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Meta Meta Thread - Month of July 05, 2026
Rule Changes
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.
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u/minnieboss 2d ago
In regards to historical biographical anime like Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia or The World is Dancing, if I want to talk about real life historical events that have not been covered in the anime (or potentially even the manga?) yet in relation to what's happened in an episode in the episode discussion threads, how should I go about that?
- As a top-level comment or in the source material corner?
- Using spoilered text or no?
- If using spoilered text, how should it be labeled?
- Not able to be discussed at all?
Want to talk about things that happen later in the life of Zeami Motokiyo, the historical figure featured as a fictionalized protagonist in The World is Dancing, in relation to events from today's episode, but want to ensure I don't break spoiler rules while doing so.
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u/chilidirigible 21h ago
It can be discussed directly in the regular comments as long as it is enclosed in spoiler tags. Something like "[Future historical events]" could be used as the context.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 2d ago
Have you ever considered increasing the duration of the clip slots system? (Probably not clear, but I mean: Instead of limiting users to 2 clips per 30 days, making it 6 clips per 90 days, something like that)?
I was thinking about this because the "2 clips per 30 days" is a bit restrictive;
I don't even post clips that often (I posted one this week, but before that my previous one was 3 months ago) so it's not like I want this to farm more karma or something, I don't even fully use my "clip slots"... But the thing is:
Say, I posted a clip 4 days ago. I have another clip in mind that I'd like to post, but if I do post it, then I can't post any other clip in the next 3+ weeks, which is a bit of a bummer if something good comes up next week, or I want to shill a show or something.
So in a sense it feels like the "2 per 30 days" limit kinda makes you want to only post ONE in the first at least 20 days of the 30, otherwise you might miss on a good clip opportunity (or delay it 2-3 weeks when it might not be relevant anymore, will be too late to shill a seasonal to people who already decided what they're watching).
Increasing the # of clips we can post per 30 days could also fix that, obviously, but even without increasing the clip/day ratio (6 in 90 is the same ratio as 2 in 30), it would make it easier to post clips we think are worth posting without worrying that "If I post that second one, I won't be able to post any for 3 weeks. So I just won't post it, or not for a couple weeks".
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u/cppn02 2d ago
If this does get implemented I need to know in a timely fashion so I can prepare six Chisato clips for the day she meets Maomao in BG13.
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u/Komarist https://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST 1d ago
My immediate thought was "Emi looking to propaganda post for a girl."
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 2d ago
I also once considered suggesting a "no rule" pause for best girl contests but that probably wouldn't fly either
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u/FetchFrosh anilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 2d ago
It's never really come up in discussion. In theory though, it shouldn't really matter because if a clip is good and you want to post it, you can still do that in the future. Clips for seasonals don't need to be posted at the very first moment they're allowed after all.
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots 2d ago
This sounds like an invite for quick spam tbh. Someone posting 6 clips of their waifu/favourite show over a week or two, especially for new users who might be unfamiliar with the long term system. Two, as a short-term limit, is useful in that sense since it doesn't encourage nor leave much space for spam.
I get what you mean about the spare ending up unused, but I'd argue that's a good thing, the limit encourages users to pick better. Alternatively, if the system is to be changed, a higher number might be reasonable with a lower ratio, like 3 clips/60 days.
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u/Komarist https://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST 4d ago
Was a decision made regarding random sorting of episode discussion thread comments for the first 8 6 hours that was trialed a few months ago? I'm assuming I missed/forgot the conclusion but also don't see it in the post or stickied mod reports for the last few meta threads.
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u/baseballlover723 3d ago
It was voted to make it permanent the other week. I've once again, been stalling writing the announcement post (after stalling it for like 2 months for the data analysis).
I'll get around to drafting something up today and then it should go live in the next couple of days.
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u/Bazooka_no 23h ago
I just want to say (note: Me = a 10+ year user of r/anime, recently Beat Block P - we had long discussions about this feature, I changed computers and lost access to the older user... time for a new one) that in the recent Ascendance of a Bookworm thread the bot accidentally took its sweet time and posted the thread about 50 minutes too late (meaning, 25 minutes after the end of the show) and the thread was FANTASTIC.
Now, am I biased since my comment was top comment with like 100+ sub-comments? Perhaps. But I think it goes to show the huge benefit to reap from my earlier suggestion, of posting the thread 25 minutes after the show airs in English, not the second it airs (which makes no sense!!! People need to watch first, then comment).
This, in addition to the 6 hour rule. Give it a go!!
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u/descend_nt 5d ago
I'm thinking of posting a clip from episode 1 of "Draw This, Then Die!", but I'm not sure if it needs to be tagged as a spoiler.
The scene I want to post is from near the end of episode 1, where the protagonist meets the mangaka of her favorite manga series, who used a pseudonym, and discovers the mangaka's true identity.
[episode 1]I think this scene feels more like it's introducing the deuteragonist of the story, rather than a plot spoiler, since the character is featured prominently alone in one of the key visuals, and their background is hinted at throughout the episode, which made the reveal very predictable.
[episode 1]I'm hoping that the clip can be posted without being tagged as a spoiler, as I've heard that the spoiler tag greatly reduces engagement, and I feel that knowing the deuteragonist would make the series a lot more appealing to people who might've overlooked this series.
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u/InspectionGreen6076 6d ago edited 6d ago
what's the reasoning for this rule?
"We define anime as an animated title produced in Japan"
Okay just reread the rules explaining various circumstances like devil may cry-but why is anime defined only as being produced by Japan
*edit for grammar
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u/baseballlover723 6d ago
what's the reasoning for this rule?
Because we can all agree on if something is an animated title produced in Japan or not (well, almost always). Other definitions are much much more difficult to get any semblance of a consensus for.
Also a geographic definition is the norm in most places of our size / scale (though many other places also allow other east asian animations alongside anime).
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u/InspectionGreen6076 6d ago
ohhh
yeah I would honestly do the same in your shoes. given that Japan produce most anime and western audiences like Japanese produced anime-you gotta cater to the user expectations
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u/SoldierHawk https://anilist.co/user/SoldierHawk 6d ago
Hi. This is a super small and stupid thing, but I noticed we don't have any Death Note flairs. I...don't suppose that's a thing I could request?
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u/FetchFrosh anilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 6d ago
I can probably get one sometime soon.
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u/chilidirigible 7d ago edited 7d ago
Notice: A Jaadugar-specific source material rules change:
Several users expressed concern that comments discussing the historical basis of this series were spoiling potential events and/or the conclusion of the story.
Given that the specific details of the Mongol Empire are less commonly-known worldwide, the moderation team voted that any discussion of the historical basis of this series must be enclosed within the subreddit's standard spoiler format. This includes all historical references which occur in the future of the airing episode.
Historical discussion may still be included in regular comments (within the spoiler tags) and will not have to be restricted to the Source Material Corner.
Note that the implementation of this rule here is specific to Jaadugar and does not apply to other series, which we will decided on a case-specific basis.
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u/ComfortablyRotten https://anilist.co/user/Leuwtian 21h ago
I don't partake in discussion threads so this won't affect me but can we get clarification as to what "any discussion of the historical basis of this series" and "all historical references which occur in the future of the airing episode" mean exactly?
I understand that the specifics of the real Fatima's life is going to be part of it, and I do agree on that front (even though I don't think it completely ruins the experience to know her life), but is it also a blanket ban on all unspoiled discussion of the entire history of the Mongol Empire from Ghenghis Khan's rise to power to whichever stopping point is deemed far enough in the future, just to be sure? Because that'd just be silly.
I'd also add that, with all due respect
Given that the specific details of the Mongol Empire are less commonly-known worldwide
is straight-up bullshit. The specific details of every nation past and present is less-commonly known worldwide, I can assure you most people don't know that much about the history of the US or Japan either beyond the bare minimum.
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u/_Ridley https://myanimelist.net/profile/_Ridley_ 3d ago
I enjoy this subreddit, but its definition of spoiler grows more and more hysterical with every update. Historical fiction is not built around the audience being surprised by key events. You can't be spoiled by knowing the history it's playing with. If people want to watch the show without any outside influences affecting their experience, I wonder what they're even doing in a discussion thread.
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u/Blackheart595 https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 1d ago
I decided to just plain ignore this particular ruling; if the mods slap me for it, so be it. Though that's also easy talking for me as I likely won't be affected at all due to not watching seasonals and thus not entering episode threads.
In any case, this is just plain absurdity. We're actively promoting and rewarding not having a clue about the real world. Even worse, we're actively discouraging people from getting interested in the real facets behind a show, very much the complete opposite of what historical fiction aims for!
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u/_Ridley https://myanimelist.net/profile/_Ridley_ 1d ago
Even worse, we're actively discouraging people from getting interested in the real facets behind a show, very much the complete opposite of what historical fiction aims for!
Right? Historical fiction's elevator pitch is, "You know X? Where Y and Z happened? What if it looked like this?" You being informed about X, Y, and Z, even if just a little, is something the writer has in mind when they're writing. They're not spoilers!
If we're doing this because people find historical context annoying in the way that source reader hints are, then I'm just embarrassed at the anti-intellectualism. There's no reason to coddle people who want to black out the most thoughtful and informative comments to remain uNsPoiLeD.
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u/baseballlover723 1d ago
I decided to just plain ignore this particular ruling; if the mods slap me for it, so be it
Please don't do this. I know I treat willful instances of rule breaking harsher than normal, because deliberately breaking the rules should never be ok.
Even worse, we're actively discouraging people from getting interested in the real facets behind a show
You can still discuss it, you just need to put it in spoiler tags. That is not an insurmountable task for people to do.
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u/_Ridley https://myanimelist.net/profile/_Ridley_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
That is not an insurmountable task for people to do.
I keep telling you guys that this isn't the point. Tagging or clicking on spoilers is indeed trivial effort.
The problems are:
- Discussions full of black lines like redacted government documents are uninviting and hard to read.
- A graveyard of comment removals from people who can't make sense of our ever more complicated spoiler/source material rules is intimidating.
- Putting all sorts of stuff under spoiler tags that aren't spoilers leaves me with no way of knowing what I'm going to get if I click the "spoiler". Will it be supplemental info? Or will it be an actual spoiler? As people put more and more under tags so they don't get in trouble, you lose the ability to participate in general discussions of anime that include stuff you haven't seen.
- The more we tell people to put in spoiler tags, the more we muddy the definition of what a spoiler actually is (a revelation of a climactic moment or twist before the writer intended the audience to know it) so they can't even use the brackets to say whether it's a spoiler, because they have no blessed idea.
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u/Blackheart595 https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 1d ago edited 1d ago
No. The big issue is that spoilers frame things as better-to-not-know and better-not-to-teach. There is a lot of room for discussion in that regard when it comes to fiction, but non-fiction is off limits.
Non-fiction is not spoilers, period. Fundamentally so. I will not entertain this nonsense, rule or not.
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u/N7CombatWombat 2d ago
You can't be spoiled by knowing the history it's playing with.
Bold of you to assume people know the history in the first place. Here in the US public education is in the toilet and "word history" is usually framed in relation to the US. The only thing I remember being taught about Mongolia was centered around Genghis Khan.
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u/_Ridley https://myanimelist.net/profile/_Ridley_ 2d ago
This is kinda what drives me nuts about the way we define spoiler here, and it's how you get to ridiculous ideas like OPs being full of spoilers. If someone tells you about Fatima from history and how and when she died, you haven't been spoiled for the anime. It's assuming you know that part. It's the smaller, creative bits that are written to surprise the audience. The stuff the writer makes up to dramatize history and make it entertaining often tweaks the details, so even knowing the history doesn't mean you know the story.
I mean, you guys already made your decision, and I know you won't change it, but I think we're being pretty ridiculous now. At some point, strict anime-onlies just have to accept that you're supposed to have some outside knowledge as an audience. If they want to go into things completely uninformed about anything, that's fine, but it's no reason to make episode discussions harder to read for everyone else.
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u/N7CombatWombat 2d ago
It really depends to how close to history the story stays, but ultimately it's a hard nut to crack because what history a person knows is wildly different and it's possible to actually spoil someone on a real life event if they didn't know about it to begin with (don't get me started on the teenagers in my part of town and the Titanic movie when it first came out) and not knowing anything about Fatima, let alone her fate, is a much different viewing experience than someone being very familiar with her life watching the same historical fiction based on her.
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u/_Ridley https://myanimelist.net/profile/_Ridley_ 2d ago
Of course you can change someone's experience by telling them about history they didn't know before. My point is that they haven't been spoiled. They've been given context. The thing I find hysterical is this need to call any outside information, hints, or context a spoiler. I resent that we have decided to make discussions harder and harder to read so that we can hide more and more stuff that isn't a spoiler behind black bars, further confusing people about what an actual spoiler is.
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u/N7CombatWombat 2d ago
Getting context is spoiling though, how much it spoils is going to vary on what the context is, but it's all spoiling to one degree or another and it sucks that the world and individuals are so fractured in knowledge base that you can't really assume any base level of education or knowledge.
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u/_Ridley https://myanimelist.net/profile/_Ridley_ 2d ago
That's not true, though. If you haven't had a climactic moment prematurely revealed before the writer intended, you haven't been spoiled.
Anyway, the spoiler policy here being terrible is not a new problem, and I'm not going to convince you of anything, so let's leave it here.
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u/Misticsan 3d ago
I have several questions about this new rule:
1) What is considered "less commonly-known worldwide"?
To give an example, Oda Nobunaga failing to unite Japan because he was killed by Akechi Mitsuhide is such common-knowledge in Japan that many an anime will mention it in passing, or make historical in-jokes about it. Yet from the point of view of world history, it's a very obscure detail when compared to, let's say, the Mongol Empire still conquering more territories after Genghis Khan's death and Kublai Khan eventually becoming a new Mongol Emperor and founding the Yuan Dynasty of China (which would be "spoilers" for Jaadugar).
2) What does it mean to "spoil potential events"?
Just because someone may discuss historical information ("this is what historians say, this is the date someone died"), authors may play with, reinterpret, add to or even subvert them. Tarantino would be a good example of how discussing the Wikipedia article for this or that historical figure may not actually spoil the actual story; in fact, the story is more poignant if the audience knows the history behind it. In the case of Jaadugar, I think it's very different to discuss who succeeds Genghis Khan (something that holds no mystery from the point of view of world history) from discussing what happens to the book the protagonist seeks (which is a fictional addition to the historical plot).
3) Were there really so many users expressing concerns about these "spoilers"?
My impression from the threads was, in fact, the opposite: many people finding extra joy in learning and finding out more about the characters and historical events the series is based on. I count myself among them: while I think I know my good share of Mongol history (ever since playing Age of Empires II, haha), I didn't realize the protagonist of Jaadugar is based on a historical character. My interest in the series increased tenfold because of this discovery.
4) Related to all of the above, and given that Jaadugar was singled out, was this rule adopted to make the lives of mods easier?
Mods correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't avoid the suspicion that the real problem is that the mod team is not very familiar with Mongol history and/or the original Jaadugar manga. Meaning that it's far more difficult to guess which is a story spoiler and which is a historical "spoiler", so it makes sense to err on the side of caution.
Regardless of my above questions, I have a couple of recommendations:
If this rule is due to the problems that historical "spoilers" can cause for audiences, I'd argue that it should be the norm for all historical anime, not merely the current season's novelty.
This rule was established when the season and Jaadugar had already started, so its visibility isn't good and redditors (like myself) might post comments unaware of it (because it wasn't in effect the previous week). I recommend adding the warning not just to the main post (which a lot of people ignore by default), but also to the Source Material Corner.
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u/tripleaamin https://myanimelist.net/profile/zfzftripleaamin 3d ago
So with the rule change for Tenmaku no Jaadugar. Shouldn't that technically be the case for any historically based anime? Like I would argue it's as important to have it for The Elusive Samurai as it is for Jaadugar.
Not familiar with the source of TWiD, so no comment on that one.
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u/Misticsan 3d ago
Ironically, The Elusive Samurai relies on the intended audience to be familiar with at least some of the historical figures and events. "Protecting" Western audiences from historical spoilers that Japanese audiences are supposed to know would be detrimental to the viewing experience.
If anything, I'd argue that every episode thread should begin with an excerpt on the Nanbokucho period from a typical high-school history text-book XD
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u/tripleaamin https://myanimelist.net/profile/zfzftripleaamin 3d ago
Oh yeah. With both Elusive Samurai and TWiD it's expected that the target audience is at least familiar. Like if a Hollywood film was based on the American Civil War for americans.
I guess it would make sense historical spoilers would be treated differently for a non-Japanese historical setting than a Japanese historical one.
I should post some of the extra context stuff from the manga in the Elusive Samurai discussion threads. Reading the manga volumes made understanding the story a lot easier when I read the series. Most of those don't contain the spoilers that I would be worried about.
I do think it should be stated that historical spoilers that could be considered potential story spoilers are more my concern. The premise of Elusive Samurai worries me more than TWiD since the stakes of the former are higher than the latter.
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u/chilidirigible 3d ago
For now it is a case-by-case situation, with Elusive Samurai another prominent candidate.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 7d ago
[Clip] submissions must contain the name of the show in the title
Is this rule 100% rigid? Or is there some leeway for jokes, play on words and things like that?
I have a clip ready (wainting for the 1 week since episode aired) and I was thinking of a few titles but most of them involve modifying the title a little.
Example (not the clip I'm preparing, but same kind of idea), would it be allowed to post a lovey dovey clip of Death Note and title the thread
Light's about to write your name in his [Love Note!]
('Love Note' being the modified title of the show)
If that is not allowed, then what about
"Cutest scene in Love Note! - Sometimes mistakenly called [Death Note]"
(So the real title is there, but the joke is hinting at it NOT being the real title)
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u/mysterybiscuitsoyeah x3 7d ago
Hi there, the real title of the show has to be in the OP title somewhere, for your examples, the 2nd one (with the title in [square brackets]) is fine; the 1st one is not.
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u/cppn02 11d ago
Wanted to look something up via the best of r/anime wiki page and it looks like the 2025 version never got updated.
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u/mysterybiscuitsoyeah x3 10d ago
Hi! Yeah, not at 100% atm, but I'll get to it tomorrow. Thanks for the reminder!
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u/cppn02 10d ago
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u/mysterybiscuitsoyeah x3 9d ago
this will take a little more time - but please be assured that im working on it (as myrna said, i am a little out of commission)
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u/MyrnaMountWeazel x2 11d ago
Ordinarily this is where I'd throw Biscuits under the bus. But seeing as how they're out of commission for a bit, I can't in good consciousness throw them haha. I'll bring it up with them soon and we'll see if we can get it organized and set up.
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u/Time_Fracture 12d ago
I wonder if the OP and ED threads for Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You were deleted with the reason that they have been posted recently.
Are mods referring to the ABEMA version of OP and ED? Since the current TV broadcast version are different than the ABEMA version. I checked the recent posts in this subreddit for the last 3 hours and found no one has posted the current broadcast version (or have I missed something?).
Thanks.
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u/FetchFrosh anilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 12d ago
Hi there.
My apologies, I didn't realize there was a new OP/ED. Posts have been reapproved.
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod 12d ago
We do not believe the post breaks reddit's rules. There are no real children depicted and none of the characters depicted are engaging in any sort of sexual act. Additionally, it comes from a well known magazine that is published in Japan.
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12d ago edited 12d ago
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 12d ago
IS sexual.
If they have an absolute ban on anything 'sexual/suggestive', why did they add 'Sexual Act' in their example?
Why not just have 'sexual/suggestive'?
A sexual act means fucking, handjob, blowjob, fingering, this is not the same as 'being in a state of undress'.
You might think both are wrong, but that does not make them equal.
holding her chest only wearing panties
I'm pretty sure I've seen this a million time in random Hollywood movies, even though 'sexual acts' are also not allowed there, like you couldn't show a blowjob on screen (unless they want the movie to have 75 rating restrictions and be banned everywhere), but 'handbra' and panties, that's nothing.
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u/Thengel09 https://myanimelist.net/profile/thengel 12d ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1urhxlu/megami_magazine_august_2026/
What's the mods opinion that people are called pedos in this thread? Megami magazines were posted for more than a decade and these comments are atrocious.
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots 12d ago
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u/Thengel09 https://myanimelist.net/profile/thengel 12d ago
that is no the point. Why go in that thread and bring that up in the first place
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u/Ashteron 12d ago
To feel better about yourself without having to go through effort needed to do something actually beneficial to the society.
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod 12d ago
We have removed many comments calling people pedophiles. Comments merely saying that the images sexualize minors in ways that make the commenter uncomfortable or that say the images may appeal to pedophiles are allowed.
If you have examples of specific comments you have questions about or think should be removed, please link them. There's enough nonsense going on in that thread (trust me, it has taken far too much of my time today) that it's hard to give a more concrete answer without specific comments to remark on. And, of course, we are not perfect, so we may have missed some comments that needed removal.
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u/Thengel09 https://myanimelist.net/profile/thengel 12d ago
Yes there are no direct accusations, but aren't all these indirect accusations destroying all faith in a healthy community?
Are these type of comment escalations common? Or is this thread an exception?
thanks
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod 12d ago
Are these type of comment escalations common? Or is this thread an exception?
Most Megami Magazine threads do not look like this. I'm honestly not sure why this one is different than usual, as the art wasn't that different from other months.
but aren't all these indirect accusations destroying all faith in a healthy community?
I don't think a single thread can do this. Tens of thousands of people comment on /r/anime each month, so of course there will be some places where there are strong disagreements. Trying to stop that entirely seems—at least to me—to be rather self defeating.
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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner 13d ago
The thread for kaiju girl caramelize episode 2 is missing.
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u/Careful_Ad_9077 13d ago
Thunder 3 is in a very interesting situation where there are rumours it's author is the same as Gantz author. The art style of the second world in the manga is the same as Gantz and gantz has(had?) some Licensing issues that block it from having more anime done.
The question is, is it fine to mention this on the episode threads? Chaos dragon also has some interesting meta and nobody has been I trouble with mentioning that provided they don't spoil plot points.
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u/Ashteron 14d ago
It seems Thunder 3 episode 1 thread is missing.
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod 13d ago
The thread appeared to go live 15 minutes after you made this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1ur0t1v/thunder_3_episode_1_discussion/
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar 14d ago
The discussion thread for Episode 1 of MobuSeka S2 came out on Crunchyroll 2 hours ago. I already messaged the mods, but posting here because it still isn't up. The thread for Ibitte Konai Gibo to Gishi Episode 1 is also missing, it's already out on Amazon.
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u/baseballlover723 14d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1t2r7f4/meta_thread_month_of_may_03_2026/oliizm7/
u/JustAnswerAQuestion I have fixed the wiki links. Please take a look and see if I fucked it up.
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ 14d ago
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u/BOSSMAN000000000000 15d ago
you cant ad anytyp of images huge l
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u/FetchFrosh anilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 14d ago
We also don't allow AI generated images or shitposts, so your post was doomed from the start. Head over to r/animemes or something.
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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner 15d ago
The discussion thread for episode 1 of young ladies dont play fighting games seems to be missing, it's up on crunchy.
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod 15d ago
The thread is now live: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1upup3m/young_ladies_dont_play_fighting_games_taiari/
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u/Nebresto 16d ago
The order of links in the 'show information' section of episode threads seems to have changed with the addition of livechart.
Overall a good addition, which ties to another question I was planning to ask: Is it possible to add an actual notifier to threads when it is known that a show will be on break the next week?
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u/badspler x5https://anilist.co/user/badspler 15d ago
Behind the scenes I am moving the inner workings of lovepon to new code and a system that the wider team more easily fix things. Most of the actual changes are behind the scenes but I expect several little bugs like this to pop up.
Is it possible to add an actual notifier to threads when it is known that a show will be on break the next week?
This hasn't been something I had considered but ill add it to my nice to have list. Zaph passed me some code that makes use of AniLists episode schedules which could be a starting point. I can't promise ill get to it as there are some other chunky tasks I want to get in first (looking at you episode polls).
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u/moichispa https://myanimelist.net/profile/moichispa 16d ago
Just came to say that I love the Sitara banner on the sidebar
Also watch Jadugar, it is awesome
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u/ussgordoncaptain2 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Edmund_Nelson 16d ago
Sorry, your comment has been removed.
- You might consider posting about this sort of thing in the weekly Casual Discussion Fridays megathread. Despite the name, Casual Discussion Fridays is active all week, and our rules regarding anime-specificity are relaxed.
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u/messem10 https://myanimelist.net/profile/bookkid900 16d ago
Are there any plans on limiting the number of unique comments replied to in a given discussion? I've seen more and more where people reply to everything and commandeer the whole thread.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 16d ago
Why is this a problem? I see this as a good thing.
Sometimes (Without that) it feels like everyone's posting in a void.
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u/MetaThPr4h https://myanimelist.net/profile/MetaThPr4h 10d ago
I don't know the full context of this one, but honestly just gonna give support to this out of own experience
Gabriel Dropout is easily the airing I enjoyed the most as a "I watch this then I gush about how much I liked the episode on reddit", so many episodes where I just replied to 30+ comments with opinions and memes about how I felt about borderline anything that happened if someone pointed it out.
Being able to enjoy something enough to have so much to say about is a wonderful thing that I wish I was able to with multiple series every season, alas this is kinda the one time it truly happened q_q
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u/Komarist https://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST 16d ago
(Non-mod) If you mean Frontier246, they've been doing so for years within the first couple hours of a thread, regardless if it's a 50- or 500-comment discussion thread. Have generally viewed it as a positive with low-upvote comments more likely to get some response (and thus encourage users to comment in later episodes).
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 16d ago
Have generally viewed it as a positive with low-upvote comments more likely to get some response (and thus encourage users to comment in later episodes).
100%.
Not that I'm saying we should, but if we WERE to put a 'limit' on something, I'd much rather put a limit on generic one-liners that people post in every single episode threads (be it to farm karma or because that's how they actually like to talk about anime, doesn't matter).
These are fucking pointless, and add nothing of value to any discussion imho.
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod 16d ago
Would you be able to link to a specific example of the sort of behavior you're describing?
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u/messem10 https://myanimelist.net/profile/bookkid900 16d ago edited 16d ago
Go to any episode discussion thread for a decently popular show and note the usernames under who replies to top-level comments. This sort of behavior has be going on for years and has completely killed any of my interest to be part of the discussion.
EDIT - Case in point for one notable user on the episode 1 threads here:
- Goodbye Lara - 15 comments / 131 (11.45% of the conversation)
- 100GF S3 - 35 comments / 447 (7.8%)
- Polar Opposites - 36 comments / 282 (12.7%)
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 16d ago
I'm curious, what do you think episode discussions should be like?
Remove those kind of comments, and 90% of the rest would be the generic one liner spam we see in every thread;
- PEAK IS BACK
- That was good!
- THAT OP IS A BANGER
- I love this show!
I'll take someone replying to every single comment in the thread over all these inane comments we get in every single thread for every single show that's remotely popular.
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod 16d ago
To the extent someone's replies are on topic and potentially interesting to the person they are replying to, we generally don't see the problem. If they're off topic, spammy, repetitive, or seem to demonstrate that the person has not read the comments they're replying to, that's a different story and should certainly be brought to our attention.
But, generally speaking, we do not view someone wanting to engage with others' thoughts and start a conversation as a bad thing. After all, the point of these threads is discussing the episode with each other, so someone engaging and discussing is precisely what we want to see.
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u/Verzwei 16d ago edited 16d ago
So, probably to nobody's surprise, I'm going to be a bit of a contrarian. To start things off, I will say that I agree that engagement is good. We want people talking about anime, and we want people talking with each other about anime. This community wouldn't work if we didn't have that.
Let me talk about this from two different perspectives:
I make a comment in an episode discussion thread. Someone replies to it. They either build on what I said, contradict it in an interesting and insightful way, or even just make a fun little joke related to what I'd posted. This is excellent! I feel seen, it's great to have some back-and-forth, and they may have even given me something to reply to, getting a real conversation going. It's one of the coolest things in this community.
I'm reading everyone else's comments in an episode discussion thread. I see new person after new person sharing their take on the series, but then I see one single person replying to nearly every single parent level comment. Sometimes the replies are interesting. Sometimes it's a crude joke about how
fuckablehot the characters are. And if it was a one-off or a few-off, it'd be fine. But I keep reading through comments. And it's just the same person replying over and over and over, often saying very similar things in each reply.When I'm the person being responded to like in situation #1, it feels great for me personally. But if I'm just some guy or lurker browsing through the thread like in situation #2, it's frankly exhausting to see the same user outright dominating the conversation in episode threads. I don't mind seeing a bit of their opinion and I like a lot of the parent-level summaries that they leave, but eventually it feels like it's too much. Instead of reading a wide variety of takes and a lot of organic smaller conversations, I end up reading "What this one user thinks about literally everything" with everyone else's opinions just being a bit of garnish before the inevitable reply from the expected user.
It's a level of activity that would make sense and be totally welcome from a rewatch host but it's overwhelming to see in regular episode threads, because it feels like they're trying to be the host of something that inherently should not be curated in that manner. It's made slightly worse because I often know that the person is a source reader. While they may not necessarily break the SC rules outright, the sheer volume of their comments means that they guide a lot of conversation one way or another.
And I'll admit I myself can get lost in the sauce and really spun up for a series I'm super passionate about. I really had to hold myself back on the Yuri is my Job threads (and I was still prolific in them despite trying to rein myself in) but I generally try to check myself and just let episode threads breathe a bit. To see one person (again, a source reader most of the time) go all out on every single show I follow in a season, season after season, feels like it's drowning out the other voices. To an extent it actually does make me a little less interested in episode discussion threads because at a certain point I feel like I'm reading some person's blog.
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u/ShadowGuyinRealLife 16d ago
I'm going to put on my tinfoil hat and say you got the type 2 person around 2020 ish because something changed r/anime from the 2000s era mainly inhabited by English speaking otaku (a good minority of which watched fansubs not even because they hated the idea of paying since some even bought discs but becuase some felt the official translation wasn't literal enough), into... something else where the population makeup is different and the original older otaku are diluted. There were source material readers back then too but they didn't reply to every comment. I have absolutely no proof of what I am saying other than the timing when things changed.
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots 16d ago edited 16d ago
I see new person after new person sharing their take on the series, but then I see one single person replying to nearly every single parent level comment.
Sounds like an issue with not enough people doing that, rather than one too many. We should encourage it rather than punish it.
When I'm the person being responded to like in situation #1, it feels great for me personally. But if I'm just some guy or lurker browsing through the thread like in situation #2, it's frankly exhausting to see the same user outright dominating the conversation in episode threads
I get the idea here, but if we're balancing out rewarding and continuing discussions against whether or not a theoretical lurker feels exhausted by seeing how much effort someone put, I'd go with the former in a heartbeat. It's not exactly close. We're a community for discussion, not a show for lurkers. Punishing people who put in effort for the sake of lurkers who don't, seems absurd to me.
Hell, what do you even tell someone like that? "Sorry, your comment was removed. The effort you're putting in is disturbing lurkers. Can you please stop engaging so much with r/anime? Here are some low effort suggestions that you can try instead."
Granted, I say all that, but I don't engage much in episode discussion threads, so I'm not the best person to discuss this, but since you used rewatches for comparison, I can follow that:
It's a level of activity that would make sense and be totally welcome from a rewatch host but it's overwhelming to see in regular episode threads,
Whenever I'm hosting a rewatch, there's nothing that I appreciate more than seeing someone put a lot of effort. Whether that's detailed analysis, layered shitposts, fanart, or replying to other users. That's an essential part of any communal experience and makes participants feel like they're seen and are part of a discussion, rather than just throwing a comment that no one will read. I'd argue the opposite on the host point, I obviously appreciate a host replying to all comments, but to some degree, that's within expectations, a duty to the rewatch itself (at least in part). When someone else does it, without any other reason to do so, that's genuine pure interest, they're doing it just for the love of the game.
As long as those are actual replies that engage with the initial comment, of course, not spamming the thread by copy pasting the same reply over and over, which is not the case here.
It's made slightly worse because I often know that the person is a source reader. While they may not necessarily break the SC rules outright, the sheer volume of their comments means that they guide a lot of conversation one way or another.
I get that to a degree. But currently, the r/anime discussion threads have no rule that bans source readers, just ones who can't follow the source rules. So, having a passionate source reader who wants to engage in discussions heavily, and follows the rules without slipping up is exemplary. I wish more source readers could take a page from that, instead of talking about the source. That's all the more reason why we shouldn't be trying to silence them.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 16d ago
When I'm the person being responded to like in situation #1, it feels great for me personally.
So, you're saying this person may have made a hundred people feel great by giving a reply to their comments?
Seems pretty positive to me!
As for this:
But if I'm just some guy or lurker browsing through the thread like in situation #2, it's frankly exhausting to see the same user outright dominating the conversation in episode threads.
Well, you can simply ignore the person's reply, and add your own to the comment, to talk about something else entirely, or maybe about the same thing with a different opinion or explained differently etc, or make a joke or whatever else!
Now, there may be the issue of "But his reply is already there and got 20 upvotes, no one's gonna see my reply so what's the point!"...
I get that (perhaps more than most) because that's pretty much the same thing that happens with top level comments;
Grand Blue S3 airs tomorrow and I never watched it but I could just open the thread the second it's up and post "PEAK IS BACK!" or "Funniest show I've ever watched!" without even watching the episode, and I would get a hundred upvotes and would push back all the legitimate comment one spot down with my nonsense...
I think that people doing that with top level comments is a lot more detrimental to the thread, than someone replying to everything. The replies are quite sparse, so people will likely see your comment still. I mean it's rare to see a comment with more than 1 or 2 replies (unless they said something controversial - OR... they posted one of those one liner that stays on top so everyone replies to it).
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u/qwertyqwerty4567 https://anilist.co/user/ZPHW 17d ago
Was this removed for the lack of a source? I thought it wouldnt be necessary since the announcement was already posted earlier.
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod 16d ago
Yes. All Official Media posts need a source to be linked.
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u/StampDaddy 17d ago
How do I find the episode tag for new episode discussion on mobile? I have to constantly search the name of the anime and change the time frame which is kinda annoying when I see the episode tags on those threads but not available in the mobile filters
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u/lord_ne 17d ago
The best I've found is that if you click a link like https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/search/?q=flair%3AEpisode&sort=new and do "open in app" on the Reddit app, it should open the page you want. I just have it saved on my home screen so I can quickly get to it.
EDIT: Posting this also made me realize that just putting
flair:Episodeinto the search bar also works, it seems6
u/badspler x5https://anilist.co/user/badspler 17d ago
We usually recommend /u/autolovepon's profile as a recent snapshot of episodes.
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u/Xatu44 17d ago
For anime based on history like The Elusive Samurai, is talking about history considered a spoiler? I assume yes.
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u/FetchFrosh anilist.co/user/fetchfrosh 16d ago
We're talking about it atm, but the general standard has been "if this isn't history you would assume people will know, discussing it would be treated as a spoiler". So outcomes of races in Umamusume are considered spoilers, because the average person on r/anime isn't going to know that.
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u/Draco_Estella https://myanimelist.net/profile/Estella_Rin 14d ago
After giving this some thought, I do realise a problem with this standard.
Across different cultures and different countries, there are different standards as to what is "history assumed people should know". I believe most Americans can at least name a couple of their own founding fathers but I, as a non-American, can barely name one. On the other hand, being more familiar with Japanese history, I do know some historical emperors more and I believe some of the Japanese themselves, which I believe would be relevant to this discussion here, will have some level of basic information on what will be happening in Japanese history to know what is going to go on next in a historical plot, and to them it would not have been spoilers to just discuss openly what is going to happen to someone, because it would already have been general knowledge for most people in Japan as to what will happen to him. Easiest example would be what is happening for the second and third shoguns of the Tokugawa Shogunate, I would assume it would not be general knowledge for most people outside Japan but I believe enough people in Japan would know about both to have it classify as "general knowledge" (such as the banishment of Christians by the third shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu).
Where, then, will the line be as to what the "history the average person on r/anime should know"?
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u/Blackheart595 https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick 13d ago
I fully agree with this, treating real life history as spoilers is beyond ludicrous. The only sensible approaches to this are (a) real life history is not considered spoilers, (b) each and every piece of real life history, no matter how obvious it may seem to any person in particular, is considered a spoiler, or (c) we apply American exceptionalism to the problem. And of these, only (a) can be considered reasonable in a community that has traditionally put effort into resisting exceptionalism.
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u/Xatu44 16d ago
Fair enough, though I worry that someone will run into this problem. Guess that's what the report button's for.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 17d ago
I would imagine that "Spoilers from history are spoilers"!
Like, filling tidbits of info that likely won't ever be discussed in the anime (and don't mean much anyway, like "This guy liked to ride horses!") are probably fine, but to go with the obvious, of course saying "X character dies in this war" would be a spoiler, because everyone who didn't know about that bit of history, are now spoiled an event from the anime.
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ 17d ago edited 16d ago
/u/chilidirigible don't google nuthin'
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u/8andahalfby11 myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt 17d ago
More of a request than a rule, but this weekend's anime expo reminded me; could we have regular sticky posts for the big events like this weekend's expo or AnimeJapan so that announcements don't get missed due to how the Reddit algo shuffles things? It feels like there's one Big Event in the last month of each season where all the announcements are dropped, and we should have them all collected somewhere.
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u/chilidirigible 17d ago
Discussed in the mod report:
Voted on whether or not to apply sanctions (i.e. megathreads) to Official Media posts during the Anime Expo period from July 2-5 [Vote Failed]
Your concern about the massive clutter in the subreddit feed was expressed by members of the mod team and the matter was discussed.
We considered a few ways of streamlining the event weekend experience on the subreddit.
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots 17d ago
If I may offer a different suggestion about the clutter (and this isn't limited to special events), do we really need multiple threads for the same announcement?
For example, right now, Dungeon Meshi S2 has a key visual and a news article announcing its date, Murcielago has a KV and a PV, same for Grotesqqque. It's quite common to get some mix of the three for every new announcement, and sure, they provide different info, but the threads are used to the same end, so they're filling 2~3 times their needed space. We might as well keep it to one and put everything else in a top comment.
Obviously, keeping whichever was posted first would lead to problems with people thinking their favourite show is being silenced or whatever (or attempting to game it), so I'd suggest keeping the KV if one was provided, since it gets the most attention anyway.
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u/IXajll https://myanimelist.net/profile/ixajii 17d ago
so they're filling 2~3 times their needed space
Which isn't really an issue since otherwise the garbage flood of WTW and help posts would get more room to spill over on the main page. It's not like there's a wave of high quality discussion posts on this sub that gets shafted because there is one post for the KV and one for the PV, so I honestly don't really mind the status quo.
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots 17d ago
Eh, you're burying the whole sub for the same announcement thread being posted multiple times. Even if you only care about announcements, the way things currently are, popular sequels get to dominate multiple top spots, and push interesting new projects down. Limiting it to one thread per announcement isn't taking anything way from the popular ones, but it gives new projects more of a chance to be seen.
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u/cppn02 17d ago
do we really need multiple threads for the same announcement?
I've been saying this for years but it seems there is no real interest in clamping down in this.
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u/baseballlover723 6d ago
but it seems there is no real interest in clamping down in this
I've been trying to push for this every so often for like the last 7 or 8 months. If this is something you feel is important, then I would recommend not letting it die peacefully.
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u/chilidirigible 17d ago
This concept does get discussed from time to time, including the specific context of this year's Anime Expo, but also more generally.
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u/8andahalfby11 myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt 17d ago
To clarify, looking for a supplemental mega-thread rather than one in place of the individual posts. More of a hub thread that points to the announcement threads, so as to get the benefits of both.
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u/RelativeMundane9045 17d ago
An indexthread/indexhub/megamegathread hub, this is actually a great idea.
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u/DrJWilson x5https://anilist.co/user/drjwilson 17d ago
Happy Independence Day! I'm watching every anime that features Obama to celebrate.
Kind of a quieter month in regards to mod decisions.
June Mod Report
June by the Numbers
k bye!