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I did this already. Everyone please contribute!!

I also did this already

Thank you ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~

Goodluck on your thesis !ヾ(☆▽☆)

Thank you! I’m fired up to write (๑•ㅂ•)و✧

Hmm. How are you going to document the source of the respondents in your thesis? I am very curious.

I have sent this survey out on various platforms and since it’s academic research I will write the names of all the platforms I’ve put this survey on, but this would not harm the sites because it’s academic work and the work is not about “pirate sites” in my paper I have actually also added the reason and need of pirate sites for niche manga to reach global audience coz of lack of translation so you don’t need to worry lol

thats such an intresting research, if your finished can i read it?

Definitely, it’ll be my pleasure! I will post my paper after my defense is done it will take some time tho! But if you’re interested I have a paper “the overlooked cases of female Hikikomori representation in manga” it’s a part of my thesis that I presented last year available online!!! If you read it do let me know your thoughts!

You know, when a research got published, like real publication. Some contents, such a key words or source appear on search options. Not only you are giving this kind of websites "more visibility" (the names of all the platforms) and it is possible, to some extent, to trace it back to you, since your name/school will be on the papers for credentials. (⊙…⊙ )

Also, since everything is anonymous, what is the risk of individuals filling the survey more than once?

I’m manually trying to reduce that limitation, but indeed that limitation exists and I will mention it under the limitation section. The survey was meant to be completely anonymous hence no limitation was applied, if I find two completely identical responses I delete one it is still manual work so there can be some errors.

Yes, I do not see any issue with that. More visibility - here it is important to ask to whom? Am I giving more visibility to people who are against illegal sites that are trying to ban them purposefully? No. Most likely people who are going to read my paper would be fellow researchers who are interested in either Hikikomori phenomenon or Manga and people on this site who have taken an interest in my work. My key words are: Hikikomori, Visual Analysis, Manga, Pop culture, gender studies. This survey is a part of my research not the entirety of it.

If you go to google scholar now and search keywords like Bato to, mangago, managadex, and other pirate sites you will find number of papers on them. Crunchyroll started off as an illegal site, became legal there’s a paper on that. If this site becomes legal a new site will appear you know why? There is that much demand for niche manga globally that Japan’s publishing companies fail to meet.

I myself have accepted in conferences that I came across the manga that I am working on in a pirate site. This study lies in the grey area. Rest assured it doesn’t mean harm. I just want to reach as many manga readers as I can!

Yes, I do not see any issue with that. More visibility - here it is important to ask to whom? Am I giving more visibility to people who are against illegal sites that are trying to ban them purposefully? No. Most likely people who are going to read my paper would be fellow researchers who are interested in either Hikikomori phenomenon or Manga and people in these platforms who have taken an interest in my work. My key words are: Hikikomori, Visual Analysis, Manga, Pop culture, gender studies. This survey is a part of my research not the entirety of it.

If you go to google scholar now and search keywords like Bato to, mangago, managadex, and other pirate sites you will find number of papers on them. Crunchyroll started off as an illegal site, became legal there’s a paper on that. If this site becomes legal a new site will appear…why? There is that much demand for niche manga globally that Japan’s publishing companies fail to meet.

I myself have accepted in conferences that initially I came across the manga that I am working on in a pirate site, now that I have resources I have paperback manga of my data. This study lies in the grey area. I need the survey to reach as many manga readers across the globe and it doesn’t matter where they consume this media.

Hmm. Maybe it is a bit too late in the data collection process. But I would have thought, maybe for the future, to have the user fill a required section/text format with overall opinion on the topic. I know open questions are the review, but using semantic software or word count can result on additional analytical insights. But this is not what I am suggesting this. The text-box would reduce the risk of duplicate false duplicates, scenario when different individuals actually happen to share all the same answers. Because to be honest, even myself, I can feel a survey a day saying I like cake then later saying I like fruits as a dessert better. The text/required box provide additional authenticity and capture more "aspects" that the set questions couldn't. Hope this could be of any help.

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Hmm. Maybe it's a bit too late in the data collection process, but I was thinking—maybe for future iterations—it could help to include a required section where users give their overall opinion on the topic in a free-text format.

I know open-ended questions are harder to review, but this is a bit different. With a required text box, semantic analysis or even word count could give some extra analytical insights. More importantly, it could reduce the risk of false (positive) duplicates—situations where different individuals just happen to give all the same answers. It's rare, but not impossible.

To be honest, even I could fill a survey one day saying I prefer cake, and then say I prefer fruit as a dessert the next. It creates two different responses, but from the same individual—a false (negative) unique. A required text box adds a bit of authenticity and helps capture aspects that fixed questions might miss. It’s not like you’d be reading 1,000 open answers manually—you could even use an AI tool to summarize and pull out recurring themes or standpoints.

Hope this is of any help.

Thank you this is very helpful. Most of my questions had other option where people could write their own opinions and to my surprise a lot of people have added their own opinions on different questions which saves time. I know doing it manually is very time consuming, but the thought of using AI just makes me anxious. I have already manually curated 600 responses. Doing it simultaneously while gathering responses. As for open ended question it definitely has its own pros but I decided not to add it for the survey because i already have a lot of qualitative data to analyze plus I wasn’t sure I would get such overwhelming responses (my goal was only 100 in beginning). I wouldn’t have enough time to do semantic analysis or any other qualitative analysis of open ended questions hence kept it for later. All of your points are really helpful, I will keep a note for future reference haha! Thanks a bunch!

Hi!! I just answered it ^^