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MetaMeta Thread - Month of February 04, 2024 (self.anime)

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Rule Changes

No rule changes this month.

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

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

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

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[–]AmusedDragon[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (1 child)

We reached a neat milestone this month and the awards/contests season is now in full swing!

January Mod Report

January by the Numbers

  • Total traffic: 49125484 pageviews, 6516199 unique visitors
  • Total posts: 13299, 8457 unique authors
  • Total comments: 302957, 53479 unique authors (excluding mod bots)
  • Removed posts: 1204 by moderators, 7162 by bots, 8297 distinct
  • Removed comments: 2605 by moderators, 2573 by bots, 5095 distinct
  • Approved posts: 2650
  • Approved comments: 3898
  • Distinguished comments: 1876
  • Users banned: 77 (52 permanent)
  • Users unbanned: 1
  • Admin/Anti-Evil Operations: removed posts: 22, removed comments: 95.

[–]qwertyqwerty4567 0 points1 point  (0 children)

did the awards voting period get extended? Shouldnt it have ended yesterday?

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

Just a quick question for posts with the writing tag since I couldn't find an answer quickly poking around in the FAQ. When posting a long essay with the writing flair, does one still need to obscure all their spoilers or is a spoiler disclaimer at the top of the post sufficient? I'm writing an essay for the contest and if I have to obscure all my spoilers I fear like 2/3rds of the essay is going to be covered haha

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

Normally you'd just post include the anime in the title and hit the spoiler button for the post in general.

[–]Freidehr 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Ninja Kamui thread.

[–]entelechtual 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Is there anything against AI-generated comments that are clearly copied and pasted…?

[–]Verzwei 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I'd imagine you could report that as spam if you can find more than one of the same. Otherwise could maybe do a custom report pointing out that it's AI and the mods could at least look into it and/or the account doing it.

[–]entelechtual 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did the latter and it got removed. It was pretty blatant in both the comment(s) and the user’s history.

[–]baseballlover723 3 points4 points  (2 children)

What's the best why to unreport something?

Yesterday I accidently reported https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1anals2/what_viewpoint_have_you_readheard_that/ instead of https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1anajpu/what_anime_do_you_wish_you_could_watch_for_the/, for being similar to https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1ak57xi/any_anime_you_wish_to_experience_it_for_the_first/.

I had presumed that since those posts were actually similar to each other the accidental report would of been ignored (along with the fact that I reported the correct post very shortly afterwards), but it seems like it got removed anyways.

So whats the best course of action a user should take if they report the wrong post?

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

We shouldn't be blinding approving or removing anything without first reading the context but sometimes from time to time we slip up and don't double check as diligently as we should. I say this not to absolve us but to give out a reasoning.

But as for your question, I think modmailing us would be the best bet to catch our attention or responding to the removal reason. Both ideally to be honest since the mod may have checked out by the time you respond.

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

Mods shouldn't blindly trust reports in the first place, it's a problem if they are with something that obviously different at a glance.

[–]entelechtual 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Casual discussion Friday links in daily thread have been linking to last week’s CDF for the past two days

[–]MyrnaMountWeazelx2[M] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, it has now been fixed.

[–]Cryten0 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Does encouraging people to pirate anime count as "leading people to torrents, illegal streaming services and/or downloads"? I ask because the current funimation news comments has a few people making such statements that people should just pirate.

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

No, it does not. The rule is only in regards to leading people to specific sources for piracy.

[–]Cryten0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotcha.

[–]mekerpan 2 points3 points  (4 children)

I looked for the new Dungeon Meshi thread in three different ways -- and can't find it? Is it up yet?

[–]Ocixohttps://myanimelist.net/profile/BuzzyGuy 3 points4 points  (3 children)

I know this tends to happen more often with Netflix anime, but did this also happen with Delicious in Dungeon before? (I’m always late with watching, so I’m not sure.)

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

I'm pretty sure the thread for it was late last week too, although not as late as it was today.

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

Today it was like 5 hours late or something?

Also: Urusei Yatsura’s thread still isn’t up it seems like.

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

It was two hours late last week.

[–]collapsedblock6myanimelist.net/profile/collapsedblock 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Will there be an awards feedback thread this year? There is already a feedback form but its only from within awards members (jurors and hosts), only mods and next year hosts can see it and we don't know if suggestions were taken into account or immediately discarded. I think the public would also be more comfortable knowing suggestions are taken into account by the mods that oversee everything and have their opinion. Would be preferable to just getting a thank you message from a site read by a temporal volunteer 9 months after the fact.

[–]entelechtual 5 points6 points  (1 child)

What’s the deal with the comment traffic on the sub at the moment? There’s a bunch of threads on the first page of the sub that have over 300 comments, not even episode discussions. They’re pretty broad generic questions mostly but still I feel like it’s a lot of engagement, usually there’s 1-2 posts like that a day.

[–]FelixAndCo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I guess it's because the sub is back on main feed? There are some quite good engagement bait posts. I also feel the temptation to answer some anime recommendation questions...

[–]amidloveandanime 2 points3 points  (3 children)

So is there a time frame to post similar clips?

Asking because I got one removed due to another one posted last month, which i wasnt aware of their existence, but it wasn't the most popular clip or anything close to that, the one that I posted got the same engagement with 5x the comments in just 2 hours

I get that we need to have a rule against spam, but I really don't want to see some good clips that would generate some good laughs, discussion and everything in-between missing their spotlight because the OP posted them with a bad timing (i.e crowded frontpage) or with an uninviting title

So a clarification about that rule should be nice to everyone that is into posting clips

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

is there a time frame to post similar clips?

From the rules page:

The same clip, edit, or video may only be reposted once every 180 days.

Any clip, edit, or video within the top 75 posts of all time for each flair are never allowed to be reposted.

Checking your post history, you can repost it in 136±1 days

[–]amidloveandanime 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I guess it is a similar clip even though its not literally the same, thanks

Better to search if something went under the radar before posting a clip

you can repost it in 136±1 days

Thanks again, but not really going to post that anymore

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

The easiest way is probably to search words from the anime name + flair:clip (taking into account en/jp names, shorthands, etc), sort by new, and manually check the clips

[–]cppn02 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Is today's awards thread delayed?

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

Yes, we all forgot Myrna was dead, thread is up now.

[–]JustAMelfriend 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I wish next episode previews are spoiler tagged by default because youtube thumbnails sometimes contain spoilers.

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

The daily discussion thread is linking to last month meta thread.

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

I fixed this, should be fine in the next thread.

[–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/Fetch[M] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What the fuck. I fixed this.

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

What do y'all do once you keep seeing the same discussion topics brought up week after week, with the same 10 or so series listed at the top almost like a pre-made list?

I know topics such as "favourite [x]" or "worst [x]" are just a standard affair regardless what subreddit or community you are in, but after a certain point it kind of feels like there isn't actually anything interesting or engaging going on in those. I wouldn't be too concerned but with the lower-engagement feeling the subreddit has had over the past couple years, I feel like I've been seeing the same variations of those (most successful threads often being negatively leaning) asked almost everyday reach the front page. Even now, things like "what had potential but failed" I am sure we've had multiple variations of this week alone.

Overall, just curious what people do to combat that feeling of the subreddit community being kind of burnt out/ stale (without straight up muting those keywords for the threads). I do a lot of other things beyond browsing through here, but I feel like every time I choose to actually look through, those same posts are almost always present.

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

For better or worse, the daily thread has removed any incentive for me to browse /new. The last time I browsed it, the posts ranged from "Recommend me a sad anime" to "Favorite cripples in anime", and I just can't be bothered. The daily thread at least tries to be interesting and act like it has some home training. There are actual discussions happening there.

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

I usually just stick to the daily discussion threads for this very reason. There’s also a bunch of repeat questions in those threads every day, but there’s at least more variety in topics - mostly because the bar for posting is so much lower.

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

Seen several comments removed by the mod on here, what were they actually about?

[–]Interesting_Place752 3 points4 points  (1 child)

A couple people calling everyone pedophiles.

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

If so then it made sense to be removed

[–]piruuuhttps://anilist.co/user/dvj 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A certain user declares in every Blue Archive-related post that he won't participate in Blue Archive-related posts because of the fandom, accuses fans of being pedophiles who are enjoying raping little girls, users from both sides of the argument gets baited into this shitfest and it ends up with the usual "Mushoku Tensei discussion thread" special.

[–]cppn02 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you know about the Blue Archive fandom it shouldn't be hard to figure out.

[–]watashi_ga_kita 1 point2 points  (13 children)

Are we ever getting episode scoring back? I know that something broke at some point with it but I guess I figured it would be back by now.

[–]AmusedDragon[M] 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Little to no incentive or benefit to having the polling.

In fact, creating polls and dealing with them when the episode bot breaks turns a quick thread creation into a larger affair that most of the mods who make missing episode threads do not miss.

[–]Verzwei 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I hear that. Manually making episode discussion threads was easily my least-favorite part of being a mod simply because of the hassle of manually computing the previous poll data and setting up the next poll. It was the reason why whenever I'd see a thread creation request pop up in the appropriate discord channel I'd usually sit on it for a few minutes and hope someone else answered that they were going to do it.

[–]AmusedDragon 2 points3 points  (1 child)

It's like a 20 second task now assuming it isn't the first thread for a show. It's great.

[–]Verzwei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Show X Episode Y thread isn't up, and I told the mods about it 30 minutes ago!

Verzwei is the one working on it and he started 30 minutes ago and he's just now finishing up and also cursing the polls.

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

The way I see it is that there's less incentive for us to make the polls when things like the Karma Charts and Anime Corner charts frequently hit front page. Those are also individually focused on week-to-week episodes so I'm not really sure if it makes sense to bring back the polls inside the threads themselves. I know it's not the same as having a button directly inside the thread - but it's probably a better metric than the polls, which as others have pointed out, were almost always somewhere between a 4 and a 5.

[–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/Fetch 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Largely what Verz said. The old method broke, and there's just not much incentive to get something new working just so that we can find out that nearly every episode of every anime scores between a 4.2 and a 5/5. The results of the polls aren't interesting, and so there's not really much incentive to put in the time and effort needed to bring them back.

[–]watashi_ga_kita 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Popular shows might have almost always had 4.2 to 5 for every episode but it was a decent indicator for less popular shows. You can still find ratings for series on MAL and some other places but it felt like r/anime members and MAL and other sites had different expectations from users and thus could have wildly different ratings for shows.

I personally preferred getting feedback from this subreddit's scores since it felt like it was mostly given by people who would keep an open mind and seriously give a show a chance. Even for trash shows, you could see the fluctuations in scores for each episode and have a good idea of how the quality of the show was going to be.

I do understand now that the old method was more than just a couple bugs and that replacing it will require serious effort. It sucks but it is what it is.

[–]cppn02 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah atleast until they got overly manipulated the reddit scores were actually a surprisingly good indicator if you knew how to read them.

[–]Verzwei 2 points3 points  (2 children)

IIRC the site that did the polling (which was an external thing and not anything created nor managed by this subreddit's mod team) changed on a fundamental level and there was no longer any way to automate the episode bot to grab, compute, and display the poll data.

So rather than hooking into an external tool, something new would have to be made entirely from scratch by the team, which would be a huge task for what I imagine is questionable benefit. For smaller shows those polls could barely manage a dozen responses per episode, and a poor sample size results in a meaningless poll anyway. Then I think at one point there were issues with people botting the polls, too, which would have to be another thing to be protected against.

I'm going to assume the team chalks it up to not being worth the effort to build a tool from scratch, or find and integrate a new one, for something that only saw good use on hugely popular series and even then still could be vulnerable to bad faith actors.

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

not being worth the effort to build a tool from scratch, or find and integrate a new one

I wrote a replacement in less than two days, there was simply no more interest in polls.

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

not being worth the effort to build a tool from scratch, or find and integrate a new one

Me last month: Why not just link the site that added this feature after episode polls were removed, is already using Reddit karma levels, and would appear the exact same in every thread without needing to manually create polls?

Mods:

[–]cppn02 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Mods didn't seem very enthusiastic about it the last time it was brought up. That said https://animekarmalist.com/ has since introduced episode ratings although it seems like not too many people are using it yet.

[–]watashi_ga_kita 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not really well known, and the fact it requires a google account to vote makes it less likely to be used. It's also less intuitive than just being able to go to a discussion page and seeing the entire season's history of episode scores laid out, along with a simple button that immediately let you vote only needing approval to be linked to your account.

[–]Stabaobs 2 points3 points  (2 children)

So a user can have 2 [video edits] and 2 [clip] posts for a total of 4 per month?

What counts as a video edit, like it mentions scene splices in the rules, but would a combined snip taken from the start of the episode and a snip from the end of the same episode count as a video edit?

Or even less time between them, what if there's like only a minute or even a couple seconds between the snips, like to make a fight scene flow without any side characters interrupting it. I'm assuming these do fall under video edit, but I'd like to clarify in case.

[–]AmusedDragon[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As you mention from the rules scene splicing would make it an edit. Clips need to be unedited/have no splicing.

Clips are videos showing unedited sections from an anime.

And:

Video Edits are videos where the focus is fan-edited footage from anime. Examples include fan-made AMVs (anime music videos), compilations, scene splices, and cross-media comparisons.

[–]cppn02 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or even less time between them, what if there's like only a minute or even a couple seconds between the snips, like to make a fight scene flow without any side characters interrupting it

I have done exactly this (although not a fight scene) before and posted it as a video edit. Seems to have been fine since the video was not removed.

[–]cultpet 8 points9 points  (6 children)

I have a question regarding what counts as a spoiler.

Does it count as a spoiler if you comment something that isn't a spoiler in itself, but allows people to easily deduce a spoiler from your comment?

This probably sounds very vague, so I'll provide an example I've seen in a recent thread.

A character is introduced, and in that same episode, that character ends up in a life or death situation, we don't know whether he makes it out alive or not. Many characters have died already in this anime, so it's possible he dies too. We won't know until the next episode.

People (source readers) comment that this guy is their favorite character.

This obviously isn't a spoiler, in itself. But we know he's not their favorite character for the 5 minutes he's been on the screen, so they're basically telling us he won't die. He'll live to become a fan favorite.

So is that a spoiler? Some may think it isn't, but if these people commented 'I'm ready for my heart to break all over again', this isn't a spoiler in itself either, but it would count as a spoiler because they'd be implying that he dies, correct?

I wonder where you draw the line. Personally I think saying "he lives" is as much as a spoiler as saying "he dies", and if a comment directly implies either option, I think this is a spoiler (even if it's unintentional). But I wonder what you think about it, and what's the ruling on this.

[–]AmusedDragon[M] 6 points7 points  (2 children)

The spoiler policy is very strict but also I've had this exact question and debate with other mods over time. "Isn't hyping up a show in a PV thread a spoiler? Or saying it sucks?" and tons of variations. I personally don't think hyping up a show, or hating on it, or doing the same with a character is a spoiler, but others would disagree.

I think at the end of the day you have to take a lot of things case-by-case and that is why the report button exists. If you think something is a spoiler then report it and someone will review it and discuss it if needed to see if it counts.

[–]cultpet 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I personally don't think hyping up a show, or hating on it, or doing the same with a character is a spoiler

I would agree with this 99% of the time, with the exception being this case I talked about, when hyping a character can spoil something about his fate.

I thought about reporting, but I felt like it might not be understood (why I reported it), someone would just look at it, see a comment praising a character, and assume the report was a mistake or trolling or something.

Without understanding this perspective ('if they claim this character is their favorite, they're spoiling the outcome of a fight by telling everyone he's gonna make it out alive'), it really doesn't sound like a spoiler. Hence the conundrum!

[–]AmusedDragon[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would agree with this 99% of the time, with the exception being this case I talked about, when hyping a character can spoil something about his fate.

That's why stuff needs to be taken case-by-case. Stuff may only really be a spoiler in the context of the rest of a chain of comments.

[–]Blackheart595https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I consider those context spoilers if they're only a spoiler when taking the context of the discussion into consideration, and implication spoilers if they imply a spoiler but don't explicitly state one. The case that you're describing would then be an implication spoiler.

[–]qwertyqwerty4567 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I personally consider them spoilers and things that you should not write in those circumstances.

[–]cultpet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would never write those, I'm just wondering about other people writing those, and what we should do about it (report it and what not). It's tricky because reporting for what essentially isn't a spoiler feels weird, but at the same time, if it leads everyone to know a spoiler, then it's pretty much the same.

That's why I was wondering about the official stance/rule on that.

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

Not sure if it's the right place to say it, but since the new year the new Reddit page formatting is annoyingly bulky/big as well as not showing the first link image as before. It's there any way to change it back? I tried a bunch of feed display settings and none of them seemed to make any difference ...

[–]chilidirigible 4 points5 points  (1 child)

A look at the third-party app situation after eight months.

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

That's funny, they aren't talking about boost on android which still work for free if you are moderating a sub. Even if that sub is empty.

[–]gangrainettehttps://myanimelist.net/profile/bouletos 10 points11 points  (7 children)

On pc : old.reddit.com + RES

On smartphone : find a third party app still working.

[–]Verzwei 1 point2 points  (5 children)

On smartphone

I still just use old.reddit there too.

[–]gangrainettehttps://myanimelist.net/profile/bouletos 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Hum, your comment made me realised I could install RES on my Firefox mobile too.

[–]cppn02 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I could install RES on my Firefox mobile too.

Unless there is some workaround I'm not aware of I think you sadly can't. Atleast that's how it was like half a year ago.

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

Since then Firefox added support for a lot more addon.

Sadly res isn't one of them.

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

I do have RES on mobile though, dunno how I did it but it's definitely possible.

[–]Verzwei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I should probably look into that myself. I typically don't reddit from a mobile device all that often, except to check on the manga subreddit and maybe read a little news, so I'm rarely logged in and commenting from mobile, and vanilla old.reddit works well enough for the limited amount I use it in that manner.

...but having dark mode would be nice.

[–]cppn02 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is the way.

[–]Mitsuyan_https://myanimelist.net/profile/kirisiac 14 points15 points  (4 children)

"Hey guys what anime should I watch I've seen <a few big name shounens>"

I've noticed it's got worse the past few weeks. I did mention something in general in the discord and did think to press it as a concern there too that I'll look into

[–]isthatsoudanehttps://myanimelist.net/profile/ojoulover 15 points16 points  (3 children)

I basically spend time on the daily thread and cdf and ignore the rest of the sub. I guess I skim best now and then, but the quality of posts on the sub is atrocious. I get that it's a hard problem to solve, I don't blame the mods, if anything it's more of an intrinsic problem to reddit...but it does suck

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

I only dive into /new when playing a turn-based game. A minimum character requirement would drastically improve post quality.

I get that beginner "what to watch" posts are allowed to encourage an introduction to anime, yet an auto-mod "let me google that for you" or "here's MAL" is the most accurate response while being an asshole thing to do.

Removing "help" posts without automatically re-approving 48-72 hours later is counterproductively removing answers to what people could search with google.

Getting back to a minimum character requirement, so many posts don't say anything about what they like in any media form and I can't give a good recommendation without that.

[–]8andahalfby11myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I get that beginner "what to watch" posts are allowed to encourage an introduction to anime, yet an auto-mod "let me google that for you" or "here's MAL" is the most accurate response

An interim community response could be to just upvote the bot-chan post for these and leave no other comments, since the flowcharts already contain all the answers.

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

Normative responses are difficult in a sub with so many people, esp so many transient people. It needs moderation or it won't end.

[–]8andahalfby11myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt 13 points14 points  (9 children)

Can we have a monthly sad anime megathread? It seems to be a recurring topic, and the most commonly requested request that I see on here other than "new to anime".

Sad Anime request threads from the last month alone, using only "sad", "cry", and "depressing" as search terms in the trashy Old Reddit search engine:

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1aetjh3/whats_a_sad_anime_you_can_recommend/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1aeqm7i/dark_anime_that_will_make_me_sad/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/19cpcsf/looking_for_sad_anime/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/19cpcsf/looking_for_sad_anime/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/18y1xw2/looking_for_a_sad_anime_like_angel_beats/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/197fkzs/need_a_sad_but_peaceful_anime_to_watch/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/19b5yrg/looking_for_some_sad_animes/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/194ottq/looking_for_a_sad_anime_recommendation/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/197r9ah/sad_anime_and_movie_recommendations/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/194a95z/need_sad_romance_anime_pls/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/19a9xda/what_anime_made_you_physically_cry_the_hardest/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/196hu1x/anime_that_can_make_me_cry/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/18y4v9k/i_havent_cried_to_an_anime_and_i_want_to/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1abxgxh/give_me_anime_recommendations_that_will_make_me/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/190mza4/anime_recs_that_make_you_ugly_cry/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/195an9g/im_ready_to_cry_again/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1agxf6t/looking_for_an_anime_which_can_make_anyone/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/199q15c/recanimes_that_will_make_me_cry/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/19eszqz/saddest_romance_movies_that_will_make_me_cry/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/19a0wsg/what_is_the_saddest_anime_that_makes_it/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1992u72/most_depressing_anime_known_to_human_history/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/196u27z/looking_for_depressing_anime/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/19ds25w/whats_the_most_depressing_anime_youve_ever_watched/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1adclk7/some_really_depressing_animes/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/190qck8/need_a_depressing_romance_anime_that_can_ruin_my/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/19cgon8/recommend_me_some_depressing_retro_anime_and_jrpg/

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/19a594f/anime_recomendation_where_its_more_depression/

They're appearing at a rate of at least one per day. Compare to the string "new to anime" which has nearly half the number of threads in a month.

[–]KiwiBennydudezhttps://myanimelist.net/profile/KiwiBen[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So as /u/AmusedDragon pointed out the "What to Watch" flair is a lot of user's first engagement with the sub. We don't want to gatekeep even further what is already a bit of a complicated entry into our sub. I do agree that these posts are abundant, but there isn't a meaningful way to moderate them without potentially alienating these first time users even further. Aside from the fact that we are always low on sticky space (and especially now, right in the middle of Awards season) users don't engage with megathreads that often - and especially not new users. If you go poke through the Daily Thread, there's only a small handful of "What to Watch" comments. I suspect that this would not change if we redirected everyone to that thread - or elsewhere.

In the past we have toyed with the idea of having one set day of allowing these types of posts (as we used to have Recommendation Tuesdays before the introduction of the Daily Threads). We'd still rather have the Daily Threads be a "catch all" for these types of posts, but we also can't force users to use the thread. So as it stands, I don't see much we could do without killing the content all together.

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

As users of this subreddit who check it daily this stands out to us, but not everyone who uses this subreddit is a daily user. We have 100,000s of people who visit this subreddit outside of daily users and these threads may be unique to them on the day they join up or lurk.

I get it, but to moderate these down, in my opinion, wouldn't really help the subreddit much. You and I as people who frequent the sub can just ignore them - or downvote them.

[–]GallowDude 11 points12 points  (4 children)

Can we have a yearly ecchi anime megathread?

[–]isthatsoudanehttps://myanimelist.net/profile/ojoulover 10 points11 points  (3 children)

daily

[–]GallowDude 11 points12 points  (2 children)

We already have an hourly one

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

I have to wait 59 minutes until the next one?

[–]FetchFroshanilist.co/user/Fetch 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Most of them just die in /new anyway. I've removed a few threads like this when someone has made one especially recently, but we're not currently going to worry about removing specific requests because then people are just going to find sufficiently different ways to ask for the same sort of recommendation.

[–]cppn02 2 points3 points  (0 children)

n people are just going to find sufficiently different ways to ask for the same sort of recommendation.

Now I wanna see this implemented cus I'm curious how creative people get with their requests.