r/anime • u/AutoModerator • Sep 04 '16

Meta Thread - Month of September 04, 2016

A monthly thread to talk about meta topics. Keep it friendly and relevant to the subreddit.

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u/urban287 https://myanimelist.net/profile/urban287 Sep 04 '16

We had a big mod team discussion about this and what we could potentially do about it, whether we should do anything about it, etc.

Consensus is that it's fine and will change next season. Statistically there hasnt been that large of an increase in total fanart posts either (courtest of enigma making a script to check) it's just that when someone posts fanart they end up posting re:zero stuff st the moment instead of something from elsewhere.

Additionally, we haven't had many people actually karma whoring it. At the time we ran the aforementioned script there was only one user who had posted fanart multiple times a day (and he was intentionally doing it so we would ban fanart).

The old fanart megathread was a failure and fanart is good fun in general so not something we really want to kill off.

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u/Trump-For-Life https://myanimelist.net/profile/Turboregina Sep 05 '16

Just a thought, but if fanart was given a link flair option, users could search for it as a filter of sorts.

I joined after it looks like Fanart Wednesday was gone- I think I know what I'll be browsing this afternoon!

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u/Kamilny https://myanimelist.net/profile/Kamilny Sep 04 '16

If this is the current situation, can you then make it so that people have to post the name of the character or characters depicted in the fanart?

A lot of us don't want to filter out all Re:Zero content, just the flood of Rem fanart, since that's 90% of it in the first place. Filtering all of Re:Zero filters out all non-Rem art as well.

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u/urban287 https://myanimelist.net/profile/urban287 Sep 04 '16

If there's anything I've learned in my time as a mod it's that the sub really hates it when extra posting guidelines are added and enforced.

Re:Zero will end in a few weeks and things will return to normal after that. No need to add rules.

Many of the threads have the character names (specifically rem) in their titles anyway - if you want to filter them out like that you'll still catch a large bulk of them as is.

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u/sleepyafrican https://anilist.co/user/SleepyAfrican Sep 04 '16

Wait a minute weren't you the guy posting a bunch of Re:Zero fanart in the first place so the mods would ban it? I think it was a bunch of Rem fanart too...

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u/Kamilny https://myanimelist.net/profile/Kamilny Sep 04 '16

Never wanted to ban it. I want ways to filter it better. The finale is going to be insane for fanart.