@lambchopsil How did you forget November 22, 2014? That shit storm ran for 17 pages...
Have a look back at May 1st 2010 too: What should MangaUpdates do about Shotacon/Lolicon?

Got more broad, so I like a wider variety of series. It had too! I could hardly just pirate everything and there were way fewer translations too. I also grew into an adult and so on.
Yet i was a slave to "serious" manga from the beginning. The first one i bought were Eva (when it first seemed that it would be published regularly) and GitS 2.0 as i assumed that it was the sequel to the film and not a confusing soft-core porno.

My preferred genre has changed since I first started reading manga 6~ years ago. In the beginning, I mostly read shoujo, and now I mostly read yaoi. I think the biggest change though is that I'm a bit pickier with the manga I read. I'm more aware of what I like and don't like, and I generally try to avoid cliched manga. Compared to when I first started reading, it's much harder for me to find series to read now.

P.S. @residentgrigo I completely forgot about 11/22/14 too. I knew it had been a topic before, but for some reason I thought my question was different, lol. Maybe we're getting old..

Well when i just started i didn't want to read certain types of manga, but now I have a much broader range of what i want to read. If only i had time to read it all...

My tastes got more narrower... I like much more specific categories/types of series. When I first started everything was pretty awesome. Now I find that a lot of the series I really enjoyed years ago just don't seem as good. Finding new series that I really like is a lot harder too, probably because I've read so much more manga.

Then again, my tastes haven't changed that much since I started reading manga, genre-wise. I still prefer the same kinds of series I preferred at the beginning. I'm just now less easily pleased and more picky about the series I start reading. So technically it's the same. Maybe I just never actively took notice of what I like?
Huh. Can I change my poll answer?

It definitely getting broader, I even read weird hentai thing now for whatever reason mmm...

It did a 180. Used to read/watch so many harems or settings where the male protagonist gets some sort of power or something in his life changes etc.

Now if the protagonist is an "ordinary high school boy" I am automatically no longer interested.

I want girls and only girls. Cute girls doing cute things is what I live for. Give me yuri.

(Well not all the time. Older male protagonists, hell older characters are also something that interests me. So it's not having male characters that bore me, it's just the same recycled shit you see over and over again that bores me. I read far too many harems in my time. I'm not surprised I got tired of it lmao)

My taste definitely got more broad, so I like a wider variety of series, but like @KaoriNite I just got more picker with years. As long as the plot/story is done well, I will read it.

I started with manga about 13 years ago. I was open to almost every genre. As I got older though, I found what I like and don't like. So, in my case, my taste has gotten a lot narrower.

I used to read lots of those generic shoujo, school life, and shounen stuff.
Now I usually avoid shoujo, don't like school settings much, and get real tired of shounen; especially if it's from Jump. I'm more of a josei/seinen person now, with some exceptions of course.

Some things never change though. I'm still not a big fan of ecchi and harem.

Since I don't read that many manga anymore, I have to be really interested to start reading a new one; so it usually has to have very specific characteristics that drew me in. Besides, some genres I could tolerate in the past, probably because I hadn't read that much of them, are now a no-go, like harem and exaggerated ecchi. So my taste got narrower. At the same time, because of growing up, my taste also changed a lot, even if not to a 180 degree. For example I used to like and focus only on the main character(s), but now I really love more screentime for minor characters. I liked straightforward plots, but now I search for convoluted storytelling. But at the core the type of manga I read hasn't changed that much.

After about 15 years reading manga (basically growing up with it), I've read many genre and I think it's gotten more broad.
Some things never change, I still like supernatural theme.
I used to hate romance so much, but now I read a title or two..
And after trying to read yaoi and yuri, I find it pretty interesting (although I can't say the same about yuri, still not my thing)

I liked fantasy genre very much when I was a child, thinking that a child's life is kinda boring, and how amazing it would be if I can live in different world. But now,, living in one world is already hard (the real world), why would I (the current me) bother with living in another nonexistent world..?

Another thing about SoL, my child self thought that reading it is kinda boring since "it's life". You are living a life now, why should bother reading something about life anymore? But now I've read some SoL and it isn't that bad actually.. I can relate to it pretty easily, even the more mature and dark one.

And the unexpected one is I read more comedy now, maybe adults life is so cold that I need something funny to laugh about. . .

I started reading Love Hina and Naruto; you wouldn't catch me alive reading that dribble now so yeah.

Broadened. I still like all the genre I liked initially (mystery, fantasy/supernatural, action/adventure, psychological), but I've added more and more genre to the list.

I started reading stuff tagged mature and adult, gave shounen-ai and shoujo-ai a go and eventually progressed to (non-smutty - they exist!) yaoi and yuri, developed a real tastes for cutesy slice-of-life and school-life series, and found out that not all ecchi manga were insufferable, especially if they were non-romance/harem. Heck, I can even tolerate mecha and comedic harem now (sometimes).

That being said, there are genre I'll never touch with a 10-foot pole, and have never felt the slightest inclination to: smut, hentai, shota, loli. I think I'd have to be reincarnated as a completely different person to be able to stomach those.

But, like some others have mentioned before, I've become much more sensitive towards cliches, so even though my genre range has widened considerably, my tastes have become more specific.

I've become more picky about the quality of the manga, but a lot less about the genre.

I started during the dark age of anime so I pretty much read anything I could get my hands on. Ghost in the Shell, Oh my Goddess, Evangelion, Gunsmith Cats etc. About the only thing that has changed is that I don't have to go to my local comicbook store to get my fix now.

Was a kid when I started, so edgelords seemed like cool characters. Now, they mainly lack dimension. Generally speaking, characters have been streamlined to anime and manga stereotypes instead of general stereotypes of storytelling, which further makes most productions uninteresting and inflexible. Granted, I can read or watch stuff with an otaku mindset where I spot these stereotyped characters and see how they execute the pattern I've seen a hundred times, but as a work of art that would be a great read or watch to anyone who isn't on a mental masturbation trip to the fandom, can't recommend those whatsoever. So while I nowadays read different things and avoid reading the kind of stuff I did back in the day, I find that the general quality of content has just dropped and artists are trying harder to just emulate something they've been fans of, which further polarizes the sub-cultural niches into standards and dissolves the link between sensible humane characters and the characters portrayed. So in short, I am more open to ordinary characters that aren't that much different from ordinary folk, but it's increasingly hard to find stories where the characters don't stink of otaku stereotypes.

So while I nowadays read different things and avoid reading the kind of stuff I did back in the day, I find that the general quality of content has just dropped and artists are trying harder to just emulate something they've been fans of, which further polarizes the sub-cultural niches into standards and dissolves the link between sensible humane characters and the characters portrayed. So in short, I am more open to ordinary characters that aren't that much different from ordinary folk, but it's increasingly hard to find stories where the characters don't stink of otaku stereotypes.

You said my own reaction to this question better than I could! I started reading manga and anime 11 years ago, in headlong flight from American light entertainment of all kinds. I am an adult (and was then), and was just sick of my native land's own collection of Standard Stories and Culture Wars propaganda. My favorite manga find back then was "Strawberry 100", which was such a wonderful redoing and improving of my vaguely-remembered, unfulfilling teenage life that I couldn't put it down.

Now, having seen enough of just about every standard manga style, genre, and trope, I just look for odd manga, like, for example, the pretty, clever manga:

"Nonscale"
http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=77127

Broad but also narrow. I have a taste for a variety of genres now but only for a good story i.e. open minded but picky because not all stories are good. Not to mention I don't have that sort of patience for cliches anymore unless I want to veg out and just read some crap....kind of like reality TV except I don't waste my time with reality TV

Got more broad, so I like a wider variety of series. After 10+ years, I'd like to say my taste in comics has definitely gotten broader. Especially since I pretty much only used to read hentai and some shounen. And of course, I've gotten pickier since nearly everything entertainment-wise recently has gotten more and more repetitive.

I started reading comedy, action and romcom. Now I read comedy, action, romcom and yuri.

I would say my tastes not only did a 180, but they're much narrower. Started reading shoujo and now I rarely, rarely read it. Long-running series that have kept my interest aside, I avoid high school settings like the plague. I also really enjoy gore and horror although there aren't many active groups working on that kind of stuff (so sad). Same goes with mystery. Oh well. I'll keep fighting the good fight.

i stayed the same. My first self-proud manga collection ever, which in second grade of secondary school, is negima, black cat, and xxxholic. From these titles, i realized that i already have a very wide basic manga taste. Still on the same year, i decided to collect one piece from book 46(thriller bark), azumanga daioh, ai kora, yotsubato, and midori no hibi. Starting 3rd year highschool i get to read first 3 books of bakuman. That is the point of realization and the end of my completed taste in manga. The rest title after that is just similliar. (Medaka Box, Love Hina, Sakamoto, Koufuku Graffiti, Silver Spoon, etc.)

Yeah, my tastes have changed quite heavily. When I started, I was really into violent, grimdark bullshit. I'm much more in the side of calming SoL stuff now, usually. I still read things like Berserk and OP, since I've been reading them for so damn long, but most of the new stuff is relaxed and fun. Granted, even the two I listed have a lot of moments like that, even Berserk.

I began with an open mind, reading Monster one day and breezing through Aqua/Aria the next, but managed to stay wary of mecha, historical, and 4-panels of all breeds until a year ago. I'd rather not explain my avoidance of the second, however I can say with a sprinkling of shame that I really believed mecha and vertical comic strips were handled better in anime. If I had retained those biases, I'd never have been able to enjoy Pippira Note, Donten ni Warau, or Yume Tsukai - none of them in my favorites, but worth the couple of hours they took to read all the same. Typing this out reminded me that I really need to get around to Bokurano.

I didn't vote in the last poll because I found the issue to be more complex (and essay-worthy) than the simple yes/no answer options given.

But, I really like this current poll! I've actually just been cleaning out my internal hard drive this past week and moving all my old manga to an external one, and it's surprising how little my taste has changed. I still generally like and dislike the series I did before, though I've gained more appreciation for a wider variety of genres. (I would've never imagined myself liking alternative series like Coffee Mou Ippai or Ashizuri Aquarium as a kid, for instance.)

There are series I read before that I don't anymore (the typical WSJ series, Naruto, Bleach, etc.) but rather than my taste changing, it's more like I found exactly what I liked reading and just stopped reading things I disliked. (Though I have to admit, the first arcs of Naruto/Bleach were pretty good. What happened?)

The main thing that's changed is I'm less forgiving of bullshit and unoriginality. I suppose I've become more critical, but my tastes haven't exactly changed a whole bunch.