Comments dont make money, moderation costs money. So pull it and make the site more like the other streaming services out there, make some PR word salad to justify it. Not surprising really. Of course maybe it really was a Salty Spitoon in the comments section. Either way, not exactly the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
QA doesn’t make money. They’re paying me anyhow.
QA prevents them from losing money. Same with IT.
Comments sections prevent them from losing users who like that. Users are money.
Cost of moderation likely higher then lost profits from users who were only being kept on by comment section.
That’s the bet they’re making.
It’s a fairly good bet considering the overwhelming majority of streaming services.
You mean the ones that are all failing right now for being fractured and having no appeal beyond whatever the latest binge is?
I’ve just cancelled my Crunchyroll sub, not only because of the user content deletion but because they lock many translations and animes out of Spain and the quality of some subs are shit generated with AI. My new streaming service is nyaa.
Omfg the comment section lovers are literally a vocal minority, this is kinda silly to see play out.
another episode of this phenomenon https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/
No thoughtcrime, only consume.
This saddens me. The comments of the animes I watched usually had some interesting trivia or background information that I had missed.
Super useful for something like Overlord, where scenes with background information were cut and there’d be someone saying what else you’d know by this point in the manga, or if you’d forgotten something since watching a previous season and needed a reminder.
you can still use MAL with malsync browser extension and then you can get decent reviews you need
“Protecting our community," by destroying it. If you don’t have a community, then it can’t be toxic. Were the comments so bad that this was the only solution?
have you seen literally any comments section lately?
Most comment sections under crunchyroll episodes are super wholesome and cheerful, people are mostly celebrating how good the episode was and how cool the next ones will be.
I meant besides crunchyroll… but are you trying to imply that they shouldn’t have done this or that their harmful content is not a problem that should be dealt with?
Most streaming services don’t do comment sections. That’s mostly a YouTube and TikTok thing where the sites depend on user submitted content and also function as a social network. Despite this, people talk about shows on those services, just elsewhere.
Most streaming services don’t have a ‘community’.
You’re a netflix customer, not a part of a community. There is no Netflix or Amazon, etc community.
YouTube has a community though.
See how that works?
What, you can’t have war if there are no people?
There is no
war inBa Sing Se.
I’m guessing that if it’s all cartoons, it’s mostly kids that watch it? The comments sections must be horrendous
your guess would be wrong
Not about the comment sections.
Or the cartoons, it would seem
Anime audiences in English areas skew older, late teens early adults, or later still. Still a fair amount of the younger bunch though. Conventions are almost exclusively adults though.
They’re horrendous but because of fascist adults
Crunchyroll has a comment section? I had seem ratings but never looked at the comments
The amount of people bootlicking a corporation’s decision to cut costs rather than just moderate effectively is pretty astonishing for Lemmy,
Plenty of people got value out of the comment section - if nothing else, they were invaluable in knowing when to skip past the recap/opening theme/filler content in long-running shows like One Piece.
Most of it is pretty inane, but there was some useful stuff in there, and I always found it fun to see what other people thought of particularly crazy episodes.
Find another place to post and stop crying. 🤷
And nothing of value was lost.
It would be nice if those comments were moderated, but mostly what I saw in crunchy roll comments was straight up fascist propaganda. I’m in a place where I’m like… Not everything needs a comment section. I can take the criticism this makes me a crunchy roll bootlicker. I’ll take that L, but know this: we should all be pirating stuff all the time given how the big corporations treat our art and creations
Harmful to Sony’s bottom line.
“I want to read comment sections on anime episodes, I must know what anime fans have to say” - statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
There have been several shows that I’ve watched on CR that have been made a lot better by being able to read the comments section. Either because it’s One Piece and there’s always one guy giving you the timestamp to skip the recap or because the series I’m watching is actually pretty bad and a bunch of people are making jokes at the shows expense.
It’s been rare that I’ve seen someone on CR be overly negative or toxic without getting shutdown fast. It’s usually pretty wholesome and fun.
Just another reason to sail the seas.
the high seas have a comment section?
Yeah, lots of illegal anime streaming sites have MAL list import, comment sections, forums, etc.
if (postTitle.contains(anyStreamingService)) postPiracyPropaganda();
i mean if you go to crunchyroll just for the comment section and not to actually watch movies… sure?
Why can’t I do both.
RIP. Aniwave and Disqus anyone?
nyaa has a comment section.
Better quality video too.
It’s better than aniwave? How do I go about googling such a common term and finding this?
They’re probably referring to nyaa si which normally has either decent webrips, Bluray rips once the show is released physically, and at times with list 3840p shows.
Comments section is kind of more to do with the specific torrent though.
