This week's poll about translating dialects comes from 8-3.
You can submit poll ideas here
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: What do you drink in the morning most often?
Choices:
Spirits - votes: 62 (0.8%)
Cider - votes: 23 (0.3%)
Wine - votes: 25 (0.3%)
Beer - votes: 47 (0.6%)
Juice - votes: 470 (6.3%)
Milk - votes: 908 (12.3%)
Soda, pop, soft drinks, cola, coke - votes: 384 (5.2%)
Tea - votes: 1167 (15.8%)
Coffee - votes: 1230 (16.6%)
Water - votes: 2877 (38.8%)
Other alcoholic beverage - votes: 26 (0.4%)
Other non-alcoholic beverage - votes: 187 (2.5%)
There were 7406 total votes.
The poll ended: February 24th 2018
All you alcoholics =P
We're continuing with the drinks theme, as suggested by Senrosj. Yes, soda has so many regional names, so I just included them all...
You can submit poll ideas here
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you drink alcohol?
Choices:
No, because of religious reasons - votes: 855 (10.1%)
No, because I don't like it - votes: 2499 (29.4%)
I'll drink occasionally - votes: 3102 (36.5%)
I'll have a drink fairly often - votes: 608 (7.1%)
I admit I drink a lot - votes: 298 (3.5%)
No, because of health reasons - votes: 452 (5.3%)
No, because I'm not old enough - votes: 690 (8.1%)
There were 8504 total votes.
The poll ended: February 17th 2018
Hmm, so less that 50% drink
The natural follow-up to last week's poll
You can submit poll ideas here
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Have you ever tried reading manga while drinking?
Choices:
No, and I am not interested in trying - votes: 1191 (20.4%)
No, I don't even drink - votes: 2714 (46.5%)
Yes, and it was an unpleasant experience - votes: 116 (2%)
No, but I would be interested in trying - votes: 595 (10.2%)
Yes, and it was an enjoyable experience - votes: 405 (6.9%)
Yes, but it made no difference - votes: 813 (13.9%)
There were 5834 total votes.
The poll ended: February 10th 2018
Probably should've done the polls the other way around. Oh well
This week's poll is again from 8-3. Have you ever read manga while drinking alcohol? I've never even considered this because I don't drink that much...
You can submit poll ideas here
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Should names of food be translated?
Choices:
No, translate none of them - votes: 2505 (41.4%)
Yes, all of them (e.g. "takoyaki" to "octopus balls") - votes: 338 (5.6%)
Only the uncommon ones (e.g. leave "takoyaki" alone but translate "kiritanpo") - votes: 3212 (53%)
There were 6055 total votes.
The poll ended: February 3rd 2018
In case you were wondering, I purposefully didn't have an option dealing with translation notes
This week's poll was suggested by 8-3. Should we translate food items?
You can submit poll ideas here
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
