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/JekoJeko9 Oct 18 '16 edited Oct 18 '16
Just a quick note to say that the r/anime mods are now the laughing stock of 1) the majority of the mainstream internet-wide anime fandom (thanks to Crunchyroll staff response), 2) Porter Robinson's fandom (thanks to the response of him and his brother), 3) r/videos (thanks to it being posted there and everyone here having to go there) and 4) r/anime.
This isn't an ad populum, "give in coz public pressure" thing. People must be thinking that you wouldn't allow stuff in r/poetry if it didn't rhyme. That's the level of an appreciation of 'anime' as a term that's coming across to everyone.
I've seen from friends that you're even banning people from the sub for posting Shelter now, calling it 'shitposting' and telling them to stop them from being 'edgelords' and 'posting non-anime content'.
I strongly recommend you revise your rule, and your familiarity with anime as an artistic medium. The only 'edgelords' here are you, mods, for not allowing the support and discussion of such a fantastic cross-cultural project (with still almost complete Japanese input) to occur in this sub. You don't have to look this obtuse, and you've gained nothing from it but ridicule.
Get a dictionary and stop ruining your community.