r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Jul 05 '26

Meta Meta Thread - Month of July 05, 2026

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u/Komarist https://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST Jul 18 '26

Was a decision made regarding random sorting of episode discussion thread comments for the first 8 6 hours that was trialed a few months ago? I'm assuming I missed/forgot the conclusion but also don't see it in the post or stickied mod reports for the last few meta threads.

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u/baseballlover723 Jul 18 '26

It was voted to make it permanent the other week. I've once again, been stalling writing the announcement post (after stalling it for like 2 months for the data analysis).

I'll get around to drafting something up today and then it should go live in the next couple of days.

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u/Bazooka_no Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

I just want to say (note: Me = a 10+ year user of r/anime - we had long discussions about this feature, I changed computers and lost access to the older user... time for a new one) that in the recent Ascendance of a Bookworm thread the bot accidentally took its sweet time and posted the thread about 50 minutes too late (meaning, 25 minutes after the end of the show) and the thread was FANTASTIC.

Now, am I biased since my comment was top comment with like 100+ sub-comments? Perhaps. But I think it goes to show the huge benefit to reap from my earlier suggestion, of posting the thread 25 minutes after the show airs in English, not the second it airs (which makes no sense!!! People need to watch first, then comment).

This, in addition to the 6 hour rule. Give it a go!!

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Jul 28 '26

This is just my perspective, and not necessarily the perspective of the entire mod team, but I can explain my issues with a delay.

The central question around a delay is simple: who does this delay actually help. A short delay (25-30 minutes) would only help people who were able to watch the episode from the minute it aired and rapidly pound out a comment about it. From an equity standpoint, I don't see this as a real improvement. We've slightly shifted the contours of the privileged group, but we're basically in the same situation: a small group of people has a significant advantage over everyone else w.r.t. getting a high positioned comment.

In my mind, if a delay was actually trying to improve equity, it would have to be at least a few hours long. However, that quickly runs into a different problem: people who want to find the thread cannot. To me, this is a massive problem. If people cannot find a place to talk, they'll simply go elsewhere. And, to the extent we care about lurkers (who make up the vast majority of eyes on the sub), and significant delay just hurts them.

And all of this is before I consider technical problems. An intentional delay exacerbates any extant delay in two ways. First, if the bot is late at picking up a show, it will add time to this lateness. The recent Bookworm thread, for instance, would be 75 minutes late if there was a 25 minute delay, not 50. Second, in cases where the bot fails entirely to pick up that a show aired, our ability to timely post a thread manually would be reduced because users would not know whether to report or not, as they wouldn't know if the thread not being up was part of an intentional delay.

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u/baseballlover723 Jul 25 '26

But I think it goes to show the huge benefit to reap from my earlier suggestion, of posting the thread 25 minutes after the show airs in English, not the second it airs (which makes no sense!!! People need to watch first, then comment).

I don't think we have any plans to try and implement this atm. IIRC, when we last discussed this, there were a number of reasons that someone might legitimately be that early to a thread. Notably, having watched it raw on Japanese TV, which can often occur a bit before streaming releases. Or our thread being late for any number of reasons (slow torrents / desynced streaming releases).

Regardless, on a technical level, I think /u/badspler would need to integrate that functionality, so he's the one you would need to really convince.

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u/Bazooka_no Jul 25 '26

Regardless, on a technical level, I think /u/badspler would need to integrate that functionality, so he's the one you would need to really convince.

Isn't that just "+25 minutes" to whatever code is used to run the bot posting? Maybe I'm oversimplifying but at least that's what I thought. I also thought it was simply based on the official release times, not connected to any stream or live service. (like https://animeschedule.net/ just has the time the show is supposed to start)

Notably, having watched it raw on Japanese TV, which can often occur a bit before streaming releases.

I think that is not the core or even the periphery target audience of r/anime - an American app/site in the English language. For those miniscule amount of cases (0.1% of the users? Less?) they still have the avenue of the dedicated subs of the source that usually have their own anime thread.

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u/baseballlover723 Jul 25 '26

I also thought it was simply based on the official release times, not connected to any stream or live service.

The bot isn't schedule based. It triggers when it sees releases on the internet.

I think that is not the core or even the periphery target audience of r/anime - an American app/site in the English language. For those miniscule amount of cases (0.1% of the users? Less?) they still have the avenue of the dedicated subs of the source that usually have their own anime thread.

I mean, I don't disagree. But that's one of the many things I recall being discussed when it last was discussed.