I literally couldn’t agree more, and have been saying the exact same thing this entire fucking time

My friend, I am right there with you. Personally, I don’t see the appeal.

No, it really doesn’t. This discussion hinges on whether they’re right to moderate their own subreddit based on the rules they set down, and guess what, THEY DO.

“An unhappy userbase is a userbase that can just as easily leave for another community where they don’t have to deal with mods who fit their standards, and a community without users (or without as many users as it used to have before “mod problems”) is a dead community where the mods are basically Ozymandias asking…

Quite the opposite. I was feeling the Bern back in the day and now I’m firmly on the Hillary train.

Dude, there is WAY worse stuff than that on reddit. The owners of the actual site only shut down the child porn stuff because it was illegal, not because it was morally wrong. There’s a reason 4chan exists

A. Their definition of anime is wrong according to you, and vice versa.

Yep!

Yeah, and that’s specific to YOU personally. You don’t like it, start your own subreddit!

I don’t understand what your point is. The rules don’t say “ONLY Japanese release,” nor do they say “ONLY Japanese audience.”If something is intended for a Japanese audience, that doesn’t preclude them releasing it internationally, even simultaneously.

Nope. If a potential subreddit title is just sitting around (like, say, “Atlanta”) and I take it, I get to make the rules about it. Reddit isn’t a democracy.

Been saying this for YEARS, and the only reason I can think of that would make this plan worse overall is that it would indirectly allow customers to overpack, making it rougher on cargo space and on fuel costs from carrying extra weight. Those costs would definitely be passed on.

Fstop4 put it better than I ever could have

Fucking thank you. I’m trying to be civil to a lot of the responses, but turds like the above make it really tough.

Nope, you’re grossly misreading everything I said. They have every right to CRITICIZE the sub, but if the mod wants to dismiss their comment, they have the right to do so.

You know they’re different authors, and they’ll have different opinions, right?

So, the hypocrisy of their enforcement is another post entirely. But that doesn’t change that it’s THEIR subreddit, and they can moderate it how THEY want.

You’re not wrong! And nothing is stopping you from creating a new subreddit that’s more inclusive and allows for a broader definition of anime. You can debate about what anime actually constitutes, but considering they state outright what THEIR definition is, and what THEIR subreddit will discuss, they have the right…

Not true. By this logic, all of the media you just cited wouldn’t be discussed in the subreddit.

Last time I checked, Japan was located on Earth. International releases don’t preclude being culturally Japanese; the next Persona is unabashedly culturally Japanese, but is receiving a worldwide release.