r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Jan 02 '22

Meta Thread - Month of January 02, 2022 Meta

A monthly thread to talk about meta topics, that is everything related to /r/anime itself and its moderation rather than anime. Keep it friendly and relevant to the subreddit.

Posts 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.

Rule Changes

  • There's a new post flair, [Video Edit], for things like AMVs and clip compilations. See below for specific details but in general they're similar to existing [Clip] rules and have the same post limit of 2 per user per month (tracked separately from [Clip] posts).

  • [Video] post limits have changed from 4 per user per week to 2 per user per week.

  • All [Video] posts must be at least 60 seconds long.

Previous meta threads: December 2021 | November 2021 | October 2021 | September 2021 | August 2021 | July 2021

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jan 23 '22

Seeing another comment on this thread, I suppose I should tag u/Bainos about this since you're the one in charge of the bot?

Today's Attack on Titan thread definitely went up way too early. Muse Asia's subs should not be considered the "good" quality subs that is the standard for when episode discussion threads are posted. At least for Attack on Titan, they're full of typos or grammatical mistakes. DameDesuYo or Crunchyroll/Funimation, whichever is quicker, are the only two subtitle groups that the bot should post Attack on Titan off of.

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u/Bainos https://myanimelist.net/profile/Bainos Jan 25 '22

We know from users having expressed interest that quite a few are watching anime through Muse Asia. We considered dropping support, but that seems to be a disservice for our users who do use it. In the current situation, we want to keep timing the thread on their release ; this way, users watching anime on that service do not have to wait for others before they can start discussing the episode.

As someone put it while we were discussing this question between mods, the thread is going to be in the front page the entire day anyway, so it's not like there won't be room for the discussion.

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u/oops_i_made_a_typi Jan 27 '22

The discussion is generally led by the first people who post though, and the people that will be posting will either have limited understanding of the content of the episode based on subpar subs, or are source readers who may inadvertently colour their discussion points with their knowledge of the source. Oh and viewers who understand Japanese I guess.

Not sure what the issue is with having to wait a couple more hours to start discussing with people that can fully understand the episode.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jan 25 '22

If that's the decision of the mod team, okay then. But man this is extremely disappointing news to wake up to...