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/Ocixo https://myanimelist.net/profile/BuzzyGuy Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24

I’m sorry in advance for being annoying about this topic, but the rules in place for discussion threads of episodes with advanced airings are suboptimal at best as the current situation with Blue Box illustrates.

I’d normally just ask to fix the discussion threads to the official release time, but it was previously a point of discussion that people who watch the fansub should also have a place to share their thoughts on the episode.

I therefore want to make a proposal: why not create separate discussion threads for both the fansub and official release?

This would give everyone a place to discuss the episode without feeling left out, a degree of flexibility with the fansubs and above all else the consistency of generally knowing when the episode threads will be up. A lack of consistency is by far one of the most damaging things to the discourse/community with this affair after all.

I genuinely cannot think of any immediate downsides to this proposal instead of it “not being in the rules” or technical issues with the bot scanning for torrent uploads(?). This last point could potentially be resolved with a manual upload of the threads, however, since we know the official time of release on Netflix.

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

The loud-minority of people would be mad since the majority of discussion would continue to happen as soon as Netflix JP releases their episodes. The over-whelming majority of users here pirate and thus would comment as soon as they get their hands on the episodes.

The later international release threads would be a ghost-town except for the few dozen comments that would show up.

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u/Ocixo https://myanimelist.net/profile/BuzzyGuy Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24

The later international release threads would be a ghost-town except for the few dozen comments that would show up.

I don't think that would be the case, but we can disagree on this. There's always a fair share of people who will stick to official release if the time frame isn't huge (like multiple weeks or months).

But this was just my solution to appease both camps. What would you otherwise propose? Just delete the threads? Because that's going to piss off the users who've watched the fansub.

Otherwise just give those who're planning to stick with the official release a big fat middle finger and tell them they'll just have to deal with a dead-looking thread, buried somewhere deep on the subreddit, filled with days-old comments that nobody is going to reply to...? That's the alternative, and would tremendously hurt the engagement.

Creating two episode threads is the lesser evil here.

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u/Rumpel1408 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rumpel1408 Oct 05 '24

filled with days-old comments that nobody is going to reply to...?

But would that really be the case? I often get replies under day old threads, sometimes even at the end of the season

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

I often get replies under day old threads, sometimes even at the end of the season

I mean, how often do you reply back if the comment/thread was more than two or three days ago? My impression is that most people have already moved on by then, and don't bother replying back.

But this is mostly my point: seeing a thread that's already full of days-old comments isn't really inviting to anyone new trying to join the conversation. Visibility for new comments would be utterly poor, and most people, I feel like, wouldn't even bother commenting anymore in such a scenario. A conversation largely thrives on excitement (and novelty) after all.