Pet peeve #37564:

[sanada]

Scanlators who advertise their works in public communities, but require that you friend their personal journal to download anything. Maybe I'm a little weird in the translation community in that I really don't care what people do with my scanlations. Redistribute them, retranslate them, put them on Youtube as a slideshow, erase my name and

Comments

[shiroro]

Thank you. I can't agree with you even more.
Even tho I am one to make a separate journal and have everything f-locked for translations. LOL

[sanada]

*laugh* But you're just controlling access to it, right? It's not like you're making a big post in free_manga or some other community, and then holding out!

[ch1b1_ch1b1]

I miss the time when stuff for literately done from fans for fans and not from fans for friends

[sanada]

^__^ That's very true, everything is on Google~~

[randomdiversion]

I can see putting something that might qualify as 'porn' in some countries behind a clicky that says 'I'm of legal age', as a way of avoiding possible legal problems if somebody's mother gets pissy.

But that's not the same as locking it away from access.

I tend not to make my attempts at translation public because they still suck so bad. I don't want to create inaccurate fanon as the result of a bad translation.

[roundtuit]

I tend to just not download scanlations done by those people. I don't feel the need to read it badly enough that I would jump through hoops to get it. There are a few manga I might do that for, but they are obscure things dropped or forgotten by their original scanlators.

[anocomment]

I've thought about that before and have wondered why some are really so overly protective of their releases. I've never seen what the big deal was, because If you're gonna put it on the internet anyway then what does it really matter what happens to it