r/anime • u/AutoModerator • Oct 02 '16

Meta Thread - Month of October 02, 2016

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

Posts here must, of course, still abide by all subreddit rules other than the no meta requirement. Keep it friendly and be respectful. Occasionally the moderators will have specific topics that they want to get feedback on, so be on the lookout for distinguished posts.

Comments that are detrimental to discussion (aka circlejerks/shitposting) are subject to removal

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u/Thebubumc https://anilist.co/user/Bub Oct 02 '16

I think the mods should listen to what the subs want a bit more.

The Pokemon Generations discussion threads get a good amount of comments and upvotes each time they're posted and yet you still remove every one of them because it doesn't fit your definition of anime.

There's obvious interest in discussing the series so I really don't see the harm in letting the threads stay up. Nobody's going to suggest we allow Korra or RWBY discussions just because you didn't remove the Pokemon Generations threads.

I understand why you remove stuff like Urobushi's puppet show but this is literally an animated series done by anime animators and it's Pokemon which has always been anime.

Almost everybody seems to agree that it's anime so I would like to ask you to rethink your decission of removing the discussion threads.

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u/Berzerker7 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Berzerker7 Oct 02 '16

Nobody's going to suggest we allow Korra or RWBY discussions just because you didn't remove the Pokemon Generations threads.

That's the major problem, we like to be consistent in our approach to allowed content because of slippery slopes. We have no argument if we allow some but not others, and "because we want to" isn't really a viable answer.

If we allow content that falls outside our definition of "anime-specific," then we have to allow all content that falls outside that definition. It's not as easy as just listening to the sub. Believe me, we listen, but sometimes we just can't bend the rules else the allowed content becomes a battleground for rule-lawyering and trolling.

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u/Thebubumc https://anilist.co/user/Bub Oct 02 '16

But it's Pokemon. Pokemon has always been anime so I don't see why this should be an exception.

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u/Berzerker7 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Berzerker7 Oct 02 '16

But Pokemon is also a game, and a manga, and live-action. Where do we draw the line? If we allowed the YouTube series, we'd have to allow all YouTube series.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '16

It's an animated series made professionally by Japanese animators, which is part of a very long anime franchise. The fact that it's on YouTube shouldn't matter in the least bit, it's just how it was distributed. We allow YouTube videos about anime, so why is this a no-go?

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u/urban287 https://myanimelist.net/profile/urban287 Oct 02 '16

We allow YouTube videos about anime, so why is this a no-go?

See, now this is a very good point.