Uwah this is such a hard poll for me, not because I don't particularly agree with any choice (like sometimes) but because almost all of them annoy me to no end I don't know which one to pick!

"When you start a series and then find out: Last Release (1000d ago). Completely Scanlated: No" - If you choose this, and this really does piss you off, then isn't that your own fault for not noticing it in the first place? I mean I have a ton of series on my wish list that are like that, and that's the main reason I haven't gotten around to reading any of them yet. It's like... pay more attention, and it won't even be an issue. Unless you're some kind of masochist or something, then, by all means, continue tormenting yourself.

What annoy me the most is when i start reading a manga who's still getting scanlated, but stop being scanlated soon after.

I guess if I'm being honest the only time I really get disappointed is when a series I like gets dropped for whatever reason. Especially when it's a series that is unlike any other series so I can't find anything similar to replace it with.

Speed scans. They might be a good alternative for series which are not being worked on, but they annoy me when they translate a work which is actively being scanlated in HQ. Speed scans of those works brings a negative image to mangas... sometimes low quality scans of those works makes people think that the manga is bad.

The "No release in the last 2 years" is what makes me do the Darth Vader scream of "NOOOOOO!!!!"

A close second is when a group who says they desperately need more members simultaneously says they're going to take on new series. If they are already stretched thin, why are they taking on more? Well, ultimately they can do what they want. But it just makes me go

Wow, almost everything on this list pisses me off. But the worst is still people making money off scanlations just by uploading the releases of other groups.

Wow, I can't vote.
Everything on that list is annoying as hell.

The one that annoys me the least though, is when people nag about the next release, because you can just ignore them.
You can't really do anything about the rest though.

That which enrages me the most is the fact that a lot of people somehow for some strange reason feels other people owe them whatever they desire. I mean, are they the kind of people to demand people they meet on the street to lick their shoes or be their personal slave for the rest of their lives? What goes on in their mind? If anyone reading this post is that kind of person then please enlighten me what goes on in your mind.

If it is not clear. I chose "People who ask: "When will the next chapter be released?"".
Which I read as: "People who incessantly whine/threaten: Where the fuck is the next chapter you lazy bitches and no I don't care if it is not out yet in Japan, give me the fucking chapter!""

Btw, just to make it clear. I don't scanlate, I just loathe the mindset of certain people.

I think you may have forgot a choice in the poll.
"When your favorite manga ends prematurely."

Yeah I gotta agree that all of these are irritating. It's a tough one to choose from.

I think, being a scanlator myself, I do find people who ask "When's the next chapter released?" really, really annoying. It'll be released when it's done. Shut up and stop asking.

People making money out of it is also pretty bad. As if we need any more targets painted on our backs.

Ugh I dunno which one to go for. They're all damn annoying...

Ugh.... There are like 3 answers here that are really close for me.... It has to be the toughest poll decision I've made yet.... To be honest I copped out and just randomly chose one of the three, but basically anything that results in a series to stop being scanlated is a doom and gloom scenario in my world....

Tough question. I picked #4 because it's happened most often (it seems), but #3 is probably more true for me. #2 would apply, but I tend to read a whole cluster of projects from a given group, so there's always something to read. #1 doesn't seem to apply that much anymore, so it's no longer a big deal.

On a related note... Someone PLEASE pick up [m]Tomehane[/m].

LOL @ "When you start a series and then find out: Last Release (1000d ago). Completely Scanlated: No." Seriously, though, most of these are equally bad. I picked the cease and desist one.

"When multiple groups scanlate the same series"
^ this definitely. Specially those who steal other's project when it gets popular. A lot of good mangas aren't translated and some groups are just fighting over the popular ones. So much manpower WASTED just to get ahead and become more popular.

I wish I could select more than one...

Speed scanlations can rot in hell ;D also bad translators and those who think they can translate because they've been learning Japanese for a month... or they can read the alphabet... or the best part because everyone else is delusional and thinks the translator is awesome because they pump out 231219 scripts a week but it's actually just all BS...

//hate//

Oh I picked those people making money off scanlations. I mean sure asking for donations for manga is fine, but spending it on your xbox? PC ?? f no

One thing that most pisses me off is what I like to call "the anime bubble." It's when a scanlator decides to pick up a new manga or a manga that hasn't been scanlated for awhile because the anime is currently being released. and then, when the anime is done, and the series's 15 minutes of fame is up, they suddenly drop it whether it was even close to finish or not. Sometimes having jumps in scanlations (something that also pisses me off going from chapter 5 to chapter 20 with the rest not scanlated) because "the other chapters were covered in the anime."

I love when multiple scanlators do the same series. This way you're sure the manga can get scanlated. I wish it happened more often than just the big 3.

Man, all of these annoy the hell out of me but in this order.
1. When you start a series and then find out: Last Release (1000d ago). Completely Scanlated: No
I usually wait until it's completely scanlated but there are some manga that I just have to start reading and hope that some group will pick them up again.
2. When scanlation stops due to a Cease & Desist
Can't be helped but man, so annoying!!!
3. People making money off scanlations
Yeah, just kill the scanlation community won't you? It's like making something grey all the way black.
4. When a good series stops being scanlated because the group closed
5. When a good series stops being scanlated because it's not popular
6. When a group has too many projects and releases are slow for the series you read
7. People who ask: "When will the next chapter be released?"
8. When multiple groups scanlate the same series
9. Speed scanlations

How about when readers feel so entitled to the release that they start to harass the scanlators? I vote for [People who ask: "When will the next chapter be released?"]

But seriously though to address the choices:

[When multiple groups scanlate the same series]
Seriously dude, people scanlate what they want to scanlate. Just because one group has done it doesn't mean that group has the exclusive rights to it. Let them do it, it's no skin off your back.

[When a group has too many projects and releases are slow for the series you read]
Again, people scanlate what they want to scanlate. They want to work on 10 projects? They will work on 10 projects. People have different methods and ways of working. Sometimes just working on 5 projects get boring. And guess what, scanlators do it for fun. If it's not fun anymore, they can quit.

[When a good series stops being scanlated because it's not popular]
This is kinda the opposite spectrum. I think this can be pegged to 'lack of manpower' as in nobody's really interested in doing it. A lot of you have been moaning about maximizing the manpower and not work on the same project with other groups. Can you blame them for focusing their manpower on the popular projects? Make more people happy and all that?

[When a good series stops being scanlated because the group closed]
Shit happens. Life happens. If it's really that great of a series, other groups will pick it up. Sometimes a group closes because it's not rewarding. If you think about the amount of work they put into it and the amount of appreciation they get for it (hint: it's not equal) I can understand why scanlators want to call it quits.

[When you start a series and then find out: Last Release (1000d ago). Completely Scanlated: No]
-points upwards-

[People who ask: "When will the next chapter be released?"]
Look, I totally get that you're DYING to know what happens next. But just in case you don't know, scanlators don't owe you anything. They have real life too. Hobbies stop being hobbies when they get demanding.

[Speed scanlations]
Is this a term for 1 hour scanlation with sloppy translation and editing? Well, it's there because people get so impatient about the next chapter, isn't it? You demand, they provide. Why the complaint? You get to choose two from FAST, GOOD, or CHEAP. Since cheap is non negotiable because it's FREE, then choose between fast or good. Speed Scanlation is obviously the fast one.

[People making money off scanlations]
Every group is different for this, but I do agree that this is basically making money from other people's copyright.

Groups that ask for donations are different though. Donations are for people to show their appreciation, it's not a charge. Donations are for people who acknowledges that there are people who use their resources to make the scanlation available for free, and they appreciate that.

And there you have it. Just got to get that off my chest.

When scanlation stops due to a Cease & Desist - and subsequent license stops right where the scanlation ended.

Heh heh, I've been guilty of picking up "too many" projects. Like someone said, it gets boring and lonely as hell for a translator like me to only work on one series. My mind keeps doing somersaults; I need to feed it, feed it, feed it.

I don't mind people asking when the next release will be, but I hate it when they email me personally to tell me that I promised to release something and didn't. (Stuff happens, people. For me, especially, LOTS of stuff happens.)

I guess what pisses me off the most would be people making money off of scanlations. That's just plain dirty.

Option 5 so much. I can stand it when a series hasn't had an update for a year (looking at you ID), but when a series hasn't had a new scanlation release in the last 2 years, you can pretty much bet that it won't get another release ever again.

It's just so sad when you start a series, fall in love with it, then find out that there hasn't been a new scanlation in forever! Or, likewise, that you find a new series that you want to read, but there's only a few chapters released and there hasn't been a new release in circa 1000 days. Very saddening.

It's also horrifying when an awesome series is canceled because of a group closing. TT~TT

As an ex-scanlator, definitely getting bombarded with wanting to know when the next chapter of something may be released. You go a couple days later than when a chapter may usually be released and you get flooded. If it's pushing a month or two then I can understand.

As a reader, definitely picking up a series and seeing either 2 years since last release or a release every 2-3 months when all the volumes are out.

What piss me off the most:

- When you start a series and then find out: Last Release (1000d ago). Completely Scanlated: No

- Speed scanlations

- When a good series stops being scanlated because the group closed

I can't decide which one irritates me the most. But right now I'm being tortured by:
- Suki Desu Suzuki-kun!!
- Suki tte ii na yo

I don't know when the chapters are going to be released, in Suki Desu Suzuki-kun!!'s case, the manga is already complete as well as [m]Chitose etc[/m], even if they dont catch as much attention as others do, I don't care, I like them. Even when people criticize [m]Chitose etc[/m] I haven't read it, but I will cause I really like YOSHIZUMI Wataru works. Like recently she is working on Marmalade Boy Little which made me so happy. I totally fell in love with her art and her stories.


Kiss kara Hajimaru this was one of my first, but at that time I didn't know it wasn't complete

Only You - Tobenai Tsubasa has so much potential, but nobody would pick it up. It only got 8 volumes and it's complete.

Again another poll that I want multi-choice but I chose
When a group has too many projects and releases are slow for the series you read
because it annoys me the most since there is this strange consensus on scanlating that if one group scans, another can't. There are special cases of course but it depends on the scanlator groups.
I hate this one group that has over 100 projects ACTIVE and they still take on new ones!! Because of that, I've refused to read any new projects by this group. It seems so pointless for them to do that. This is beyond just having slow releases. It's more like NO RELEASES

When multiple groups scanlate the same series
I welcome this. translators do things differently depending on the person so you can get a completely different translation depending on the translator and PR.

When a good series stops being scanlated because it's not popular
This is just a terrible excuse for stopping. I rarely encounter this (once in a blue moon) but what annoys me is when a publisher does this. This actually happened to Tokyopop before they came down. They were publishing this one series I was really into and then they stopped. Idk if it's popularity or w/e but seriously, that annoyed the heck out of me.

When a good series stops being scanlated because the group closed
Unfortunate but here's to hoping another group picks it up! It doesn't piss me off b/c it just might mean that people have their lives to live.

When you start a series and then find out: Last Release (1000d ago). Completely Scanlated: No
it's annoying but it doesn't piss me off unless it's a group like the one I mentioned having over 100 projects. Other than that, it might mean the group is inactive/closed. And because of this possibility, recently I've been more inclined to search for completed mangas to read. Of course there are exceptions such as some of the more popular mangas that are being scanlated today but other than those, I try to go for more completed now.

People who ask: "When will the next chapter be released?"
I hate it when people do that too!! but people who ask are usually noobs and don't know much about the scanlating world and the fact that this is real people who have their own lives doing this in their own "free" time.

Speed scanlations
If it's good quality like the speed scanning of Aizen-sensei who did Choukakou and another series, then I'm good.

When scanlation stops due to a Cease & Desist
Well they cant' do much about it. It sucks but it's better than getting in trouble legally.

People making money off scanlations
one of the most irksome things about aggregate sites like MF and all of NOEZ's sites. But what annoys me more about that is that people remain ignorant of sites like MF and think that they do all of the work.

People who ask for donations....I'm not too sure I like that idea. If you look at Sura's place, sura doesn't ask for donations at all and she buys TWO issues of the magazine that she scans from. She also has been doing this for quite a long time, 1998 is when she started scanlating/founded Janime. I have more appreciation and respect for Sura because of that since she's paying out of pocket but yeah...idk I guess it's a hopeful investment. (hopeful in the sense that you hope the manga you enjoy will be the manga they use the money for)

Needs an "all the above" option.

When multiple groups scanlate the same series.
It's really is stupid, why don't they join project? Or the later group start scanlate other series? The selfishness of human know no bounds

It's just wasting time and effort. Except the previous group's work is in bad quality (I'm fine with low quality, though) and the later group pick the series to fix it.

Woah, definitely surprised that the "When you start a series and then find out: Last Release (1000d ago). Completely Scanlated: No" option is leading in votes. I was expecting something like "People who ask: 'When will the next chapter be released'" or "People making money off scanlations" to have more since checking the last release date before reading something isn't exactly hard.

I choose 'When multiple groups scanlate the same series' because it tied closely to 'When a good series stops being scanlated because it's not popular' and 'When a good series stops being scanlated because the group closed'. some manga have lots of scanlator and i just feel so sorry for the manga that dont get scanlated, cos nobody will know them.

This is quite hard for me to choose 1 for this poll.
I have lots of issues regarding to the scanslators like for example on the choices:


When you start a series and then find out: Last Release (1000d ago). Completely Scanlated: No

The good example for this is Itazura Na Kiss (The last time I check this series was 5 years ago, and still haven't released new chapter and eventually, the group closed for good), YAWARA! (I really LOVE this series until the chapter releases becomes ridiculously slow and I lost my interest reading it), Jig + Zag (Same scenario as YAWARA!), Flat (AOGIRI Natsu) and Yasuko to Kenji (One of my few Mangas that I truly love and the group is already closed/lack-of-interest-to-scanslate which makes me mad the most) and a-lot more!


When a group has too many projects and releases are slow for the series you read

I don't like some scanslation group that had a tons of projects and when my favorite series that I'm reading there keeps hanging for, worse, a long period of time.


When a good series stops being scanlated because it's not popular
Well, this issue is hard to ignore. Especially when there are lot of people are waiting for it.
Instead of "It's not popular", it should be "They lost their interest to scanslating it".


When a good series stops being scanlated because the group closed
This rarely happens to me.

I think what annoys me the most is when the series I read are released slowly solely because a group has too many projects. In some cases, the series has already been completed in Japan for more than a year, but for some reason, the group can only release a chapter every 3-4 months. I can understand if the people are busy with their every day lives (school, work, etc), but if its simply because they want to try doing 50 projects at once then this is just ridiculous.

I didn't select the "Last Release (1000d ago). Completely Scanlated: No" option because I always check before I start reading to see if the story has been completed. I actually try to only read manga that is already completed because I never know if a group is going to be able to finish a series. I think most of the series listed on this site are unfinished and have been dropped by their scanlators for one reason or another.

Also, I don't get annoyed by people who ask: "When will the next chapter be released?" If I wasn't lazy and actually bothered to write to scanlators, I would be one of these people. In a case where its been months or even years since a chapter has been released, why can't I ask the scanlator what is happening with the manga? I feel like if you decide to take on a job you should try to complete that job as best as you can.

I also don't get annoyed when multiple groups do the same series. This means that the series has a better chance of actually getting completed.

Profit. That's what draws the law and takes it from being a way to access material that non-Japanese speakers would have problems getting to, to something that's going to shut down the whole system. I can put up with slow/irregular releases of a project. There's always more to read. Unless someone's set fire to the whole process. Then we have problems.

My anger isn't listed! My anger is people (readers, leechers) acting like they are entitled to scanlations, complaining about the speed/quality/etc of something they are getting for free at the time and money expense of volunteers. Stop complaining and go learn Japanese yourself, whiny babies!

I was surprised not seeing 'people making money off scanlation' leading (that's the one I chose). I don't care if any release is out late. Scanlation is free of charge; I don't think I should get angry if something is unscanlated or dropped.

I chose the most popular option too. I hate it when the scnalations for the series I started reading is basically dead. After a 1000 days there's very little chance that someone will pick it up.

The choices can be divided in 3 categories:
1) The reader is lazy (2, 3, 4, 5)
2) Official Publisher Interference (8, 9)
3) Scanlator POV (1, 6, 7)

The reader himself can solve half of these problems himself as 1) shows.
Want to read a manga, but slow/no scanlation?
Then fucking start an own group.
I did the same. I studied Japanese for 3 years and then started to scanlate a project that had been abandoned. Why can't you do so yourself? Japanese is difficult? Oh please, dont kid me.

At the end of the day, reader are just selfish pricks that are too lazy to even lift a single finger (except for browsing the online reader) for their hobby.

Yes, this post was written from the POV of a very annoyed scanlator

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"If you got time to read manga, there's time to learn Japanese."

This is really unrealistic. It's like telling someone who likes to watch soccer but can't find it on the tube in the USA to go start a team himself (or move to a soccer-playing country). People have jobs and families. They have to give those first priority. These days jobs are getting ever more demanding. There's very, very little time left for fun and personal interests. Someone who lives in this hectic work world and sets out to learn Japanese MIGHT learn it in, say, 5 years if he could stick with it that long, and didn't give up after falling asleep over the kanji in a few months.

Not to mention that most readers of manga (including me), just aren't interested enough in it to take on THAT big a job.

I think most viewers of manga are very often very grateful for a scanlation. I know I am! It's too bad there's not some convenient way, right there on the aggregation sites, to tell them how grateful we are. Maybe Botato could find a way to make that possible.

this option: When you start a series and then find out: Last Release (1000d ago). Completely Scanlated: No
its mostly because this other option: When a good series stops being scanlated because it's not popular

hehehe so we got a winner

What makes me really angry is when people say OEL's aren't manga and some north americans just make comics to get money. Webcomics, dojinshi, and OEL's can't be on myanimelist. I hate people censoring others. And people doing shitty translations. And anime being so popular when all i like is manga but that's my problem. Okay thank you.

The difference is if the scanlators REALLY quit everyone in the manga community suffers. If on the other hand ungrateful angry leachers opt not to help it doesn't really change much does it? Hell, if they disappear altogether the community would be SO much better. And as far as going both ways go: leechers asks scanlators for releases, is it really that unfair for scanlator to ask leechers not so much as to help out but to wait for the release? And I get the fact that not every leecher is the same. There are still those who show up at the scansite and express their appreciation. I don't even want to argue about the "leechers being ungrateful" thing anymore because that is a VERY VERY old topic already. Don't want to talk about them. What I can't stand is YOU saying scanlators quit if they hate the raging leechers. You say you're not one of the "ungrateful leechers" but that statement is the lowest of the low you can go.

Nothing from the list pisses me off Why would I get pissed off by something as trivial as that?
I like speed scanlations. Never cared about quality and never will. I got a firm belief, that real gems shall shine regardless. And there is way too much raw stuff, so the faster equals the better .
I don't really care about people making money off scanlations all that much. I'm just a leecher and I enjoy speedy and comfy reading. A couple of adblocked banners won't ever hurt^^.
And it doesn't matter to me what kind of reason there was for a group to stop scanlating. The title would most likely stay dead and that's all there is. Want to read it, but can't, well, that's life for you. Oh, and in like 99% of those cases, it means, that that manga shall seriously go downhill afterwards.
It's sorta lame, when a group has too many projects and releases are slow for the series you read, but look on the bright side - we might get to learn more series this way too.
Guess, I'll vote for "when multiple groups scanlate the same series". It's been nagging me forever. So much potential being lost. But who are we to complain? Looks like there are lots of ppl, who won't ever consider translating anything beside One piece, Noblesse or whatever, even if their releases are pretty much useless.

Hello .
I'm not only a lecher I'm also a cleaner or a typesetter for some groups so I think it's okay if I complain a little.
The thing that angers me the most is when multiple groups scanlate the same series, it really get's me mad. There are sooo many super great series so why do you want do the same two times? At last they could do a join.
And I think lately it's happening more than before, in the genre I read at last.

Edit: I left one more thing that I don't like pretty much but it isn't in the list, I don't want to make mad anyone and everyone can do what they want but even so don't like it...
I don't like when there are many good groups of the same genre and then a lot of new groups start to pop-up because I know what that will lead to "When scanlation stops due to a Cease & Desist" and "When a good series stops being scanlated because the group closed". I think so, because even if there are a lot of groups the staff translators/editors doesn't change so one group or another is left without staff .
And now I've really stopped complaining, even thought when I see people saying to make the releases quicker I think why don't you join if you have a little of time everyday, at least to be a typesetter, for me that doesn't take to much time. Because I'd like to have faster releases too you know?
But I'm not mad at the readers because in the groups I'm in they are pretty grateful and they almost always say thanks .

[rant]Multiple scanlators doing the same series, especially when the first scanlation is of good quality and is still downloadable. What's the point of redoing it? I've seen groups redo stories done by Omari's Sister/Crimson Flower, one of the best groups around, why on earth would you redo a story which has been translated and edited well and is easily available for download? There is so much manga out there going untranslated... Why, WHY, WHYYYY?! [/rant]

Seriously though, it's so pointless.

"When a good series has no scanlations at all"

How do I know if they are(/might be) good, you ask? I've seen them in magazines in JP.

I made a list a year ago, and now that I took another look at it, I see a handful have been picked up in the mean time. Remaining: http://www.mangaupdates.com/mylist.html?id=185425&list=u ser13

I just wanna say, this has some really good discussion about this whole subject. A good wide range of opinions, even if some have some circular thinking.

I generally think that as far as many groups doing the same manga goes, it's kind of silly, but some groups will translate/scanlate differently than others. Some are speed groups that do a quick, cheap job that aren't necessarily poor, and others do HQ versions with better quality sources. Also some just are crap and others try to do a better version. I do think it's a good idea to encourage people to work on other manga that's not being worked on than say, be the 5th group simultaneously doing the same one manga though, if it's already being done in good quality. Whining that something that's up to date with the latest in Japan isn't fast enough, just because other manga come out faster, is not.

It certainly is possible to self-teach yourself Japanese, because I did it. I didn't set out to become a manga translator, though. I started out just doing small things then eventually moved onto doing manga when I thought I could do it satisfactorily. It's better to start with something simple, maybe something with pretty simple grammar, and then move up as you learn more. It really just takes constant use of it, building on what you learned before and exposing yourself to new things (And repeating the old so you know it better). That said, you shouldn't whine about people not giving you your free grey-area legal thing fast enough or whatever. Or whine about tiny mistakes in huge projects. And it's certainly better to volunteer to help than whine all that time which a lot of people do. Though I wouldn't say you HAVE TO or anything.

The thing is, anonymity of the Internet makes it really easy for people to do that kind of armchair criticism. People see things from the perspective of their computer screens and usually don't take much effort in figuring out how it gets there. It is MUCH easier to criticize someone without really thinking than it is to consider how much work, time energy, they put in and what complying to their demands would entail to the person. And while sometimes criticism is legitimate, often people are just entitled brats about it. That sort of things upset scanlators. If a group's not doing basic proofreading or their translations are clearly full of meaning-related errors, or the cleans look through they were run through a washing machine, or they didn't even do basic cleaning they could learn in a tutorial in an hour, then it's worth criticizing. Whining that there's a small typo in a scanlation of 400+ lines that the entire team put together in less than a week to maintain an up-to-date weekly schedule, is not. Whining that a group is spending too much time on one project rather than the project they personally want the group to work on is not. There's a different in "wanting your scans to be up to a certain standard of quality" and "demanding everything be perfect while you are doing nothing to contribute or give back while the person does it for free". The thing is, most manga doesn't get scanlated and often if a group drops it, it doesn't get picked up. Or often the scans won't be of nearly as good quality. That goes for popular manga in the US/Japan as well as obscure ones.

Humans have a tendency to feel entitled to things they're just "used" to getting. If something is seen as a "we usually get this without having to wait" then if they have to wait, they feel like they've been denied something. People usually bring up the "it's a privilege not a right" thing here. Basically, when you get used to something always happening, you can start to think that it not happening is a denial of your rights, somehow. In cases like this, it really isn't. You've just been being treated special the whole time, other people have been going out of their way for YOU. It has to do, I think, with emotional empathy. The people that complain relate it to a company offering a product to them that they're purchasing, which is a completely different relationship, one where the source is getting money back which allows them to reasonably devote time to it and meet expectations in order to maintain a livelihood. They don't see the "human aspect" because it's not personalized TO THEM. Most people don't go about reading blogs scanlators write or anything, see who does what, learn about the scanlator's preferences, philosophy, likes and dislikes, creative choices, and all that. They just check a reader to see if something's there or not. It's really an immature, thoughtless response that I'd like to think most reasonable people are able to curb that impulse and realize this is something people do in their free time, for no money, that takes tons of time and they get really nothing in return for, doing it purely for love of the manga and wanting to spread that thing they love to other people. At most, it's good practice for being a professional translator or a writer, but it's not something you can put on a resume or get monetary compensation for. When you have free time outside of work/school/training/sleep/other important parts of life, then it's reasonable to do. If people demand that they spend more of their time on something, they don't consider that maybe the person would like to, but can't do it without sacrificing one of those important things. Like I end up having little sleep a lot of the time just to keep up with weekly schedules, often just so my own staff work on it because even they sometimes don't show up if my job's done late. I won't even go into the tons of problems between staff, but often if you have enthusiastic people who can perform every job except one, then the project won't get done. It takes every step being done for it to be done. It can often take more than hard work, but also compliance from other in order to get jobs done. I've got a good number of scanlations I've done over a year ago that aren't scanlated yet, and I don't have time to bug people or try to do it myself, or find a new group to do it with at the moment.

But basically, if people see something getting done for them that they don't have to do anything special for, they don't have any emotional empathy for the people and just see it as this cold-emotionless entity that it's okay to make demands for because that's what they're "supposed" to do. There's a diffusion of responsibility, because it's just a thing put openly on the internet that lots of people read. They don't feel like someone went out of their way for them specifically, so they don't OWE anyone anything, and they can therefore complain if something makes them mildly uncomfortable. That I think is what causes the problem. One group of people is doing tons of work for nothing out of passion and the spirit of sharing something they love, trying to make others happy for no personal gain, and the other group doesn't view that aspect and just continuously thinks the former group OWES them. That a group that takes a long time to do something is "just lazy" and bullshit like that. As someone mentioned, the relationship isn't even close to equal. And they don't make an effort to relate to the person or understand their situation at all, which is generally pretty immature and self-centered. Especially on the internet where everyone thinks it's okay to complain, blame, and shame everybody for whatever thing they feel entitled to have. Then they insult people that don't deliver. It's kind of a human heuristical response that only goes away with a more widespread understanding of how the process works. Which I encourage people to do, try to emphatically convey to these people what is going on, I mean. And maybe it will get people to stop being jerks about that sort of thing a little bit. Course, some people will just be spoiled brats anyhow.