New poll, and it's about drawing! Basically, how are your drawing skills? Personally, mine are horrible...but at least I know what a pencil is, right? This poll suggestion was submitted by member funkmu1.

If you want to discuss this on the forum, here's the thread: http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=5392

Previous Poll Results:
Question: How do you prefer your translated sfx? (The sound effects like "ba" or "doki doki")
Choices:
Left alone (not translated at all) - votes: 977 (12.8%)
In a glossary (at the end of a chapter) - votes: 237 (3.1%)
In the margins - votes: 3062 (40.1%)
Beside the original sfx (so you see both original and translated together) - votes: 1858 (24.4%)
Overlaying the original sfx (right on top of the original) - votes: 224 (2.9%)
Replacing the original sfx - votes: 1271 (16.7%)
There were 7629 total votes.
The poll ended: April 26th 2008

An OVERWHELMING majority of people wanted to see SFX in the margins of their scanlations. For all you scanlators out there reading this, you may want to consider going with what people want, and put the SFX in the margins (probably easier on the editors, too, haha)

A just ruler amongst tyrants

Well, I wouldn't say I have the skills of a professional, but I'm getting there. Slowly but surly.

Not trying to be too nitpicky, but my understanding is that 40% cannot be a majority (defined as >50%) but is rather in this case a plurality (largest fraction of sample).

The point is, this poll is much more one-sided than most of the other ones we've done

A just ruler amongst tyrants

no offense to all artists out there who are crazy for art... but, STICK FIGURES pwn ALL!!!!! XD

This is true, but I don't think it matters too much in this case. =P the point gets across the same.

Stick figures for me.

-GGpX

I run Illuminati-Manga. You're welcome.

It's a majority when everything else is less than that 40%. I mean, there's a result that's 2.9%...

No, he was saying that a majority, by definition, is always more than 50%. And he is of course correct. He understands that 40% is huge compared to the other results.

With 5 other options, though, 40% is quite amazing, all the same. It can definitely be called a landslide victory, even though it's not a politically defined majority (although I should point out that white people are considered the majority in America, even though they are clearly outnumbered by the minority. The 50% rule only applies in political settings).

This signature was recovered from Hades to serve in my rotting armies.

i think people are not used to see the sfx being replaced cause there aren't a lot of scanlation groups doing that (only the HQ ones) so they can't tell how good they can get to look (with an experienced tipesetter and editor).
of course most of the leechers don't like that cause replacing the sfx means more work and of course more time to do a release XD, but if i have to choose between the margins and replaced... Definitely i would choose replaced 🙂

what's a pencil? massive lol

The reason I like the sfx in the margin versus on the page itself is because I can see what it means and still see how it would look originally. (Basically so I can learn katakana because most sfx are in katakana, which is a generalization but I don't care.)

When is "ba" used as a sound effect?

when there's a sudden impact (sorta like BAM! in english)