As stated before, if you believe in the quality of your work and you are doing it for passion and to share this passion with others you don't care about "sniping".
If you are doing it for self gratification or worse to get money out of it, then you are simply leeching off the author, no matter how skillful you are. You are redrawing and interpreting (notice that it's different from translating but that's another story), so you are actually doing way less than the author and just using him as a stepping stone for yourself.
People, like me, can be grateful for being able to read this work, but if this was published in my country I would prefer to buy it and read the official translation. So you can't expect people to defend a "rightful" theft, nor pretend you are entitled to such drama. They are good at scanalating, and I'm grateful for the scans, but they are so childish...