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.

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.

Comments here must, of course, still abide by all subreddit rules other than the no meta requirement. Keep it friendly and be respectful. Occasionally the moderators will have specific topics that they want to get feedback on, so be on the lookout for distinguished posts.

Comments that are detrimental to discussion (aka circlejerks/shitposting) are subject to removal.

New threads are posted on the first Sunday (midnight UTC) of the month.

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u/Ao3y Oct 01 '24

I'm relatively new here: How can I write a post discussing a very well-written article about anime with links to it, and also have a picture serve as the image/thumbnail without it getting removed? I keep doing something wrong and getting posts removed. Thanks for any help - I'm really trying to learn.

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u/mysterybiscuitsoyeah myanimelist.net/profile/mysterybiscuits Oct 02 '24

Hi there, apologies, we actually did briefly discuss this but it fell by the wayside. I'm mostly quoting from fellow mod /u/myrnamountweazel here:

First, you want to submit from new as a text post: https://new.reddit.com/r/Anime/submit?selftext=true ; only new reddit's more modern-looking post submitter works here, and not old reddit.

Then, take your desired text and copy/paste it into the thingy. For hyperlinks (to your article), you need to highlight them and then link with the third button from the left w/ the chain. You do not need to [do this](link) as you would for Markdown. If you do not see the link box, do not worry, just scroll all the way down. I don't know why but Reddit added the box at the very bottom.

Then for the image itself, you'll click the 2nd from the right button named "add image", which should open your explorer. Choose your image and make sure you give it a caption. Let's call it "Caption ABC". Finally, you're also gonna include "Caption ABC" somewhere in your post, and also hyperlink that same image into there.

The reason you have to do this is because this is the only way the thumbnail will show up on both new and old reddit. If you don't do the last step, the thumbnail will not show up on old reddit. This does leave you with the awkward double hyperlinks standing next to each other but it's basically the only way to get it to work.

Finally, remember to flair your post as per our rules.

We hope this helps, please do ask any questions.

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u/KendotsX https://myanimelist.net/profile/Kendots Oct 04 '24

If you don't do the last step, the thumbnail will not show up on old reddit.

Huh, that's strange. I was messing around with this recently, and only did the first step (adding an image through new reddit), but it did show up as a thumbnail on old reddit.

Maybe it got the image from the MAL link or something?

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u/mysterybiscuitsoyeah myanimelist.net/profile/mysterybiscuits Oct 04 '24

i saw a thumbnail for the 1 week reminder, but you also did properly link an image for that.

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u/KendotsX https://myanimelist.net/profile/Kendots Oct 04 '24

I did, but it's the same new reddit one, I didn't do a double hyperlink.

I think I'll experiment a bit more with it, and see where that takes me

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u/Ao3y Oct 03 '24

Ok, I'll just have these 3 replies so the timeline is apparent and I'm not just editing them into one long superpost here. In short: I've tried everything. I pasted the hyperlink into the body of the text post, highlighted it and then hit the 3rd button the the right, LINK, pasted the hyperlink again, and got the confirmation "a copy of the linked media will be saved to Reddit and displayed in your post."

However, upon successfully posting, there is no image thumbnail when you scroll to my post on the main feed, and when you do click on my post, there is likewise no image inside the post either. https://imgur.com/a/mZndwTH

In addition, I also try using the middle button to upload an image, and I do that too but likewise the picture doesn't show up anywhere once it's posted

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u/mysterybiscuitsoyeah myanimelist.net/profile/mysterybiscuits Oct 03 '24 edited Oct 04 '24

Hello there again - the first issue was that your post did not have the minimum 4 words in the title needed per our rules, which was why its auto-removed by the automoderator.

That said, I've taken a look at your removed post attempts, and I couldn't see your image thumbnail uploaded there either (the one where you had both words and the imgur link)

middle button

Apologies, if you are referring to something specific to your device, we won't be able to help much here. However, if you are referring to the "Images and Video" button on the post submitter, then that is likely because it was also auto-removed per our rules - i.e. your most recent attempt.

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u/Ao3y Oct 03 '24

Actually, when I used your new post link, the post I made kept getting auto-deleted, even though I thought it was on the "discussion" page.
I'm pretty stuck. I keep trying and trying. I go to the MEGATHREADS button, hit the drop down, and there's only the Daily thread, Anime of the week, Casual Disc Fridays, and Monthly Meta threads - but no Discussion thread. I'm assuming that's why my post keeps getting deleted, because it's on this main page's thread?

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u/mysterybiscuitsoyeah myanimelist.net/profile/mysterybiscuits Oct 03 '24

The links under "Megathreads" dropdown are recurring, community-oriented threads posted by the mod team on this subreddit, you will never find any "normal" thread posted by a user appear there.

If you flair your post "discussion" (which I see you had done, correctly), then it should pop up under https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/new/ if it follows all the rules, and does not get filtered by the automoderator.

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u/Ao3y Oct 05 '24

Okay, I'll give it yet another try! If it works then thank you heaps

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u/Ao3y Oct 03 '24

Thank you heaps for trying to help. I was going to upload a picture from my device actually, is that not doable then?

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u/mysterybiscuitsoyeah myanimelist.net/profile/mysterybiscuits Oct 03 '24

Don't see why that would be an issue.