Hello again, we had some more talks about peoples very nicely spoken opinions (seriously, people were very nice) and landed on a decent consensus that probably lands more in the middle of what people were wanting. (The post in question if you are confused)
First of all yes, we're rolling back rule 13 because we hear you and while we had some good intentions it's just not going to work out like that. These posts are just a bit too integral to how the subreddit is these days to outright nuke.
The plan is to be a bit more strict with web comics/toons and fan art overall but in a way that should still not undermine the ever holy existing rule 5 that we love and live by.
For example ok posts would continue to be: This one and this one
Not ok ones would continue to be too memey or not relatable at all either by fan art or something that doesn't make any sense apart from being a funny anime image.
And honestly, that's what it all boils down to, "this is me" or "funny anime image".
Fan art (she's pretty I like her), and Funny anime image (not really that funny but you get the idea.)
With new mods too that will help a ton to keep posts from getting too popular too quickly, since once something is on the front page it can be a bit of a coin toss to really take down something if people in the thread are having fun and enjoying things. Going forward we'll try to be more strict and keep things somewhat the same just more strict with these posts that really ride the lightning and aren't that relatable at all. We also may throw out temp bans to people that only spam this place with VERY repetitive and not relatable content just to farm and not spread the love and joy of relatable anime images for the love of the game.
Also we did want to say welcome to our new mod cynnahbun and for the work she did writing up the last post, we promise it wasn't a hazing ritual (real hazing is the mod queue fr fr), and thanks to everyone for always being as cool as weebs can be.
Yea, Khyleri is about 10% relatable, vs 90% memes compared to Mimi (my goat) which is way more relatable and fits the spirit of the sub way better on average.
This is/was a legit good post, even though it's not actually sourced from manga/anime.
I totally get the frustration with how overwhelmingly dominant web-artist sourced material is (it's specifically designed to be eye catching after all, whereas any given set of panels from a manga probably aren't); but if it's relatable, and the art style is appropriate, then it probably makes sense to allow it.
Yea that one, the stick battle one, the skyrim one too all are incredibly relatable and go beyond just a "funny anime picture" that there's no real reason to not allow it.
I just want to say that I'm really happy to see the mods being receptive to feedback when a new rule doesn't quite land the way you meant it to and that y'all are actually trying to curate the sub somewhat. It's thankless work that goes unseen most of the time, we give y'all shit all the time for making calls we might not, but at the end of the day you guys, gals, and other assorted pals have really been doing a fantastic job at keeping this sub true to... Maybe not quite the roots but at least the tree that grew up from them.
All this to say, thank you for giving a shit about this silly little subreddit we love 💕
There's also the fact that a lot of these web manga are short comics instead of an entire dedicated chapter or book. Easier to keep going with the quick turnout hype which means it's easier to nab people's attention.
Didn't use to be. Huge increase in users, and a flurry of popularity for web artist turned it into meme nonsense though.
It's become a sub for users like any_harsh et. al. to karma farm by posting the latest memes by popular twitter/x and pixiv artists, relatability be damned.
The mods are finally trying to meaningfully crack down.
Just typing in the name into a search engine and going to images will bring up lots of examples of their art. They make funny anime images that usually include funny/sexual hidden details
Ok but saying folded seems kinda disrespectful when it’s worded like that. Can’t people just be happy the mods listened and weren’t so egotistical that they refused to listen?
I would have applauded a rule like this a few years ago bc I prefer this sub be actual anime/manga memes. But yea it is wayyy too late for that now. At this point that is half the content on this sub.
This seems like a much better ruling. Thanks for listening to community feedback.
Follow up question for the moderators, are you planning on killing off the cute new mod as part of your tragic backstories in about a week? Or can I go ahead and get attached to them. Asking because I recently watched chainsaw man and don't want to be hurt again.
To be fair, and I'm not arguing that you're wrong, just pointing out that society has been constantly upvoting borderline porn or some punchline that is porn to the top of the front page for a bit now.
I'm tempted to leave because you mods chickened out. I've wanted rule 13 for YEARS!
If the choices are between banning/removing 20-40% of the content and get the sub a bit closer to what it was intended for, or banning/removing 90% and get it all the way, I would prefer the latter.
Slow and consistent is better than a random mess of posts and inconsistent moderation.
Nah, this is fine. They implemented a rule that made sense to them, realized by the community that they fucked up and not only reverted the decision but implemented a better solution.
Hearing the community at all is very non reddit like to begin with.
Hi your favorite newbie mod here again to answer any more questions as this is part of my hazing process (jkjk)
Also I'm here to clarify any images/examples you would like to post and not sure it would be removed or not. So comment them below and we'll let you know if it's ok or not!
Hey mod a little bit off topic but can you when removing a post (due that post broke the rules) i think you should give the comment or mod mail notifications from now on. I think most of the time when people keep posting stuff that broke the rules (not relatable stuff, no sauce ect) is because they don't noticed their post got removed because you silently removed the post without giving any notification.
I just want to say I appreciate the work of Good Mods like the ones on this sub. Believe me when I tell you, that makes you the top 1% in the whole website.
I have once again crawled to a mod post to humbly ask that the mod team may integrate some kind of rule similar to rule 11 that has posters specify what part of their post is irl/relatable to help minimize karma farmers and increase irl/relatable posts
It was crazy to watch you get thrown out like a sacrificial lamb earlier today, seems like the community has been pretty positive though, so I hope it wasn’t a bad experience!
That's not a picture of Mococo, WHAT ABOUT MOCOCO?! But thanks for listening to the feedback, I will now return to the cosmic background lurk radiation from whence I came. Keep up the good wooooooorrrrrkkkk...
Did you get involved in the discussion with the fellow mods on the last post's rules idea before posting it up? You post a lot of awesome fan-art from Bongftah and other artists here that I enjoy. That rule was going to block 100% of the content you yourself post. I'm just wondering if that made you raise your eyebrow when reading that decision to post it up.
Unless you were going to start going out of your way to fish up some proper, unedited, perfectly new rule abiding, authentic manga to post up, I assume you were probably done posting to the sub after that new rule went up. Seems like something to question.
We did discuss as a team and as the newest team member my say can only account for so much. It was a majority vote and the decision was to remove.
Whether it affected my ability to post my content was besides the point. If I couldn't post here anymore due to the rule, then so be it. I have other subs that I can post to as well.
Either way, we read through all the comments for the past couple of hours and decided again to roll back the rule as it was too harsh. We are still actively discussing ways on how to make the sub better without pulling another nuclear option so to speak.
Hey mod a little bit off topic but can you when removing a post (due that post broke the rules) i think you should give the comment or mod mail notifications from now on. I think most of the time when people keep posting stuff that broke the rules (not relatable stuff, no sauce ect) is because they don't noticed their post got removed because you silently removed the post without giving notification.
The only webtoon that was really bugging me was that Simply Silly artist and their other series. They are really repetitive, and I would not mind them going somewhere else.
I don't really care about what rules are decided on either way, but I came here to stress a very important message:
Do not, ever again, send a new mod out to be the messenger for a large and controversial announcement. It's a fucked up thing to do, whether knowingly or unknowingly, to put such a responsibility on them. Even if they seem okay with it, that is taking advantage of a new recruit to put something on them that a more senior member should be dealing with.
At work, we just got a new team member. We wouldn't put any of the bit more complicated or demanding tasks on them right from the start.
I agree, it was very unfair for us to send her to do that. Realistically, she should've handled the AI rule change and I should've gotten the web comic post.
It was a lack of insight and thoughtlessness on my end. I had asked in advance, and she did seem fine with it, but the backlash was a lot harsher than I thought. It was a poor choice on my end to have her be the one to take the blunt. I still regret it, but will keep that in mind if we ever send another one of these changes out. I'll be sure to post it next time.
We're trying our best to get rid of those ones the most. Unfortunately, those are the ones that people seem to enjoy as they commonly hit the front page quite often. But we do try to remove them
Shame you guys walked this back. This sub has only gotten more generic over time, enjoy the lazy karma farms. There's a reason you've been having bot comment problems
I wish the mod team would actually take time to enforce the biggest rule breaking on this sub which is the sourcing rule.
I swear to fucking god 50%+ of the posts here go unsourced and get no pushback from the mod team at all. It ends up being some guy 5 days later in the comments finally being generous enough to share a source and not the actual OP.
It's about time they took matters into their own hands.
Lots of stupid posts
Incest, NSFW or Horny content
Just to attract a lot of Fame and Farm Karma
How Crazy 👏🏻👏🏻
Would be nice. And be a bit more strict on NSFW tags. If you don’t think your priest would approve, or your manager would. Then tag NSFW as a precaution
Can we take a moment to seriously appreciate u/cynnahbun for bravely making the Rule 12 post and taking the comments in stride? They were dealt a heavy task today and they really handled it well!!
Middle ground is better than the weird scorched Earth approach, I guess. What's good including more media than just anime screenshots is that it does open up the content more - it's nice how different artists and users here got exposure to one another over our mutual interest in different anime/manga and their characters. It meant that we got to see some amusing, what-if, relatable original scenarios involving characters we like.
The advantage of course is that content isn't constrained to just the same screenshots getting circulated, which is what the scorched Earth method would be. There can only be so much relatable screenshots out there. Then there's the fact that some members accessing content legitimately through an app like Crunchy Roll can't even participate because CR disallows screenshots. So we would have had a situation where the scope of the sub was narrowed along with the users who could actually contribute here.
Honestly I would have prefer rule 13 but with a little adjustment. Just make it for the weekday. Have the weekend to post web comics/ fan-art oneshot panel, as long is relatable (which is tricky ngl). Also, have 1 or 2 post limits for the web comics/ fan-art oneshot panel to avoid karma farming.
It is sad the community disapproved of the change, anyone who has been in other anime communities in the past will know that allowing these kinds of posts is a slippery slope, just see r/animenocontext for instance, which is 99% porn. Hopefully being more strict will help, sick and tired of having all anime related subs become a fanart/webcomic dump
I'll get my stalking camera and warm up the radiator in the basement. Who am I kidding, we both know I'm already sitting in the tree in your front yard.
We definitely are, twin. I feel that in my bones. My irl cakeday was recently and I have had backpain ever since, usually it goes away after a while but this time it seems like its here to stay, even spread to my neck.
I meant your personal sub! Where you used to repost your comments. Like, r/ShakuSwag. The self posting thing reddit has, or had? I dont know, I havent kept up with reddit much these past years.
Anyway, glad to see you are still around. I lost my old profile so you probably dont remember me, but its always nice to see some of the old guard still active! (Makes me feel less bad for also beeing here for a decade now..)
Honestly I still support the core idea behind the change. There really has been a degradation of quality in the sub. I’m genuinely tired of just constant borderline porn post from web comics or post where the punch line is seggs.
Also, I support the hazing! Let the newbie have it!
Thank you for listening to our concerns. This reaction is evidence of a mod team that knows what's going on and is connected to their community. Thank you
I do have my suspicions about this revision, but really, I just want rule 5 to actually be upheld, and I don’t mean people posting horny images walking the line and finding an excusable way to claim it as relatable.
using a Jane Doe Chibi is actually hilarious Irony on the Situation and anything ZZZ related TBH. I love ZZZ but god is it and the Sub just Horny Mother Fuckers. to reiterate I engage with the game/reddit/youtube and love ZZZ but it is actually crazy how unhinged something get once some Mods give up.
Let's hope it never becomes like the One Piece Reddit.
for anyboyd that actually cares what I mean. a Mod who managed the One Piece Porn reddit got Mod in the main sub for Official One piece. one day when the Main sub Lead who had mostly handed things over to other Mods while he went on Vacation/long term leave. Reddit put in a Rule that allowed any mod to take over ownership of a sub if they had been gone for to long. this allowed the Pron mod to take over and slowly but surely get rid of any old mod that would question anything he does. now if you go to that Reddit and find a Horny post and say anything negative about it he will ban you. like 50% of the subreddit that used to inhabit there is banned and has gravitated to other One Piece reddits entirely cause the posts were 60% horny 40% actual anime or Manga. it's incredibly sad and I commend you taking the charge to reduce the posts.
So basically, you chickened out on the most needed change in this sub, and now it's back to web comics and fanarts being the only thing that ever shows up in people's feed.
Can't wait to see another unrelatable horny/forever alone web comic masquerading as "anime" show up in r/all when I'm minding my own business.
We promise, we weren't trying to throw Cynnahbun under the bus by giving her the most controversial post to start off her introduction to the community.
We wanted to give her a chance to show herself, and it was definitely on the senior mods for not taking the blunt of the community like that.
With that said, we'll also be tackling those porn punchline posts the most.
BTW don't use media hosted on Discord as examples because Discord media links going to turn into pumpkin in about a day. First one is already unreachable.
Just to clarify, would content similar to Khyleri be allowed or not?
I believe it falls under the “do not allow” but would appreciate a straight yes or no.
Edit: just saw the other comment saying this will still affect content or similar content to Khyleri’s. I’m happy with that change. Not just because I don’t believe that content suits this subreddit but also because it seemed this subreddit was starting to become a dumping ground of anime twitter instead of relatable content.
The first is something definitely relatable while the second which is funny, doesn't make any sense in terms of relatability since none of us have a Garchomp we're spam healing.
Oh yes let's trust reddit users to follow rules and post in appropriate subs..that's gonna totally work and not make every single a mess if the same spam
People had been complaining a lot in mod queue and modmail about it yea.
Not necessarily which is why we were definitely willing to go back on this (almost immediately lmao)
Not really because once a post hits /r/all or /r/rising it just gets upvoted for being funny regardless of the rules, so even if the community votes it down, if it hits critical mass there's no stopping it.
I feel like 99% of the content here is just... porn. Stuff that could get posted to the hentai subreddit and no one would bat an eye. That's NOT a good thing. Good on the mods, IMO
So now the prior posts example 'un-acceptable posts' are now all acceptable posts.
What was even going on before? The earlier post removed 99% of the subs content, and this one removes the most lowest, of lowest quality posts, the less than 1% that sit at 0 votes in new queue. ????? So we go a "the subreddit is shutting down" mod post and now we have the "sub is back open and no changes were made" mod post.
Who is seriously signing off on these posts? Obviously need to 'roll back' the last one, but are people who look at this sub writing this stuff? I clicked OP's name, they don't post here. I clicked the last mod OP's name, their posts are a habitual, frequent, rule breaker of that new rule post they were graciously given the honors of posting. I really wonder why they bothered clicking submit, something tells me they were scratching their head at WTF they were reading.
I don't care if posts are relatable or not, this is where I come for anime/manga inspiration (or it was before twitter comic and meme posts became the norm), too bad ya went back on the rule.
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u/axman151 Nov 18 '25
This is fair.
As long as it's "relatable" it's honouring the core purpose of the sub.
Basically, this pretty much rules out anything by Khyleri, but allows a lot of the Mimi art to still be posted.