Over the past couple days you may have noticed that our friendly @[email protected] had not been posting episode discussion threads. The reasons for this can be traced back to a breaking api change on an external website (see here, here, and here for more info). Well, thanks to the work of @[email protected] , our friendly neighborhood Shinobu is back (sans polls).

However, I thought this might be a good opportunity to gauge the community’s feelings about automated episode discussion posts. The fact of the matter is that our community at [email protected] is not as big or active as the anime subreddit that the bot was designed for. Most of Shinobu’s episode discussion threads spend their whole lives without ever receiving a single comment.

It makes me wonder if, because of the smaller size of our community, should Shinobu not make posts for shows that the people here aren’t really watching/commenting on? Perhaps Shinobu is limited to only posting threads for shows in which the threads have been active? At the moment, there is no automated way of enabling/disabling shows in this way, but it could likely be done manually with some sqlite database tinkering (I say as somebody not running/maintaining the bot).

I am not a mod or the maintainer of the bot, simply an interested party wanting to get others opinions that are active in this community.

  • ReluctantZen@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Not to come across too stubborn or unwilling, but yeah, that solution doesn’t seem great either. Honestly, I like it less than your original suggestion. 2 communities just for anime? That seems like a good way to splinter the community that’s already small and way too convoluted for newcomers. I wouldn’t want to watch 2 spaces for anime.

    Honestly, keeping it the way it is would be better. It’s only really an issue if the bot, API or whatever has an outage or bug.