Well, I'm going to leave this one really simple, since it's pretty much a combination personal/academic/scanlation-industry type of thing, and it's just my own thoughts, which don't really warrant a fancy layout. I'm still not 100% sure where I expect things to go on here, but it'll most likely end up with irregular walls of text, rants, and shit that lots of people won't care about, so no claiming I'm boring or that I didn't warn you. I think tonight I'll bitch about something that really annoys me about the scanlation community, and then we'll see if something slightly less snarky comes to me later.
So, a lot of the time that I'm looking at joint projects and potential new projects for WOW!scans, rather than think about stuff I like or browsing tags on aggregators, I dig around in the community and look for series that are dropped, have gaps, or where the groups are going really slow/using bad raws/otherwise screwing the readers. In my opinion, it's a much better thing to bail out a series that has frustrated readers than it is to pick up some new series and create a new fanbase - you're not only creating the positive feelings in new fans, you're helping to cure that frustration that people get when a series they like ends up screwed up in some way. So, that brings me to my issue... I'm not sure what drives people to do shit sometimes. Take Shiki for example, we almost picked that one up for a while, because two groups were working on it, but the second group had left a gap of several chapters when they started, and the group working in order up towards the gap in scanlations apparently didn't care to put out more than one chapter ever few months. The first group, who knows, maybe they were on their last legs or understaffed. The one that gets me is that second group that picked it up and knowingly left a gap in the scanlations. I saw a thread earlier (which was being trolled, so I backed the fuck out) where some /a/non was working on Usagi Drop scanlations. Leaving a gap of several chapters. The solution isn't to troll him, but really, I don't know what the thought process is when someone decides to do that. Scanlation takes too much effort to not do it for the pleasure of knowing people are enjoying reading your releases - so how does screwing the reader or doing less than your best effort ever make sense? It's almost along the lines of those groups that don't QC (hours of TL and cleaning, just to put out a shitty Engrish scanlation...) or that use ugly, unreadable raws. It seems so counter-intuitive to me, if anyone can explain this kind of shit to me, please do. Dropping stuff, going on hiatus, all of that makes sense; although it can be pretty screwy too, especially when one project is dropped to make room for some shit no one likes, but picking up a series and leaving a hole in the translations is just unfathomable for me. Alright, rambling rant over. More next time.
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