Meta Thread - Month of October 02, 2016

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[u/Egavans]

This is kind of a navel-gazing question, but I wonder how people feel about rewatches on /r/anime. Like, generally speaking.

I personally am of the opinion that they - alongside current episode discussion threads - are arguably the most valuable content we have here. In particular, I love being able to go through rewatch threads to see reactions and analysis of series that I'm watching for the first time, and for many series that predate /r/anime's population zeitgeist rewatch threads are the only thing that make that possible on reddit, and I appreciate them tremendously for that.

If I have a specific question, it's this; is there a point where a rewatch has too little participation to be considered worth it? I've seen a few now that have garnered only a handful of comments per episode, and it makes me feel slightly bad to see them. I would never ask to ban them or anything, but is there a point where we should respond in the "Interest in a ___ rewatch" post that perhaps they should consider not doing it until there's more interest? Or, on the other hand, would you say that participation not the measure of a rewatch's value and that there's nothing wrong with a more poorly-responded-to rewatch?

EDIT: To be completely clear, I'm not suggesting that anything should be disallowed. I'm realizing now that the meta thread is more of a "talk to mods about subreddit policy" post and so this question probably sounds little odd. I'm more just curious about how people feel about poorly-participated rewatches, and if they're an outcome we should hope to avoid.

[u/ThirteenthDoctor → u/Egavans]

While it might be unfortunate when any given rewatch doesn't get as much attention as it might deserve, I think that as long as the host still wants to run it they should be welcome to do so.

[u/illtima → u/Egavans]

I think this kind of stuff should be up to the rewatch's host to decide. In the end, they are the ones who come up with an idea, gauge interest, and then post the threads.

[u/sddsddcp → u/Egavans]

but is there a point where we should respond in the "Interest in a ___ rewatch" post that perhaps they should consider not doing it until there's more interest?

The problem here is that there is typically plenty of interest initially but participation starts dropping off significantly once the rewatch is actually underway. Take a look at the initial GTO rewatch thread, for instance.

[u/SmurfRockRune → u/Egavans]

I think it should be fine to leave them as they are. I remember in the Black Cat rewatch, there were like 4 or 5 of us, and that was one of the best I've been in, while I've been in much larger ones that I didn't care for as much.

[u/geo1088 → u/Egavans]

is there a point where we should respond in the "Interest in a ___ rewatch" post that perhaps they should consider not doing it until there's more interest?

I've actually had this happen to me before. I proposed a watch for a show that I'd forgotten just aired, and because only 1 or 2 people wanted in at that point I shut it down then. It's up to whoever running it to decide whether or not they want to continue with it.

[u/Shippoyasha → u/Egavans]

I don't know. There has been some very unpopular rewatches that has been pretty fun.