Dungeon ni Hisomu Yandere na Kanojo ni Ore wa Nandomo Korosareru - Ch. 34.1

[Reikou]

Why are you trying to snipe? Actually, reviewing, you've been taking aim at a lot of series that still have active groups working on the titles. It's to the point where you guys should get banned for being scummy. Rule was series had to go six months without updates to be "available" for pick up, but you aren't even pretending the titles are inactive.

I'm not gonna get into anything else but theres no such a rule. Theres no CEO of scanlating controlling things.

 

[kabian]

You can take a really good guess if a snipe is good or bad.

A group that uploads a FULL TL, without trying to siphon people to their own webpage and the typical starter/endding page of "we are picking this TL because its not being uploaded right now, always feel free to support with donations", even if a bit rushy is on good faith.

A group that uploads a chunk of a TL, and points to you to their own webpage is just trying to siphon people and are not good faith actors

 

[Reisen]

He's not even correct about it being six months; it was three, and that was a courtesy, not ever a rule for waiting before picking up a series, though groups like Jaimini's Box tried their damndest to have it be adopted as a rule to force people away from the lucrative works they scanlated and hid behind paywalls to force "donations". Also, rather obviously, but if you try to contact them and they don't respond even back then it was accepted so long as it was noted and was factual (the other party coming out and saying "no, they didn't contact me" generally made them be viewed very poorly).

Now, this said? Many series are delayed because of raw releases only coming out every so often, and then the team needs to work on it before releasing their scanlation. So just looking at the time between releases helps get a sense of that.

Yeah, to begin with that "rule" is stupid because to begin with it doesn't differentiate between monthly, bimonthly, weekly, etc. 6 months is not the same for a monthly manga and a weekly manga. You can use the excuse of "but a monthly manga has more pages" but that's not always true, specially nowadays where I see monthly chapters with around the same pages as weekly chapters.

 

[b-no]

Rule was series had to go six months without updates to be "available" for pick up

Hmmm. No rule stating this one otherwise Mangadex would've included it in the community guidelines. It's just basic courtesy between scanlators. Anyone is free to pick up a manga and translate it. It's up to the community to scrutinize it. As this is like a monthly release (with full chapters), I think 4-6 months is valid time since there is already enough chapter backlog at that time.

Buuuut, contact the group doing the scanlation first if they already dropped the series for confirmation.

 

[GalladeGuy]

@manga_sss1 I don't really care about the snipe, but you should remove the mention of your website on the last page. Mods have been banning groups and nuking all of their uploads recently for that kind of thing. I'm not sure if this is technically breaking the rules since the next chapter isn't paywalled, but it's probably not a good idea.

Also yeah, people here are just making stuff up about there being rules against sniping. That has never been a thing on MangaDex. It's just something people do to be nice and avoid wasted effort.

 

[HeatManga]

lol I have never felt the need to comment till now but thanks for thinking of me

Oh? You're actually new? My apologies then. I've seen the same situation a lot of times so it was a habit.

 

[FANNYMAN231]

Probably all parasite users can time travel?

It's not the parasite users, but the parasite weapons themselves.

Remember when MC was still using the parasite sword in the future, the sword could remember some things that's why the sword became friends with MC because it felt like remembered the MC despite it being the first time they met.

 

[BlackSword]

He's not even correct about it being six months; it was three, and that was a courtesy, not ever a rule f

I never worked for Jamini's Box, but all the groups I worked with were free i.e. no paywall. They also were firm supporters for the six month rule for scanlator groups not to snipe each other. Otherwise, drama and slop were the result. And thank you all of the lawyers, I'm so glad you're here to remind us that it's not a law, merely a suggested guideline from the early '10s that was sometimes treated as a rule. Truly, I'll mend my ways and be sure to abandon any mention of such old-fashioned ways in the current era.

 

[hitohito1]

asmodeus scans was banned for this shit lol.

 

[Dargkkast]

Im not even mad coz 2 months for 1 chapter what da heck man what are these artists n editors doing and not so thx for sniping

That's how you get no more chapters in, at best, a year.

 

[Dexmangnata]

He's not even correct about it being six months; it was three, and that was a courtesy, not ever a rule for waiting before picking up a series, though groups like Jaimini's Box tried their damndest to have it be adopted as a rule to force people away from the lucrative works they scanlated and hid behind paywalls to force "donations". Also, rather obviously, but if you try to contact them and they don't respond even back then it was accepted so long as it was noted and was factual (the other party coming out and saying "no, they didn't contact me" generally made them be viewed very poorly).

Now, this said? Many series are delayed because of raw releases only coming out every so often, and then the team needs to work on it before releasing their scanlation. So just looking at the time between releases helps get a sense of that.

Just want to add that the gentleman agreement is usually 3 months and checking the circumstances (contacting the original scanlation group, hiatus and so on) with 6 months usually the point when translating a series is considered dropped. There have been times with scanlator groups abusing this to horde series leading to sniping, but MyDarling definitely isn’t one of those groups and has scanlated this series for a long time when full chapters are available to not warrant sniping his ongoing series.

 

[DLRevan]

I think that's crazy, 6 months is half a year bro. If a group is sitting on an upload for 4 months that's plenty of time to get a good tl out. heck I feel like an argument could be made for 3 but I'll stick with 4. I mean if you're taking 4 months to get 1 tl out of a series you committed to you've probably got too much on your plate anyways. If a new group wants to try their hand at a popular series after 4 months of inactivity I think that's fine.

You are right tho this is scum behavior.

There's no need to get into the pros and cons of sniping and when it's acceptable. The scanlator who did this is exactly as some of the others have described. They trawl for manga that are either really popular, a few months out of date, or both. Then they scan some or all the chapters with minimal effort because everything from cleaning, typesetting to translation is done using AI.

They then redirect you to their website, or ask for donations. Their website is a cesspool, every single page triggers redirects, you may not have noticed if you have an adblocker on. Normally these days websites can get around adblockers to do that, but this site doesn't because it's also just made using AI and has poor implementation. They used to also have an obviously AI generated credits page directing you to said website, but that page was making it way too obvious this scanlator was an AI crackhead trying to hustle readers so I assume they have removed it until they get an alternative. I even suspect their website has a cryptominer script.

I get why you want to defend snipers. As readers are incentivized to praise and encourage folks giving us free content. We have no other control over such things. But there should be a line drawn somewhere.

 

[xRigellx]

Why are you trying to snipe? Actually, reviewing, you've been taking aim at a lot of series that still have active groups working on the titles. It's to the point where you guys should get banned for being scummy. Rule was series had to go six months without updates to be "available" for pick up, but you aren't even pretending the titles are inactive.

Not a translator here but that seems like a really stupid rule, how many series are being held hostage if that's the case?

 

[Amariithynar]

Just want to add that the gentleman agreement is usually 3 months and checking the circumstances (contacting the original scanlation group, hiatus and so on) with 6 months usually the point when translating a series is considered dropped. There have been times with scanlator groups abusing this to horde series leading to sniping, but MyDarling definitely isn’t one of those groups and has scanlated this series for a long time when full chapters are available to not warrant sniping his ongoing series.

3 months from last official release was the general standard for if a series was dropped by a group; it never was six months, especially without any communication at all from said group. As someone else said, though, anyone can translate a work and post it; this concept that only one group can work on a series is bupkis, and it goes back to those same groups that tried to control who could release what and when to maintain their monopolies. By all means scrutinize releases and dislike opportunistic posts of dubious quality (I'm not a fan of those, either), but "sniping" isn't a real thing, never has been, and needs to stop being treated like it is.

 

[dkamar]

The main force inflating the timeframes that groups get to lock out competition with accusations of sniping is organized for-profit groups 'just barely getting enough donations to afford raws' min-maxing the time investment needed to secure donations from people interested in a particular series.

For a similar dynamic, see also the 90% of popular 'for the community' scan hosting sites throughout history that were 'barely surviving' at all times until they imploded or got sued and oops someone was making six figures annually off it.

 

[jackjack9]

At least they being honest with Kiska.

 

[timur2345]

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Kanaria boobs

Curious, but where did you found the picture?

 

[Annath]

The main force inflating the timeframes that groups get to lock out competition with accusations of sniping is organized for-profit groups 'just barely getting enough donations to afford raws' min-maxing the time investment needed to secure donations from people interested in a particular series.

For a similar dynamic, see also the 90% of popular 'for the community' scan hosting sites throughout history that were 'barely surviving' at all times until they imploded or got sued and oops someone was making six figures annually off it.

I mean as far as I know the group previously doing this series doesn't even have a website, let alone a paywall.

 

[Gallowx]

First you’re sniping and then locking part 2 behind your shitty malware ad infested sites. Dex should ban your shitty ass

 

[Dranzer86]

Well look what we have here another impatient sniper