This week's poll comes from our member AceBunneh. Imagine that your life was a manga series. What role would you play in it? I'm curious who wouldn't be the main character...
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: Opinion on love triangles
Choices:
How about more than just 3 sides? - votes: 2831 (19.9%)
Love them! - votes: 2684 (18.8%)
Hate them - votes: 4032 (28.3%)
Don't care - votes: 4091 (28.7%)
Ewww, no romance at all - votes: 601 (4.2%)
There were 14239 total votes.
The poll ended: May 19th 2012
So much hate... I guess that's what happens with the tried and true? Or maybe it's just too much "tried" and not enough "true"
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-m
This week's poll comes from our member AliceinAmestris. So how do you like those love triangles? Seems like a staple scenario in most romance series.
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: What sport would you most like featured in a manga / anime series?
Choices:
Baseball - votes: 631 (4.3%)
Tennis - votes: 445 (3%)
Kendo - votes: 908 (6.1%)
Archery - votes: 1786 (12%)
Track and Field - votes: 248 (1.7%)
Basketball - votes: 816 (5.5%)
Cheerleading - votes: 342 (2.3%)
Martial Arts - votes: 3182 (21.4%)
Boxing - votes: 240 (1.6%)
Wrestling - votes: 111 (0.7%)
Soccer - votes: 672 (4.5%)
American Football - votes: 280 (1.9%)
Ping Pong - votes: 109 (0.7%)
Volleyball - votes: 192 (1.3%)
Hockey - votes: 254 (1.7%)
Golf - votes: 62 (0.4%)
Badminton - votes: 166 (1.1%)
Cricket - votes: 114 (0.8%)
Swimming - votes: 518 (3.5%)
Cycling - votes: 96 (0.7%)
Horse Racing - votes: 212 (1.4%)
Lacrosse - votes: 99 (0.7%)
Rugby - votes: 104 (0.7%)
Motor Racing - votes: 298 (2%)
Fencing - votes: 368 (2.5%)
Shooting - votes: 323 (2.2%)
Figure Skating - votes: 388 (2.6%)
Racquetball - votes: 31 (0.2%)
Surfing - votes: 309 (2.1%)
Video Games (E-Sports) - votes: 1533 (10.3%)
There were 14837 total votes.
The poll ended: May 11th 2012
Martial arts, archery, and then e-sports. Video games was a joke, so it's amusing to see how many votes they got. (And I combined the results of the 2 Cycling options that I accidentally had)
This week's poll about sports was suggested by our member nowyat. The choices are definitely non-exhaustive and are arranged in no particular order. I did not include a choice "Other" on purpose (as with the "None" option), so please choose your favorite out of the ones available. Although you can comment below if you have another favorite that isn't on the list! (And yes, I put in that e-sports one at the end just for the heck of it)
Edit: Whoops, I put "Cycling" twice. Oh well
You can submit poll ideas here (and try to keep them manga/anime-related):
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Question: How many languages do you proficiently know?
Choices:
Just English (most likely you're American) - votes: 2913 (18.3%)
English and... (meaning you're the rest of the world) - votes: 7360 (46.2%)
Three (above average) - votes: 4196 (26.3%)
Four (exceptionally learned) - votes: 979 (6.1%)
Five or more (approaching godly status) - votes: 499 (3.1%)
There were 15947 total votes.
The poll ended: May 5th 2012
It is perfectly fine to only know 1 language well (including me), but it seems the majority knows plenty of languages! And I realize "proficiently" is very subjective. We're not using the results of these polls for anything, so that's alright. It's a poll for fun, not a full-blown survey.
This week's poll comes from our member ashi. We're just curious how many languages you proficiently know. Interpret that how you want, but I guess the typical meaning would be that you can more or less read, speak, and listen to stuff in that language. (And the comment next to each answer is just for fun, so don't take it the wrong way.) And yes, we're assuming you know at least English, as this is primarily an English website.
You can submit poll ideas here (and try to keep them manga/anime-related):
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Question: How much ecchi does a good series need?
Choices:
Lots and lots! - votes: 1438 (10.4%)
Just enough to make it funny - votes: 5964 (43.2%)
None at all - votes: 6408 (46.4%)
There were 13810 total votes.
The poll ended: April 28th 2012
Yes, I know I forgot the option of "Don't care," but it was too late when I realized my mistake. With most votes going to the "none" option, I'm curious to see if that means ecchi is not necessary to making a good series or if that means no ecchi makes a series good. But that won't be a future poll...
This week's poll comes from our member BlackOrion. He's wondering how much ecchi do you like in your manga. Of course it's subjective, but hey, so are most of these polls!
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: When the author and artist of a series is different, I care more about the
Choices:
Author - votes: 3082 (25.9%)
Artist - votes: 3071 (25.8%)
Doesn't matter - votes: 5753 (48.3%)
There were 11906 total votes.
The poll ended: April 21st 2012
That's pretty dead even between author and artist. Dang... I guess opinions are split on this, eh?
This poll from our member ChocoKun pits the author against the artist of a series (assuming that they're different people). Which one do you care about more?
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: About extras, omake, and oneshots in a series...
Choices:
Read them right away - votes: 7495 (61.4%)
Save for later - votes: 2607 (21.3%)
Skip - votes: 2112 (17.3%)
There were 12214 total votes.
The poll ended: April 14th 2012
I'm surprised that a good number of people skip reading the extras. I guess the main story only, eh? Reminds me of my roommate who played Mass Effect 1 only for the main story and skipped every single side quest.
This poll from our member 0sirt is about the extra content in a manga series, such as the bonus chapters, the omake, the author's notes, the oneshots that have nothing to do with the series itself, etc. When you encounter those, what do you do? Read or skip?
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: Communicating with authors (via letter, email, phone, Facebook, Twitter, etc)
Choices:
Yes, I do it all the time! - votes: 169 (1.6%)
Yes I have, but only once or twice - votes: 570 (5.3%)
I would if I knew how (their address, etc) - votes: 4606 (42.5%)
No, not interested - votes: 5500 (50.7%)
There were 10845 total votes.
The poll ended: April 7th 2012
Not a very popular poll, but that's alright. Most people (including the people who didn't vote) would probably never wanna contact the author. Too shy? Or perhaps no reason to except to say "good job."
All,
As you may have figured out by now, we lost some data.
Part of it is due to a hard drive crash we experienced during the Server Maintenance window, and part of it is due to a not-so-thourougly tested update I put in.
The update resulted in extremely bad load times. I have reverted the update, and will test it a bit more carefully before applying it again.
We will try to get the hard drive replaced tomorrow. Expect more downtime.
Sorry for the trouble.
-m
Update: NOTE: No data should be lost from this, as far as I know.
All,
The server will be going down for several hours on Saturday morning at midnight, till 4am EST for server maintenance.
Thank you,
-Manick
