MH Manga Awards 2011 Discussion Thread

[Shinomori Aoshi]

How exactly are you going to handle the tie-breaks in many categories?

 

[BlackHair]

I think it would be great if you guys would make another announcement on the front page about the voting with links to all the threads of each category. We should get a lot more voters and it will hopefully make for a close matchup now that the nominations are down to 5 in most of the categories.

I agree. The awards needs more advertisement. Honestly, I didn't even know that there were such last year. Im one of those guys who are only fixed with a certain part of the forum, for me its shounen and mostly one piece.

PM, front page advertisement, and perhaps a thread/post in every nominated section/thread. Just some rnd ideas.

 

[M3J]

How exactly are you going to handle the tie-breaks in many categories?

I'm gonna choose the ones I like.


Bias ftw!


I'm joking by the way.



And we have done front page advertisement, I think. I think we did that last year as well? We (I know I did) also advertised the Awards in Chapter Discussion. We have advertised, but it takes members wantin to participate to get the ball rolling.

 

[k-dom]

I agree. The awards needs more advertisement. Honestly, I didn't even know that there were such last year. Im one of those guys who are only fixed with a certain part of the forum, for me its shounen and mostly one piece.

PM, front page advertisement, and perhaps a thread/post in every nominated section/thread. Just some rnd ideas.

Hum the mod cannot do everything, it is also to us to be a bit curious how mangahelpers community works. I was like you at first only in the one piece forum. Then when I want to discover new manga to read, I started to look at other threads and I made great discoveries. Mangahelpers mods do a really great job on that concern with the recommendation threads and the different MH events. There are plenty of ways to know what happens : the top banner, the home page, facebook, twitter... so I think it is the members job to be a little active and have a look at these links themselves and not simply waiting for being PMed.

 

[phio_chan]

I think it would be great if you guys would make another announcement on the front page about the voting with links to all the threads of each category. We should get a lot more voters and it will hopefully make for a close matchup now that the nominations are down to 5 in most of the categories.

I agree. The awards needs more advertisement. Honestly, I didn't even know that there were such last year. Im one of those guys who are only fixed with a certain part of the forum, for me its shounen and mostly one piece.

PM, front page advertisement, and perhaps a thread/post in every nominated section/thread. Just some rnd ideas.

Adding to what M3J and k-dom had said, we did post info about this manga/anime awards at the front page as a news, making a forum-wide announcement which you can see in every forum you visit, perhaps posting in hangout threads at several sections, and in addition putting links to our signatures. Personally I think those are all enough as notifications for all members that we have something going on. ^^ All returns to members themselves, whether you would like to participate in this kind of activity or not. ;D

 

[Nuno]

Categories with nomination ties have now received a poll to break the ties. Go vote in the threads!

 

[k-dom]

I nominate Best action, Break the tie poll for best poll award 2012

 

[HegemonKhan]

About Best Action...

you guys/girls just tied the tie breaker (a 3 way tie for the tie breaker, lol... not much of a tie BREAKER, lol) !!!! V.V (J/K, hehe)

[mod=HegemonKhan]
We've decided to have all 3 of them join the other 4 nominees, for a total of 7 nominees (7 Nominations).[/mod]

 

[crimsonlink310]

Funny how best action got the least amount of votes/nominations but a tied poll.

 

[Josef]

[mod=Josef K.]The polls have been added, please everyone go vote and choose you favorites.[/mod]

 

[phio_chan]

An important side note to everyone:

The poll for Best Shoujo had been stripped and re-added back. There was a mistake in the nomination of Love Hina because it is not a shoujo series, but a shounen series. You can read more info of Love Hina in this page. Therefore, the poll has been reset. All votes have been removed. Therefore, you need to vote if you have voted before.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Happy voting!

 

[mattiaildivino]

when will results be out?

 

[Josef]

when will results be out?

The voting ends on January 28th, they will be out at that day or the day after if everything goes right.

 

[Goral]

Practically all categories should be renamed to "the best [insert a category] out of the most popular titles". One Piece for a reason unknown to me is the most popular manga here so it's in almost every category, even in the best artwork (or spread page where it's been nominated 2 times) *facepalm*.

 

[crimsonlink310]

Yeah there really should be a rule that you can nominate different events from one manga series but the poll can't have more than one nomination per manga.

Like Female lead where Lucy and Erza are on the poll even though both are from Fairy Tail.

 

[k-dom]

Practically all categories should be renamed to "the best [insert a category] out of the most popular titles". One Piece for a reason unknown to me is the most popular manga here so it's in almost every category, even in the best artwork (or spread page where it's been nominated 2 times) *facepalm*.

Why didn't you help the others series during the nomination then ? For most of the categories there was only 1 or 2 votes difference.

 

[Nii]

Practically all categories should be renamed to "the best [insert a category] out of the most popular titles". One Piece for a reason unknown to me is the most popular manga here so it's in almost every category, even in the best artwork (or spread page where it's been nominated 2 times) *facepalm*.

I tend to disagree, there's a fair share of rather unknown series too and quite a lot managed to advance to the final round. Of course you can not prevent the fact that popular series will most likely come far or win a specific award, that's a given and banning like f.ex. the big three would make quite a few people angry/disappointed (and would be unfair too).

The main goal I see in this award is the recommendation of series, maybe even making rather unknown series more popular. I can only speak for myself but there are series I checked out because of this award and I wasn't disappointed. I'm pretty sure that there are more people here who experienced the same.

Support the series you like, that will have a much bigger effect than complaining about popular series

Yeah there really should be a rule that you can nominate different events from one manga series but the poll can't have more than one nomination per manga.

Like Female lead where Lucy and Erza are on the poll even though both are from Fairy Tail.

now your first sentence is kinda contradicting am I right that you want the poll to only have one event/character of a series (and not two or three)? Seems not so good to me, we will respect the people's opinion and if they decide that there's more than one event/character in one series who's worth voting for I don't see the reason to forbid the series to advance.

 

[crimsonlink310]

now your first sentence is kinda contradicting am I right that you want the poll to only have one event/character of a series (and not two or three)? Seems not so good to me, we will respect the people's opinion and if they decide that there's more than one event/character in one series who's worth voting for I don't see the reason to forbid the series to advance.

But what happens is that the 5 slots are taken up by 2 or more events from one series. Lets take OP as an example for theoretical 2012 best death award.

People nominate Ace's death, Merry Go's death and Whitebeard's death. From there everyone's support and nominations are counted.

1. Ace's death: 7 supporters
2. Merry Go's death:5 supporters
3. Whitebeard's death: 4 supporters
4. Random manga death: 6 supporters
5. Random manga death: 3 supporters

every other manga: 1 or 2 nomination/supporters.

What that does is it make the poll very limited to events from one manga. Even if it was just 2 events thats still one poll slot that could have been given to another series.

I don't want to limit people's choices either but I personally don't think its right for one manga to have more than one slot in the poll which is already very limited in space to 5 slots.

 

[ashher]

after reading some of the posts, i think that some are expecting too much from a 'poll'. A poll will always reflect popularity, that's the very basic idea there. Sure one may think that popular works aren't the quality ones, but you can't force ppl to think that way...and awards will go to the popular ones in a poll. I don't see anything wrong with that...

 

[benelori]

The voting round has ended, guys, thanks for participating in this contest this year as well. Be assured that we will publish the results as soon as possible, so please stay tuned, and keep an eye on this section.