@trashscanlations
What the hell did I just read? I've glanced at this hissy fit of a flame war for days now, and I can only be disappointed. I don't need to quote the logic that
@TheIndicator did, so I'll look at your lack of logic. It seems like, though you claim to be a "Scanlator Group," you don't have many members. We have to assume this because you claim to have how many tens of series to scan and translate? You continue to fall behind and now a fan of this particular series got fed up with waiting. Staring at 5 chapters of raws just sitting there for free and waiting to be translated, they decided they didn't want to wait anymore.
Did they tell you beforehand? Seems not.
Did they do a good job? Everyone seems to think so.
Will they do more chapters as they become free? Probably.
Now what did you do with this information? You had a hissy fit.
You saw that someone else did the work that you had promised your Patreons, and you got angry. Understandable, but not the right course of action. You should have gotten in touch with this group, and explained why they made a dick move, but you liked their work. If they did as good as a job as people said, you probably even could have recruited them. However, here I sit, typing out all this crap because I was dumb enough to read that you've started a poll. A poll. ..You are "asking the community" if you should steal another group's work and repost it as your own, or do the work properly like you promised your Patreons. I shouldn't have to tell you what's wrong with that. I shouldn't have to tell you that you're being absolute fucknuts over this. You fell behind, because you're picking up more work than your team can handle and the raws that you paid for with your Patreons' money are becoming free. So cover up the egg on your face, you're attacking this nameless sub-group that, as far as I am aware, have done 1 series that fell behind on. They may be doing more, but that's just a sign how far you're falling behind because you grabbed more of the pie than you could finish.
Edit: Gotta fix them typos of mine.