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This week's poll is from AlexiaLee. Everyone should be able to vote!

You can submit poll ideas here (and try to keep them manga/anime-related)
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results:
Question: Preferred publication frequency (per chapter)
Choices:
Weekly - votes: 3627 (51%)
Biweekly - votes: 743 (10.5%)
Monthly - votes: 639 (9%)
Bimonthly - votes: 75 (1.1%)
Quarterly - votes: 10 (0.1%)
A volume at a time - votes: 508 (7.1%)
The entire series in one go - votes: 1505 (21.2%)
There were 7107 total votes.
The poll ended: February 20th 2016

From a marketing perspective, the most popular option kinda sucks... Can't build that hype!
Posted by lambchopsil on 
February 19th 11:20pm
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» pister007 on February 19th, 2016, 11:31pm

The popular option in previous poll "Preferred publication frequency" is "Weekly" with 51%. How did u miss that? eek

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» lambchopsil on February 20th, 2016, 12:40am

I have no clue how I misread that... Well, I've corrected it!

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» ichigo_daisuki on February 20th, 2016, 12:46am

I'm not surprised 'Weekly' was the most popular option for last week. People want their manga as soon as is possible!

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» SilverStorm on February 20th, 2016, 2:20am

Underemployed.

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» Trimutius on February 20th, 2016, 4:40am

Well I am a full-time software developer. (Or as my official title goes "C++ engineer", though I do not only c++, but bash, node js and perl too (and know some other languages, but I haven't used those at work)

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» zarlan on February 20th, 2016, 4:42am

What about "unable to work"?

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» Karonhioktha on February 20th, 2016, 2:14pm

Quote from zarlan
What about "unable to work"?

This is my situation as well. Trust me, I want to work or go back to school, but my health thinks otherwise.
And I just finished university to became a RN. How unlucky.

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» KaoriNite on February 20th, 2016, 8:20pm

Quote from Karonhioktha
This is my situation as well. Trust me, I want to work or go back to school, but my health thinks otherwise.
And I just finished university to became a RN. How unlucky.


I think this would fall under "unemployed and not looking for work". There are various reasons for being unemployed, like health issues, having to take care of a family member, being a homemaker, etc.

I'm currently employed full-time, but in a couple of months I'll be a student at a language school and (hopefully) working part-time.

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» zarlan on February 21st, 2016, 7:50am

Quote from KaoriNite
I think this would fall under "unemployed and not looking for work".

"unemployed and not looking for work" rather implies a certain type of situation
...and it's most certainly not a situation of "would love to study/work, but sadly cannot", "home maker" or "having to take care of someone".

I'm not going to vote for an option, that gives a completely different impression of my situation, compared to what it really is.
It may, technically, be correct, but it's completely misleading.

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» Karonhioktha on February 21st, 2016, 11:45am

Quote from zarlan
I'm not going to vote for an option, that gives a completely different impression of my situation, compared to what it really is.
It may, technically, be correct, but it's completely misleading.


I agree.
The wording "unemployed and not looking for work" implies that I don't want to work and not actively looking for employment opportunities.
I want to work and I'm actually looking at jobs for the future. I just can't work yet; I had major surgery recently and I've been told to avoid work for 6+ months to heal.

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» CuthienSilmeriel on February 20th, 2016, 5:46am

I'm a full time post grad student and part time private English teacher.

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» residentgrigo on February 20th, 2016, 6:05am

13 manga managed to sell above 100 mil. volumes and at least 9 of those ran weekly for the whole duration, so none should be surprised by the outcome. Especially if you consider that the majority should have been leechers only. I could now bitch about the conditions inside the manga industry (the anime slaves have it even worse) but what would it change?
Bi-weekly was my runner up and DC announced this week to double down on that publication form to regain market share. US comics read differently due to the denser writing and the usually higher production values, if we forget the glut of fill in art in recent years, so i can´t see it being sustainable for titles as Cyborg. I didn´t even care to keep up with Vic after 2 decent monthly issues and let´s not even think about the money. Manga on the other hand are (usually) dirt cheap in Japan or even Germany but not in the US. Eh.

The interest in a Netflix model is also shared by me but digital publication is the way to go here and the creators and publishers would forgo a steady revenue source during the creation process. A risky gamble but the printed Habibi was in development from 2004 to 2011, with a length of 670+ pages, and it came out to universal acclaim. It can thus be done but Habibi is an independent comic and established mangaka aren´t known for perusing that road for too long. Traditional print is dying though and The Times They Are A-Changin' so who knows.

I am a Full-time employee but i plan on becoming a university student in the near future to level up in my profession. I also won´t stay a full time employee for my whole life and am already saving up for an early retirement. Being unemployed was my favorite profession so far. Ah, German Social Insurance! We'll meet again, Don't know where, don't know when...

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» MinatoAce on February 20th, 2016, 8:18am

Student, no other job.

I sometimes do freelance(mostly tech related stuff), but, I wouldn't call it part time either. As it's not permanent, it depends on my mood, availability of job and type of the job. And it should be something that I find interesting. I'm lazy. Freeloading on my parents, like most of the Students. Basically, I'm not much of a great guy.

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» Calamansi on February 20th, 2016, 9:36am

Student, surviving off of scholarship money and parents' generosity.

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» lifeanddeath2012 on February 20th, 2016, 1:24pm

You should have added a Management option, because technically Management are not employees.

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» licorice on February 24th, 2016, 3:50pm

A technicality...

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» Baalzebup on February 24th, 2016, 4:35pm

Quote from lifeanddeath2012
You should have added a Management option, because technically Management are not employees.


Except that unless you also own the business you manage, you are an employee of said business, no matter which bracket you occupy in the hierarchy.

I've been going Full-time for quite some time. I'm coming close to 10 years in this company, and only spent about one of them as a part-timer.

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» juliarox214 on February 20th, 2016, 8:50pm

Unemployed and not looking for work because ... homemaker and mother!

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» zephyr4 on February 21st, 2016, 12:17am

Student, no other job

....and it will probably stay that way for the next five years atleast.

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» kitty1826x on February 21st, 2016, 12:28am

Not sure where Stay at home mom fits in... so I picked Currently unemployed, but looking for work!, because I'm not getting paid... and jobs pay right?

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» residentgrigo on February 21st, 2016, 3:27am

Hausfrau und Mutter -Stay-at-home-mom- isn´t a "job" here (Japan´s highly gender selective society is even listed in the German wiki article for Hausfrau) but you wouldn´t be counted as unemployed either and receive the benefits of a "proper" employee as long as you partner is part of the work force. You would also be part of a different tax bracket than your husband.
The word unemployed is actually very hard to define from a legal standpoint and people who are undergoing rehabilitation treatment or are too sick to work also don´t count as unemployed. Unemployment statistics are thus very hard to decipher...

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» VawX on February 21st, 2016, 8:10pm

I never really thought about it before, but from what I see, it seems Stay at Home Mom is commonly considered as unemployed since there are many "Jobs for Stay at Home Mom" mmm...

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» Calamansi on February 22nd, 2016, 4:09pm

Yeah, my mom was technically a stay at home mom until I entered elementary school, but she ran an at-home day care at the same time. No idea how she would have fit into the categories presented.

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» Tsuska on February 21st, 2016, 1:37am

General practitioner, under paid...overworked haha

jokes

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» mysstris on February 21st, 2016, 2:21am

student and work; been that way since my first year

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» vigorousjammer on February 21st, 2016, 6:14am

I work part-time at a deli.
I'm surprised how many full-time people there are. I wish I could find a good, stable, full-time job. no

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» chineserider on February 21st, 2016, 9:51am

Student, no other job

But with summer internships, and will join the Full-time employee bracket in one year.

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» VawX on February 21st, 2016, 8:13pm

Full-time employee and postgraduate student at night, though life hoping for great result mmm...

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» eccentrrick on February 21st, 2016, 9:34pm

I am a full-time employee. I work at a dental office. I would like to go back to being part-time and having more time to myself.

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» bkwrmatk on February 22nd, 2016, 7:33pm

Needed an option for "self-employed." smile wink grin I chose the closest option: part-time employee, though I'm an independent consultant, not an employee.

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» AndyProk on February 23rd, 2016, 2:22pm

Hm.
For me "Student, also working though, but looking for more work" would have been a correct choice. Also technically "work multiple jobs", though they're all small things and probably soon "Student, no other job, but looking for work" (since the projects I'm working under are about to run out of funding/time) unless I find something new before that.

TL;DR There's no way this poll could contain all possible options.

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» Animechic420 on February 24th, 2016, 3:56pm

Full-time employee. Gotta pay for those anime & manga somehow! biggrin

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» berubetto on February 24th, 2016, 11:50pm

You missed a category, which is easy to do, of course. I chose Retired, but I'm not really. I'm on long-term disability.

If science ever catches up with my illness, I've been keeping myself prepared to go back to work. <shrug> No pity needed, it's just that we do exist. FYI/FWIW!

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» dalek on February 25th, 2016, 8:37am

A university student, but unfortunately also a laboratory worker in that university.

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» That3rdGuy on February 25th, 2016, 11:14pm

None for disabled? I guess I'll group myself up with bums, free-loaders and the like by choosing unemployed and not looking for work. Guess I've got the brain sickness. And here I thought I was a moody asshole with many unnatural fears (working, making money, uh... working, etc) given my upbringing. laugh
I see others are having the same problem as me. Should add in "stay-at-home parent" and "short/long-term disabled" and replace "employee" with "worker" as well to dispel confusion.

Anyways, would a contract killer choose "currently unemployed, but looking for work?"

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