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Elepsis · 2004-05-20, 00:09

Regarding your last comment, notice the "ask" -- the experienced translator isn't an actual member of the group in such cases, but someone I ask to help us out so we actually manage to release something. -_-

If a group has their translator quit on them, who says they'll just drop the project? When Hiei quit fansubbing, we didn't decide "oh well, we're just going to drop Touch now."

Also, who says that just because a translator watches raws he'd not have a group whose releases he may like? If he thinks group a is doing an admirable job of the series, but they've come onto hard times, I think most people would be inclined to help.

IMHO you're applying your own experience, which is by no means the common one, to this matter. But I'll shut up and hopefully let an actual translator respond on the matter of joining groups vs. starting one's own.

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Elepsis Lives under a bridge Join Date: Dec 2003	Regarding your last comment, notice the "ask" -- the experienced translator isn't an actual member of the group in such cases, but someone I ask to help us out so we actually manage to release something. -_- If a group has their translator quit on them, who says they'll just drop the project? When Hiei quit fansubbing, we didn't decide "oh well, we're just going to drop Touch now." Also, who says that just because a translator watches raws he'd not have a group whose releases he may like? If he thinks group a is doing an admirable job of the series, but they've come onto hard times, I think most people would be inclined to help. IMHO you're applying your own experience, which is by no means the common one, to this matter. But I'll shut up and hopefully let an actual translator respond on the matter of joining groups vs. starting one's own.