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lmm comments on May 2014 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: ArisKatsaris 01 May 2014 09:49PM

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Comment author: lmm 05 May 2014 05:33:44PM 2 points [-]

I think this may have come up before but couldn't see it in the archives: I'd like to see a separation of animation from the general Television and Movies thread.

  • I think there's a divide between people who watch animation and people who don't (whereas most people who watch tv watch movies and vice versa). I've met several people who I would place in the LW cluster but who "don't watch anime", and I don't generally watch non-anime tv/movies.
  • People are opening their comments by stating that something is animated, or dividing lists of recommendations between animated and non-animated, which suggests we consider this information important. Doing it in individual posts is less efficient than dividing by thread.
  • Categorizing animation as a distinct medium aligns better with the rest of the web (e.g. TV Tropes). For newcomers it may not be obvious that the tv/movies thread is the appropriate place for animation - ISTR a few months ago a newcomer creating an "anime thread" for this reason.
Comment author: ArisKatsaris 08 May 2014 01:25:08AM *  1 point [-]

Sorry for the delay to respond -- busy in real life...

I like the suggestion of splitting Animation into its own subthread. So if nobody has an objection, I'll be implementing this from next month -- if anyone objects, I'll set up a poll to gauge support for the move.