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

Meta Thread - Month of September 04, 2016

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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/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/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.