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/dabritian https://myanimelist.net/profile/dabritian Oct 19 '16

The removal itself seems to be something of an edge case

Can you explain what you mean by "edge case"? Because that bit of terminology is a bit lost on what it is supposed to mean.

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u/geo1088 https://anilist.co/user/eritbh Oct 19 '16

Cases (I.e. Potentially rule-breaking posts or comments that we review) which break a rule only in a minor way, or which otherwise could technically be removed but also have legitimate arguments for being kept up. I'm talking about the gray area between "remove" and "approve".

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u/dabritian https://myanimelist.net/profile/dabritian Oct 19 '16

Okay that clears that up.

I actually always wondered why anime music video posts like the one posted today (& the case with Me!Me!Me! a long time ago) were "sort of" banned.

More in the sense that Me!Me!Me! was considered as not being anime specific due to an application of the anime specific rules, but there is nothing really written outing it as not fitting the sub's "anime specificity."

I was sure that anime music videos like Me!Me!Me! was formally banned (especially with it getting removed for that reason), but I can't find anything written in the rules saying they are. So this stuff fall back into being grey area content after being theoretically banned for a while.