Oh, my! How can people be so rude sometimes? I only would find an excuse for people in their teens... but the most part of them are adults, as far as I know. (⊙…⊙ )(⊙…⊙ )
Is it possible for them to post it anonymously using on... tumblr or reddit? Even 4chan, but I don't know anything about that.
Surely they'd be untraceable that way.
Well dsaid! Honestly, some people are so f**king rude and ungrateful. They demand an immediate posting of a scan, then bitch about how poor the quality is, how terrible the translation ... etc. It kind of make me sick, and seriously blackens the eyes of the rest of the fan community.
Unless you are on the dark web, nothing is truly anonymous or untraceable.
All i have to say is thank u very much for your hard work and thank you for the update
Thank you!
It is definitely a serious pet-peeve of mine to see readers criticizing ANYTHING about scanlations when it's obvious that if it weren't for the wonderful free hard work of scanlators, we wouldn't be here enjoying all these wonderful Mangas. I mean, is a simple matter of human decency. It just doesn't make sense, but there you have it, that's how repugnant the worst aspects of human nature is. Fucking ingrates that dare to complain when we are all leeches/parasites living off of the hard work of fans that love the genre. And yes, I can see where you're coming from regarding the bullying in Mangago; I've been seeing that too often lately. All I can say from the bottom of my heart is that I may not know you, but I love you and all the scanlators in the fandom that enrich our community with your hard work without getting anything in return. THANK YOU!! Really, without people like you, we wouldn't be here (●'◡'●)ﾉ
If that can clear some things up, here's parts of a message the group sent me a few years ago when people were screaming like the sky was falling down. They're chill and want to make it fair for everyone, but they're only human :):
I don't see how we've gotten such a bad rep. All we do is, scan, translate, and post on the journal. And if anyone wants to share, I don't have a problem as long as they tell me first. This little fan group is so small and insignificant compared to the real scanlation groups that carry on dozens of projects. So why is it causing so much fuss? Last year, we only had one person doing the translations, cleaning, typesetting, editing, scanning etc and it ended up with some fan on mangago complaining that we were "defecating yamane-sensei's work with the poor scans and grammar" and reported us so from then on, we decided to go private to prevent this from happening again.
I see the problem now, someone went all "high and mighty." I myself try to distance myself as far away from mangago as I can because the fans there can get OVERLY out of hand, I swear, one day, someone there will really commit suicide from the cyber bullying there :/ hopefully not though. I don't want to associate with the people there because it's very tiring, there's always someone there who manages to twist your words and make you look bad. I sometimes feel I can't win with the fans on mangago. When we first shared, the all the responses was: the scans and translations suck, leave it to a professional. When we got better, the comments were that we were cocky and "elite" and we should all go and die, and now I see even after a year, we are still somehow viewed as "elite" :/
I'm about to rant now so forgive me. This whole situation started with the group harudaki back about two years ago. They were sharing the scans publicly but then DMP caught them and demanded them to remove their download links or they will have to take legal action. So the group moved to a new private journal but soon after, sharing without permission started. This group harudaki already been blacklisted by DMP once, they can't afford a second warning so the head of the community requested her 3000 members to spam manga sites like mangago to get their scans taken off their sites. So for the next few months, mangasites like mangago saw nothing but "take down viewfinder, it's private, you gotta be in the group to see it."Now this is where the "rubbing in our faces," and the "high and mighty" attitude started. And now, harudaki has to post everything publicly under the watchful eyes of the law. So all the groups and fans that followed after harudaki became paranoid that they will end up the same, so that's where privatizing, selectivity all started, and every group that followed after had to clean up the mess harudaki's memebers left. When I picked up the manga with a friend, I wanted to share to everyone, but apparently our quality of work wasn't good enough and it ended up with a report and livejournal suspending our previous account. So we moved to a new journal and I still want to share with everyone, but more secretively because the moment a fan gets a hold of our journal link, they can report us to anyone. If our name is not known, we can be left in peace.
A lot of fans don't understand how serious translating a licensed manga is. Yaoi companies in japan like Libre who hosts viewfinder, is a very very very small company. If you live in a small city in Japan, the local book stores don't carry libre magazines, so it has to be ordered. Because they are very small, they are a lot more strict with free scanlation groups doing their projects. So they are more on edge unlike magazines like shounen jump or other big titles. So translating a manga like viewfinder is indeed illegal and a violation of the DMCA law, which could seriously lead to fines, arrests, lawyers etc.
Regarding translations from different fans, there will always be endless amounts of complaining. I remember one instance where people were complaining about the bad translations the actual real official english group was doing - June manga. I mean, if even the legal company got complaints about their books and translations, what chance does anyone else have :/ (although some of their translation were pretty funny lol)