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https://plasmabloggin.substack.com/p/survey-results-pt-3-manifolds-favorites

Survey Results Pt. 3: Manifold's favorites

Alright, everyone. It’s time for the part I know you’ve all been waiting for. What were the winners of the Manifold’s favorites section, and which category had the mysterious upset? For anyone who doesn’t know how this works, I ran a series of free response markets asking what Manifold’s favorite movie, book, TV show, print comic, webcomic, song, video game, board game, role-playing game, short story, poem, podcast, YouTube channel, and play are. In each of these markets, users could submit any work they wanted as an option, as long as it was a member of the right category of work. Then, on my Manifold survey, I included a section asking what users thought of each option. They could either rank it as “Excellent,” “Good,” “Okay,” or “Bad,” or select that they hadn’t watched it, read it, heard it, etc. To determine “Manifold’s favorite” in each category, I converted these qualitative ratings into scores: Excellent = 2, Good = 1, Okay = 0, and Bad = -1, and then I added up the scores from each respondent to get a total score. I used a total, rather than an average, so that a work has an advantage if more people actually know about it - it wouldn’t be Manifold’s favorite if it’s only beloved by a small but dedicated group of Manifolders.

https://manifold.markets/33/is-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-a-graphic-n?r=MzM

Is Diary of a Wimpy Kid a "graphic novel"?

75% chance. Scholastic defines a graphic novel in the following manner: To be considered a graphic novel, rather than a picture book or illustrated novel, the story is told using a combination of words and pictures in a sequence across the page. Graphic novels can be any genre, and tell any kind of story, just like their prose counterparts. This market can be considered to represent just the first book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, or the entire series. Basically, if you owned a bookstore in which you only had two sections: "graphic novels" and "other" - which section of your store do you place Diary of a Wimpy Kid?

The survey is now out. That means no more responses will be accepted for free response questions.

Hm, Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a bit of an edge case, but it maybe counts as a graphic novel. Everyone on Discord who has answered so far seems to think it shouldn't count, though. What do the traders think?

@33 @nickten @nlhm @Joshua @TenShino

I'm cool with removing it. I've never actually read it! I was researching popular graphic novels and saw this,

"Today’s pick is Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid, a much-loved funny graphic novel series about a middle schooler who illustrates his life in a notebook-style diary." - https://readingmiddlegrade.com/books-like-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid/

Hence why I .made it a choice. Someone else called it a graphic novel. If you disagree with them, remove it. Otherwise, it fits the criteria. Your call and I'm in agreement since I am only calling it a graphic novel bc it was it was referred to as one - not bc I have read it and truly believe it to be graphic novel. 🤷‍♂️

20 Fun Books Like Diary of a Wimpy Kid (But Better!)

20 relatable diary/notebook-style middle school books like Diary of a Wimpy Kid for fans of true-to-life graphic novels.

... and disagreewith Barnes and Noble.

@33 Okay, I won't include it then. As someone who has actually read it, I never thought of it as a graphic novel, and even if it is, it would probably be considered a "graphic novel that isn't a comic".

@33 And yeah, my initial agreement was based on looking up whether people consider it to be a graphic novel and finding that same article, but that's probably not a good methodology because looking up something like that is going to find me the few sources that consider it to be a graphic novel and not the many sources that don't.

they split water (!) with a knife (!) rofl