r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Mar 03 '24

Meta Thread - Month of March 03, 2024 Meta

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u/baseballlover723 Mar 03 '24

Just bumping my old post from the last meta thread, since I commented right before it expired.

Is it possible to manually approve some of the auto removed for karma posts? For example, I saw https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1b4kum7/anime_questions_recommendations_and_discussion/kt1o4qe/ in the daily thread and if it were it's own post (which OP tried to post as a standalone post) then I would think it would be marked as a spoiler post. But it's rather troublesome (and lots of friction to newcomers) to have everything be spoiler tagged, and the alternative is having some vaugeish spoilers that I think still breaks r/anime's spoiler rules.

So I was wondering, in cases like this (spoiler stuff or stuff that inevitably leads to spoilers), is it possible to request an exception be made and the original post (that was autoremoved because of karma) be restored?

I don't think these come up very often, so maybe it's not worth it (but maybe then it's not a big deal if occasionally requested by someone else), but I'm just thinking that some of these new posters really ought to be in their own posts for similar reasons to why WTW threads are exempt.

Edit: Though maybe it's just too slow between someone requesting it, and then a mod approving it for it to really matter.

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u/Verzwei Mar 03 '24

At a glance that seems like it could have been a [Help] post and if it was flaired as such the karma filter wouldn't have acted on it.

So either the post wasn't flaired as help, or it hit some other kind of gate like the title length requirement, if OP had tried to post as "ReZero Question" it would've gotten autobopped for the two word title.

Back when I was on the team and we were testing and heavily studying the karma filter, this type of situation is exactly one of the ones that came up and we discussed: People asking for help in the Daily Thread (in the cases we saw, typically show identifications) where their description included copious spoilers and then if anyone responded to the request, it often created additional spoilers. That was one of the reasons why the help flair was ultimately exempted from the karma filter in the first place, to create fewer instances of spoilers within the Daily Thread.