Personally, I'd rather spend that couple of minutes reading manga on the main site, but if that's your kick, go right ahead.
Speaking for myself, the same reason you presumably care if a organisation you interact with is running fradulently and profiting off people's naivete (and we've been given a good amount of reasons to ask that question recently). Or don't you?
I don't, so long as I get the product/service I've been led to believe I'm exchanging my money for.
I see. Can't say that's a very admirable attitude. What's more, even if I held it myself, I'd at least be pissed to be considered a mark by them. Oh well... as long as you never expect anyone else to care when you (or someone you care about) becomes a victim, then it's fine I guess.
...so you want to see their financials to give yourself a sense of moral superiority?
No need for that, just the way they've been acting so far lets me pat myself on the back in that regard and I'm not much of an activist, you know. You on the other hand sound like someone who's ok with a crime being commited in his view as long as it does not directly harm him. I don't think such a person has ground to stand on when trying to throw shade on another's sense moralality.
I have enough other shit going on in my life today that I literally do not care if a scanlation site is spending their budget on yacht payments, femboy hookers, and blow, so long as the site's up and I get to spend time reading my Japanese comics in order to detach and decompress for a bit. I have learned how to pick my battles, and how MD spends its money - including the few bucks I send them each month in appreciation of their keeping the site operating - is not the battle I have picked. Again, if that's your kick, go right ahead.
You speak as if I'm besieging their gates and about to let loose the trebuchet or at the very least taking premptive legal action. In reality both I and everyone else here are simply criticizing their actions. It's one thing not to share this disapproval, but you make it sound like it's somehow wrong to express it, not on moral grounds but on "I'm so busy I don't care" ones. That's just bizzare, since one would expect someone who doesn't care to just not participate in this thread, yet you seem oddly motivated to defend them, while claiming apathy. You also do this by appealing to... well hard to even say what. Convenience? A form of "it is what it is"? I must say I'm honestly baffled by that thought process.
...and asking to see financial information. Which is an entirely different thing than 'oh, ads, bad'. So not 'simply criticizing their actions', in fact.
Pragmatism. Spend a quarter century in the workforce and then get back to me on your priorities. (Better yet, don't, as I'll be retired by that point.)
Then vote with your mouse and your page views. The exit is one click away.
Good to hear. Wasn't Max-Width and Max-Height used for these areas?
In short:
It's at least clearly stated enough I can follow it, even if I don't entirely agree with it. So thank you for that.
Too late for @Angry_Panda , we're already sailing ahead!
They should buy a Yacht
Then have the server on the Yacht, putting it in international Waters outside the Jurisdiction of US law and be immune against DMCA's.
But, to defend against the US enacting the DMCA by freebooting, they also need the funds to amass a pirate fleet capable of taking on the US Freebooters
Plundering will also solve the financial needs of the site
Uhhh, I haven't been following what's going on with this thread but the yacht joke originates from how the developers jokingly said they use the funds from events for buying yachts to live on. Later, it snowballed into a inside joke that both staff and regulars use. I even took a picture of said yacht (very sneakily, might I add)
It is criticizing, because we shouldn't even need to ask, transparency should have been a thing before they even suggested accepting donations. This is how it works with every honest organisation, but you still hold it's fine if it does not here. In fact, real honest organisations spend a lot of time and effort providing meticulous documentation that accounts for every cent received and spent, no one here even rasied that as a requirement here, so please don't pretend it's somehow unreasonable.
Sure sounds like a "pragmatic" excuse - basically you're telling me I'm too young (without a clue about my actual age, of course) to have the right priorities. Those priorities still sound mighty strange though, like I pointed out in the last post. You don't seem interested in addressing that, but you could have at least spared us that little attempt at dissmisal through the (supposed) wisdom of the elderly. Now I feel too old for this crap too...
So in short, "don't talk about it, just go away". Yeah, that's pretty much your point to everyone from the beggining. That's a very ineffective way of "voting" or addressing any issue, really. What, is this also the fruit of 25 years in the workforce? Damn, good thing we're not in the same industry.
