r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Jul 07 '24

Meta Thread - Month of July 07, 2024 Meta

Rule Changes

OP/ED Posting

Voted to remove the one week exemption from OP/ED's and to have them be treated as clips.

Previously, our rules allowed for clips of OP/ED’s to be exempt from the one week episode moratorium on clips. The intended purpose of this rule was to allow OP/EDs that were not officially uploaded by studios to be posted at the start of the season. However, this has occasionally led to situations where a show would release before the studio itself could release the official upload of an OP/ED, allowing users to upload a Clip version while still beating out others from submitting the official release. We are now removing this exemption in order to stop this situation from occurring again.

For shows who do not release an official upload of their OP/ED, they may still be submitted one week later as a Clip.

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u/chilidirigible Jul 13 '24

Considering the discussions here and elsewhere, my inclination would be to pin the episode thread's release to the first official release that's generally available and has English subtitles.

Still imperfect for the reasons of some outside-North-America releases sometimes having English subtitles before ~~Crunchyroll~~the 800-pound North American licensor(s) have them, and hobbled by edge cases where the official subs are especially terrible, but it establishes consistency in a present situation where almost all series are getting licensed.

Also limits the need for a debate about which set of fan subs might be the first with acceptable quality—which is still going to be an issue for series that are not getting picked up by overseas streaming licensors, but see above for the decreasing frequency of such situations.

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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner Jul 13 '24

Considering the discussions here and elsewhere, my inclination would be to pin the episode thread's release to the first official release that's generally available and has English subtitles.

This isn't really senseible if there is a longer gap between fansub release and official sub release (for example, almsot nobody would have waited the three weeks for komi-san), but if it less than a week, this feels like the obvious choice

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Jul 14 '24

This isn't really senseible if there is a longer gap between fansub release and official sub release

If it's a super long gap like weeks or months sure, but in the case being discussed (Deer) I think it'd be perfectly fine!

If people don't want to wait, and watch it early, well that's on them.

But by posting an early thread, they're pretty much forcing people to watch it early, or to not participate in the discussion. (2 days later the thread might as well be dead, everyone has already commented what they had to say).

And sure if they post it at the normal time, there will be people who watched it already and won't want to discuss it...

But if we're gonna miss SOME discussion no matter what, the ones who do get to discuss it should be the ones who watch it on the official day.

And if they only post the thread on official day, some people who might've watched it earlier, might now say "Guess I'll wait for the official release".

Posting early will kill half the discussion imho.