This week's poll was suggested by jacob66. What is your view on today's politicians? Do you think it was ever different in the past?

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Are we living in a simulation?
Choices:
It doesn't matter - votes: 1784 (45.6%)
No - votes: 908 (23.2%)
I don't know - votes: 510 (13%)
Yes - votes: 708 (18.1%)
There were 3910 total votes.
The poll ended: March 13th 2021

I'm not sure what to say to the 18% that said "Yes"...

This week's poll was suggested by hkanz. Are we living in the Matrix? Are you sure about your answer?

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Who is more valuable?
Choices:
Friends - votes: 776 (26.8%)
Family - votes: 2116 (73.2%)
There were 2892 total votes.
The poll ended: March 6th 2021

For those that answered "Friends", I'm curious how your actual family is

This week's poll was suggested by psirit. Is blood is thicker than water? Or maybe because you can choose your friends and not family, thus friends are better?

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Previous Poll Results
Question: How close are you to your dream job?
Choices:
No job, so still dreaming - votes: 1119 (33.8%)
Light years away - votes: 692 (20.9%)
Quite far - votes: 565 (17.1%)
Halfway there - votes: 331 (10%)
Getting close - votes: 308 (9.3%)
I'm living the dream - votes: 175 (5.3%)
I made it and then lost it - votes: 44 (1.3%)
Retired already - votes: 79 (2.4%)
There were 3313 total votes.
The poll ended: February 27th 2021

Now of those without a job, is that because you're a student or unemployed?

This week's poll was suggested by evinrud3005. Assuming you've dreamed of having a certain job, are you there yet? Although with the unemployment rate, this poll may be a bit premature...

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: What's your Chinese zodiac?
Choices:
Pig - votes: 339 (7.2%)
Dog - votes: 348 (7.4%)
Snake - votes: 327 (6.9%)
Horse - votes: 330 (7%)
Goat, sheep, or ram - votes: 334 (7.1%)
Monkey - votes: 379 (8%)
Rooster - votes: 309 (6.5%)
Dragon - votes: 414 (8.8%)
Rabbit - votes: 275 (5.8%)
Tiger - votes: 317 (6.7%)
Ox - votes: 316 (6.7%)
Rat - votes: 360 (7.6%)
I don't know and I don't want to look it up - votes: 683 (14.4%)
There were 4731 total votes.
The poll ended: February 20th 2021

Dragon, again!

It's the Lunar New Year, so why not do a poll related to that? We did this poll 11 years ago, and we had more dragons than any other animal. In case you don't know, your Eastern zodiac (of which the most well known is the Chinese one, but most other Eastern countries have a variation of it) is determined by your birthdate. If you're curious, there's sites out there that will calculate it for you. Just Google it!

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you have money invested in the stock market?
Choices:
None - votes: 2375 (72.7%)
Below $1k USD - votes: 251 (7.7%)
$1k-10k USD - votes: 237 (7.2%)
$10k-$100k USD - votes: 205 (6.3%)
$100k-$1M USD - votes: 83 (2.5%)
+$1M USD - votes: 118 (3.6%)
There were 3269 total votes.
The poll ended: February 12th 2021

Do any of you millionaires want to donate to MangaUpdates?

We have decided to remove all releases for the group Aloalivn.

Previously, we were already rejecting their "releases" that were ripped from officially published app translations and those that were actually known to be done from other scanlation groups. More evidence has surfaced that most of their other releases actually use translations stolen from Youtube videos. Rather than try and figure out whether each chapter or series is a legit release, we are going to have a blanket rejection of listing anything claiming to be done by Aloalivn.

I would also like to take this time to remind all our users that we do not permit the listing of releases ripped from officially licensed sources (regardless of whether that license has expired or not). And we only allow the listing of English scanlations.

This week is another poll created by myself. It's inspired by everything going on with r/wallstreetbets and GME. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go read the news.

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Question: How often do you use video conferencing software (e.g., Zoom)?
Choices:
Multiple times a day - votes: 602 (19.6%)
Once a day - votes: 169 (5.5%)
Few times a week - votes: 518 (16.9%)
Once a week - votes: 164 (5.3%)
Few times a month - votes: 206 (6.7%)
Less than once a month - votes: 546 (17.8%)
Never used before - votes: 869 (28.3%)
There were 3074 total votes.
The poll ended: February 6th 2021

I'm surprised that over 1/4th of you have never used any sort of video conference software before.

I'm surprised we've never had a poll about this before in the last year. Pandemic sure does change a lot of things. On a typical workday, I have multiple meetings on Zoom each day. I also have weekly calls for some other organizations. And the fun calls are when I play online board games with friends (Covidopoly, Jackbox, Board Game Arena, etc).

Previous Poll Results:
Question: What do you think about fan-colored pages included in scanlation releases?
Choices:
They're great! I love to see them - votes: 436 (12%)
I like them a little - votes: 465 (12.8%)
Makes no difference to me - votes: 763 (21%)
As long as they're at the end, I can ignore them - votes: 1039 (28.6%)
They get in the way, but it's no big deal - votes: 582 (16%)
They're terrible! I can't stand interruptions - votes: 353 (9.7%)
There were 3638 total votes.
The poll ended: January 31st 2021

I feel like they're pretty rare now.

Our user Zeyo inspired me to redo a poll that we did over a decade ago. What are your thoughts about fan-colored pages? I feel these are a lot less common now, probably because we don't have a huge amount of weekly Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece fans submitting their work to be included in scanlations

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: How do you feel 2021 is going to be, compared to 2020?
Choices:
Completely terrible - votes: 318 (9.3%)
A bit worse - votes: 292 (8.5%)
About the same - votes: 1351 (39.5%)
Just a little better - votes: 1101 (32.2%)
Exceedingly better! - votes: 356 (10.4%)
There were 3418 total votes.
The poll ended: January 23rd 2021

Measured optimism

I should've done this poll a couple of weeks ago, but I forgot... And some stuff already happened in the last 2 weeks that may color your answer.

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Someone offers to buy everything you own and would pay the amount necessary to replace with equivalent function. Would you take the money and start over?
Choices:
No - votes: 1747 (62.1%)
Yes - votes: 1067 (37.9%)
There were 2814 total votes.
The poll ended: January 16th 2021

I hope you're never put into the situation where insurance would be necessary to replace things.