If an anime is easier to watch, does that mean it's better?

Higashi_no_Kaze said:


Your mistake lies with expecting any kind of logic, coherent moderation in here. It's kinda random which threads get closed and when so you'll never find any sort of satisfying explanation. The rules are still to be interpreted case by case after all and if I wanted I could argue that basically none of the threads encourage discussion. But I don't see that as a problem, since you generally can't encourage discussion in people who aren't already interested in a discussion. People either enter a thread to shitpost, or to earnestly post their thoughts about the matter. But that's another matter. My point is that I could also argue that basically any thread can harbor an interesting discussion. In the end it depends on how you approach the topic.

I also don't think that what you describes is the limit of what can be a discussion. Nobody every changes their mind, or only rarely. I'm already happy when I understand the other person and vice versa. Discussions are a form of communication for me, not a way of being a missionary.
And I'm still not sure what kind of AD topics that are completely unrelated to an individuals personal feelings you could come up with. Can you give examples? Personally I think I can relate most topics I can think of back to some sort of individual experience/subjectivity, but then again I don't think it's a problem for a healthy discussion so maybe some examples will make me understand better what you mean.


Now let's take a look at what kind of interesting directions the discussion could go to in this thread, depending on what you take from the OP:

1. Not caring about what is easy to watch for an individual, but simply asking if the shows you find easier to watch are shows you'd call better/more enjoyable than others because of that reason? Why? I'm sure there are divergent viewpoint on this and you don't even need to talk about which shows one considers easy to watch or not.
2. Trying to find a consensus on what makes an anime easier to watch. Maybe there's a pattern in what different people consider easy to watch, and if there is what aspects of those shows make them easy to watch? This way even if people find contradicting shows easy to watch it's not a problem since the goal was to elaborate on the common elements and not what makes them different. Finding patterns in the sea of subjectivity that is humanity, is one of the most fun reasons for discussions.
3. Why does things always have to be 'better' than other things? Can't they just both be good and enjoyable, but different from each other while resisting the human urge to classify and rank everything? Aren't categories like good/bad/better/worse completely meaningless since they are simply constructs of the human mind, meant to simplify and diverge from reality? Try changing people's minds on concepts like these if you're looking for a challenge and can't discuss without aiming to change someone's opinion. It's definitely relevant to the topic since it makes use of these categories.

The bottom line is that I honestly think thread title/topic has about 5% influence on the content of the post as long as it's not a blatant listing thread or simple spam while 95% is the attitude of each individual user so I find the concept of judging a thread by how much the OP 'encourages discussion' very outdated and often unfair (cutting interesting and intense debates short just because they happened to develop in a listing thread is not a rarity). I think people who can't think interesting thoughts without clear guidance from a 'legit' thread title probably don't have that much to contribute anyway.