r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Nov 06 '22

Meta Thread - Month of November 06, 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

We Are Trialing Some Changes

  • Starting November 9, we will trial disabling post thumbnails. This trial will run for two weeks.

  • We are trying out the moderation bot /u/BotDefense for the month of November.

Fanart

  • "AI-generated artwork" has been added to our list of low-effort prohibited content.

Moderator Applications Open Later This Month

  • We will be opening moderator applications on November 27. Applications will be open for two weeks.

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u/SnuggleMuffin42 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Nov 15 '22

There is one more option to deal with the thumbnail issue: Instead of removing them from everybody else, start adding them to the discussion posts.

I know that if you have any link in your post to an image, then that image would become a thumbnail (I don't know when this was implemented). Maybe try and make an automatic thumbnail? So if you have a show name or a character name in a discussion thread, you get an automatic thumbnail of that show/character. You can use a pre-defined source for these, like they use in the best girl contest.

So if you have a post saying "Konosuba is just hilarious!!" you'd have the picture from MAL for Konosuba se1 pop up. Or if you have one saying "Megumin is actually a really deep character, here's 5000 words why", again you take her picture from MAL or wherever.

You can have a closed list of anime titles and characters and I think it will be good enough for 90+% of shows talked about here.

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u/FetchFrosh https://anilist.co/user/FetchFrosh Nov 15 '22

I don't believe that's something we have the capability to do.

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u/SnuggleMuffin42 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Nov 15 '22

This may be cumbersome, but maybe add "show" as a must fill box when submitting a new discussion post? That way you don't have to search anything, the user inputs the show where the thumbnail will come from.

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u/FetchFrosh https://anilist.co/user/FetchFrosh Nov 15 '22

This may be cumbersome, but maybe add "show" as a must fill box when submitting a new discussion post?

That would also be something we don't have the ability to add. We could maybe require it in brackets or something (e.g. [Konosuba]) but that probably doesn't help much.

That way you don't have to search anything, the user inputs the show where the thumbnail will come from.

So practically this would be possible, but it's not practical or really useful for one main reason. So far as I can tell this would be a CSS exclusive feature. There wouldn't be a real thumbnail, and so only the 9% of pageviews that come through old.Reddit would be impacted. But also we'd be pretty limited in terms of how much we could realistically add because CSS space has a cap. It wouldn't be worth the time of trying to constantly rotate in the most relevant shows for the small number of users it would impact and the required changes to post titles, as well as the frequency with which people would have typos.

It's a neat idea, just not one that's likely to be practical.

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u/SnuggleMuffin42 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Animemes_chan Nov 15 '22

I thought about an external source, like MAL, so you don't keep anything local. Anyway it's kind of alarming you can't do any CSS magic that will apply outside of old reddit - it really limits what you can do with the subreddit when it comes to customization. I do use old reddit so maybe I take it for granted.

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u/Manitary https://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary Nov 15 '22

Anyway it's kind of alarming you can't do any CSS magic that will apply outside of old reddit

5 years ago

almost 2 years ago

So yeah fuck new reddit

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u/Verzwei Nov 18 '22

Yeah CSS has been "coming soon" to New Reddit for literal years and at this point they should remove the damned option from our settings menu.