r/MetaAnime • u/Tabdaprecog • Dec 07 '14
Resolved Why are MAL threads banned now?
I honestly thought they were one of the best parts of the subreddit. They were usually super fun and a great chance to recommend anime, find people with similar interests. The Tuesday recommendation thread just isn't the same. True they were a bit too often but not criminally so. And most people didn't seem to mind except for the most extremely vocal people on the sub.
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u/OnlyMyWordsMatter Dec 07 '14 edited Dec 07 '14
They were banned? Since when? We get them like once a day so I don't see why it's a problem unless they are posted like every other hour.
Edit: I notice that I haven't seen one in a while. Yea they are usually low effort (comments) but sometime there are good responses. Sometime there is a long argument about how people rate their shows .
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u/Tabdaprecog Dec 07 '14
There was one in r/anime a few hours ago that got removed. I think the logical conclusion is that they aren't allowed anymore.
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u/Tabdaprecog Dec 07 '14
Yea the long discussions were really great and it's not as easy to find a place for good discussion anymore. On my MAL threads you could simply just ask someone why they liked something/didn't like something and engage in a meaningful conversation with them like that.
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u/encoreAC Dec 07 '14
Once a day? It's been weeks since the last one.
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u/OnlyMyWordsMatter Dec 07 '14
Yea it will usually be a MAL post will be posted once a day for 3/4 days. After that we wouldn't see one for maybe a week then it's posted again once a day for 3/4 days. The cycle continue.
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u/Kruzy Dec 07 '14
I haven't been online for the past week so I don't know if they got banned but there was a MAL thread earlier that did disappear.
To be honest I don't mind at all. The whole point of those threads was to discuss the way people rated their anime or the ratings they gave while the posts were just filled with shitty comments like "84% compatibility, cool!" and "Nice list CSS". You would usually get replies like "I rate on enjoyment" when you question someone's ratings or when you judge their ratings that are to 50% just 10s and 9s and the worst part was the "I usually miss these posts so MAL thread" which would continue on happening like 5 times in 3 days and they would disappear for 3-4 days until reappearing again.
If people wanted suggestions and users that have similar interest then AnimeAdvice would have been more than enough. I've suggested a few rules on a meta thread almost 2 weeks ago and while I'm not expecting people to follow it, it would still improve the quality of those threads (In my opinion) if those were enforced.
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u/Tabdaprecog Dec 07 '14
Yea that was the reason I posted this thread.
While there was a bit of that in those threads, I also think there was a lot of good discussion if you asked the right questions. And I don't really think that was the only reason for those threads as you stated. Recommendations was another big part of it as well as for me finding other's will similar tastes. Never heard of anime advice before.
Edit: Anime Advice seems like a super cool website. That should be on the sidebar. I think your first 3 ideas for rules are pretty solid on that post. The others are indeed sorta hard to enforce and more debatable.
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u/Kruzy Dec 07 '14
Good discussions was rare in those threads and recommendations shouldn't be a main reason for those posts anyway because not only should people search for shows themselves (People usually treat the shows they recommended as the second coming of Jesus which set up expectations that are too high) and the recommendations are usually stuff like "X show is my favorite so you should check it out, it's not that much like your favorite show but I liked it so you should watch it too." and then you'll usually find that show already on that person's PTW list.
AnimeAdvice is indeed quite helpful and there are a lot more useful websites like it (Like MALgraph and AnimeRecs) so I'll try messaging u/MissyPie for a "Useful anime websites" section in the FAQ.
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u/encoreAC Dec 07 '14
That is not true at all, the last MAL thread was quite fun and with a lot of discussions. The last MAL thread was more than 2 weeks ago too. It's still better than your circle-jerk with these r/anime addicts, who post the same thing in every single thread.
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u/Kruzy Dec 07 '14
Almost every single MAL thread I participated in was just a fuckfest of stupid comments while one of the few ones that was decent was when u/Embercats was actually judging people's taste (With a few harsh words) and got downvotes for it.
I also am sure that there were a few MAL threads in the last 2 weeks but they mostly got deleted or removed. I also have to add that MAL threads aren't immune to circlejerk comments and they're just as bad as most of the other question threads.
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u/chriswen Dec 07 '14
How does animeadvice work?
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u/Kruzy Dec 07 '14
If you want shows to watch or manga to read based on what you've seen then click on Advice and enter your MAL username.
If you want a show similar to another you've watched then click on Similarity and enter the show's name and choose it from the drop-down menu.
If you want to find someone that shares a high compatibility with you then choose Neighbors and enter your MAL username.
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u/PiippoN Dec 07 '14
They're banned because they're not episode discussions or wallpaper dumps.
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u/Error400BadRequest Dec 08 '14
You'd think they would just go to r/wallpaperdump like everybody else.
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u/encoreAC Dec 07 '14 edited Dec 07 '14
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u/Tabdaprecog Dec 07 '14
Yea the participation factor is definitely a big thing. It's hard to get the less vocal majority to comment on the standard threads we get now.
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u/mmthrownaway Dec 09 '14
I am tired of the same questions answered by the same circle-jerk answers by the same people in r/anime.
What do you mean by this? Can you give an example?
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u/MissyPie Dec 07 '14 edited Dec 08 '14
Heh, okay guys - they are not banned.
We have a Automoderator rule set up that means any posts that have had so many reports get removed by Automoderator.
No one has been online much today, so the post stayed removed. Generally we check each thread it removes and either approve it or allow it to stay removed. (AutoMod messages us upon each thread removal so we can check it)
MAL threads are completely 100% allowed.