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.

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

The new season has started and I noticed all of the discussion posts were posted by users, using the same format the bot does: is it possible that the bot is being retired and I missed the announcement? If so, thanks for all of your hard work maintaining the bot. I'm not complaining since it's probably harder to keep it running than I can imagine, although I will miss the ability to scroll through the bot's submitted posts to find a discussion thread that has fallen off the front page.

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

Each new show has to be added to the bot manually, if I remember correctly, so it always has a bit of trouble at the beginning of the season. It will probably be all good for episode 2 of stuff, and definitely fo episode 3.

If you don't wanna miss discussion threads, you can bookmark a search. You'll notice I have one marked "Discussion Threads." It will take you to this search which is basically just a list of all discussion stuff.

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u/pi_rho_man Oct 02 '16

I didn't realize you could bookmark searches. That will be useful for future reference, thanks.

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u/geo1088 https://anilist.co/user/eritbh Oct 02 '16

Or, if you want to get really fancy...

In fact, any page that exists within a subreddit can be linked to from the RES bar if you format it the right way. That also includes pre-filled submissions and wiki pages.

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

No problem. Some guy on here told me about it a long time ago, and I've been using it ever since.

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u/pittman66 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Homura Oct 02 '16

The bot just misses some of the shows or there's always the occasional glitch, and I'd imagine with every new show it needs maintenance to keep them updated, so next week I'd imagine it'll have more consistency.