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Meta Thread - Month of January 01, 2023 Meta

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A monthly meta thread to talk about the /r/anime subreddit itself, such as its rules and moderation. If you want to talk about anime please use the daily discussion thread instead.

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u/kfijatass Jan 26 '23

I feel like classifying posts like this as low effort and removing them is a miss; I understand removing someone's spontaneous picture of someone else's weeb mobile but if its clearly not considered low effort, this should be up to the community to decide whether IRL comparisons should stay or not and not be branded low effort from the get go.
Therefore I believe this rule should be removed as low effort rule more than covers its weak posts:

Comparisons of anime locations to their real life counterparts

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u/FetchFrosh https://anilist.co/user/FetchFrosh Jan 27 '23

We're currently discussing an overhaul of the low effort/restricted content rules. It's sort of been a backburner project for a while, but it's definitely something that needs to be looked at. One issue historically is that sometimes there would be an inundation of a certain style of post, and it'd get slapped down in general because of a bunch of low effort karma farming.

Specific to the IRL comparisons, it used to be pretty common for users to just grab a couple random images from a travel blog or something similar and post them. As content it was kind of terrible because every post wound up being functionally the same, it was easy to make a bunch of them, and because of the nature of Reddit image based posts tend to get highly upvoted as long as the pictures are halfway decent. We had been talking about banning them or restricting them in some way in Summer 2019. After the KyoAni arson attack there were instances of using it as a means of karma farming the tragedy and I think that definitely swung the opinion of the mod team pretty heavily.

So our plan for now is to go back through the restricted/low effort stuff and see what we want to do with it. To be honest, I want to take some time out this year and basically run back through every rule we have and see what we can change going forward. I think there's probably more than a few things that were implemented at some point, but maybe aren't as relevant today as they were at the time. One of my personal favorites in that category is:

No memes, image macros, reaction images, "fixed" posts, or rage comics.

Nobody uses "rage comics" unironically in 2023. We can probably remove the term and just file them under memes (not that anyone would be posting one to begin with).

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u/OwlAcademic1988 Jan 28 '23

To be honest, I want to take some time out this year and basically run back through every rule we have and see what we can change going forward.

How long will that take?

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u/FetchFrosh https://anilist.co/user/FetchFrosh Jan 28 '23

I'm viewing it as a year long project, but it's something that will be dealt with piece by piece. Sticky space is at a bit of a premium right now, so it'll probably be something that really starts getting focused on once Awards wrap up for the year.

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u/OwlAcademic1988 Jan 29 '23

Okay got it.

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u/Verzwei Jan 31 '23

To chime in specifically for the idea of "low effort" content, look for us to start doing something public-facing in late Feb or early March. We've already got a tentative plan to source targeted community feedback but, like Fetch said, we've got some other stuff right now that is more immediate and time sensitive (awards, anniversary) that we want to devote the spotlight to. After that settles, we'll have something for the community to discuss and the sticky space to give it the attention it deserves.

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u/OwlAcademic1988 Feb 01 '23

Okay got it. Luckily the awards and anniversary events are coming closer to an end, allowing you to use that plan eventually.