There has been a fair bit of chatter over the past few days about the huge reduction in bitrate of Crunchyroll's streams. I noticed today while at work (I don't hotpocket there) that a thread about this was left up, which predictably descended into an utter hurricane of shitposting/evaders/spam. This went on for hours, during which someone came and removed the spam/evaders, but not the thread, which proceeded to get probably (counting deleted posts) >800-900 posts by the time it expired, almost none of that being productive dialogue. If anyone spots an utter garbage fire of a thread like that, can we agree to please not be shy about getting rid of it? Leaving them festering for hours I feel damages the board, and doubtless to me hurts peoples' trust in us and our capacity/willingness to help.

I want to be on the same page with everyone, that talking about the internal matters of board-relevant websites, outside of directly-board-relevant content is in fact cross-site meta hence by nature off-topic. Talking about CR (Crunchyroll) / MAL (MyAnimeList) on /a/ is hence in the same vein as for example, /v/ gossiping about whatever is going on on NeoGAF while not at all talking about games. I understand that this event does impact a lot of sources that /a/ uses to get its shows, but rationally it is still off topic and naturally off-topic threads can incite needless furor much more easily than topical ones.

I've observed many times, in the bans list page, threads about MAL/CR (even occasional pub bans), so it seems clear enough that most of us are consensus on this already. I just want to emphasize it due to current events what counts/should be recognized as cross-site off-topic. While I'm at it, it seems we also agree that ANN (Anime News Network) OPs are topical, if they contain as implied, actual news about anime/manga (for example announcement of a new series). Discussion of forums/people there etc is still off-topic.