This week's poll was suggested by 8-3. Should we translate food items?
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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you own any Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies?
Choices:
Used to, but not anymore - votes: 179 (3.1%)
I started fairly recently - votes: 169 (2.9%)
Yeah, I've been investing for a while now - votes: 149 (2.6%)
No, but I might get some soon - votes: 617 (10.6%)
Nope, not interested at all - votes: 3931 (67.3%)
I'm actually short-selling it instead - votes: 35 (0.6%)
What's Bitcoin? - votes: 758 (13%)
There were 5838 total votes.
The poll ended: January 27th 2018
I had to look up what short-selling means.
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Bitcoin has been making headlines recently, so might as well do a poll about it. I personally haven't gotten any since I don't want to take on that risk, but my brother has some Ethereum.
You can submit poll ideas here
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Will the loss of Batoto affect your manga habits?
Choices:
Yes, huge problems now - votes: 2257 (33.3%)
Yes, but it's not too bad - votes: 1476 (21.8%)
Just a little - votes: 828 (12.2%)
Nope, nothing changes for me - votes: 2214 (32.7%)
There were 6775 total votes.
The poll ended: January 20th 2018
Looks like the majority of you used Batoto to some extent.
This week's poll is in honor of the news that Batoto will be closing soon.
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Series is complete but only partially scanlated. No one is translating it anymore (i.e. dropped project)
Choices:
I'd still read it - votes: 3113 (60.4%)
Nope, skip it - votes: 2040 (39.6%)
There were 5153 total votes.
The poll ended: January 13th 2018
Hopefully someone else will pick up the series
Batoto announced that they are closing their doors around January 18. This will be a sad day for the scanlation community.
In case you didn't know, they were a manga reader site that actually played nice with the wishes of scanlators. (Man, the old days with the Tazmo sites...)
On a personal level, I really understand Grumpy's reasoning on why he wants to quit. I've been helping run MangaUpdates for the last 11-ish years, and I've wanted to quit several times. In fact, I want to quit now still... but that's another story.
Batoto, you will be missed.
Edit:
This affects MangaUpdates somewhat due to our group policies. In case you didn't know, releases are only listed on MangaUpdates if they were done by a group that's in our database. (The term "group" is a misnomer because it could just be a single person.) A group would only be approved if it had one of the following: website, IRC channel, forum URL, Twitter, or Facebook page. A Batato group link could substitute as a website (but a link to a specific user could not be used, which is why any Batoto release filed under "No Group" has always been rejected).
This adversely affects smaller scanlation groups who don't have their own sites and exclusively hosted on Batoto. However, we're not changing our group requirements. If a new thing arises that replaces Batoto, we'll consider allowing that to be used as a website when listing a group.
FYI, in case you didn't know, the website listed for a group will never appear for you because of this development.
F_J gave another poll that's related to last week's. This time, what if it was the scanlation group that dropped the series? It could either be officially dropped or the releases were so slow that they might as well have dropped it.
You can submit poll ideas here
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: You know a series is incomplete and on hiatus
Choices:
I'd still read it - votes: 3147 (55.9%)
Nope, skip it - votes: 2478 (44.1%)
There were 5625 total votes.
The poll ended: January 6th 2018
Huh, more people would read it. That actually surprised me
This week's poll is from F_J. I realize that it'll depend on other factors (like how good the series is or personal recommendations from friends), but all things considered, does the series being incomplete and on hiatus impact your decisions?
You can submit poll ideas here
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you give Christmas gifts?
Choices:
Yes, mostly stuff I bought - votes: 2040 (42.9%)
Yes, mostly homemade things - votes: 194 (4.1%)
No - votes: 1421 (29.9%)
I would if I had money... - votes: 1098 (23.1%)
There were 4753 total votes.
The poll ended: December 30th 2017
For the few of you that make things, congrats! You guys are the true artists!
This week's poll is about Christmas gifts, which is nice because Christmas is this week! If you are giving some gifts, tell us more! I got a friend of mine a Funko Pop! figure for Sword Art Online. Someone else is getting a cutting board etched with some Game of Thrones references.
You can submit poll ideas here
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Just by looking at the title of a series or a volume cover image, can you determine the demographic or genre of the series?
Choices:
All the time - votes: 392 (7.9%)
Most of the time - votes: 2982 (59.8%)
50/50 - votes: 1121 (22.5%)
Not really - votes: 457 (9.2%)
Never - votes: 38 (0.8%)
There were 4990 total votes.
The poll ended: December 23rd 2017
Pretty obvious most of the time
This week's fun little poll was from F_J. If I showed you a random volume of manga, could you determine the demographic and/or genre of the series?
You can submit poll ideas here
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Your favorite author has been charged and/or convicted of a serious crime (murder, rape, child prostitution, etc). Would you treat their fictional works any differently?
Choices:
Make no difference, so I don't care - votes: 2318 (43.8%)
All works past, present, and future has been tainted - votes: 1247 (23.5%)
Anything new they work on is tainted - votes: 442 (8.3%)
Only works that are related to the crime are tainted (i.e., plot point about rape) - votes: 1289 (24.3%)
There were 5296 total votes.
The poll ended: December 16th 2017
TIL that Hitler was a painter
This week's poll was suggested by residentgrigo and inspired by what happened with WATSUKI Nobuhiro (author of Rurouni Kenshin) and people in Hollywood or politics.
You can submit poll ideas here
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: You're reborn. At what age of your new life would you prefer to remember your entire former life?
Choices:
As a baby (so right away) - votes: 1982 (29.9%)
As a child (toddler to preteen) - votes: 1718 (25.9%)
During the teenage years - votes: 1239 (18.7%)
As a young adult - votes: 588 (8.9%)
When I'm middle aged - votes: 55 (0.8%)
As an old person - votes: 63 (0.9%)
I wouldn't want to remember my past life - votes: 488 (7.4%)
I don't want to be reborn - votes: 500 (7.5%)
There were 6633 total votes.
The poll ended: December 9th 2017
Imagine being burdened as a baby with all this past knowledge...
