Thank You!

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I want to start off saying THANK YOU, to everyone, in the past month this sub has grown massively, and we have just reached 300k weekly visitors, something I couldn't even imagine happening before. As the sub grows, we want to ensure that everything is going accordingly with the increased number of activity, I come today to announce a few things and changes that should be important to know, so bear with me.

Repetitive Posts

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A lot of people have been mindlessly posting and asking for sites and apps, but none of them ever bother searching the previous posts to see if their question has been answered before, and it is annoying some users here. From now on, next to the subreddit name, you will see a little icon, clicking it will show you some links that might prove helpful for your needs, so please, unless you have a specific situation or requirement for what you want, stop asking for sites or apps without even getting informed.

Spammers

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It has come to our attention that there has been a few spammers in the comments who are constantly attempting to promote their sites, some of these people have also been doing this on multiple other subreddits, which breaks rule 2 of Reddit's Content Policy, Spam.

From their official site: "Spammers compromise everyone's use of Reddit by artificially inflating exposure to unwanted or irrelevant content." With the one of the things that violates this policy being "Mass-posting repetitive content for the purpose of exposure or financial gain." Simply speaking, anyone caught spamming their sites will recieve a warning then a ban, I would also like to tell you that you're not invisible, Reddit knows when you're doing this and there will be consequences to your account.

To prevent these people as well as bots from spamming unsolicited sites, it's why from now on posts older than 6 months will be archived, because they're impossible to moderate.

STOP SHARING SITE LINKS!!

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Like, seriously, this has been said enough times now, don't share links to anime sites in posts or comments, you were warned in the rules, you were warned in a pinned post and you were warned WHILE COMMENTING, this is not because of lack of awareness. We get multiple comments like these removed daily because no one actually follows this rule, most of them aren't even removed by us, it's Reddit itself! And I'm gonna tell you, that's asking to get in trouble, having your comments removed by the Reddit admins and accumulating those removals will put your account in a bad standing, you're the only one losing here. Oh and don't even bother trying to bypass that with putting (dot) or separating the link, Reddit will know.

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Developers and Promotions

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We have slightly revamped how promotions work on the sub, now developers can freely make posts in regards to development of their apps as long as it's not spammy with the dedicated "Developer Post" flair, anyone who's not a verified developer can not use this post flair (but you will be able to browse previous dev posts on the sub).

The process is still the same, you reach out to mod mail and talk about your app, send the link to it and a proof that it has no malware, once everything is checked out you will be assigned the Dev flair and be able to post it. If you want to post future major updates on your app, please talk with moderation again before doing that.

If you're the developer of a known app, or has posted an approved promotion here in the past, please contact the mod team through the mod mail to recieve this flair as well (you may or may not choose to specify in the flair what you're the developer of).

By the way, we're aware of people trying to promote their sites by pretending to not be the developer and only making a recommendation on it, like "Look guys I found this underrated site" which is a laughable attempt at best, and an easy way to get a ban if you try to fool us more than once.

This should be all for now, just like I previously said, we would notify you guys if there were any updates worth mentioning, and I will finish this post keeping up that same promise, cheers!

- A thank you from the r/animeapp mod team

Refrain from sharing links to anime streaming websites in comments or posts, it's a guarantee that 99% of the times it will be removed by Reddit itself. Sometimes this triggers even if you only mention the name of the website, though I don't know specifically why and which names it removes.

If you're trying to share a link and your comment is not passing through, there's also the chance it's a banned domain in Reddit, so sending that won't be possible.

Worst cases I've seen people even be banned from Reddit, so please, be careful, you're risking your account too.