@xobmoob You are speaking of Leaf as an "solo scanlator", and again, I linked you a post, from his/her own website, claiming they have more members. Your argument was "big ol' meraki is bullying solo scanlator" I've shown you otherwise. If it's a contradiction, it's a contradiction from their own website, which is where both links are from and one of them is made today (the one which you linked). I get that you're on a crusade, but don't be a blind crusader, nobody likes those.
Donations are optional and they're not a business transaction, the group you are defending said so too. That doesn't make you a customer. You're not buying a product, you're funding people who pirate content to translate and edit more stuff that you enjoy reading. In other words, you are not donating to Meraki because you're supporting Meraki. You're donating to Meraki because you want to read the series which you know Meraki will deliver fast and in decent quality. You don't have to do it, nobody is forcing you to, however, if you do in fact do it, you'll benefit from it. Lastly, in regards to this subject, even if you are a donator, who donates $1000 a month, you are still really not entitled to demand anything from us, unless a deal was made beforehand in which case it is a transaction.
That said, I really don't get what you're trying to do here. Your argument under all that entitlement is "Steal in a righteous way". That's how dumb it is and that's how dumb it sounds to anybody reasonable. Not to mention that you are so misinformed that you're literally defending a group that sniped multiple other groups in the past and you're attacking us for doing literally the same to leaf. We didn't continue from the chapter leaf stopped on, we instead redid everything. Unlike what they did when sniping other groups.
That said since I'm cherry picking, can you go and do the same? Find me a "snippet" where we said something which is not true about leaf.
You've approached us on a website that's not related to us whatsoever. Secondary to this, you claim to be a supporter, before I even take your argument of being a "customer" seriously, please show proof that you supported us at any point.
For any further entitled reader that reads this. If you think Meraki, or ANY other scanlation group owes you anything. Please, please re-evaluate your life.
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Another thing, which is something I want to clear up for anybody who reads this in the future. We encourage sniping in some cases. If a person thinks he can do the job better, if the other scanlator is not doing it in a timely fashion, if they're not doing that great of a job. If you can find any justifiable reason and you're in the power to change it, then do it. That's why you became a scanlator in the first place. To enjoy yourself first of all, and then to benefit others with the skills that you have. Don't do it to provoke others, do it because you think you can do better or because you think the project deserves better.
We've gotten sniped plenty in the past, only time I reasonably got mad is when we got sniped on Returners while doing 2-3 a day. Senryu Girl recently got likewise sniped. We were so happy that somebody stepped up and took it off our plate, and they are doing it on a better pace than we could at the time. Ironically, the ones who understand the least are the ones who are escalating these situations (readers).
