The Quality Epidemic

I'm sure as of late, most of you have noticed the recent obsession with quality among members when posting. I'm not saying quality is a bad thing, but it's becoming very close to that. We had a problem with mana farming

which we wanted to fix, so we started pushing for quality posts. Mods were even deleting "low-effort" posts. The definition of "quality" seemed to be some whole ass paragraph or formatted essay that genuinely no one was gonna sit back and read. If these are the kinds of posts we are encouraging and even forcing down the communities throat, nobody is going to post because that ••• takes too much effort. We cant have some low effort questions or takes that still get interaction and engagement? •••. It's no wonder people started using ai for their posts, because this went from fun, casual engagement to practically an English assignment. All in the name of stopping the mana farming issue. Sure mana farming is a far smaller problem now, but look at how many of us use clankers to make their posts on a community tab on an anime piracy site. Spamming the block of text about low effort posts in any post you subjectively perceive as low effort is discouraging and so is deleting posts. I even remember when happy birthday posts were getting nuked, like what??? Even anime reviews and recommendations that weren't coupled with a paragraph were getting flamed. We like reviews and recommendations. This whole obsession with quality has done far more harm than help for the community and I would even argue it was the finishing blow that killed it in the first place. We are very lucky to have active members who are dedicated to keeping the community alive and we are very lucky cult wars has has the reviving effect on the community that it has. We can't be selling this like how Rudeus was planning to sell Aqua Heartia to get money in the demon continent now can we??

What do you think? Drop your thoughts in the comments. I know this is moderately controversial
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