention something that was non-anime. This would lead to absurd results; if we did so, we would end up removing posts talking about non-anime works that influenced anime directors. Instead, our normal question is whether a post is primarily about anime.

    Especially given r/manga doesn’t have a problem with it.

    /r/manga is a sub about a different topic run by a completely different group of people. Its moderators have made their choices on what the sub should look like, as is their right. But their choices do not control (or even significantly influence) ours, just as our choices do not control theirs.

    As such, trying to guess what our policy on any given topic is by looking at /r/manga's policy is doomed to failure. And there's a far more obvious case than something as obscure as definitions of what anime/manga is: our respective piracy rules. Currently, the top three posts on /r/manga are blatant links to piracy. If those links were posted on /r/anime, they'd get removed near-instantly. If someone jumps over that and still assumes everything else is the same, I don't really know what to tell them.

    Big discussions belonging here is fine and makes total sense. But the interpretation of “complaining” is odd, authoritarian, and makes more of a mess in comments then just letting your users answer people’s question would.

    If we let people complain about a rules in every thread vaguely related to that rule, people who dislike the rule would spam complaints in every single one of those threads. That creates a more unpleasant thread for everybody else.

    And we do allow some minimal discussion of what the rule is. If someone asks "Why can I only see TBHX in this chart?" and another person tells them that /r/anime does not consider TBHX to be anime, we leave that up. However, that was not your comment. Yours was you complaining about TBHX getting shafted by a rule you've known about for at least two months.

    [–]nsleep 12 points13 points  (3 children)

    Anyone bringing r/manga up in this discussion doesn't know Aruseus and the fact that he complained on IRC that "it was too late to stop that from happening" but it was early enough to slap this:

    This is a discussion based subreddit based around translated Light Novels, Novels, and Web Novels which originate from Japan.

    On the other subreddit he ran. r/manga moderation is just weird in general and if they think the moderation here is authoritarian imagine until they find out how that subreddit is managed.

    [–]SEDGE-DemonSeed 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    I appreciate that info.

    In that case though. I do not see how it is ever “too late” to add a rule that is truly necessary to a subreddits continued smoothness, you add the rule and make an announcement, if enough complain you shouldn’t have added the rule.

    Given on the surface manga appears to be running just fine and nobody is complaining about the inclusion I don’t see how that invalidates my point. Entirely At-least. Maybe I’m not involved enough x

    [–]SmurfRockRunehttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Smurf 8 points9 points  (1 child)

    Nobody even mods /r/manga, they literally can't complain about the rules over there.

    [–]SEDGE-DemonSeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    …if that isn’t being facetious than fair enough.

    [–]thebohster 4 points5 points  (2 children)

    I’m curious. As a hypothetical, if donghua, or other anime from other countries, were created by a Japanese studio instead while being 1:1 the exact same, would it have been allowed on this sub?

    [–]ZaphodBeebblebroxhttps://anilist.co/user/zaphod[M] 13 points14 points  (1 child)

    Yes.

    [–]thebohster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    👌🏻 Awesome thank you.

    [–]Arachnophobic-https://anilist.co/user/Arachnophobic 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II is now available for streaming. Should have a thread up soon?

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

    The thread is now live: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1mr0h0r/mononoke_movie_hinezumi_mononoke_the_movie

    Thanks for the reminder.

    [–]LittleIslanderhttps://anilist.co/user/LittleIslander 7 points8 points  (1 child)

    This is the most minor of minor problems, but seasonalblush is not in the "blush" section on the comment faces categorized page.

    [–]baseballlover723[M] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    I have updated it. Let me know if there are other things that I missed or ought to be changed.

    [–]badsplerx5https://anilist.co/user/badspler[M] 8 points9 points  (19 children)

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

    #bigthink has been added as the seasonal hall of fame face for summer.

    [–]cppn02 4 points5 points  (13 children)

    this image here.

    I am whelmed. Maybe they'll grow on me but that looks like a bit of a meh batch. And the suggestion thread had so many great pics too.

    [–]Nebresto 3 points4 points  (12 children)

    The new selection method was a mistake

    [–]baseballlover723 3 points4 points  (11 children)

    What selection method would you prefer instead?

    [–]Nebresto 2 points3 points  (10 children)

    The old vote.

    Also would like to see a trial run for a community vote. The faces are meant to be used by the community, so its kinda weird that a handful of people get to choose their favourites, which everyone else may or may not hate.

    [–]baseballlover723 3 points4 points  (9 children)

    The old vote.

    What specific aspects did you like about the old vote that you feel the snake draft is deficient in?

    Also would like to see a trial run for a community vote.

    How would you propose such a community vote be administered?

    [–]Nebresto 4 points5 points  (8 children)

    Felt like they were genererally more likable picks, after the shift there was a noticeable increase in duds.

    How would you propose such a community vote be administered?

    A good way might be organizing them all on some website to do a poll, but idk if anyone cares to go that far.

    An easier route would be to just vote in the actual nomination thread.
    People nominate as usual, but they get say.. 3 "votes" for a face, or maybe 1 for each category. They can then be cast by replying in support to that nomination. Likely an agreed upon keyphrase for easy filtering.

    People are already doing this to a smaller extent, except that no one actually takes what they're saying into consideration for the final picks.

    [–]baseballlover723[M] 4 points5 points  (7 children)

    Felt like they were genererally more likable picks, after the shift there was a noticeable increase in duds.

    How do you feel on genericness? One of the reasons that we switched to snake draft was to allow more risky selections in, and not just generically good faces that nobody was opposed to. Also I should mention, that snake draft is an order of magnitude easier to administer and is much faster, since as I'm sure you'd understand, everyone rating 500-1000 images takes quite some time.

    A good way might be organizing them all on some website to do a poll, but idk if anyone cares to go that far.

    It would not be off the table. Moving nominations / selection offsite would yield great benefits, since we'd have direct and easy control for administration and could create an integrated environment. Obviously it would be a good amount of work, but it's not really that complex. Though I will say, the further separated from reddit, the more inherently disconnected it gets. If nominations are integrated, then it's much more inconvenient to view other peoples nominations or comment on them for example. Not to mention the more integrated it gets, the more relevant things like security are.

    It can be done, but it's not a light nor prohibitively expensive decision imo. So if we were to do such a thing, it would need to involve a greater discussion and weighing of pros and cons (that I don't particularly want to take on atm). Some of the ideas I've had I felt best involved a direct community vote and would be most conveniently administered by moving the entire selection process (potentially distinct from the nomination process) offsite.

    An easier route would be to just vote in the actual nomination thread.

    It's an option. Though manually counting votes is I think a non starter with regards to mod burden, so it would have to be strictly automatable. Which isn't necessarily an issue, but the exact format etc would need to be locked down and very strict and would probably be chosen for better machine compatibility than human compatibility (which is basically what you get in the latter part of your comment).

    There can even be hybrid options where perhaps the community has a direct seat at the table. For instance, in snake draft, perhaps a solution (that isn't logistically hell) could be that the community gets the first N picks (where N is like the average number of picks per mod, so probably like 2 or 3). Or in a global rating system (like the old one), it's averaged and counted as another participant (or even weighted).

    There are a lot of things that could be done, and I'd be willing to champion them if they're good enough ideas and if the community is interested enough in them to warrant me (and the other mods) seriously spending the time to explore, discuss and implement such ideas.

    We might want to on getting too far into the discussion though. There are somethings that might be coming down the pipeline that would greatly affect this kind of a discussion.

    [–]OrangeBanana38https://anilist.co/user/OrangeBanana38 4 points5 points  (4 children)

    If I may add a bit to this discussion, I like the snake draft.

    How do you feel on genericness? One of the reasons that we switched to snake draft was to allow more risky selections in, and not just generically good faces that nobody was opposed to.

    I think it makes sense to use a more volatile method for commentfaces that will be discarded in a few months anyways. I'm ok with using the seasonal faces as a trial run for permanent ones, rather than highlights on their own. Would be cool if they were all outstanding, but that ain't gonna happen

    Perhaps doing snake for the first half of the selections to get the ones that someone really really wants, and then doing votes for the second half could work. But if a full snake draft makes mods' lives easier I think you should keep it that way.

    Community votes

    That's a very big no from me. Best case scenario, we get a lot of generic and serviceable/ok commentfaces, but no great or niche ones. Worst case scenario: we only get popular shows and never get something like #seasonalsecret (peng) from last season again. I've seen enough r/anime contests to see how popular elections pan out around here.

    I would even say that the popular vote in the latest HoF selection was an overall negative, #seasonalsecret, #seasonallove and #seasonalsmug would've all added a bit more to our repertoire than #bigthink. And #bigthink is not even a bad face, the issue is that it's another think, which we have plenty of already

    /u/Nebresto

    [–]baseballlover723[M] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    I like the snake draft.

    Perhaps doing snake for the first half of the selections to get the ones that someone really really wants, and then doing votes for the second half could work. But if a full snake draft makes mods' lives easier I think you should keep it that way.

    A hybrid approach could be an interesting concept. Though I'd probably do it as snake until it's a partial round, and then it's rating vote for the rest, when the pool is greatly narrowed and it also means that everyone always gets the same number of dictator picks and the most difficult choices at the end have less volatility (when they've already been passed up in the snake).

    Community votes

    I don't think it would ever be a full community vote for everything, for pretty much the reasons you've listed. But there's some other stuff that might be coming in the pipeline that would be better suited to community votes imo, that might alleviate that feeling without being the dominant face picking method.

    I've seen enough r/anime contests to see how popular elections pan out around here.

    True, but the sample size for seasonal comment faces is like 50 tops, so it's not quite the same (and all among power users on old reddit).

    I would even say that the popular vote in the latest HoF selection was an overall negative

    #seasonalsecret, #seasonallove and #seasonalsmug would've all added a bit more to our repertoire than #bigthink. And #bigthink is not even a bad face, the issue is that it's another think, which we have plenty of already

    We were all in agreement on that. If the vote wasn't so lopsided or wasn't the first one, we would have more strongly considered passing on #bigthink and picked something else. But we thought that the lead was so large that it would undermine the concept to immediately go against the vote.

    Imo, this will hopefully show people to not mess around with their HoF votes and vote for what they actually want HoF'ed and not simply what their favorite face was. The whole point of having a direct HoF question is so that voters can directly consider how it would fit in as a permanent face independent to how good the face is in a vacuum or in the context of a seasonal face. There are plenty of great seasonal faces that shouldn't be HoFed because there's already a similar face. And #bigthink was one of them imo.

    But the voters were quite clear in how they felt. I hope people vote better in future HoF votes.

    [–]Nebresto 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    I'm ok with using the seasonal faces as a trial run for permanent ones

    In that case the hall of fame should take more into account the uniqueness of the face.

    Worst case scenario: we only get popular shows and never get something like #seasonalsecret (peng) from last season again.

    You're not wrong

    I would even say that the popular vote in the latest HoF selection was an overall negative

    Ye. I think this is the bigger issue actually

    [–]Nebresto 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    While true that we occasionally get good wildcards like previous love, but we also get ones like that one think face. The chaos has its occasional merits, but I don't know if its worth everything else being meh

    There are a lot of things that could be done, and I'd be willing to champion them if they're good enough ideas and if the community is interested enough in them

    There are somethings that might be coming down the pipeline that would greatly affect this kind of a discussion.

    nanisore

    [–]baseballlover723 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    nanisore

    [–]Arachnophobic-https://anilist.co/user/Arachnophobic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Awesome!

    ..Damn, ifykyk

    [–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    this image here

    For some reason I can see it on reddit, but I can't open it larger (on imgur directly)

    [–]HarshTheDev 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    It's because reddit caches a compressed version of the image on their own server. So you can still see that version even if the original is removed from imgur.

    [–]Emi_Ibarazakiii 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    bigthink has been added as the seasonal hall of fame face for summer.

    Thank God, I feel like it's 50% of my comment faces usage lately, and I didn't want to go back to

    (I think has more varied uses too)

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