This week's tasty (?) poll was suggested by Transdude1996. Do you use condiments on your eggs? And if so, what? Unfortunately, you can only choose one, so pick wisely. Just assume your favorite type of eggs, whether that be hard boiled, poached, sunny side up, etc.

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Previous Poll Results:

Question: Robot uprising?
Choices:
The robots will lose - votes: 297 (6.9%)
Robots will live side-by-side with humans - votes: 959 (22.4%)
Humanity will kill itself before that happens - votes: 1337 (31.2%)
Humanity will be destroyed by another force before that happens - votes: 332 (7.8%)
Humanity will never make sentient robots - votes: 535 (12.5%)
Robots will win and enslave us - votes: 263 (6.1%)
Robots will win and eradicate us - votes: 559 (13.1%)
There were 4282 total votes.
The poll ended: August 3rd 2018

I realized that there was no option that they already enslaved us. Maybe something like the Matrix...

Another fun poll by VawX. Do you think sentient robots will take over the world?

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Opinion on how advertisements will spoil the content of the movie (or other form of media)
Choices:
I will less likely get that product - votes: 511 (15.7%)
I will get the product but dislike the advance spoiler - votes: 634 (19.5%)
I will more likely get that product - votes: 161 (4.9%)
I will skip the product - votes: 171 (5.3%)
I don't care - votes: 1355 (41.6%)
I go on a media blackout before important releases - votes: 423 (13%)
There were 3255 total votes.
The poll ended: July 28th 2018

Greetings all,

It's a few days late, but I just wanted to say Happy Birthday MU! It's hard to believe that it's been such a long time. I know I don't do this usually, but this birthday is special. Read on to find out why...

Some interesting facts from when the site was founded:

• In 2004, cell phones were still just barely in their infancy. Flip phones were the norm, and the first iPhone wouldn't be released until 2007, almost 3 years later.

• There were no javascript or css frameworks. There were no php frameworks. PHP 5 was only released 7 days earlier on July 14th. Wordpress was only recently founded. (This site is primarily written in PHP, JavaScript and CSS. Imagine what 14 year old code looks like under the covers...)

• IE6, Netscape 7.2, Firefox 1.0, and Safari 1.2 were the primary browsers. Chrome wouldn't launch for another 4 years in 2008. Developing this site usually involved having IE6 and Netscape open, and ensuring that every change (written in notepad) worked in both browsers. Those were the days ...

• Facebook was founded in February. Google is at $85 a share. Social media site Digg launches. World of Warcraft launches. Reddit and YouTube aren't launched till a year later. Twitter doesn't launch until 2006. MySpace was only launched in the previous year.

Fourteen years before 2004 was 1990. In that year, the first website was launched at CERN. The first web-browser was created by Tim Berners-Lee. The Internet was fourteen years old when MU was created, and it's been exactly fourteen years now since then. After today, there will officially be more time since MU was created and now than between the time the Internet started and MU began.

How long can she go? Here's for another 14!

Manick

This week's poll was suggested by residentgrigo. How do spoilers in advertisements influence your decision in consuming a product? You know how some movie trailers (seem to) spoil the whole plot of a movie? Is that annoying to you?

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Would you rather have the most beautiful / handsome spouse but hates anime / manga, or a ugly spouse who loves anime / manga?
Choices:
I don't want a spouse - votes: 1350 (25.6%)
Doesn't matter - votes: 1694 (32.1%)
The ugly and loves anime / manga - votes: 696 (13.2%)
The beautiful / handsome and hates anime / manga - votes: 1538 (29.1%)
There were 5278 total votes.
The poll ended: July 20th 2018

I rather like how juliarox214 talked about her own situation with this poll

MU Denizens,

After 10 years of putting it off, I finally converted the site to UTF-8. There are no doubt still issues to work out, and I'd appreciate if you could reply to this thread or post bug reports in the suggestions forum if you find one. This will lead to better things to come! ?

Thank you,
Staff

This week's poll was suggested by CrookedSmile. Some of my friends love the types of questions where you have to choose between A or B. This one deals with the looks of a spouse compared with the love for the hobby

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you believe there is other intelligent life (aliens) in the universe?
Choices:
We are alone in the universe - votes: 557 (11.5%)
They exist, and a select few humans have seen them - votes: 521 (10.7%)
They exist and are hidden among us - votes: 508 (10.5%)
They exist, but they haven't visited Earth yet - votes: 3275 (67.4%)
There were 4861 total votes.
The poll ended: July 14th 2018

Wow, 3 of the options have around 10% of the votes each

MangaGhost wants to know if you believe in aliens!

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Why did you first visit MangaUpdates?
Choices:
To recruit for my scanlation group - votes: 27 (0.5%)
To create my own series list - votes: 513 (10.3%)
To find where to read or download manga - votes: 982 (19.7%)
To find a new series to read - votes: 1130 (22.6%)
To talk to others who like manga - votes: 9 (0.2%)
I was looking for info on a specific series or author - votes: 2122 (42.5%)
Other - votes: 210 (4.2%)
There were 4993 total votes.
The poll ended: July 7th 2018

Just a reminder that most of the series info has been user submitted. So it's up to you to help us maintain our database!

This week's poll was suggested by crossyuuki. Oddly enough, I don't think we've ever asked this question before. We've never really done a survey on who our users are and why they stay

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you believe in ghosts and/or supernatural things in general?
Choices:
Does/Do God/gods count? - votes: 560 (11.1%)
I don't and will never believe - votes: 840 (16.7%)
I believe they exist but haven't seen them - votes: 1374 (27.3%)
I don't believe, but could change my mind if I see something - votes: 1856 (36.9%)
I've seen them - votes: 395 (7.9%)
There were 5025 total votes.
The poll ended: June 30th 2018

Seeing is believing, eh?

This week's poll was suggested by VawX. The original intent of the question was specifically about ghosts and spirits in the sense of a horror movie, or maybe a poltergeist that likes to mess with people. The choice about God is more of twist of turning the question religious. Not the original intent, but I felt it needed to be there to make the choices more complete

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Least important quality of a scanlation
Choices:
Fonts - votes: 792 (17%)
Color (or grayscale) balance - votes: 279 (6%)
Image resolution - votes: 104 (2.2%)
Readability of the English - votes: 142 (3%)
Regularity of releases - votes: 225 (4.8%)
"Clean" images (lack of artifacts) - votes: 213 (4.6%)
Redrawing of the images - votes: 548 (11.7%)
Accurate translation of the original language - votes: 197 (4.2%)
Speed of release between raw and scanlation - votes: 766 (16.4%)
Volume vs. magazine raws - votes: 1404 (30.1%)
There were 4670 total votes.
The poll ended: June 22nd 2018

I'm surprised that the source of the raw is the least important for a lot of people. It actually influences a bunch of other stuff...

achyif suggested that we repeat a poll from a few weeks ago but change the question to the opposite. What's the least import feature of a scanlation?

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Got a waifu / husbando?
Choices:
Already have a IRL spouse, but a side waifu / husbando is good too - votes: 234 (5%)
I refuse to participate in having a relationship of any kind - votes: 742 (15.9%)
I have several. Polygamous is fine - votes: 629 (13.5%)
I only seek to pursue IRL relationships - votes: 1250 (26.7%)
Already have one - votes: 632 (13.5%)
Have yet to find one - votes: 1189 (25.4%)
There were 4676 total votes.
The poll ended: June 16th 2018

Someone graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a Nico Yazawa pillow in hand