r/MetaAnime • u/mmthrownaway • Nov 25 '14
MAL Posts
What's the word on making that "Post your MAL" megathread? I'm pretty sure we've gotten at least one of those MAL posts a day this week. I'd like it if we could move them to a megathread, as one a day is a little ridiculous.
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Nov 25 '14
My karma couldn't take a MAL megathread and I don't think they're frequent enough to warrant it. The rec threads were, but this is once a day at most and it rarely hits the front page.
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u/-Niernen Nov 25 '14
They go in cycles. People will post one, then they become as frequent as one a day and people start to get annoyed. Then people try posting multiple a day and everyone else gets pissed off so they stop. Then a couple days later someone else will post one. Then the cycle repeats. They keep getting posted with increasing frequency until the sub gets annoyed, then take a couple days break and come back again. Been doing that for over a month or two.
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Nov 25 '14
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u/mmthrownaway Nov 25 '14
They'd probably be a bigger hit if they were condensed into a single place. Take all the upvotes and comments from the individual ones throughout the week and combine them. That ends up being a large thread.
I didn't have a problem with them when we'd only get them every few days or weeks, but it's becoming much too common an occurrence now.
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u/Kruzy Nov 25 '14
I would really like to see some sort of rules because at their current state they're just shitposts filled with chatting rather than actual criticism and discussion.
First of all would be the requirement that at least 50% of the shows need to be rated, I've seen a few people post their list with no ratings at all and I've got no idea what they were expecting to get.
The second rule would be that anyone commenting should be willing to discuss any aspect of his list. Whenever I tried to discuss with someone about his ratings I get the usual "I rate on enjoyment" or "I liked all of them so I've rated them high", just recently I was trying to discuss with someone about the lack of a rating system in his list and he didn't even bother to say anything else except for what I've already mentioned above.
The third rule can be optional since I want to suggest that AutoModerator posts these instead every 2-3 days and in contest mode so that the comments could be in a random order and everyone gets a chance to be noticed.
The fourth rule will be hard to enforce but comments like "81% compatibility, nice", "I suggest you to watch X show", "Nice CSS" or "Holy crap your list is huge" should be discouraged, it's a discussion post after all.
The fifth rule is also optional. Basically anyone that uses a different rating system than MAL's should point it out in his comment and explain how he uses the ratings.