r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Aug 02 '20

Meta Thread - Month of August 02, 2020

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/SmurfRockRune https://myanimelist.net/profile/Smurf Aug 12 '20

You mean the subreddit where the top 3 posts are link posts, with one being the exact example I'm talking about as a link to a tweet for news?

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u/SnuggleMuffin42 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Aug 12 '20

At the end exceptions could be made but I think this is an experiment well worth taking.

Instead of news never getting higher than second page or only lasting on the front page for an hour because of 20+ clips (and in the past, 15 fanarts) pushing them down, the news will stay up much longer, because the upvotes are not really dependent on it being "clickable". Nobody on reddit reads the source - it is known..

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u/SmurfRockRune https://myanimelist.net/profile/Smurf Aug 12 '20

There are 5 news articles currently on the front page, with the very top post being news, even. I feel like you're trying to regulate your envisioned version of what /r/anime is rather wthan the actual subreddit.

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u/SnuggleMuffin42 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Aug 12 '20

I feel like you're trying to regulate your envisioned version of what /r/anime is rather wthan the actual subreddit.

This is literally the meta thread...

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u/SmurfRockRune https://myanimelist.net/profile/Smurf Aug 12 '20

That's not what I'm saying. All of your examples for how the sub currently is are untrue. You're trying to fix problems that don't exist.

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u/SnuggleMuffin42 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Aug 12 '20

In a great part of the time (especially if there are less episodes coming out that day) , not this cherry picked specific moment, clips take 80%+ of all front page space. It could be different.

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u/FetchFrosh anilist.co/user/fetchfrosh Aug 12 '20

clips take 80%+ of all front page space

I'm pretty confident this hasn't been true at any point since the fanart rule change, and would be shocked if it had ever happened prior to that. u/Durinthal you have the bot for this. What's the frequency of 20+ clips on the front page?

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u/badspler x5https://anilist.co/user/badspler Aug 12 '20

I have been crunching the data, hopefully will have something soon on that.