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The thing that is getting to me is that at Mangafox, some of the ignorant posters there are putting up threads asking like "what is the deal with all of these watermarks slamming mangafox by the scanlators?" and the veteran posters are basically saying that scanlators are immature children who are picking on mangafox because they did nothing wrong and scanlators are ruining it for everybody. Thats not what is really bugging me. What is bugging me is that there are people out there actually BLAMING the scanlators for this situation to get as big as it did and how it had to come to this. Yea the ones that are providing the scanlations in the first place and just want to protect their work is getting blasted because they are making life of the lurkers at Mangafox more harder in reading their work. You would think the big "F*** you Mangafox" watermarks would actually tell you that mangafox must have did something bad to piss off the scanlators, the sources of the manga they enjoy. But I guess they dont realize, or choose to remain ignorant/in denial. And sadly there is ALOT of them, you really wont see a dent in Mangafox activity for a good while, shame.

This is an alarming issue. I also was using Mangafox and Mangareader after OneManga shut down. I started to notice in the mangas I read, that the scanlators had notes like "Mangafox is leechers/bad/scum etc". I turned a blind eye to it and kept reading. Now the message seems to be getting more large, and now I started seeing watermarks on the manga pages like "Thanks to the leechers at mangafox" and another comments. I was like "why all the hate towards Mangafox?" and started using Google and reading around. Then I found out the truth about Mangafox/Noez and how Batoto is generally the most acceptable "online manga reading" site by Scanlators.

While it is hard to drop Mangafox with all of its features and options at this point for me and start moving here to Batoto, I am making an effort in moving over and using Batoto as my "home base" for manga reading. I started to feel for the Scanlators and even fansubbers who dedicate their time and effort into providing Manga and Anime for its fans without the drive for profit. The ones who respect Japanese publishers wishes who ask for licensed work to be removed. These codes have been followed since the beginning of fansubbing and scanlating. For someone like Noez to change all of that and take free fan made work and use it for personal profit without care of the source they took their stuff from is lecherous and vile. I still dont understand why onemanga was shut down while mangafox continues to exist despite onemanga respecting the wishes of the publishers and did what they were asked. While mangafox still has to this day manga that were licensed years ago and were asked to remove it numerous times. Though it might be hard to get away from Mangafox and they have manga there and is not available on Batoto that I actually read, I expect to settle down and use Batoto from now on to be on the "good side". I hope more people catch on to this ongoing issue and follows my lead as well.