Talk:Recent Updates/@comment-89.239.75.230-20140130072357/@comment-39.194.210.188-20140130085554

Well, I'm damn old compared to some of you guys and I've been following the fansub scene from 1997. I ran one of the IRC archive fserves for A-I and E-F. For a while I was the only guy in all IRC still serving Iketeru Futari. I even got banned by LOAE666 way back when for challenging him on a Seikai no Monshou translated line, so here's a bit of perspective:

In every fansubber generation, there's always been a prolific but not necessarily high-quality subber who takes in as many projects as they can (the project hoarders). There were times when they would be more annoying than useful. The "mass naked child event" episode epitomizes this. However, there are also times when the fansubbing scene itself is experiencing a major slowdown due to generational change or, worse, when EVERYONE on the scene does poor work. This is currently such a time, so a project hoarder group like Commie is a blessing in disguise because they do many projects others simply don't have the time or resources to tackle.