you are reading it for free without doing any effort
Hi as someone who just spent a second hour and a half secure in the knowledge that the advice in both posts will likely never get acted upon: it's completely good and proper to take pride in what you do, even if the people who will ultimately consume it will not expend any effort or money doing so. If a translator doesn't take pride in their work, and no-one has any desire to read a good product because 'it's no effort', then the end result is a race to the bottom where the good translators will get run off because why spend effort doing a good translation when poor MTLs get accepted
and held above criticism, as if slamming something into ichigoreader automatically protects them from someone pointing out how bad it is?
(Yes, this is a slippery slope argument. But it's a very real concern, because it's leading companies towards dismal shit like this while also charging a huge premium for it.
)
The fact is that commenting like this and providing pushback on the forums is the only means of response available. There is little to no chance that Mangadex will institute minimum requirements on uploads, because that's an enormous can of worms that they don't want to have to manage - it immediately opens them up to a huge slew of 'wait what about
this chapter why didn't you do
this' questions and a massive amount of actual work trying to verify things - so the only thing we as readers can do is demand that a little more than minimum effort gets put into the shit we read. It's okay and healthy to have that level of self-respect for the manga you want to read.