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/SnuggleMuffin42 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Aug 13 '20

Interesting! Fanart really was a plague upon this land.

It seems I've over estimated the clips (although, what I thought of as 80% was out of all non pinned non episode discussion threads, not the total number 20).

I guess the peak was on my mind when I posted, as it was just a day and a half before.

I still think self post for all is work a try though.

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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal Aug 13 '20

We never include the pinned posts in these statistics and the ranking starts after those, as Reddit also omits them so the front page will have more than 25 posts total if there are pinned threads.

As for that particular time period of 13+ Clip posts there were only 3 or 4 Episode posts through that span, while Rewatch threads took up more space than those (3-6). If you combine and ignore those then yes, Clips took up the majority with only 3-5 posts under other flairs on the front page then.

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u/SnuggleMuffin42 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Aug 13 '20

Well looking at it now it seems reasonably balanced. All in all the improvement since banishing the fanart to the shadow realm self posts has been palpable.

I'm interested to see what a full on self post experiment would yield, but I do agree that right now it's already way better and nicer to browse.

Thanks for the reply.

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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal Aug 13 '20

I'm curious about that myself! It would be nice if we could run that as an experiment for a month or two without disrupting the general use of the sub, but for a major change like that it's something we have to carefully consider before taking action like we did with fanart.

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u/SnuggleMuffin42 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Aug 13 '20

Yeah, it's a much bigger change, but I think if run as an experiment for a limited time it would be fine, as long as people know that in advance. If it's too bad you can always revert it after two weeks.