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drama VS slice of life

But would you agree that Sand Chronicles is a SoL manga?

When debt drives her parents to divorce, Ann Uekusa moves abruptly from Tokyo to her mother's hometown in the rural province of Shimane. Although Ann is able to make friends with the locals her age, most notably Daigo, whom she eventually starts to date, and the Tsukishima siblings Fuji and Shika, her mother soon falls into despair and commits suicide. Then, in her last year of middle school, Ann's father shows up in Shimane, eager to bring her back to Tokyo. Though reluctant at first to leave a place she has grown to love, Ann decides it's worth it to go to high school in the city. Unfortunately, that means a long distance relationship with Daigo and only Fuji around to console her…

I don't agree with that generalization at all! Yes some slice of life manga/anime are boring plotless and mundane but those are the one that don't last! Tke for example Sand Chronicles! It is a slice of life manga but is not boring or plotless. I think slice of life should be classified as a manga or anime whos events and plots could happen in a normal (non overly dramatic) setting. As in in Real Life!

Arguing with posters one by one is pointless. The audits give power to the majority and the majority of people auditing views slice of life as this bizarre logic of "it could happen in real life". The results of the current genre search are pretty much a joke to me. I only use the production year part of that search. Looking back at the NEW GENRES thread, it seems too much time was spent with the definitions. In theory, everything is fine. In practice, it doesn't work. The problem is that most of the people auditing don't use those definitions. Even if they are explicitly displayed on top of the genre selection. The majority goes by their own interpretation of the genres/themes.

The questions that should be asked are:
Is there a way to alter the audits so that Dan42's definitions become the norm?
Should the audits be altered even though they are probably serving the majority's needs?

I just did a little rewrite of the drama & slice of life definitions. Previously drama ended with "Highly emotional themes, interpersonal conflicts and tension are the norm" and slice of life ended with "the kind of ordinary, every-day life that anyone could have within that setting."

That might have misled some people into thinking that slice of life was characterized by realism and drama characterized by melodrama. I've changed the definitions to make it clearer that drama doesn't have to be that highly emotional, and I tried to emphasize that slice of life is about commonplace stories rather than realistic "it could happen" stories.

I'm also thinking about adding melodrama, so that we'd have a continuum of dramatic-ness: slice of life -> drama -> melodrama.

Thought?