Forum:That delicate balance of love/hate

I think its not a secret thing that I dislike Miku's vocal but I do like the mix of Append and Miku I will admit this. But the thing is, I don't like every Voclaoid out there. I'm not too keen on Kagamine Rin, tolerable to Rin and find Meiko boring. Lily I find dull, Gachapoid too ducky sounding (he always has my sympathy). Thats not all my opinions on Voclaoids but it should you give you the jest of the ones I dislike, the ones I like the most are Leon, Lola, Miriam, Prima, Big Al, Tonio, Gumi, Gakupo, Iroha, VY1 and VY2. Everyone not mentioned is either on my "not sure if I like them list" or "I'm waiting for their good songs to come to judge them correctly" list.

But theres always this line between letting your dislike for a Vocaloid drive you here on the wikia. This is why the "Strengths" and "Weaknesses" were added to pages to force everyone to admit that these guys ALL have their good and bad points and no voclaoid are immune to flaws. If they were immune to flaws we would see no updates to either engine nor voicebank. And when you consider at this point pretty much half the content of Miku's page was added be me you get the idea I'm trying to put across; I hate Miku but I add stuff for those who like her.

Opinions are opinions, I don't discriminate when it comes to adding information on a Vocaloid page, if I think the information is good enough I slap it on regardless of what my opinion is of that Vocaloid. :-/

There are lots of fans in this fandom who can seperate their feelings of a Vocaloid though from what the Vocaloid actually is. As a Engloid fan I've come to acknowledge this time and time again. You often get thigns said like "Gachapoid is a low quality product" or "Engloids suck" when reality is that neither statement is true. The reality is that there still remains some level of bias within the overseas Vocaloid fandom, as more and more langauges come out hope everyone realises that generally all languages are approx the same level of issues with each other and all have imperfections.

But with this growth of languages will also come a divide in quality and more and more folks will have problems diving the Voclaoid has a vocal and their opinion of the vocal itself. It is so easy to say avocal you hate is low quality... Furthermore the line between good and bad quality moves all the time, Miku was good in her day, but then better vocals came along. Does that mean Miku is bad quality? No, it just means that the quality improved after her. The Japanese fandom tends to have less trust in reputation at tiems and more in experience, a bad vocal is bought and the producers usually work on it until almost perfection, so a otherwise low quality Vocaloid can give a deceptive power in the right song of it being better then you think (see the Kagamines numerous songs out there).

Regardless of the situation, the wikia is doing relatively well at the moment even with articles comments taken into account... Most opinions are now removed, though some remain. Despit ewhat the guys at VO forums say, this wikia is now about 85% trustly in my opinion at least. But with the reliance all the time on translations of others and some confusion caused by bad translations, I don't think this wikia will ever be a perfect wikia. :-/