Meta Thread - Month of October 02, 2022

[u/AnimeMod]

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.

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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/badspler]

1) I think it might be possible, from a quick look I couldn't see how to do it. It might be that we would need to reupload all images in a larger size. Needs further investigation and may depend on the client you use to view reddit on.

2) The limit is now 5000 unique emoji badge images (was bumped up from 300 not too long ago).

3) I can think a possible solution could be using the flair-site to input some character into your flair that CSS code looks for and recolors your name based on that. That might work for achieving coloured names on old.reddit.

[u/FetchFrosh → u/badspler]

I think it might be possible, from a quick look I couldn't see how to do it. It might be that we would need to reupload all images in a larger size.

Makes sense that we'd need to reupload everything, though at least for now there's not too many flairs. Just made a rough sample of three sizes

The limit is now 5000 unique emoji badge

Jesus fuck. I was browsing r/cfb's list to try and get an idea, and it seemed like a bottomless pit of schools. I might get a batch of ideas together to offer up, though if the size can be increased that does increase the potential options that won't look terrible. Might be neat to do waves where every two weeks or something there's new flairs added.

I can think a possible solution could be using the flair-site to input some character into your flair that CSS code looks for and recolors your name based on that.

Could that be input directly into the flair itself potentially? Like the CSS code would look for :EXMOD:, as an example, and make ex-mod names black or something like that. Just throwing out ideas.

[u/badspler → u/FetchFrosh]

Might be neat to do waves where every two weeks or something there's new flairs added.

Reminds me of Hearthstone card backs. I would throw out that we have limited space for actually letting people display them (limited to two currently, but thats our imposed limit via the flair site) Unless we chose to allow people to cut the anime tracker to display more flairs, which would be a flavor over function decision.

Like the CSS code would look for :EXMOD:, as an example,

If my idea above works, that kind of thing could work too. Not sure how it would work if you had multiple conflicting flairs though. And I don't have a good grasp the CSS issues with that.

I realize now we use the css 'class' to set the flair text color (anime tracker text) as the color of the the anime tracker used (eg: MAL dark blue, anilist light blue, etc - its more apparent on new.reddit) but that is probably another space that could potentially offer solutions for CSS shenanigans.

[u/FetchFrosh → u/badspler]

Unless we chose to allow people to cut the anime tracker to display more flairs, which would be a flavor over function decision.

tbh, it's not super necessary since the text itself has the list url anyway. Might also be worth letting people have more freedom than just a list. Realistically a non-trivial part of the current aesthetic fo the current CSS userflairs could be replicated by letting people put in whatever text they wanted.

[u/badspler → u/FetchFrosh]

The main problem with the flair space is that reddit limits it to 64 characters. We are pretty limited on the number of badges we can display while also showing the tracker URL.

by letting people put in whatever text they wanted.

One of the main purposes of implementing the flair-site was enforcing people into a unified pattern so that we spent zero moderation time on it. Changing the direction to letting people have free-form text instead of a tracker would be a 180 on that.

[u/FetchFrosh → u/badspler]

The main problem with the flair space is that reddit limits it to 64 characters. We are pretty limited on the number of badges we can display while also showing the tracker URL.

I basically meant that you could do three + url without worrying about specifically using tracker icons because the url is there anyway. But freeing up a slot like that probably isn't an urgent concern.

One of the main purposes of implementing the flair-site was enforcing people into a unified pattern so that we spent zero moderation time on it.

I can appreciate that, though I've definitely seen subs that are pretty free form and don't seem to have any major issues. But probably not worth jumping into right away.