Poll Link: https://strawpoll.ai/poll/vote/thKiWOAMaJfQ
Background
Hello! I am the maintainer of @shinobu@ani.social. Shinobu is the !anime@lemmy.ml 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.
As always, thanks for being a member of the community and doing your part to make it special! ❤️
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.
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.
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.
How about a way to request the bot to create a post if it stopped (e.g. due to no one participating in previous episodes)? It would both lower the barrier of entry for people who want to talk about an episode and keep the post format consistent.
I’ll refrain from talking specifics until the poll closes since the ideal solution is going to vary a fair amount depending upon the exact curation methodology, but I basically agree with what you’re saying here.
There will definitely be some feature for this, though – depending on the goal order established in the survey – it is possible that the feature won’t be ready at day one. For what it’s worth, I will be sharing a proposed roadmap with the community long before anything gets written in stone. Goal #1 is ensuring that the entire pipeline is as fully aligned as possible with what the community finds valuable.
Slightly off-topic, but I think ani.social is not properly getting federated with kbin.social.
I can’t see any episode discussion posts posted by shinobu on anime@lemmy.ml .
Hey RealM, as @wjs018@lemmy.ml has already suggested, this is a kbin quirk. It’s documented on the kbin Codeberg bug tracker as #350. The kbin maintainers have not yet commented on whether this is intended behavior or a bug, but it does not appear as if anything will be done about the problem in the near future.
The only course of action that I could possibly take to work around the issue is to remove the bot flag from @shinobu@ani.social. Unfortunately, doing this would violate the right of Lemmy users to opt out of seeing bot activity – not to mention also violate the ToS of numerous instances (including ani.social)
I don’t watch currently airing seasons. I wait for a season to complete before watching them.
I have two concerns for a general anime community:
- I don’t want to be spoiled - which is not always obviously evadeable on clips, images, and memes
- I’m not interested in first-airing episode discussion threads - the number of episodes airing means other anime general discussion and content gets driven out/back
(I don’t think I’ve seen that many episode discussion threads in my feed though(?).)
i believe once more people gets active the better it becomes for everyone.
