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New Poll - IRC Usage
This week's poll is from our member icassop. IRC = Internet Relay Chat. In today's day and age of online readers, IRC has taken a huge hit in membership, so what's your position on IRC? (And personally, I don't really use it anymore.)
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=30793
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: Can you tell if a series is manga, manhua, manhwa, etc just from the art?
Choices:
Yes, all the time - votes: 2868 (19.3%)
Yes, most of the time - votes: 7663 (51.6%)
Yes, sometimes - votes: 2916 (19.6%)
Yes, but rarely - votes: 698 (4.7%)
Never - votes: 695 (4.7%)
There were 14840 total votes.
The poll ended: December 17th 2011
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=30793
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: Can you tell if a series is manga, manhua, manhwa, etc just from the art?
Choices:
Yes, all the time - votes: 2868 (19.3%)
Yes, most of the time - votes: 7663 (51.6%)
Yes, sometimes - votes: 2916 (19.6%)
Yes, but rarely - votes: 698 (4.7%)
Never - votes: 695 (4.7%)
There were 14840 total votes.
The poll ended: December 17th 2011
Comments (limited to first 100 replies)
» uzumakiwalid on December 17th, 2011, 3:45am
Download.(period)
» barbapapa on December 17th, 2011, 3:57am
It's pretty much always on. Still my preferred way of interacting with other staff+fans.
» GGpX on December 17th, 2011, 4:51am
Same.
» Zenquibo on December 17th, 2011, 7:46am
as if you interact with fans gg... XD
» jojo_da_crow on December 17th, 2011, 6:05am
I'm really sadden by the amount of people who have never been on IRC/don't know what it is. It is such a great method for training and communicating with staffers. Not to mention the amount of friends I would have missed out on if it weren't for those same IRC channels.
I don't think people realize they are missing out on far more than just a manga download by not going on IRC and interacting with other fans/staff.
I don't think people realize they are missing out on far more than just a manga download by not going on IRC and interacting with other fans/staff.
» thevampirate on December 17th, 2011, 7:22am
its good for staff communications but not great for much else. the time of using IRC is long gone. the community used to be secretive and IRC was great for that but that time has passed. websites, forums and terrible online readers now reign supreme (until C&D force people to scanlate in secret)
» Seijurou on December 17th, 2011, 3:51pm
Also, don't forget that most people online nowadays, at least in the manga fandom, are quite young, so their ignorance of IRC is predictable.
» deadphoenix on December 17th, 2011, 6:53am
It's a good way of communication, the only problem is the bullying that occurs regularly and sometimes some small form were you aren't welcome in, well in most groups your welcomed with open arms.
An other problem with irc is, when the server is overloaded. This happens regularly with mass releases, I would blame the monster servers of online readers that would open a mass attack when something is out
Another annoying thing is when feel like your talking to a wall, no one responded .
It's still the best way to communicate to the group.
An other problem with irc is, when the server is overloaded. This happens regularly with mass releases, I would blame the monster servers of online readers that would open a mass attack when something is out
Another annoying thing is when feel like your talking to a wall, no one responded .
It's still the best way to communicate to the group.
» Akukame on December 18th, 2011, 3:11am
I don't know about bullying, as I've never seen or heard of it going on in any of the channels I've been in. At least not bullying of individual people. One group bullying another maybe.
As for the talking to a wall:
I've run many IRC rooms over the past 11 years. I think people sometimes have unnaturally high expectations for the rate at which people will respond on IRC. Especially in smaller IRC channels, you may get someone who is in need of assistance and signs onto IRC. They ask their question, don't get a response within 2 or 3 minutes, than rage quit. I see it again and again and again.
There's occasionally also the issue of someone coming into a room, asking a question, and other people in the room continue their conversation and don't respond at all to the question asked. I find that in most of these situations, its not because the regulars didn't read the question, but because they didn't have an answer. But people end up taking this very personally, and often end up doing things that may result in them getting banned (such as spamming, or PM-ing everyone with an op by their name).
As for the talking to a wall:
I've run many IRC rooms over the past 11 years. I think people sometimes have unnaturally high expectations for the rate at which people will respond on IRC. Especially in smaller IRC channels, you may get someone who is in need of assistance and signs onto IRC. They ask their question, don't get a response within 2 or 3 minutes, than rage quit. I see it again and again and again.
There's occasionally also the issue of someone coming into a room, asking a question, and other people in the room continue their conversation and don't respond at all to the question asked. I find that in most of these situations, its not because the regulars didn't read the question, but because they didn't have an answer. But people end up taking this very personally, and often end up doing things that may result in them getting banned (such as spamming, or PM-ing everyone with an op by their name).
» Joseinen on December 17th, 2011, 8:27am
i only use irc when there is no other way to download, but 99.9% of the time there is another way to download a file...yeah i haven't used irc in like a year.
» coa88 on December 17th, 2011, 11:05am
Same here. Some time ago I was looking for some old stuff. Group was long dead but you could still download from their IRC channel. IRC time has passed. But it's still great for books download.
I didn't actually read manga back when IRC was in full use though, so I can hardly be reminiscent about old times.
I didn't actually read manga back when IRC was in full use though, so I can hardly be reminiscent about old times.
» brigee88 on December 17th, 2011, 8:37am
i could never get it to work years ago, i'm so glad that many people have ddl. i remember when i'd have to wait and pray for someone to upload it on something like yousendit/savefile. good times except not really :/
» vietangelix on December 17th, 2011, 9:00am
I basically only learned it to download manga a few years ago, haha. It's useful because some groups only release stuff on IRC.
» eyeshield777 on December 17th, 2011, 9:36am
Used to use to download when there were no online readers, now I just use batoto or download from the site.
» StarlightDreams on December 17th, 2011, 10:47am
All the time.
Every time I'm on a computer, mIRC is open also. I use it for downloading and chatting and I've been using it for about 4 years now?
Every time I'm on a computer, mIRC is open also. I use it for downloading and chatting and I've been using it for about 4 years now?
» Seijurou on December 17th, 2011, 3:46pm
IRC . . . I need to get to that someday . . . Maybe . . .
» silent killer on December 17th, 2011, 4:20pm
IRC used to be the easiest way to get scans and subs for me. Now I only ever use it to chat on justin.tv while I watch the streams
» SlyzertVoltrond on December 19th, 2011, 7:34am
Always! To chat about manga and scanlation alike sometimes, but mostly to download stuff. In fact, I pretty much use IRC(and the occasional DDL) only these days to get my manga fix, since bittorent is so slow for me. I think my ISP has been throttling p2p traffic for awhile now, because no matter what I tried to speed it up, I always get atrocious speeds compared to everyone else.
So I'm always in search of new XDCC bots and fserves to get my manga (and anime!) fix.
mIRC is such a thing of beauty.
So I'm always in search of new XDCC bots and fserves to get my manga (and anime!) fix.
mIRC is such a thing of beauty.
» nana0851 on December 24th, 2011, 11:36pm
Mikan
Natsume
Ruka/Luca
Hotaru
Tsubasa
Inchou
Nobara
other people that i didn't mention
never seen or read it
Natsume
Ruka/Luca
Hotaru
Tsubasa
Inchou
Nobara
other people that i didn't mention
never seen or read it
