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Anime is hand-drawn and computer animation originating from Japan.

Anime; the one thing that gets us closer to each other and brings us together.

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Poll Link: https://strawpoll.ai/poll/vote/thKiWOAMaJfQ

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Hello! I am the maintainer of @[email protected]. Shinobu is the [email protected] community bot responsible for posting episode discussion threads whenever new anime episodes air (example).

The goal of the above survey is to begin the process of establishing a community consensus for how Shinobu should be updated in order to best fit the needs of our community. The content of the survey is based upon the comments and suggestions fielded from this recent discussion on the topic.

Please note that the survey is planned to run until October 16th @ 12:00PM EDT. My goal is to honor the results of the poll however they may turn out, granted that the aforementioned results are accepted as reasonable and legitimate by the community at large.

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[–] Abbrahan 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The main thing I've been seeing is that since it just picks up every airing series, it can create spam of the same series which is releasing multiple episodes at once. As well as posting discussion threads which routinely get 0 votes and 0 comments on them even after days from being posted due to being an extremely niche show.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This will be a good thing to watch out for with the upcoming Apothecary Diaries. To make sure it only creates 1 post for the 3 episodes that will air together, instead of 3 separate ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think at least some people do not watch every episode that is released ASAP, so having multiple threads for multiple episodes that are released at once is useful for not spoiling the latter episodes, so that's not spamming IMO.

That said, even on Reddit where there were more users, those multiple-episode-at-once (or whole series-at-once like netflix) animes tends to get lower discussion participation, especially the episodes in the middle so I understand where you are coming from.

[–] Abbrahan 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The main issue I was seeing on Lemmy with Shinobu is due to the low popularity shows. We already have a much lower active user count than Reddit does, so a lot of automated discussion threads here get completely ignored. So this just creates a lot of clutter in the feed with posts on 0 votes and 0 comments.