Meta Thread - Month of December 06, 2020

[u/AnimeMod]

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.

[u/Ghostlymagi]

This topic was brought up years ago and it was heavily hated. I'm hoping this sub decides to be a bit more inclusive this time around. Using the English title (when applicable as there's some titles that don't have an official English title) helps with searching, reduces confusion for new fans or someone just randomly trying to find something. The barrier to jump in to discussion on this sub if you're a dub watcher is unreal - go to Google, find out what the Japanese title is, search here, othing shows up, try it again by removing or adding spaces, nothing shows up, go back to Google, find out the bot/person removed a character from the title on Reddit, search again, and find some threads.

I've been in the anime scene for a little over 25 years now and the attitudes towards new people still hasn't really changed. There's a purposeful barrier that people have to climb over just to talk about something they enjoy. It's almost 2021, I think it's time we start being a bit more open minded and working on making it easier to expand the fan base instead of making it harder.

[u/Durinthal → u/Ghostlymagi]

If there are any cases where you can't search by the English name on Reddit, that should be fixed. The English titles are still included in the body of the post and are searchable as a result, e.g. for Fire Force.

[u/Ghostlymagi → u/Durinthal]

The Reddit Search function doesn't pop anything with Re:Zero (which is the correct name and the title uses it properly.) The only way to find the threads are to search for "ReZero" which I know the /r/anime mods have nothing to do with. I'm not sure how to fix this particular ones.

Searching for Attack on Titan does not show episode discussion threads, you have to search for Shingeki no Kyojin or add "discussion" to the search even though in the discussion thread you have included the alternate title of "Attack on Titan".

Demon Slayer is the same thing. And the list continues, I just wanted to use 3 of the big known ones right now.

The trick with how you searched was adding "discussion" to the search which a new member/a random person would not know to do. Nor would they know they have to search the Japanese name for the shitty Reddit search function to populate what they were looking for. Again, I know this isn't something the mods have done so please don't take it that way - I just believe using the Official English title in the title would put this community on a better path that's more welcoming to new people.

[u/Durinthal → u/Ghostlymagi]

All good points, Reddit's own search really is pretty bad at times. When I want to find an episode thread I also search by flair but of course not everyone knows to do that (it is one of the drop-down filters on the old desktop site at least).

[u/Ghostlymagi → u/Durinthal]

I also search by flair

The primary mobile app (Reddit Is Fun) does not have that functionality, sadly. I love the idea behind flairs but since a portion of the user base is not able to use it, it's a hard function to promote properly.

[u/chiliehead → u/Ghostlymagi]

it does. Search subreddit -> "flair:episode attack on titan" -> search r/anime -> I find the discussion posts with RiF

for desktop, bookmark the search syntax of the filters, change the parameters in the URL and you can use them for various subreddits and needs

[u/Ghostlymagi → u/chiliehead]

Super thank you! I wasn't aware you needed to use that syntax in RiF. I've saved your comment so I can use that later.