Episode Discussion Post Guide - Make Technology Work For You!

With the start of the new season and the growth of this community, I thought it worthwhile to create a guide for how episode discussion posts work. The short version is as follows:

All episode discussion posts must be created by the community bot, @rikka@ani.social.
To request a post be made for a recently aired episode, you can private message the bot following these instructions.
To browse older shows' discussion threads, you can check out the wiki where they are all indexed.

Now, if you are curious, I have tried to answer questions about the bot and episode post process I have gotten in the past as well as areas that I thought might be either interesting or provide more clarity to users.

Thanks everybody and I hope you have fun discussing this coming season of shows!

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I plan on letting this post stay pinned for at least a couple days as the season gets going. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me here. I do just want to draw people's attention to the flow chart I made for this post as it took me way longer to make than I thought it would.
- Wow, someone who actually follows conventions for flowcharts: ellipsoids for terminal nodes, diamonds for decision nodes and boxes for other intermediate nodes.
  
  I often have to make figures that end up in regulatory filings submitted to the FDA and EMA for work. So, I am a big fan of sticking to conventions when it comes to these kinds of things. Straying often just means that the agencies ask questions that get you the wrong kind of noticed by everybody else on the team.
- How does one know if a show has been manually enabled?
  
  I manually enable any shows that people mention wanting to check out in the general discussion thread previewing the upcoming season. Fall's thread can be found here.
  You can always check to see if the bot has a show enabled on this wiki page (in the top section of enabled shows), which is automatically kept up to date. If you would like a show to be marked enabled that has yet to have an episode air, then you can always reach out to me as well.

Thanks for the explanation! Does this apply only to anime or does it also apply to manga?
- This is just for anime. The !manga@ani.social community is entirely user-created posts.

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