This poll on a more "adult" topic is from our member FlyingMoose. Just give your best fitting answer to your opinion on censoring manga. Sure, there could've been other options, but let's just stick with these.
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=20378
You can submit poll ideas here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Favorite music genre?
Choices:
Pop - votes: 2340 (15.7%)
Hip Hop - votes: 586 (3.9%)
Rap - votes: 262 (1.8%)
R&B - votes: 636 (4.3%)
Blues - votes: 156 (1%)
Jazz - votes: 374 (2.5%)
Dance - votes: 412 (2.8%)
Folk - votes: 177 (1.2%)
Indie - votes: 765 (5.1%)
Heavy Metal - votes: 2218 (14.9%)
Alt-Rock - votes: 3328 (22.3%)
Classical - votes: 1067 (7.2%)
Other - votes: 2579 (17.3%)
There were 14900 total votes.
The poll ended: August 14th 2010
Oh hey, rock it out. Anyone ever been to Hard Rock Cafe?
ichigo_daisuki writes: K-ON! by Kakifly is slated to end in early September according to AnimeNewsNetwork
Time for a new poll suggested by TheRandomChocolate. Just a small selection of music to choose from.
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=20238
You can submit poll ideas here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Is there a monster under your bed?
Choices:
Yes, I'm scared of it - votes: 1125 (6.3%)
Not anymore, I killed it - votes: 3764 (20.9%)
Yes, it's my pet - votes: 3185 (17.7%)
Yes, I'm just letting it live for fun - votes: 2694 (15%)
Don't know. I never checked - votes: 2377 (13.2%)
No monster there - votes: 3140 (17.5%)
Monsters don't exist! - votes: 1687 (9.4%)
There were 17972 total votes.
The poll ended: August 7th 2010
Edit: Forgot to make an ending comment, so here it is. Why are people so violent? You guys would kill anything that gets in your way. What happened to diplomacy? And no, violent diplomacy doesn't count.
We finally have a new site feature thanks to the efforts of monkeyvoodoo! Just as you can filter genres, you can now filter groups. So if you don't want to see any of those releases from the hentai groups, just filter them out, and they won't appear on the main releases page. The reason for this is because not every release has an associated series entry that has the correct genre.
To actually filter a group, go to that group's page and check the box labeled "Hide this group's releases on the Releases page." Currently, the feature is in beta (after the many bugs in the last 2 days)... We will soon implement an easier way to do all this via the User CP, but for now, just deal with it.
Let's do a fun/weird poll again~ In particular, this bed monster related one was suggested by our member PeachMangoTea. Use your imagination
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=20108
You can submit poll ideas here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you believe that accessing manga without the use of internet in your country or region is hard or impossible?
Choices:
Yes - votes: 7286 (43.5%)
It would take more money than I can afford - votes: 7411 (44.2%)
No - votes: 2058 (12.3%)
There were 16755 total votes.
The poll ended: July 31st 2010
To be truly fair, we'd have to split it by regions, but that makes a long poll. And we don't really do surveys here...yet...
PS: I just beat StarCraft 2's campaign last night. Now for achievements and multiplayer!
We missed it by about a week, but yup, MU is now 6.
Happy Birthday!
The leader of Village Idiot, no_comxxx, recently died in a biking accident. RIP.
More specifics can be found on their site's news post.
Edit: Apparently Village Idiot is not sure about his death. They are attempting to make a more definite confirmation at this time.
It's a fairly generic poll suggested by FlyingMoose, but with our (the scanlation world's) current situation, this seems necessary.
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=19939
You can submit poll ideas here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Are you currently in a relationship?
Choices:
Yes - votes: 2298 (14.2%)
No - votes: 12357 (76.2%)
It's complicated - votes: 1565 (9.6%)
There were 16220 total votes.
The poll ended: July 24th 2010
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silverado writes: *In regard to the recent anti-piracy activities in the film, music and manga industry I've decided to write this post as a warning to all website owners who are currently hosting scanlations or fansubs to think twice about a take down request!
The publishers made their move and it's now up the community and admins to make ours. Despite many rumors and confusion there is one thing we can tell for sure: Going to court is the worst of all possible scenarios!
If the scanlation community wants to survive and maintain the freedom they are enjoying now, it is of utmost importance that all US online manga viewing sites comply with the publisher's take down requests. Because it takes only one loss in court to create a leading case to make scanlations officially and forever illegal. For the first time in history is the creation and hosting of scanlations threatened. Do you remember Morpheus P2P or Kazaa? Winny or ShareEX2? File sharing was tolerated until it grew too big to be neglected by the industry. This is the same. If this case gets through, there will be no gray-zone, no tolerance, no tolerated hosting anymore! A loss in court will result in a wide spread trickle-down effect on all US webhosting providers. Scanlations will be seen as cancer that has to be cut out and pursued. Hosting scanlations, even unlicensed material will be classified as illegal software. Webhosting accounts will be banned, IPs might be given out to find the uploader. This is all a real threat and it pains me to say that this is legally possible and a very probable scenario. So if you all want to continue reading scanlations from your favorite group, stop whining about it and start supporting your admin's decision to take down licensed series! We all are carrying the moral responsibility to set the legal environment for future scanlations! So support your admins decisions to take down manga! As for the admins, think twice before you don't comply to a take down notice. The best solution for the scanlation community and the corporation is to cooperate exist next to each other. Don't force them to use legal weapons of mass destruction. It's a lose-lose situation for all of us.
"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious." - Sun Tzu
silverado*
One Manga will be closing its manga doors in about a week's time. The forum there will still function though.
Who is next to go? Us?... ><
I hope not...
Edit: Yes, 1000manga is closing also
