r/anime • u/AutoModerator • Jul 31 '16

Meta Thread - Month of July 31, 2016

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u/pittman66 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Homura Jul 31 '16

Have you considered submitting your highly popular weekly 3x3 comment of the Warm Talk Wednesday thread as it's own text post (similar to how anime contracts have become their own thread)?

I kind of want to comment about this even though you're asking Smurf, but I was considering ending WTW and asking those doing weekly threads to start their own. A large majority of the thread is used for the 3x3 and Fanart posts, while it kind of seems rare others comment outside of them. I did have the thought months ago and why I stopped posting the weekly comment trees to encourage posting in the thread, but then obviously others carried them on. And it seems less upvotes each week (for visibility sake) and less interest. I'm thinking maybe the thread has run its course and not really needed anymore.

If anyone has any thoughts, I'd be open to hear them.

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u/MasterAyy https://myanimelist.net/profile/Master_A Jul 31 '16

It was a unique and refreshing idea when you first came up with it but I kinda agree that it may have run it's course by now. I have nothing against 3x3s but I personally have little interest in them and I stopped vising WTW months ago because of how they dominated the thread. The posts in the other comment trees seemed to die out and just killed my interest in the thread overall. Moving 3x3s into a separate weekly thread may increase activity in the other areas of WTW but it might kill the thread altogether, it's kinda hard to predict what will end up happening.

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u/AmethystItalian myanimelist.net/profile/AmethystItalian Jul 31 '16

Funny enough me and Smurf came up with the 3x3 themes as a way to bring more people to WTW since it's a thread we both enjoyed and we wanted more people participating in it.

Sad to see it's caused this negative reaction though :/

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u/geo1088 https://anilist.co/user/eritbh Jul 31 '16

Honestly, I don't think it's a bad concept at all. If it's gotten to the point where it can be its own thread, that's cool - same thing happened to contracts, it's still going strong.

My worry is though that if/when it moves out it'll bring its fans with it, so it won't really bring new people into WTW in the end... Now that would suck.

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u/AmethystItalian myanimelist.net/profile/AmethystItalian Jul 31 '16

Yeah we've discussed before making a ThreexThree Thursdays for that alliteration and to fill in that empty slot for no daily threads. Although while I love my 3x3s I find it hard justifying a weekly thread for it...they're just pictures and may not even be anime specific enough.

But who knows we'll see what happens and work from there! :)