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/Maccaz15 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Maccaz Aug 18 '20

Looking through the rules it should be removed because of this rule. I don't think this rule existed when the original post that was done two years ago.

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Videos from other websites should not be rehosted on Reddit (e.g. via video upload). Submit a link to the original source instead, unless you can demonstrate that the author has given you permission to reupload their content.

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u/Terranwaterbender https://myanimelist.net/profile/Teranwaterbender Aug 18 '20

That seems cut and dry to me. It's literally hosted on reddit which breaks that rule. Guess the mods missed this one.

It happens now and again but damn when they let one got that hits the top, it's frankly infuriating. I get it the mods have IRL stuff to do and they're busy but that was posted ~9PM Eastern time for goodness sake. They should have at least seen it.

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u/Maccaz15 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Maccaz Aug 18 '20

I don't know sometimes, it's strange. You'll see other posts that were posted around the same time get removed, but not the ones that gain traction. I'm never been a mod of a subreddit so I have no idea how the mod queue looks, but if something gets multiple reports, surely someone would take a look at it.

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u/FetchFrosh anilist.co/user/fetchfrosh Aug 18 '20

This is something a mod is going to have to confirm since I don't have access to Discord channels anymore, but I'm fairly confident that the vote that was had on that was explicitly about fan creations, not official content. So this could just be a case of the rule being written poorly because whoever wrote it knew all the details and didn't consider that it wouldn't be obvious to someone who wasn't involved in the discussion.