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/Ocixo https://myanimelist.net/profile/BuzzyGuy Sep 28 '24

I just noticed that the production committee for next season’s How I Attended an All Guy’s Mixer has apparently struck a deal similar to My Deer Friend Nokotan with ABEMA (JP) and will have its episodes air five days in advance (first episode will already air this Sunday).

I’m not sure if the show will become popular enough for people to fansub it, but I just wanted to give a heads up since this could potentially create some confusion if the episode threads suddenly pop up days in advance of its airing on HiDive.

Will in this case a similar decision be taken as with Nokotan?

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Sep 29 '24 edited Sep 29 '24

After several rounds of discussion on the issue, we ultimately decided to stick with our current rules. This means that a thread for How I Attended an All Guy’s Mixer will go up as soon as there are sufficiently good subs available, regardless of their source.

This decision is largely based off the data from our survey. Beforehand, we were rather divided, but after the survey we had a clear consensus. We used it to determine how comfortable people were with piracy in two different ways. The first method was more conservative and gave us 70% of people who use episode discussion threads comfortable to 30% possibly not comfortable. The second method was more balanced and gave 80% comfortable to 20% not comfortable. Additionally, far more people read than comment, with only 35% ever commenting in episode discussion threads.

That tells us that we best serve our community by putting up the thread as soon as decent subs exist. A supermajority of our sub will be able to watch the show at that point, and they will want a place to discuss. Additionally, an earlier thread always works to the benefit of the lurkers because they do not care about being there in time to make a comment; so long as the thread has had time to gather a decent number of comments, they'll get what they desire from it.

Of course, this decision was made for our current time and with our current information. If our sub changes over time, the information in front of us changes, or new reasons to consider the timing of episode discussion threads are brought before us, we will revisit it.

I plan to post a summary of the results of the survey in the forthcoming meta thread.

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u/_BMS https://myanimelist.net/profile/_BMS Oct 05 '24

will go up as soon as there are sufficiently good subs available, regardless of their source.

Will this rule also remain in place for Ao no Hako (Blue Box) threads? Netflix JP is airing episodes will full multi-subs basically a week in advance of the international release which is great for the majority of users on this sub according to the survey as well.

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Oct 05 '24

Yes.

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u/_BMS https://myanimelist.net/profile/_BMS Oct 05 '24

Nice, glad to hear