This week's poll was suggested by residentgrigo. How do spoilers in advertisements influence your decision in consuming a product? You know how some movie trailers (seem to) spoil the whole plot of a movie? Is that annoying to you?
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Would you rather have the most beautiful / handsome spouse but hates anime / manga, or a ugly spouse who loves anime / manga?
Choices:
I don't want a spouse - votes: 1350 (25.6%)
Doesn't matter - votes: 1694 (32.1%)
The ugly and loves anime / manga - votes: 696 (13.2%)
The beautiful / handsome and hates anime / manga - votes: 1538 (29.1%)
There were 5278 total votes.
The poll ended: July 20th 2018
I rather like how juliarox214 talked about her own situation with this poll
MU Denizens,
After 10 years of putting it off, I finally converted the site to UTF-8. There are no doubt still issues to work out, and I'd appreciate if you could reply to this thread or post bug reports in the suggestions forum if you find one. This will lead to better things to come! ?
Thank you,
Staff
This week's poll was suggested by CrookedSmile. Some of my friends love the types of questions where you have to choose between A or B. This one deals with the looks of a spouse compared with the love for the hobby
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you believe there is other intelligent life (aliens) in the universe?
Choices:
We are alone in the universe - votes: 557 (11.5%)
They exist, and a select few humans have seen them - votes: 521 (10.7%)
They exist and are hidden among us - votes: 508 (10.5%)
They exist, but they haven't visited Earth yet - votes: 3275 (67.4%)
There were 4861 total votes.
The poll ended: July 14th 2018
Wow, 3 of the options have around 10% of the votes each
MangaGhost wants to know if you believe in aliens!
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Why did you first visit MangaUpdates?
Choices:
To recruit for my scanlation group - votes: 27 (0.5%)
To create my own series list - votes: 513 (10.3%)
To find where to read or download manga - votes: 982 (19.7%)
To find a new series to read - votes: 1130 (22.6%)
To talk to others who like manga - votes: 9 (0.2%)
I was looking for info on a specific series or author - votes: 2122 (42.5%)
Other - votes: 210 (4.2%)
There were 4993 total votes.
The poll ended: July 7th 2018
Just a reminder that most of the series info has been user submitted. So it's up to you to help us maintain our database!
This week's poll was suggested by crossyuuki. Oddly enough, I don't think we've ever asked this question before. We've never really done a survey on who our users are and why they stay
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you believe in ghosts and/or supernatural things in general?
Choices:
Does/Do God/gods count? - votes: 560 (11.1%)
I don't and will never believe - votes: 840 (16.7%)
I believe they exist but haven't seen them - votes: 1374 (27.3%)
I don't believe, but could change my mind if I see something - votes: 1856 (36.9%)
I've seen them - votes: 395 (7.9%)
There were 5025 total votes.
The poll ended: June 30th 2018
Seeing is believing, eh?
This week's poll was suggested by VawX. The original intent of the question was specifically about ghosts and spirits in the sense of a horror movie, or maybe a poltergeist that likes to mess with people. The choice about God is more of twist of turning the question religious. Not the original intent, but I felt it needed to be there to make the choices more complete
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Least important quality of a scanlation
Choices:
Fonts - votes: 792 (17%)
Color (or grayscale) balance - votes: 279 (6%)
Image resolution - votes: 104 (2.2%)
Readability of the English - votes: 142 (3%)
Regularity of releases - votes: 225 (4.8%)
"Clean" images (lack of artifacts) - votes: 213 (4.6%)
Redrawing of the images - votes: 548 (11.7%)
Accurate translation of the original language - votes: 197 (4.2%)
Speed of release between raw and scanlation - votes: 766 (16.4%)
Volume vs. magazine raws - votes: 1404 (30.1%)
There were 4670 total votes.
The poll ended: June 22nd 2018
I'm surprised that the source of the raw is the least important for a lot of people. It actually influences a bunch of other stuff...
achyif suggested that we repeat a poll from a few weeks ago but change the question to the opposite. What's the least import feature of a scanlation?
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Got a waifu / husbando?
Choices:
Already have a IRL spouse, but a side waifu / husbando is good too - votes: 234 (5%)
I refuse to participate in having a relationship of any kind - votes: 742 (15.9%)
I have several. Polygamous is fine - votes: 629 (13.5%)
I only seek to pursue IRL relationships - votes: 1250 (26.7%)
Already have one - votes: 632 (13.5%)
Have yet to find one - votes: 1189 (25.4%)
There were 4676 total votes.
The poll ended: June 16th 2018
Someone graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a Nico Yazawa pillow in hand
This week's poll from Transdude1996 is a bit strange... The different options reflect fictional characters versus your real life. It does help to do a quick Google of what waifu / husbando really mean.
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Which interrobang?
Choices:
!? - votes: 2435 (42.6%)
?! - votes: 3280 (57.4%)
There were 5715 total votes.
The poll ended: June 9th 2018
When I was a scanlator many years ago, I exclusively used !?
Our member GodricKharg brought up the question of interrobangs, so here's a poll about them (not the question he asked, but it's related). In case you're curious, here's the Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Many magazine scans have extraneous pieces of text over the actual manga content. What should the translator do?
Choices:
Leave it untranslated. It's not important. - votes: 2424 (56.5%)
Translate everything on the page. Every. Single. Thing. - votes: 1864 (43.5%)
There were 4288 total votes.
The poll ended: June 2nd 2018
If it's not related to the manga you're reading, why bother translating it?
This week has another poll suggested by 8-3. You know how in magazine scans there's usually text on the side that announces news items, new series, or just plain advertisements? Do you think those should be translated?
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: A trademarked name is used in the text, but the author blanked it out or altered it. What should the translator do?
Choices:
Change it to a generic (i.e., chocolate snack) - votes: 242 (5.3%)
Change it to the actual name (i.e., Pocky) - votes: 712 (15.5%)
Leave it as the author wrote it (i.e., Poc*y) - votes: 3640 (79.2%)
There were 4594 total votes.
The poll ended: May 26th 2018
Pretty overwhelming results
