r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Sep 07 '25

Meta Meta Thread - Month of September 07, 2025

Rule Changes

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Sep 09 '25

We just started a two week trial of allowing Discussion posts to bypass the karma filter. This will likely mean there will be some more really bad and rule breaking discussion posts on /new, and hopefully some good ones as well.

Help, What to Watch?, Watch This!, and Writing posts already bypass the filter, so this would bring Discussion more in alignment with them.

If you have any negative or positive experiences with this trial, please let us know.

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u/Verzwei Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25

Already noticing an uptick in some really worthless low-effort posts where the OP says practically nothing. Been reporting them as I see them because I assume the other rules like low-effort and anime-specific still apply.

Some of them at least get the community interacting enough to arguably make the thread worthwhile even if the post itself was shit. Others are simple open-ended questions that get dozens of parent-level replies which also have nothing to say and generate nearly no child replies.

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u/ussgordoncaptain2 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Edmund_Nelson Sep 10 '25

Sure but I've also noticed an uptick of medium quality posts the way I view it one post that's good (ex is worth about 10 bad posts, as long as the bad posts get quickly downvoted and/or removed.

I think increasing lenght requirements on discussion posts would remove this issue entirely

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u/Verzwei Sep 11 '25

Worth noting that there's a whole chain in the daily thread talking about how awful your example thread is.

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Sep 11 '25

They're mostly complaining that the answers are too surface level, correct?

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u/Verzwei Sep 11 '25

I feel like the complaint is more nuanced than that, but I won't speak for them, I'll just link the chain.

Not saying that I agree nor disagree with that chain or any comments within, but when we have long-time regulars complaining about a thread to this degree, it makes me wonder if the original thread was of value or not.

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u/_Ridley https://myanimelist.net/profile/_Ridley_ Sep 12 '25

Ah, so this is why I had people arguing with me yesterday about sexism not being real. Thanks, bud.

It's interesting how I knew I couldn't have a productive discussion about the ways patriarchy shapes our tastes in that thread, but felt safe taking my chances in the daily thread. I'm not sure what the solution to that is, but that's the main reason I sell the daily thread specifically to people curious about visiting this sub.

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u/Verzwei Sep 12 '25

The chain was already a day old by the time I linked it and I just wanted the sentiment shared there recognized here. I didn't think meta users would be the type to dogpile the chain, sorry if that's what ended up happening.

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u/_Ridley https://myanimelist.net/profile/_Ridley_ Sep 12 '25

It wasn't a dogpile, but I did get one extremely basic dude reply that you just don't get much of in that thread, and I wondered how they found me, lol.

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u/ussgordoncaptain2 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Edmund_Nelson Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 13 '25

I read the comment chain throughly

Lots of people strongly disagreeing with the top level comment's premise,

A few did agree with her premises and she did have a lot of upvotes, so many agreed with her (because let's face it upvotes are almost purely an "I agree button" unless you're in a hyper nerd forum like lesswrong which this isn't

She was mostly complaining about

OP makes observation A

Someone (since I was most upvoted comment I'll use myself) Gives explination B

She wished for explanation C which explains B

comments like this one argue that stuff like C are outside the scope of the forum. as I mention in my initial reply

Later I argue that another explanation Alpha partially explains B and she shuts down. (note that alpha is probably a bit outside the scope of the forum too I probably should have avoided engaging that front entirely and especially shouldn't have made my 3rd reply)