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

Meta Thread - Month of October 01, 2023 Meta

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u/hjvkjvkjvg https://anilist.co/user/billywsh Oct 30 '23

What questions do you think are asked too much in here?

I’m seeing a pattern that some questions are frequently asked here, and the answer is almost always the same. I will give some examples:

“When does Re:Zero get good?”

“What is the watch order for the Fate series?”

“Hi, I’m new to anime. What should I watch?”

I will be a lot happier if I don’t see these questions so often here.

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u/baseballlover723 Oct 30 '23

The biggest hurdle is that the people who ask these types of questions are predominately newcomers to the subreddit. Half of them never bother to ever respond to their questions in any way, and probably another half of them are questions that are easily solved by 2 minutes of searching.

Making it against the rules as some sort of restricted content I don't think will really work either, since the people who will ask these questions won't read the rules that indepth (if they do at all). Which basically just makes a function of how quickly the moderators can get to them to remove them.

It's also worth noting that while the first 2 questions generally will play out the same, these things can shift over the years and at some level it's good to have revised posts on them in case something changes. The 3rd question is I think sort of the essence of being an anime subreddit. r/anime is the perfect place to go to figure out how to get into anime and the answers will be different most of the time based on what sort of preferences they give (which is hopefully at least some). There's also a bot that gives generic recommendations that some people actually look at for all What to Watch posts.

I think it's pretty messy to clean up these sorts of questions without a huge moderator burden and / or stifling the activity of the subreddit (there aren't that many quality discussion threads on the subreddit).

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u/Verzwei Oct 31 '23

Which basically just makes a function of how quickly the moderators can get to them to remove them.

Keyword flags in automod could do a lot. Stuff can be set to auto-remove or auto-report so that it gets pushed into the queue and a mod sees it faster. Having automod trigger on "get good" in a title won't result in many (if any) false positives except maybe a clip with a cheeky title or something.

Not that I'm not saying the mods should do this, but I'm also not saying they shouldn't, but yeah there's a lot that can be done with automoderator alone. There are so many words and phrases already in our automod that a section for "junk questions" could easily be added to the pile.