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User Questionnaire
allanmaib:
xchiamiov edit: this was split off from this thread
I decided to make a questionnaire specifically targeted towards users of BxT - if any would like to voice their opinion. Staff, please feel free to weigh in on Q#9 about Crunchyroll.
USER QUESTIONNAIRE: BxT
1. What is your back story? How did you get into anime?
2. Why do you use BxT? What do you like about it? (as a standalone community, but also – what do you like about it better than using alternative sites to obtain torrents?)
3. What are your feelings concerning the online community of BxT?
4. What is your personal view of the fact that BxT operates simultaneously as a public and private tracker?
5. Would you still use BxT if it was a either: a paid service, or the site contained ads?
6. Have you donated to BxT? Would you donate if you could? Would/Do you choose to donate your time to helping build the community of BxT as a way to contribute instead, if you don’t have the financial means to donate?
7. To Adopters of torrents – What motivated you to do this?
8. If BxT were to disappear, how would that make you feel? What would you do to replace the service and community that you lost?
9. How do you feel about Crunchyroll? If you are familiar with Crunchyroll’s draconian Terms of Service in relation to user donated subtitling services, what are your thoughts on that?
Thanks for your time.
Allan
PS - is there somewhere better I might post the user questionnaire?
XeroSKill:
--- Quote ---1. What is your back story? How did you get into anime?
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I have been into anime ever since i knew what "anime" was compared to cartoons. I didn't make this realization til probably early high school (right around when i joined boxtorrents in '03). I was just seeing on tv some shows were just better and actually followed a story line and i found out that most of them were "anime's" but i really didn't have the money at the time to actually purchase dvd's. So I started to download them (first on kazaa) then on torrents after i found out about torrents in 2003. I really enjoyed being able to sit down and get away from anything and get absorbed into an anime series. This was a great vent at the time for my free time and it actually helped me meet people who had similar addictions. I then wanted to contribute to what was the community that enabled me to watch these series's which happened to be Boxtorrents. I was a very active participant on the forums to talk about series and just shoot the wind (in the spam *MAPS* section of the forums). I then became a moderator on these forums to help keep things under control since back then, the forums were super active (too active) and needed some moderation because the community was booming. I was the spammiest moderator that loved MSPAINT because I had nothing better than that for images, and images worked sooo much better than black and white text. (EXAMPLE) (click to show/hide) OLD IMAGE IS OLD :-P But i really wanted to keep things active but under control, but now, im not really even a moderator, just a lifetime member who has been here longer than almost everyone (i was the 53rd member to sign up for this site, out of over 38,000 members) but i still try to keep active to see where the site is going. (background complete!)
--- Quote ---2. Why do you use BxT? What do you like about it? (as a standalone community, but also – what do you like about it better than using alternative sites to obtain torrents?)
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Box allows the users to download entire series in 1 go, instead of each individual episode. At the beginning this used to be the only site that actually did that. This was also one of the only sites that had exclusively anime all in once place. Easy to find. I love the community most of all, since it seems overall, everyone is just super kind and very willing to help, which really, you don't find in the forum communities very often. You usually find a bunch a douchebags who just will do anything to 1 up you and everything you do. The community has been holding together forever, I'm still in contact with most people of every generation of boxtorrent members. Especially the super cool ones :-P. I do enjoy what this site does, and would never leave it. I may not download as many torrents anymore, like i used to, but I'm more apt to purchase anime since I can now afford it, which would of never been the case if I couldn't get into it while i was younger.
--- Quote ---3. What are your feelings concerning the online community of BxT?
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I have so many members that i love, and would do so much for. There are a lot of us that are a pretty tight knit group, that really would help each other out if they needed it. There are many members that all of us have been gotten quite close to through the talkings on this site and then beyond this website. I have no clue who i would be as a person if I have not met some of these people. Their opinions and conversations helped shape who I am today and I'm proud to say that.
--- Quote ---4. What is your personal view of the fact that BxT operates simultaneously as a public and private tracker?
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5. Would you still use BxT if it was a either: a paid service, or the site contained ads?
6. Have you donated to BxT? Would you donate if you could? Would/Do you choose to donate your time to helping build the community of BxT as a way to contribute instead, if you don’t have the financial means to donate?
7. To Adopters of torrents – What motivated you to do this?
8. If BxT were to disappear, how would that make you feel? What would you do to replace the service and community that you lost?
9. How do you feel about Crunchyroll? If you are familiar with Crunchyroll’s draconian Terms of Service in relation to user donated subtitling services, what are your thoughts on that?
Thanks for your time.
Allan
PS - is there somewhere better I might post the user questionnaire?
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****TO BE EDITED, I JUST DO NOT HAVE THE TIME AT THE MOMENT TO FINISH THIS*****
darkjedi:
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---
1. What is your back story? How did you get into anime?
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Hi. I'm an aspiring high school student who plans to (or wants to) spend the rest of his life as a tank driver in Iran or somewhere. I'm not Iranian, though, and is not diligent when it comes to punctuation and grammar when using English. I read random stuff off the internet (around 20-30 articles and blogs of various topics each day) when I have time and am an avid video gamer. I got hooked into anime when on a particular day spent browsing the web (just this year) some random image of anime girls started to make me feel hotter than real women made me feel. During the early days of my 'addiction' I used to watch anime that featured attractive female protagonists, like Elfen Lied, Spice and Wolf, and Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, all of which are considered masterpiece by international standards. But ultimately my passion belonged to military themed anime. One of my favorite animation movie is The Sky Crawlers, which features genetically enhanced, immortal, permanently adolescent cloned pilots shooting each other down flying in aircraft derivative of WWII-era aircraft for no other reason than to entertain people like me. (that's part of the movie's plot; simulating war for people's enjoyment) It's not very popular though; it's trying too hard to be anti-stereotypical and cinematic that people tend to avoid it. Other anime series that I like are Gunslinger Girl and Ghost In The Shell. Both series deal with law enforcement and military police. That's not to say that I particularly advocate law and order; it's just that the series happened to invoke a military-oriented storyline that actually made sense. What better reason is there to use violence than using it for the government? ;)
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---2. Why do you use BxT? What do you like about it? (as a standalone community, but also – what do you like about it better than using alternative sites to obtain torrents?)
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I use BxT mainly for the forum. I also download some anime from BxT but I don't leech heavily because if I break my download/upload ratio I can't post here. (I think)
What I like about BxT is the forum. It's more informative than other torrent sites and provides better and quicker feedback than anime rating sites such as ANN and Anidb.
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---3. What are your feelings concerning the online community of BxT?
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I've seen worse. People of BxT are as diverse as people of anywhere else. I have no difficulty in tolerating the less desirable forum members, and I believe other forum members are also tolerant of me.
The kind of members I like are those who I can trust to give a faithful review of a particular anime series. I don't really like fanboys who give shitty reviews. I guess that's the main thing the online community BxT has to offer to me; (not the shitty reviews!) easily accessible information regarding anime. At least it works better than Wikipedia.
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---4. What is your personal view of the fact that BxT operates simultaneously as a public and private tracker?
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I use BxT for the forum, and it's not my main source of anime torrents so it isn't very important whether it's public because there are other public trackers and I don't care if it's private because I would have registered anyway. It's not a source of nuisance to me.
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---5. Would you still use BxT if it was a either: a paid service, or the site contained ads?
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I don't like forums that I need to pay to use or is spammed by ads, so I wouldn't.
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---6. Have you donated to BxT? Would you donate if you could? Would/Do you choose to donate your time to helping build the community of BxT as a way to contribute instead, if you don’t have the financial means to donate?
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I haven't donated anything to BxT. I'd donate if I thought it'd benefit me somehow.
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---7. To Adopters of torrents – What motivated you to do this?
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I'm not an adopter but if I did become an adopter in the future it would have been because I felt I could somehow benefit from becoming one.
And I certainly wouldn't do it just for sake of promoting piracy, no! :D
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---8. If BxT were to disappear, how would that make you feel? What would you do to replace the service and community that you lost?
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Mostly ambivalent. I might miss it, but I know I can find other anime forum somewhere else if BxT is unreachable to me, so it wouldn't worry me too much.
I've watched around three dozen anime series over the past 2 months, and only half dozen of them are from BxT. I have other sources to download anime torrents from, so BxT is dispensable.
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---9. How do you feel about Crunchyroll? If you are familiar with Crunchyroll’s draconian Terms of Service in relation to user donated subtitling services, what are your thoughts on that?
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I've never used Crunchyroll. In fact, I've never heard of it before.
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM --- Thanks for your time.
Allan
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You're welcome. ;D
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---PS - is there somewhere better I might post the user questionnaire?
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In General Discussion subforum, maybe, but it's not for me to decide....
Edited a bit because I left some points out... #1,#2,#3,#7,#8...
Southrop:
Answered some questions that weren't in the staff questionnaire and still applied to me.
2. Why do you use BxT? What do you like about it? (as a standalone community, but also – what do you like about it better than using alternative sites to obtain torrents?)
The quality, the collections. BoxTorrents was what I had been searching for for ages as an otaku. It carried loads of anime and such, and was simply like paradise to me.
3. What are your feelings concerning the online community of BxT?
People need to learn to search. Even if it is Yahoo search (though I recommend Google).
5. Would you still use BxT if it was a either: a paid service, or the site contained ads?
We occasionally do, actually. When Box is struggling to pay for servers, we have one ad on the side. People will small monitors won't be able to see it. And no ads will go on forums, mind you. Just the site.
6. Have you donated to BxT? Would you donate if you could? Would/Do you choose to donate your time to helping build the community of BxT as a way to contribute instead, if you don’t have the financial means to donate?
I don't have money to donate, so I contribute more through uploading and seeding.
8. If BxT were to disappear, how would that make you feel? What would you do to replace the service and community that you lost?
Group together with the rest of the staff, and we'll create JarudinTorrents.
9. How do you feel about Crunchyroll? If you are familiar with Crunchyroll’s draconian Terms of Service in relation to user donated subtitling services, what are your thoughts on that?
I like crunchyroll more than I used to now, because they are doing things legally, rather than making money off fansubs. No idea about the ToS, because I don't use CR much. I have an account though.
Xiong Chiamiov:
As with Southie, I'm answering a few questions I didn't in the staff questionaire.
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---2. Why do you use BxT? What do you like about it? (as a standalone community, but also – what do you like about it better than using alternative sites to obtain torrents?)
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I can always find things (as long as they're not on the blacklist), and they're always seeded. A major plus is that Jaru has really done an excellent job on this site, so I actually _enjoy_ using it. When you spend time studying usability, design principles and such, you tend to get rather annoyed at crappy websites.
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---3. What are your feelings concerning the online community of BxT?
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Most of "the community", I think, stays in the forums where I don't tread, so I generally just interface with all of the super-helpful ones. You should be able to guess my opinions on them.
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---5. Would you still use BxT if it was a either: a paid service, or the site contained ads?
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Hell yeah. Besides, I've got Adblock Plus.
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---6. Have you donated to BxT? Would you donate if you could? Would/Do you choose to donate your time to helping build the community of BxT as a way to contribute instead, if you don’t have the financial means to donate?
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I haven't given any money because I'd rather spend it on tuiton and rent, as well as other causes I'm committed to. If Box says he needs money, though, then I'll help as much as I can.
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---8. If BxT were to disappear, how would that make you feel?
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:'(
--- Quote from: allanmaib on June 12, 2009, 06:01:09 PM ---9. How do you feel about Crunchyroll? If you are familiar with Crunchyroll’s draconian Terms of Service in relation to user donated subtitling services, what are your thoughts on that?
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They stream subtitled anime, which is cool, I guess. I can't trust streams to always be available, though, (Funimation's video portal has been down for some three days now) so I prefer to keep copies myself. Thus, I don't find myself visiting CR very often.
--- Quote ---PS - is there somewhere better I might post the user questionnaire?
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We might split this off and move it to General. It'll be cleaner if we do it, though, than you creating a new thread.
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