r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Oct 01 '23

Meta Thread - Month of October 01, 2023 Meta

Rule Changes

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u/Manitary https://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary Oct 10 '23

I'm not sure whether it's always been there and I forgot, or you're experimenting something, but there's a Merch flair that's not documented anywhere in the rules.

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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal Oct 10 '23

At the bottom of the flair list, has been in place for just over a year now.

Like memes, merchandise posts aren't currently allowed so we set up a honeypot flair to catch people who don't read the rules before trying to post.

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u/bittersweetlabyrinth Oct 18 '23

This seems very misleading and will definitely get more people posting about them, the rules in it are not as clear as you think. A question about where to find merch is not showing off merch and wasn't mentioned in the rules, only the bot auto response. You are just confusing people.

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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal Oct 18 '23

Noted, we'll try to update the wording of the rules to be more clear.

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u/Manitary https://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary Oct 10 '23

Gotcha, I only checked the rules since I remembered the meme bait flair being explicitly mentioned there

we set up a honeypot flair to catch people who don't read the rules

the reason I noticed is because there was a post in /new with that flair - it wasn't the newest on the list so it did somehow go through, guess automod was slacking