Agree with first two. Third is hard disagree. On an illegal site so you think everything should be left to shit. Imagine all the content on here having bad translation and unreadable at all, bet nobody gonna give so much praise then. The ONLY reason people pretend to be nice is cuz if one story has unreadable translation, at least 100 other have good translation. If all 101 had bad translation, this site and the content wouldn't be thriving.
I get what you mean but we dont really have any grounds to complain on since we are illegally reading the things we usually pay for yk?
I agree like I can think a translation is bad but it’s not like the translator makes money off of it so who am I to complain
I don't read the bad translations, dw, if you're thinking I'm reaping the benefits while also complaining. I just think if you're willing to put out bad translations, then you opened yourselves up for backhanded comments. And because this is an illegal website, not like the praises for the bad translation pays the author either. It just perpetuates more bad quality and in the grand scheme, even an illegal site has its own reputation to keep up.
I find the last part so funny bc its so real
Hard no for all three of your rules.
1. I'm someone who still enjoys fan translations -- the good ones. The ones from reliable translators who show they enjoy and are fans of the story as much as the reader. (I miss the chapter comments and memes.) It annoys me every time a new story is posted or when an older story with a good translation several chapters deep and here comes those annoying notices of "I'll be Posting the Official When It's Available." An OFTL isn't always needed/required when the fan translation is just as good and sometimes better.
2. Nope. There are a few I respect, but they don't upload as much as they used to in the past. They would upload fan scanlations, from the better groups, but their effort were soon overrun by those uploaders in a rush to get the official chapters posted too. It's disrespectful unless both uploaders have come to an agreement. I will say I don't say/type anything to the new group of uploaders, but I do mentally complain sometimes for various reasons.
3. Nah, I've been here a very long time (way before my account creation date) and I remember when readers (and Admins) were more active in helping this site delete bad translations (re: S2Manga/Teen Manhwa/Tree Manga) and remove uploader accounts that kept posting those horrendous, barely readable translations. Before the ability was changed -- anybody could upload a chapter to any story on this site and it caused HUGE issues. Hasty, poorly done translations were uploaded because: People were looking to direct traffic to their newly established website, half-chapters being posted, fake chapters being posted, and egregious translations being uploaded over the better ones just because and/or clout -- it was a mess. Constant complaining and reporting helped get a lot of the bad translations removed. Complaining is still needed to keep the bad translations from winning. Complaining about the translations also helps other readers, especially if they glance at the comments before diving into reading; it alerts them to not waste their time trying to make sense out of the chapter(s) posted. Additionally, there are a lot of international readers on this site where English isn't their 1st or 2nd language and letting them know the translation is bad can stop them from picking up and learning horrendous grammatical structures. Just because something is given out freely (or illegally) doesn't mean you have to settle for garbage.
1. Always check if there is official chapters uploaded under the fan translated one
2. Respect the uploaders
3. Don’t complain about bad translation since we are in a illegal site, you get what you get and you don’t get upset.