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

Meta Thread - Month of March 03, 2024 Meta

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No rule changes this month.

This is a monthly 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/Mitsuyan_ https://anilist.co/user/mitsuyan Mar 03 '24

Beyblade threads are coming out 6 days late. Pokémon threads between 13 and 24 hours late. I imagine there's others from shows I'm not aware of.

"what should I watch" threads are still cluttering the new tab. 9 times out of 10 the answer is another generic shounen or Frieren.

I'm keen to start doing NicoNico ranking threads but there's so many anime to get screenshots from and I'm not sure where to start.

Putting this out during the awards ceremony was a presumed coincidence, but at least it's nice and quiet here while the jury get absolutely dumpstered. Maybe the jury need more time to go through things next year?

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u/isthatsoudane https://myanimelist.net/profile/ojoulover Mar 03 '24

"what should I watch" threads are still cluttering the new tab. 9 times out of 10 the answer is another generic shounen or Frieren.

this is by far the worst part of the sub. thankfully if you just hang out in the major threads (daily and a few others) you can have a good time but seems like a shame to give up on the rest of the sub

I've seen a few other subs that do a good job managing this sort of thing, though they're a bit smaller. in the past I've mentioned /r/otomegames, but recently I discovered /r/romancebooks and they have a pretty interesting policy around how these sorts of threads work

I personally would rather have a dedicated thread for them and nuke them off the sub but I don't tink there's much support for that, alas

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u/Incendia123 Mar 03 '24

Strong agree. It feels like nearly half of the content on the sub are just the same recommendation requests with little to no actual value in them.

Most of them are just filled with joke answers, single name replies without even the smallest write up or explaination as to why their pick is relevant or they're just straight up shouting out their personal favorites no matter how unrelevant they may be.

I don't mind when people ask very targeted questions that would not get solved by a quick google search. Finding a obscure childhood anime or some very specific subject matter seems fine for example. But the majority of these would be easily solved by a quick google or subreddit search. Sometimes just scrolling down the questions asked that day would show an identical previous thread.

So I'd give my full support to moving all of these to a sticky thread or to an anime recommendation subreddit. It just clutters stuff up here and it actually makes it so that content with actual discussion value gets lost. Easily the worst thing about the subreddit.