Suggestions and Small Announcements For Improving D-Addicts

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

We've unofficially run Wuxia Series of the Month (WSotM) for two months now. The first poll lasted for one month. The second one was for half a month. I believe they are successful.

Feb 08 poll
Mar 08 poll
Original discussion

The aim of WSotM is:
* To provide seeds to rarer wuxia / historical drama
* To raise awareness of the genre
* To build a community for the fans of the genre

I'm trying to work with the first two. But eventually also the third one since our fansub group, Jiang Hu, is specializing in subbing dramas in that genre.

I would propose making WSotM official. I request for the sanctification of the moderators / staffs. I would love to hear your thoughts about difficulties of making it happen.

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:44 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

its true that the sotw/m are extremely useful in helping seed older shows that die off...but the downsides are that the promised seeders vanish periodically but most importantly is that only english subbed dramas qualify for sotw/m. instead of a sotw for specific genres like wuxia, i'd rather see a sotw/m for raws

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:18 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:34 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

yay for Wsotw/m. Making it official would just be wonderful way to let others discover more of the genre, thus hopefully bringing more of its kinds online.

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:42 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:11 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I know there was a reason why initially we our SOTM polls were only for completed English-subbed series, though I can't remember what the exact reason was.

Does anyone remember why? scratch

I went to the SOTM's sticky and looked through Pucca's post: http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_5810.htm

However, I couldn't find any info on why that rule was established in the first place.

Hmmms....I may be wrong, but it might have to do with the fact that D-Addicts was first and foremost (in the past at least) a forum for the sharing and discussions of English subbed Asian dramas.

And somehow along the way, dramas that were subbed in other languages as well as the influx of many RAW dramas (so much that a lot of them weren't able to be picked up by fansubbers) ended up on D-A's server. It was probably due to the growth of the forum and we went from having a few dedicated and regular uploaders to so many new faces that the uploading system was introduced.

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:54 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:04 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:07 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I'd love to, but eventually I'd like to have other people to seed too just like other SotMs.

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

So, does WSotM get a blessing from mods? If not (or if there's no answer within a week or so), I will not hold April 2008 WSotM.

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:04 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I've got nothing against Wuxia but I wonder if there really is enough interest to make it an Official WSoTM. Looking at the stats of other SoTWs, JSoTW has 189 votes, KSoTM has 113, and CSoTM has 70. The March Unofficial WSoTM had 30 votes. February had 40 something ( I refuse to open it and get an exact number with the current load times). Personally, I don't mind adding it to the SoTW/M section but I think you originally proposed the idea as a test to see if enough people would be interested in it. If you have enough interested people to do official WSoTMs then by all means go for it. I'll support it.

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:23 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I'd stipulate that the relatively low vote count was the placement of the poll threads themselves. They were placed at the General Discussion (instead of SotM) forum and they did not enjoy conspicuous banners like other SotMs in torrent area. I wasn't here when SotMs were formulated. So, I don't know what the votes were that time. But I gather that 30-40 were quite good.

Alright then, I'll make another shot for April 2008 unofficial WSotM.

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Sounds good then. We can probably try a run in the SoTW/M section. I can move your thread to the SoTW/M section and sticky it after you make it. A banner and such will have to be left decided by the Admins.

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I nothing wrong with the this website. As far as I see this is the best website. I like asian dramas. So thank you very much for uploading any dramas for us.

Hi everyone,

I'm using RSS feeds quite a lot, and the one from d-addict as well. After quite some time doing so, it appears that I have no idea when a new subtitle for a drama i'm watching is released or not.

Even if I come here often, I have to check the subtitle list everyday... and I'm currently watching quite a lot of drama with softsubs.

And that's what makes me ask here: would it be possible to have a second RSS feed for D-addicts, but for the subtitles section? I don't know if it should be only one feed for all languages or a feed for each, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who would appreciate it.

Oh, and I hope that was the most appropriate place to post Smile

Thanks a lot,

MeLu-=^^=