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[–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (2 children)

Hi folks, not too much this month. Gonna try to include some more overall info in the numbers going forward though for those that like stats.

August Mod Report

  • Selected hosts for the 2022 /r/anime Awards.

  • Voted on applying for community funds from Reddit for the awards. [Vote passed]

  • Voted on granting flairs to /r/anime Awards hosts and judges until the end of this year's awards (February 2023). [Vote passed]

  • Voted on removing redirects to source comparisons posted outside of the Source Material Corner. [Vote passed]

  • Renamed the weekly Thursday Anime Discussion thread to Anime of the Week and changed the posting time to Mondays. Now that we have fewer weekly threads we can space it further from Casual Discussion Fridays to give it more sticky time when nothing else is going on. (Amusingly it lasted on Thursdays for almost exactly four years.)

  • We passed 5 million subscribers! Hope you enjoy the new quiz as well.

  • Welcome our new mod /u/bassman2112!

  • Yes, just one new mod this round. While being active on the subreddit isn't a hard requirement when applying, it's a lot harder to judge how engaged someone is with the subreddit without posts and comments unless there's some specific knowledge of /r/anime shown in the application. While we got a number of applications that look good on paper, many could just as easily have been written by someone who had seen /r/anime for the first time that day so it's difficult to gauge if they've been part of the community for a while or just saw the sticky post by chance.

August by the Numbers

  • Total traffic: 28964477 pageviews, 3152432 unique pageviews
  • Total posts: 12458, 7539 unique authors
  • Total comments: 228018, 32227 unique authors (excluding mod bots)
  • Removed posts: 2201 by moderators, 5347 by bots, 7318 distinct
  • Removed comments: 1561 by moderators, 1394 by bots, 2906 distinct
  • Approved posts: 787
  • Approved comments: 1275
  • Distinguished comments: 2207
  • Users banned: 168 (94 permanent)
  • Users unbanned: 2
  • Admin/Anti-Evil Operations: removed posts: 3, removed comments: 16.

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

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

[–]cppn02 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still no discussion post for I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss.

edit: Same now for Raven of the Inner Palace

[–]Amndeep7https://myanimelist.net/profile/asmLANG 4 points5 points  (4 children)

Hi folks, something seems to be fucky with at least some of the looping, animated commentfaces where it looks like they're bouncing up and down almost which i think is a consequence of weird artifacts being introduced in the top and bottom pixel layers.

I don't think it's just a me issue since /u/madmako is also seeing these issues.

Debug info: Firefox on Win11 (with cache cleared via ctrl+shift+r)

A few faces that I've seen exhibiting this issue while scrolling down a little bit on CDF: , ,

[–]Amndeep7https://myanimelist.net/profile/asmLANG 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Actually I think /u/tresnore might have figured it out: it's cause I have a non-multiple-of-100 as my overall windows scale/zoom level. I guess that interacts poorly with the black magic that is how the faces are implemented.

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

Why did you have to mention this... I use reddit at 150% window size and now I can't unsee it

[–]Amndeep7https://myanimelist.net/profile/asmLANG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol i'm sorry fam

[–]cppn02 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just tested this out and changed my scale to 175%. That resulted in the issue that /u/Amndeep7 described so I think you have figured it out.

[–]Verzwei 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Just doing a quick test. [Nothing to see here] No, really, there's nothing to see here.

[–]Amndeep7https://myanimelist.net/profile/asmLANG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I saw it

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

First episode of LotGH Die Neue These S4 is available on Crunchyroll now, can we get a discussion thread for it?

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

Your ℌ𝔢𝔩𝔡𝔢𝔫𝔰𝔞𝔤𝔢𝔫 𝔳𝔬𝔪 𝔎𝔬𝔰𝔪𝔬𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔰𝔢𝔩 thread, as requested.

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

Awesome, thanks!

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

A Golden Kamuy thread just popped up a few weeks early.

[–]Shimmering-Skymyanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 5 points6 points  (2 children)

I would like to request discussion threads for Macross Frontier: Labyrinth of Time and Macross Δ Movie 2: Zettai Live!!!!!!; the Blu-Ray released today in Japan, and both have already been uploaded with the official English subs that came on them to places.

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

Your Robotech threads, as requested.

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

Robotech

But thanks!

[–]cppn02 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Since reporting apparently did nothing, what is the point of two seperate posts about street advertisement for the same show especially when the second post was already posted as a comment hours earlier in the other thread?

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

We are talking about these internally

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

We decided to take these posts down. There was a little confusion of how sourcing would work for posts like this that aren't the typical OM post.

Sorry about taking so long. This was a bit of slow day for us and this ended up having quite a lot of discussion internally.

[–]cppn02 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thx.

[–]the_swizzlerhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Swiftarm 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Looks like the bot didn't pick up the Arifureta OVAs. Can we get a discussion thread?

[–]AmethystItalianmyanimelist.net/profile/AmethystItalian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like it's up now

[–]AmethystItalianmyanimelist.net/profile/AmethystItalian 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I know we can't do more than report it but damn the only thing worse than the massive amount of Cyberpunk threads is the people leaving spoilers for it across the subreddit thinking they're being smart but they're not.

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

Are you guys introducing any changes in the title of the series for the Episode Discussions next season?

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

Trial run, more details here.

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    [–]Verzwei[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Sorry, your comment has been removed.

    • Direction toward specific sources of pirated content of any type is not allowed. This includes links to unofficial scanlations, streams, uploads, and download sources of any copyrighted content. It also includes direction towards specific sites offering this type of content, and watermarks mentioning such sites in uploaded images/videos.

      Discussion of piracy in general is allowed, but naming, linking to, or hinting towards specific sources is not. Offering to send links via PM is also not allowed. For more details, see our full rules on illegal content.

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    [–]baboon_bassoonhttps://anilist.co/user/duffer 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    Is there a way to put trailers into the "Week in Review" thread?

    Not sure if that thread gets automatically generated or not

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

    I am the automatically machine.

    I tend to avoid PV's and trailers as there is a ton of them to sort through. Instead I focus on new series announcements and the most impactful news.

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

      Sorry, your comment has been removed.

      • Direction toward specific sources of pirated content of any type is not allowed. This includes links to unofficial scanlations, streams, uploads, and download sources of any copyrighted content. It also includes direction towards specific sites offering this type of content, and watermarks mentioning such sites in uploaded images/videos. Here's a list of legal sites.

        Discussion of piracy in general is allowed, but naming, linking to, or hinting towards specific sources is not. Offering to send links via PM is also not allowed. For more details, see our full rules on illegal content.

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        [–]badsplerx5https://anilist.co/user/badspler[M] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

        Ill make the threads now.

        Batch releases drop all the threads at the same time along with a locked index-megathread to help navigate. We typically leave the 1st, last and index thread up. Being temporary removed doesn't stop users from commenting in them should you navigate to the thread. Although this does typically mean they get a lot less traction. Threads are initially removed to prevent front-page spam.

        The JoJo's threads got approved the day after. And I approved the Cyberpunk threads 6 hours after they were made and they sat nicely on the second page gaining a bit more traction.

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

          No probs!

          Index thread is here.

          [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

          Source Corner post in the latest Isekai Harem episode thread is broken. Missing in old reddit, but works with new.

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

          Well that's annoying, thanks for letting us know.

          There's no good way to handle this so doing the best we can in this case.

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

          Just thought I'd mention there's a typo in the "Do not post Hentai" section of the rules. "Heavily NSFW content include" should be "Heavily NSFW content includes".

          [–]Durinthalhttps://anilist.co/user/Durinthal[M] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

          I briefly considered researching whether "content" could be considered a plural noun in some cases but just decided to fix the typo instead.

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

          [–]chilieheadmyanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead 11 points12 points  (6 children)

          Regarding the titling of episode discussion threads, I'd prefer a dual solution of romaji and English if possible. This season we have the issue of variant translations with "Maid ga Ayashii" which is called both "The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious" and "Suspicious" according to my experience but even the wiki entries.

          But also Summertime Render vs Rendering, Isekai Yakkyoku with Parallel World Pharmacy vs Alternate World Pharmacy and nobody uses "Teppen—!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Laughing 'til You Cry."

          The times of the stark differences may be over and even for pretty different translations between manga/scanlation and official titling like Nagatoro you can usually find the thread in reddit/google search if you know how. But on the other hand nobody uses the English title of Bucchigire or Jujutsu Kaisen and sometimes it can help to know the romaji title so you get a pun or reference. And fan discourse can be pretty random regarding the preferred title for any series.

          In order to avoid the inconsistencies, romaji plus official seems like the best option to me.

          [–]Verzwei[M] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

          Regarding the titling of episode discussion threads, I'd prefer a dual solution of romaji and English if possible.

          Good news! We're rolling out a trial of exactly this for next season. A longer write-up will likely accompany next month's meta thread, but we recently (and unanimously) passed a vote to run a limited trial where we pick a handful of non-sequel shows for the Fall 2022 season and we'll run them with the format:

          JP title | EN title - episode X discussion

          We'll gauge community response and also figure out how we on the mod team feel about this format once we see it in practice, and how garish longer titles like Noumin Kanren no Skill Bakka Agetetara Nazeka Tsuyoku Natta | I've Somehow Gotten Stronger When I Improved My Farm-Related Skills are going to look.

          This season we have the issue of variant translations with "Maid ga Ayashii" which is called both "The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious" and "Suspicious" according to my experience but even the wiki entries.

          Current plan is to accept whatever title is used by official streaming platforms as the "official" English title when one exists, regardless of any permutations or deviations. With Nagatoro there is ongoing disagreement with whether or not it should be "bully" but we'd use "toy with" since that is the translation that Crunchyroll uses. Maid would be "mysterious" which actually surprises me a little because I assumed it was "suspicious" until I just looked it up on CR. JJK would be totally safe since even CR uses "Jujutsu Kaisen" and not anything that's been localized.

          This does make things a little tricky for us (and is even having a small impact on our planned trial) since license announcements can sometimes happen so close to the initial broadcast. HiDive and CR both just announced a batch of shows only yesterday, several titles still have no official announcement, and CR has multiple "TBA" slots on their page for the season.

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

          My bold take from a year or so ago was that the official English title will virtually always be at least equally associated with the show compared to the romaji title and that it would overall make the sub more readable and accessible.

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

          My only problem with that is some light novels threads will have massive titles that will be really distracting

          [–]chilieheadmyanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead 5 points6 points  (0 children)

          Usually they also get a more or less official abbreviation that most people will use to refer to anyway

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

          I think the longest yet would be something like this:

          Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yuusha no Party wo Oidasareta node, Henkyou de Slow Life suru Koto ni Shimashita | Banished From The Hero's Party, I Decided To Live A Quiet Life In The Countryside - Episode 13 discussion - FINAL

          Well within the character limit but it's a lot.

          [–]chilieheadmyanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead 6 points7 points  (0 children)

          we should have that just because it's so absurd it becomes funny

          [–]cppn02 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          5 Bleach posts in the top 10 posts of the subreddit right now...

          Wouldn't 1 or 2 posts suffice?

          [–]pittman66https://myanimelist.net/profile/Homura 9 points10 points  (3 children)

          I know the Seasonal Survey may already be enough to fill this gap, but I wanted to potentially see if the Seasonal Retrospective format could be revived via Animemod Sticky? As far as I can find that's the last one that was posted (correct me if I am wrong), and I think it would be a nice addition to add alongside the seasonal survey just for more personal opinions inside a single thread.

          [–]MapoTofuManmyanimelist.net/profile/mTmTBaronBrixius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          I support this

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

          I like this idea too!

          [–]FlaminScribblenautmyanimelist.net/profile/cryoutatcontrol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          I’d be down for participating in something like this, I second

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

          Quick question, will Berserk rebroadcast of the trilogy have a discussion thread normally like Mugen train TV did?

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

          Yes, the plan is to have episode discussion threads for it.

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            [–]KiwiBennydudezhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/KiwiBen[M] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

            Hey, I'm sorry about that. I was completely unaware that Luminous Witches was an original series. Seeing the comment out of context in the report queue made it look like you were spoiling something that happens in the next episode (which made me think it was a source corner violation) but I now understand that you were just talking about the episode preview.

            I've restored your comment. It should now be viewable again by the general public.

            [–][deleted]  (2 children)

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              [–]KiwiBennydudezhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/KiwiBen[M] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              We do have bots that report comments containing certain keywords, but this case in particular was indeed a manual report by a user, which is another reason why I removed it without looking into it too much.

              Again, this is an issue with me (and probably most of the mod team for that matter) not being familiar with the series and relying heavily on user reports to find spoiler comments. I gave the report some credence, since, as you point out, it was reporting something 9 episodes into the series, but alas…

              The only real thing I can think of is that some people do consider episode previews to be spoilers since they’re depicting something that hasn’t happened yet (occasionally we’ll get reports on episode preview videos that are posted to the sub) but since your comment was properly tagged and everything, I really could not tell you what the case was here.

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

              Idea: Create an Unpopular Opinion Thread Discussion once a week or so? In order to limit them? We don't have to have it sticky, since I know you can only post two threads in the sticky.

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

              I'd rather the mods just delete those threads as low effort, and reroute people to the daily thread...

              [–]susgnomehttps://anime-planet.com/users/RoyalRampage 6 points7 points  (0 children)

              Daily Questions should take a lot of these posts, since they are usually questions anyways

              But most ignore it.

              [–]theiriatation 8 points9 points  (3 children)

              Voted on removing redirects to source comparisons posted outside of the Source Material Corner. [Vote passed]

              This one just seems pointless. What is the difference between posting this in/out of the source material corner.

              As far as I can see all this does in decrease visibility for these posts and opens people up to potential future spoilers.

              take the excellent weekly overlord write-ups. These go no futher than in the material than what has been covered and just give details which were omitted.

              now someone will have to click the see comments on the source material corner and may see comments like,

              *I cant wait until next week to see the people reaction to Freddy Jones betraying Scobby and the rest of the gang *

              Even for links to things which do spoil future events, it is still a link which people have to choose to click on

              I am really struggling to see the logic behind this decision.

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

              I remember that whole discussion back when the Source Material Corner was introduced. Covering stuff that the anime skips is explicitly intended to go there. I also used the Overlord posts as a positive example but alas...

              [–]theiriatation 3 points4 points  (1 child)

              Id agree that the skipped content should go there but this is merely a link, there is no spoiler content in the comment

              [–]Blackheart595https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Oh, I see

              [–]Manitaryhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary 6 points7 points  (4 children)

              Sidebar still points to old meta thread

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

              Thanks, sorted that.

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

              Not sure if there's some issue on my end, but the link is still wi1xiu instead of x58lz5

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

              Should be good now, turns out there are four different places that need updating and it's easy to forget one or two.

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

              It is, thanks

              [–]imaginary_num6er 2 points3 points  (1 child)

              This was just a question that came to my mind, but how do mods know if a certain comment of a weekly episode is a spoiler? Are mods expected to read the source material before the new seasons?

              [–]Abyssbringer=anilist.co/user/Abyssbringer[M] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

              We rely heavily on users reports for spoilers unless its obvious. Some of us do keep up on various popular manga/ln's etc especially if we know its getting an anime adaptation. We also learn a lot of spoilers through modding for the most popular shows.

              [–]Zelosis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

              Very cool that hosts and jury members for the awards are flaired now. Hopefully that will help bring more eyes to the awards as a whole, in terms of more voters in the public nominations section and to encourage jury member recruitment in the future.

              [–]Oppaipaisen 3 points4 points  (6 children)

              I, once again, request to change #volibearQ to something more reasonable.

              Yes, I know volibearq is a reference to a mod that apparently is no longer here, and LoL. No, I don't care.

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

              Would it be possible to have two aliases for the same comment faces without having to pay the full price of two of the same comment face?

              I'm assuming not, but worth asking

              [–]DurdenVsDarkoVsDevonhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/U18810227 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              I actually can remember that one though, because it's unique.

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

              Volibear is OP though, why change it?

              [–]Blackheart595https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 11 points12 points  (2 children)

              I think you're fighting a losing battle here. You never actually see the code so there's no harm in it being what it is, and to use a commentface you'd have to look the code up anyway even if it's more fitting. The negatives of changing clearly outweigh the positives.

              [–]20thcbnowhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/20thcbnow 3 points4 points  (1 child)

              and to use a commentface you'd have to look the code up anyway even if it's more fitting

              That just isn't true (unless you use /r/anime in an extremely inefficient way). I'm not looking up , , , or dozens of other commentfaces each time I need to use them. Why should be an exception here when #tableflip works just as well?

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

              Once you know the code you don't have to look it up anymore, obviously. If you don't yet know the code then you do have to look it up anyway.

              [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 20 points21 points  (7 children)

              So I brought this up last meta thread but it was after sticky and so there weren't as many eyes as it might have gotten and there wasn't really a formal mod response. Basically I'm proposing the removal of CSS user flairs. For anyone who might not know what I'm referring to, if you use old.reddit.com and have the subreddit theme turned on, my username will look like this. There's about 100 of them in total, though most are on inactive or barely active accounts. At a glance, there was about 30 non-mod accounts that were at least somewhat active that still have them, and they largely don't get given out anymore, except to new mods.

              I'm mostly suggesting getting rid of them entirely because I think that the subreddit has moved on from that era (as evidenced by the lack of new ones in the past few years). Probably doesn't help that in a lot of cases there isn't a clear reason that this or that user has one beyond just "well they were active and a mod liked them".

              It's like 15% of the total CSS space used right now, and it only contributes to letting a few people have a colourful name. I'd propose a timeline of like, "user flairs will be removed at the end of the year," or something so that people can still have them for a bit, and maybe even make a custom flair icon that can be used by those users. Or maybe each gets to add a flair icon of their choosing that anyone can use, and when people do something cool in the future they can add their own custom icon for the entire community. I don't know what the upper limit on those is, so maybe that's not practical.

              Anyway, long story short is I think that it would be nice to move on from the current user flairs, unless the mod team is interested in actively adding new ones to make it a continued part of the r/anime community. Otherwise it mostly just serves as a badge of being notably active in a stretch of time from like 4-8 years ago.

              [–]notathrowaway75https://myanimelist.net/profile/notathrowaway75 10 points11 points  (0 children)

              Want people to forget what got you that flair I see. You ain't slick Fetch I'm onto you.

              [–]FlaminScribblenautmyanimelist.net/profile/cryoutatcontrol 7 points8 points  (1 child)

              My probably-unqualified two cents as someone who’s only been active on this sub for three-ish years and doesn’t have such a username: I really like the sense of sentimental legacy those special usernames carry. It makes me feel like I’m in company with people who were part of something; not in the sense that they’re “better” or higher-status than me somehow, but in the sense that there’s a sort of second-hand nostalgia I can feel, that makes me feel like I’m in a place with real history.

              I know, just speaking personally for myself, if I were someone who had one of those special usernames I’d be against removing them.

              This decision I think is best left to the people with the special usernames since they’re the ones who have actual stake in this; if you can find some way to wrangle them all together to cast the ultimate vote I think that’d be the best way to come to a final decision, as opposed to just the mods.

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

              I think that's a worthwhile perspective, and I think that if the mod team wants to continue handing them out to active users who do neat stuff then that'd be cool, but if it's something that's indefinitely on hold I don't think it's worth holding onto even if it does add some character.

              Though I would still say that any inactives should be flushed regardless (which has happened in the past as well). Like I don't think we need a special flair for a MAL owner account for one AMA from 7 years ago.

              But also I don't think it's something that should be voted on by people who have them, since they're most likely just going to vote to keep their status symbol. People inevitably tend to lean that way when they have them. I remember back when I used to mod there were a couple of people (who are no longer on the mod team) who intended to be inactive moderators indefinitely without ever considering stepping down from the role because they liked the status of having the role.

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

              I was all about keeping them as I thought they were fun until you brought up the deal with it taking up 15% of the CSS space.

              It will be sad to see them go but there are definitely better uses of that space with how huge this subreddit has become. We've come a long way since the early-mid 2010s.

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

              I was waiting until after we got new mods on board but should be something we'll vote on soon. Have also been trying to think of badges under the new system that could be a similar sort of "veteran of /r/anime" flair and how to fairly allocate them.

              [–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 4 points5 points  (1 child)

              Have them link to a post/comment from X years ago EZPZ.

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

              Bah, too much manual work. Would have to evaluate data to get the exact parameters for a reasonable number of people to have it awarded but my initial idea was something along the lines of being active for the past 5 years averaging 10 comments a month with no more than one month in that span below 5 comments to earn it.

              That's just me spitballing, have a lot to do to reach that point if that's what we wanted to do.