About a month ago, I was alerted to the dealings of one of our release mods, matias067 (you can read this or this). As far as we can see, his problem is that he is not honoring the requests of scanlators to not upload their releases to online manga readers (whether that be a delay in _ number of days or not uploading at all).
Many of you are wondering what we are doing about it, and we have talked to him and requested that he honor the policies of scanlators. He has said he will do this (in his words "I'll take note of it."). If he breaks these policies, we will release him from his MangaUpdates duties (in effect "kick him out").
However, we need your help in policing his actions. It is up to you to keep track of his actions and report to us any wrongdoings. On first offense, we do ask that you talk to him and tell him your policies (in case he hasn't seen them), but repeated offenses should be reported to me, and then we will deal with him.
PS: Sorry for the delay (could've done it 3 weeks ago) in announcing this, but to be honest, I kinda forgot. I didn't remember until I read this this morning.
This week's poll comes from the head of our member BurningFish. In general, how do you like non-manga? (Yes, I realize that you may like/dislike certain series, but let's try to answer this "in general").
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=28629
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 scanlation recruitment pages in releases
Choices:
Like them - votes: 2997 (25.5%)
Ignore them - votes: 3930 (33.4%)
Hate them - votes: 332 (2.8%)
No opinion - votes: 4495 (38.2%)
There were 11754 total votes.
The poll ended: September 3rd 2011
Edit: Forgot to write a comment on the results. It's good to see that a lot of people like them, but yet lots of people ignore them. In my opinion, they're necessary for a scanlation group to get new staff, and they're a good way to let some creativity shine.
This new poll for this week is from our member alicerose. Many scanlation releases have a page for recruitment (tends to be for translators...), so what's your opinion on them? (And yes, you can like/hate them for different reasons)
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=28471
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: Do you read spoilers?
Choices:
All the time! - votes: 2161 (15.1%)
Sometimes - votes: 6899 (48.1%)
Only by accident - votes: 3755 (26.2%)
Never - votes: 1540 (10.7%)
There were 14355 total votes.
The poll ended: August 27th 2011
For those of you that avoid spoilers like the plague, you guys are really hardcore. By the way, if you find spoilers without the spoiler tag in the forum or series comments, do feel free to report it to us
Our member drunkguy suggested this one. We've had a fairly similar poll before, but this one's slightly different, so I decided to choose it. If you're interested in an interesting study on how people react to spoilers: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/08/spoilers-dont-spoil-anything.ars
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=28323
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: Do you read manga titles that aren't directed to your demographic?
Choices:
Yes, I read a lot of shounen/seinen and I'm female - votes: 2459 (16.9%)
Yes, I read a lot of shoujo/josei and I'm a male - votes: 994 (6.9%)
No, I sticking to manga directed towards me - votes: 2176 (15%)
I read all sorts of demographics without preference - votes: 8881 (61.2%)
There were 14510 total votes.
The poll ended: August 20th 2011
Most people tend to read anything they look (not necessarily targeted to them), but it seems more females are willing to read action than males reading romance
This week's poll is from Masae. Do you commonly read series that are not your target demographic? Specifically, it doesn't include any 18+ demographics, so don't complain about that.
You can discuss this among yourselves on our forum here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=28178
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: Would you drop a manga if you didn't like the art?
Choices:
Yes! It must look good if I'm gonna read it - votes: 5115 (38.1%)
Nah, art doesn't matter too much - votes: 4849 (36.1%)
I never even start a series unless it looks good - votes: 3465 (25.8%)
There were 13429 total votes.
The poll ended: August 13th 2011
This poll from sarah-eats-cupcakes is pretty straightforward (hopefully). Shouldn't need to explain it... In response to accusations that the 1st and 3rd options are basically the same, I did that because the art style in a series can change over time (for better or for worse).
You can discuss this poll on our forums here (and maybe post the specific names of the series you dropped):
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=28030
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: Online manga readers
Choices:
Help popularize manga - votes: 3678 (28.9%)
Make it easy to read manga - votes: 5750 (45.1%)
Not worth lower quality - votes: 693 (5.4%)
Threaten scanlations - votes: 606 (4.8%)
Will cause problems with publishers - votes: 734 (5.8%)
Don't use them - votes: 1287 (10.1%)
There were 12748 total votes.
The poll ended: August 6th 2011
Hello all. We're looking for some release mods who are interested in helping us speed up updates on this site. If you're interested, please send me a PM.
Thanks!
edit: thanks for all the interest! we're looking through the apps now, so it may take a bit. don't worry if you haven't heard anything back from us yet. you will get a response eventually.
-M
This poll from silent isn't worded very well, and I bet people are gonna complain about the choices, but just choose the best fitting option. Even better, state exactly what you mean in the comments below or on our forum.
Forum thread is here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=27899
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: Anime: Sub or Dub?
Choices:
Sub - votes: 15818 (82.2%)
Dub - votes: 740 (3.8%)
Both are equally fine - votes: 2294 (11.9%)
I don't watch anime - votes: 382 (2%)
There were 19234 total votes.
The poll ended: July 30th 2011
Not quite our most popular poll, but definitely an overwhelmingly one-sided response
Mangascreener has their 10th anniversary today. Not many scanlation groups can make that claim, so good for them to stick around for so long!
I'm really surprised that we never used this as a poll before. Well, our member ChocoKun finally suggested it. No forum thread this time.
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: Ever tried to create the food shown in manga?
Choices:
Yes, and I was pleased with the results! - votes: 1907 (20.1%)
Yes, but never again. I'm not the chef type - votes: 795 (8.4%)
Nope, I'd rather have someone else cook my food - votes: 4790 (50.5%)
No, but my manga tends to feature knuckle sandwiches - votes: 1997 (21%)
There were 9489 total votes.
The poll ended: July 23rd 2011
Apparently most of us don't cook often. I have to admit that I like the "knuckle sandwich" option though...
