You're right, it wasn't appropriate to drop that piece in such a way where it reads as a comment on the group involved here instead of just generic grumbling about snipe drama.
Well I retract my meme calling you a clown then, since you didn't actually mean this group.
What you said before was very poorly worded lol
The vast majority of snipe drama I've seen in recent years, though, has involved someone stepping on the toes of a big group that clearly had a backlog waiting to defend their claim. It makes the growth of the concept and the timeframes involved feel inorganic.
From what I noticed at least some of those incidents are by shitty groups I mentioned, it's not that they take 6 months to release a chapter, but that the chapters are hostage behind paywall, so when someone else release a chapter they rush to release one or two token chapters.
I say that because these groups hold chapters for as long as possible, pretty much releasing a chapter each 6 months, and after a while they dump a bunch of chapters at once to try get attention for more money.
Even without that, six months seems pretty ludicrous. Half a year? For a chapter that was created from scratch, in the vast majority of cases, in a week or less? A month at most? Dunno about that.
Although you do have some point, you need to take into account that fan translation is almost always a group effort, one person translates, one do redrawing, another do typesetting, another do proofreading, and another do quality check, because many times it's the only thing they can do, add to that real life distractions and some unintentionally fall behind.
I think what
@maibi suggested is ideal, if you don't want to wait 6 months, either contact the group or release a chapter with first page asking for group to contact them, like that there's at least communication on either taking over the series or offering help for faster release.
Also not helping matters is that a lot of snipers are absolutely in bad faith too, with absurdly sloppy release or even barely readable mtl.
Unfortunately people acting so negativity over snipers isn't without reason