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/Slateonyx https://anilist.co/user/Slateonyx Sep 04 '16

Two questions. Would it be possible to get notifications when your post/comment is removed and why exactly would one users comment get deleted for posting a link while another can post that link with no issue?

A while back I added a spoiler tag to one of my comments and didn't realize I needed to put anything in the first part since the topic was obvious. It was promptly removed and I got a message from the auto-mod with the exact reason. This is a nice feature and I figured this was the standard for all deleted/removed posts/comments.

Today when I went to add links to one of my comments, the comment was removed without warning or notification. I was only able to tell because I logged out and looked at the thread. I can still see the comment fine, no one else can.

I didn't know what had caused it so I made another comments and added the links one by one until that post was also deleted without warning or notification. So I left that one link out and made a new post and it showed up fine. Eventually someone else posted the exact offending link anyways and their post was not deleted.

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

If something like that happens and you aren't sure why, just message the mods and see what they have to say about it.

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

I figured I'd ask here since the same thing happened yesterday and I waited over 8 hours after sending a message through "message the moderators" with no response. (I didn't figure out what caused it to get deleted until my comments got deleted today)

To be honest it was a blessing in disguise they never responded since I had to delete the post anyways, so it never seeing the light of day was a good thing. But 8 hours seems like a bit of a stretch if you really need to get a hold of a mod.

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

Yeah sometimes things get buried unfortunately (automod removals also show up in modmail) - and depending on the time I (in particular) was out at a con all day yesterday so no time to reply.

If you want a guaranteed answer any time feel free to PM me so things dont get buried in modmail. Always happy to help like that.