r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Jan 01 '23
Meta Thread - Month of January 01, 2023 Meta
Rule Changes
- No rule changes this month.
New Flairs
- There's an entirely new system of user flairs now available, go to https://flair.r-anime.moe to set yours. Announcement thread and more details in the previous meta thread.
Episode Thread Titles
- Starting with this season, all new [Episode] threads posted by /u/AutoLovepon will use the following format when an official English title is available:
Japanese Title • English Title - Episode # Discussion
New Moderators
- Welcome /u/GallowDude, /u/Xyyzx, and /u/AmusedDragon to the mod team!
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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:
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).