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Update to Official Rules and Guidelines for /r/TrueAnime

The rules on our sidebar have been updated based off some community feedback. First, I'm going to go through the changes, and then below that I'll present the full-version of the rules. This thread will be linked from the sidebar so if you want to reference this post, just click the hyperlink "Detailed Explanation of Rules" in the sidebar. The sidebar will have an abbreviated version of the rules, but consider this thread to be the official document for any sort of rule disputes, questions, etc.

Changes:

  • We are now opening up to allow discussions of adjacent media. All manga is fair game, and non-japanese animation that stylistically imitates anime is fair game. As far as video games, visual novels, light novels, etc. are concerned, discussion of them will be allowed only if they relate to a (Japanese) anime title, either existing or confirmed to be in production. (This means that we're also ditching the weekly Tuesday thread.)

  • No links to illegal downloads or streams.

  • This is not a place to shill your blog or youtube channel. No more transcripts, no more half-assed summaries of content you posted elsewhere with the intention of getting people to click the link to find out more. You can still link to your blog, you can talk about what you said in the blog, but this should not be the focus of your posts.

  • Removed "don't ask for upvotes" rule, since that hasn't really been an issue at all.

Detailed Rules:

  1. Submissions must be related to anime, manga, adjacent media, or this subreddit. For this rule, we're defining anime as "Japanese animation" and manga as "Japanese comics". Adjacent media includes anything with an anime adaptation that either exists or is currently in production. Adjacent also includes any animation that stylistically imitates anime such as Avatar The Last Airbender.

  2. No links to illegal downloads or streams. As an exception, public YouTube links are allowed. We make this exception because YouTube is a mainstream host with strong copyright enforcement. If you would like to post something from a different streaming site that you feel has those two qualities, you can PM the moderators. Also, this rule only applies to links, so discussions about fansubs, even about where to find them, are perfectly acceptable.

  3. No unmarked spoilers. No unmarked spoilers, unless clearly indicated by the submission. In other words, if the submission title or text announces that there will be spoilers, then you don't need tags. Instructions for how to apply spoiler tags can be found below or in the sidebar.

  4. Titles need be specific and descriptive. If it's about a specific anime, the name of the anime must be in the title. If it's about a media franchise, then you must name the franchise. If it's about a topic such as moe, then it must include moe in the title.

  5. No generic recommendation threads. Yes, this is a subjective rule, and as such we won't issue any bans to people who repeatedly break this rule. We'll simply take down the thread and send you a message explaining our decision. We'll detail this more in the guidelines section below.

  6. No personal attacks. Once again, this one is somewhat subjective. See the guidelines below.

  7. No submissions centered around external secondary content. This ties in with rule #1. The submission can not be about your blog or anybody else's blog, it can not be about a youtube video from an anime critic, etc. If you made a blog or video about the same topic, you can link to it in your submission, but nobody should have to click any link to find out more, or get the "better version" of your post. DO NOT SHILL YOUR OWN EXTERNAL CONTENT.

Ban Policy:

We moderators reserve the right to ban anyone for any reason, including but not limited to violation of the rules. However, no bans will be issued without a prior warning, and the first ban will be lifted upon request after a week.

Detailed Guidelines:

(on sidebar)

  1. No downvotes. Either it's against the rules, or it's welcome here. If it's against the rules, please hit the report button. If it's a controversial opinion that you disagree with, we actually encourage you to upvote it.

  2. Discussions aren't debates; sometimes people just want to share their thoughts rather than win an argument.

  3. This is a slow-moving subreddit, if you post something in a days-old thread plenty of people will still read it.

(not on sidebar, just posted here for reference)

  1. There is already a subreddit for anime suggestions, r/AnimeSuggest/. Almost all recommendation threads should be posted there. The only reason to post a recommendation thread here is if you believe our community will give you better recommendations for whatever reason, or if you've already tried there and didn't get satisfactory recommendations. "Generic" means it's either non-specific or the sort of thing that's been asked many times before. So "I just finished Clannad, what next?" is generic, but "I'm looking for historical anime set in the warring states period" is not.

  2. Personal attacks are anything that replaces a substantive argument with ad hominem, insults, or name calling. Harsh criticism, while discouraged, does not count as a personal attack. Tone and context will be considered when we moderate on this rule, because we're not trying to sap all the fun out of this subreddit and make everyone walk on eggshells. Mostly we'll just give out warnings, but repeated patterns of abuse, especially comment stalking, might be worthy of a ban.

  3. We encourage being descriptive about spoilers. For example, is it a major or a minor spoiler? Some people are fine with minor spoilers, but they won't read the spoiler if they don't know. Or if it's just spoiling something in the manga but not the anime, some people are fine with that too.

How to:

Apply spoiler tags:

Modern: >!spoiler tags!< becomes >!Spoiler tags!<

Classic: [Spoiler Title](/s "plot twist") becomes Spoiler Title

We encourage the modern version because it doesn't rely on CSS. However, the classic version exists so that's one risk of turning the CSS off.

Add MAL/AP/Hummingbird flair:

Just hit 'edit' next to your name in the sidebar where it says "Show my flair on this reddit."

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This is what you type:

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And this is what you get:

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  • You can enter in multiple bodies of text. This is the first body of text.
  • This is the second body of text.
  • And this is the third.

Posted May 2, 2021, 12:22 AM UTC · edited

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