i am here because my intentions were misrepresented.
there are reasons for why i dont want to post the rest of the conversation that happened between seairu and i (at like, 4am my time too, im fucking tired guys–i cant fucking believe i had to wake up to people informing me that a screenshot of a private conversation, used without my permission, was used to open a call-out post in an issue that i had clearly expressed i wanted no part in).
the screencap that seairu included there was my attempt to remain neutral and to avoid picking a fight.
the only reason why we were speaking at all was because i was passing along a message from someone else.
when i say “i agree that what happened was a really bad overreaction to what was essentially a really small, technical difference.”
i was talking about the ethical difference between commissioned translations that are paid for individually, as a service, versus putting translations behind a paywall, which makes it a good.
to me this is a very subtle, technical difference. and when trying to figure out what the fuck was going on it took me awhile to figure out what the issue was.
this post cleared things up for me.
and i stand by my statement–all of this drama regarding this issue was overblown.
HOWEVER. that is NOT criticizing the people that were calling seairu out for this.
even if it’s a small, technical issue, i do think its worth pointing out. even though it confused me a lot and it annoys me to see drama when im just here to have a good time, like everyone else, im glad to have been educated more on this issue.
but in my opinion, the reason why the drama got so bad wasn’t the fault of the people criticizing seairu. it’s seairu’s actions that dragged this out for so long.
here are some other things that i said to seairu during this conversation.
1. if you’re going to take screencaps of private conversations, the least you could do is blur my url out. as i have said, i didnt want to get involved at all. im only here because my views were misrepresented, and i felt that it was necessary to clear things up because my words were used to open up a call-out against people who, as far as i know, have done nothing wrong.
2. i think it’s important to acknowledge that seairu did take measures to fix their mistake (i.e. taking things down and giving refunds, etc.) HOWEVER,
3. i think the issue stopped being about paywalls and translation services a long time ago. the issue is actually seairu’s conduct. as @fallenprussiansoldier and @no-signs-no-lights have said already:
as i told seairu, i think the best course of action would have been to leave things alone.
i expressed wanting to not have anything to do with this drama.
i even said that to seairu out of consideration for them, because in my honest opinion, if seairu had just left things at the apology (though i agree, it was a shitty apology because it was less of an “im sorry i was wrong” and more of a “i still dont see why what i did was wrong–look at all these uninvolved people who have done nothing to me, let’s go attack THEM instead”), taking things down, and giving refunds–the issue would already be over.
so imagine my consternation, when seairu used a screencap from our conversation to do the EXACT OPPOSITE.
dont fucking ask me to ask people to take down their call-out posts, and complaining about witchhunts, and then turn around and make more call-out posts and trying to start witchhunts of your own.
i can’t fucking believe i had to do this at all.
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