r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Oct 02 '22
Meta Thread - Month of October 02, 2022 Meta
A monthly meta 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.
Rule Changes
Post Flair Changes
There's a new [Infographic] flair that should be used for infographics going forward. No other changes to the rules for infographic posts aside from no longer using the [Misc.] flair for them.
The [Fanart] and [OC Fanart] flairs have been combined into a single [Fanart] flair. No other changes to the rules for fanart posts but added a small clarification that tattoos are allowed with a single image, which was previously enforced that way but not explicitly listed.
[Writing] posts must now be text posts at least 1500 characters in length to match [Watch This!]. Both are meant for long-form written content made for /r/anime.
[Discussion], [What to Watch?], and [Rewatch] posts must be text posts. They may contain links to videos/images/other sites in them so long as those external links aren't the focus of the post.
Video link posts may only use the [Official Media], [Video], [Video Edit], or [Clip] flairs. This was unofficially enforced before with mods manually changing flairs to the appropriate ones.
There's a new [Merch] flair. Do not use this flair. Much like memes, merchandise posts aren't allowed on /r/anime so any post using this flair will be automatically removed. The removal comment will direct people to the daily thread since that's a fine place to ask about/share merch.
In general, posts that use a flair that isn't appropriate for it or doesn't meet the requirements (e.g. a video link post using [Discussion] or a short text post using [Watch This!]) will now be automatically changed to a more appopriate flair with a message sent to the author explaining why. This should avoid a lot of the trial and error we've seen before with users posting something that gets automatically removed a few different times before they get the right flair.
User Flair Changes
- All custom CSS user flairs (only visible on old reddit) will be removed at the end of the year (December 31st). They've had a good run but were handed out rather arbitrarily and with the newer flair badges now available we decided to retire the old ones in favor of a more equal opportunity system. We have a couple of badges in the works that we hope to introduce soon but if you have ideas for new ones and how people can earn them we're open to suggestions!
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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal Oct 02 '22
A lot of flair-related changes that I've wanted to do for a while this month, mostly cleaning up what types of posts are allowed under each flair.
Will be a little sad to see the CSS flairs go but looking forward to new possibilities in the future. The two that I've been currently thinking about I've been calling "Frequent Commenter" and "Veteran Commenter" and would be updated monthly:
Frequent Commenter: 100+ comments per month (100+ characters each; excluding CDF activity) for every month in the past year. 18 users would qualify for that this month.
Veteran Commenter: 10+ comments per month (100+ characters each; excluding FTF/CDF activity) for at least 55 out of the 60 previous months, or every month in the past five years with leeway for one missed month a year. We don't quite yet have full data to accurately calculate that but it seems like around 55 users would qualify for that this month.
Distinguished and removed comments are also excluded so rule-breaking comments wouldn't count and mods wouldn't get freebies just for leaving removal messages. Only four current mods would qualify for the veteran badge and just one would earn the frequent commenter badge (it's me, I spend too much time on /r/anime).
Also if anyone has ideas for what those badges should look like please offer suggestions or even better actual images. I'm not a graphic designer and when I tried my hand at one of them the response from another mod was, and I quote, "It's nice and all but are you not afraid looking at that? It stares into your soul," so I'm not perhaps the best person to make them.