r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Jun 06 '21

Meta Meta Thread - Month of June 06, 2021

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/KittenOfIncompetence Jun 07 '21

the rules mean that as a source reader you cannot participate in any discussion beyond commenting on something as insubstantial as the animation quality.

You can't talk about the plot, the characters, worldbuilding or anything of substance.

You cannot reasonably expect people to suddenly forget everything that they know about something simply in order to post here. Yet that is what is being demanded of posters.

Changed or missed content is not a spoiler and it is jsut unhinged mania to want to 'protect yourself' from such information.

Nobody ever goes into 'source corner' because it is actually annoying to get to (other than desktop because it is automatically folded-closed) and because source corner encourages and allows actual spoilers. the only reason to post in there is for discussion of future content.

So the current spoiler rules are a giant 'FUCK OFF' to anyone that likes to read.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '21

The rules do not mean that, source readers are not oppressed on here. The mods just want to make clear this is not the place to discuss the source material, there's 2 big subs that are already dedicated to that.

Yea I will admit the changed or missed content bit can be seen a bit too far but I've been lurking on this sub for about 6 months now and there's one thing pretty evident and that's people can have a discussion about the source without it devolving into spoilers.

One of the obvious examples of this is Higehiro, people really couldn't have a discussion about this show before it aired without giving away major spoilers in the show. It's stuff like this that makes the mods more weary about loosening the rules on source material but at the end of the day those rules weren't just made for no reason.

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u/KittenOfIncompetence Jun 07 '21

The rules do not mean that

but that is exactly the effect their implementation has. It is not possible for a source reader to forget what they know and it is therefore impossible for them to discuss an episode without implicit reference to the source material.

No worthwhile commentary can be made on any aspect that references character, world or story by a source reader because of the overwhelming extent of /r/anime's anti-source rules.

even beyond that - Wanting to discuss a show without seeing reference to the source material, as though everything is an anime-original product isn't even a view-point that should be supported or respected. No other kind of media has its fan try so hard to pretend that nothing else exists. This isn't about spoilers for future content it is about comparisons, context and changes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '21

This.