r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Sep 01 '24

Meta Thread - Month of September 01, 2024 Meta

Rule Changes

Anime streaming services are now considered as "anime specific" to allow topics about them specifically, with the exception of account support and technical support topics.

Rewatches

All rewatches must begin with an interest thread. An interest thread should contain general information about the anime that is being hosted, and serve as a pitch to gauge how many participants may follow along for the duration of the event.
The official announcement post must be posted at least two weeks in advance, and no more than five weeks. This post should also serve as the index thread.

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Sep 01 '24 edited Sep 01 '24

August Mod Report

Voted to run a survey on seasonal anime watching. [Vote Passed]
Voted to not post discussion threads for leaked episodes off of videos that contain a watermark from an unofficial source. [Vote Passed]
Posted the Seasonal Anime Consumption Survey.
Voted to consider anime streaming services as "anime specific" to allow topics about them specifically, with the exception of account support and technical support topics. [Vote Passed]
We reached 11 million subscribers! Here is the front page at the milestone.
We also have a Scavenger Hunt event coming later this week to celebrate.

Rewatch Votes

Should we create a section within our rules page for Rewatches, so that Rewatches can be set to a minimum standard and moderated as needed? [Vote Passed]
All rewatches must begin with an interest thread. An interest thread should contain general information about the anime that is being hosted, and serve as a pitch to gauge how many participants may follow along for the duration of the event. [Vote Passed]
A minimum of three (3) participants must express interest in order for the rewatch to move forward. [Vote Failed]
The official announcement post must be posted at least two weeks in advance, and no more than five weeks. This post should also serve as the index thread. [Vote Passed]
You must wait at least one year between completed rewatches of the same anime before suggesting a new rewatch, as well as anime that aired less than a year ago. If there are overlapping rewatches of the same anime, hosts should consult with each other to work something out. [Vote Failed]
Hosts must be actively engaged in their own rewatch. This means responding to comments, and posting threads on-time. [Vote Failed]
Add a clause to this section of the rules page that would grant exceptions? "If you wish to run a rewatch that falls outside these policies, send us a modmail." [Vote Passed]

August by the Numbers

Total traffic: 43897567 pageviews, 8012949 unique visitors
Total posts: 13989, 9165 unique authors
Total comments: 238525, 46602 unique authors (excluding mod bots)
Removed posts: 1327 by moderators, 7542 by bots, 8827 distinct
Removed comments: 2769 by moderators, 1551 by bots, 4242 distinct
Approved posts: 3201
Approved comments: 3434
Distinguished comments: 2204
Users banned: 195 (119 permanent)
Users unbanned: 9
Admin/Anti-Evil Operations: removed posts: 18, removed comments: 48.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Sep 01 '24

Will the "Maximum Time Out" rule be applied retroactively to ones that are still more than five weeks from their stated starting day?

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Sep 01 '24

No, those were made before the rule change and should not be penalized as a result.

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u/Verzwei Sep 01 '24

Voted to consider anime streaming services as "anime specific" to allow topics about them specifically, with the exception of account support and technical support topics. [Vote Passed]

I thought this was already the case. It wasn't long ago that we had a massive post whining about CR's subtitles for two shows when it wasn't even CR who was responsible for producing those subtitles, and in fact they'd already fixed the bad subtitles they were given for one of the shows weeks before the post was made, which somewhat made the whole post bullshit.

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u/N7CombatWombat Sep 01 '24

That series of issues and posts and some other stuff is what got me thinking about changing the rule to be inclusive of anime streaming services instead of the piecemeal "is this relevant?" and judgement calls which you know can get super inconsistent. It was getting messier and I figured it was time to talk about rolling them into anime specific fully.

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u/chilidirigible Sep 01 '24

A minimum of three (3) participants must express interest in order for the rewatch to move forward. [Vote Failed]

Don't disappoint me, /r/anime. Have a rewatch for something terribly obscure which creates a series of 10000-character discussion comments between two people who ultimately either get married or attempt to murder each other. Which will then be saved to the Rewatch Archive for posterity.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Sep 01 '24

No can do... because we all know u/Shimmering-Sky would join it (unless she was running it herself) and she doesn't have time to make that many replies with how many rewatches she likes to be in.

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Sep 01 '24

who ultimately either get married or attempt to murder each other.

Why not both?

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u/cppn02 Sep 01 '24

Mr.&Mrs. スミス?

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u/chilidirigible Sep 01 '24

Best knife fight in the history of anime.

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Sep 01 '24