This is awful, I had a lot of laughs reading crunchy comments. In a way it was one of the biggest anime communities. Maybe we can start a lemmy for them.
That would make sense, but I never saw hate speech in crunchy comments, but I only read the first page so I am sure the more controversial posts were further down. Oh well, can’t afford mods…
Are the comments really that important? The only time I ever went in them was recently to report the trolls wishing people HIV in the twilight out of focus comments
So weird, I'm old, but I still remember when Crunchyroll was part of the High Seas. It still throws me for a loop every once in awhile that it's become a legitimate streaming service.
I'm sure they did this to avoid criticism and to also stop users from telling others about "unofficial" watching sites in the comments ("harmful" content)
If you don’t want to moderate shit, why implement it in the first place? Like anime fans are known for being universally civil on the internet. What were they thinking?
Most of the comments I saw on the site edit: ... whoops grazed the button to submit the comment.
Anyway, they were typically civil. The most uncivil things I saw were in the reviews where people would be complaining about people giving a show 1 star in other reviews.
Honestly, I think this is fine. In my experience the episode comments on Crunchyroll were 50% simple reactions, 25% irrelevant memes, and 25% spoilers of future events. Other platforms like Lemmy and MAL are better suited for discussion.
The presence comments did add a sense of community though, and now the episode pages feel a bit lonely.
This is like your favorite bar removing all seating and converting itself into a vending machine with “NO LOITERING” signs plastered everywhere.
Edit: I cancelled my 7.99 USD/month subscription. It's not a big signal, but it's the only one I have that matters to SONY, the near-monopoly that owns the concern. Half the enjoyment I got was in seeing the immediate reactions of others to an episode. Now, without comments or reviews, I can't even pretend that I'm not watching these shows alone. What's the point of enjoying a show if you can't talk about it with others?
It keeps surprising me how the people managing all these streaming services fail to understand the basic fact that their business model is "Be slightly better than piracy"