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As a former longtime contributor to One Snowshoe, can vouch for Bella being 1) very responsible and 2) very detail oriented, conforming circumspectly to a really picayune and meticulous style guide and keeping in regular communication to ensure she met every reasonable deadline I requested.

She'll make an excellent contributor.  I'd heartily second this application. 

Took my lunch break to address this:  

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So no criticism of the content in the original post whatsoever.  The content is beside the point, has nothing to do with my view that I found the banner is large and obnoxious such that it was rendering my visits to the Bato.to homepage unpleasant and such that I wanted a solution.  Even if the new banner featured a rotating amount of non-Sakio+-related content, potentially even including series I had done work on, I would have searched for a way to remove it.  It's big.  It forced me to scroll before I could see the rest of the homepage interface.

I can't help but fathom that you've taken this all a wee bit too personally.  Step back and contemplate your own consumption habits in terms of what you read, how you read, and on what basis you read certain things, and maybe we can turn that "appalled" into a "disappointed" or into my, "Well, sucks for them."

... or maybe you've read the Saiko+ content?  Is it good enough that that not reading it does suck for someone relative to the gajillions of other great things they could read?  Then maybe it's only worth ever being disappointed.  

I don't know.  You'll figure it out.

Back to work! 

I have no intention of ever closing that banner, I am appalled at the actions of the handful of people who came here to complain about that banner in the slightest way.

 

Do any of you people that came here to complain about getting something for free have any idea what the proverb "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth"  means? What about the "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" one? Does that one strike any chords with you in light of this conversation/your actions?

Whoa nelly!

There are a whole bunch of schools of thought when it comes to web design.  I"m definitely in the mind that I want as much information as possible accessible in a quick, streamlined, organized sense.  For that reason, I avoid websites like ESPN.com that hide content, obfuscate the locations of content, and don't reliably organize their content... oh, and also plug up pages with massive banners.  I similarly avoid altogether now because of its nonsensical sorting practices in actually getting me feed.  Similarly, I regularly submit negative feedback to Twitter because I can't stand how they've de-chronologized the data.  I'm actually using a third party tool to re-sort my follows.  Similarly, many users, whether it be YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Hockey's Future's message boards, etc. are put off by prioritized content/promoted content, especially when it's not content that they're using/enjoying.  This isn't something I complain about.  If I see promoted content on a platform I use, I ignore it if it's small (i.e. Hockey's Future) or X it out and move on if it's large and obtrusive (i.e. Twitter even on my sorting tool). 

What do these have in common with Bato.to?  They're all free to use.  Any website, any community exists not as a service provided to its users but as a function of its relationship with its users.  Play with an interface enough, and you can drive off regular users or fail to attract current ones.  Do you cruise the IRC channels or visit /r/manga or 4chan?  The immediate reaction to the lack of an opt-out feature on Bato.to was far, far more vitriolic than the more civil request issued within this thread.  The implementation of the feature immediately cooled that down.  From that point of view, feedback, especially constructive negative feedback, is indispensable to the long-term welfare of any site. 

I know you're a fierce supporter of Bato.to, that you do your best to lighten the load of the moderation team when it comes to answering questions in a thoughtful and constructive manner. The last thing you should be appalled by is forthright feedback. 

Cheers. 

Biiiig thanks for your understanding and attention about this, Grumpy.  I really appreciate it. =)

 

 

That's not an add, folks, that's this site's promotion of their effort to bring us even more of what we're all here for.....English language, manga/manhwa style comics. If you're not interested in those particular title, well, that's just the way it is and all, but in the big picture it's a good thing .......well, as long as it's not the precursor of all the fan-scanlated stuff disappearing from the site that is

That doesn't mean that the titles have to be that LARGE or that they can't be embedded in a collapsible banner or equipped with additional preferences. 

Official content up with a creator's say-so is a good thing.  But the way that's rolled out is critical.  IMO, this is garish and inconvenient.  And I've joined the flock of people using adblock to disable the Saiko+ images.  (I actually leave up the Bato.to ads.  Heh.)   That's probably not what Saiko+ wants either.  These things need to be smaller, collapsible, or better integrated into the site.

Meh.  I don't see 'em anymore.  But I don't like the solution I've been forced to adopt.