(Reposting because the original one fell into modding approval)
Imma throw my two cents into it, as a
SUGGESTION, not saying it needs to be done by Mangadex.
This idea comes based on
rules set over in the XDA Developers Forums, where there's the following rule:
The last point of the rule being the one this is based around.
No need to go into details as to the whole thing, the only thing you need to know is: people that release "official builds", for a certain project(s) they're are working on, have the right of requesting a takedown of those "unofficial builds" of that/those same project(s), in their forums.
Also they have/had something called "Recognized Developers" titles, which gives an idea to make this (possibly) work.
Basically it revolves around the idea of having "recognized groups". Recognized groups would have the right of requesting that uploads with the possible intention of sniping such as these by done Rithar, if said uploads are within a pre-determined "grace-period" (Maybe around 4 months?), (and maybe some other perks as well? Not so sure...).
The takedowns would be immediately rejected in case of:
- The grace-period being over already (Looking at you especifically GDS)
- Done by anyone other than confirmed members of the group scanlating the title.
- Different translation of a chapter already translated (I.e: Group is translating Ch. 40, while another one is doing a diff translation for Ch. 10. They never advance ahead of the group already translating)
- Confirmed useless pettiness/drama
Everything said above is just an idea.
IT DOES NOT NEED TO FOLLOW IT EXACTLY AS I SAID.
How would the recognized groups being selected or not work? I'm not sure, this would be something that the mangadex staff would have to determine (Hell the entire thing that I said right here might be recognized as simply just bs and be ignored completely).
The idea of being completely up to the groups requesting the takedown, and not enforce something for the mangadex staff to mind about it is:
1 - LITERAL TENS OF THOUSANDS, MAYBE EVEN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ALREADY, OF TITLES IN THE WEBSITE
2 - It's impossible to track everything, not only because of the amount of titles, but because of the groups themselves. As an example, they might've very well dropped the work on the title already and still mangadex staff may block uploads because it wasn't announced over here.
3 - There might be an agreement, simply nobody cares, or it's a good thing that there's more than a single group already translating a title, of which mangadex staff does not have a sigle reason to care that much about.
4 - Literally saves a bunch of sanity and reduces (keyword right here) the chances of anger issues (that will lead to unnecessary drama) by a fucking lot, of EVERYONE. Staff, group members and us readers.
I, myself, have not read the rules of the website to see if there's something like this already in place of that could be adapted as such, nor can predict if this will negatively impact the website, BUT, I'll leave the idea in here anyways.
