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Over the past week or two, I've been thinking about how active EH Cove of Translators have been, churning out translated doujins almost on daily basis. In the past month alone, we've seen 38 translation bounties completed (104 in past 3 months). That's as prolific as major doujin scanslation groups like SaHa, LWB, Team Vanilla, and others.

In a sense, EHCT is already a major doujin scanslation group, as it meets several common criteria that such groups share:

* We have a central site for visitors to go to for downloads (EH Gallery) and discussion/feedback (forums)
* We consistently try to help each other improve our works with guides, and are always looking for more translators and editors
* Even though all of translations and editing are funded by bounties using fake money, it's not really that much different from doujin comission groups like SaHa and DesuDesu
* We cover a surprisingly good range of genre and themes, even some stuff that lot of people wouldn't feel comfortable with
* The bounties have already produced some notable doujins, like Bloodmare's Black Dog doujin bounties, Red Piotrus' Sailor Saturn and Dragon Pink series, and even several complete manga were done (via G Just G's bounties)
* Granted, there may be issues with translation and editing quality, but we strive to produce best quality possible (feedback, proof-reading, translation assistance, and so on)
* Translators and editors come and go, but that's same for any doujin groups so there's no difference
* We've also done few non-English translation bounties
* We've even attracted attention of some doujin scanslation groups

Unfortunately, we really aren't considered as a scanslation group, because we don't really function as a group. We're just basically group of individuals who's trying to get their works translated - even though we work surprisingly well as a group in a manner of speaking. Because of this, we suffer from lack of recognition - whenever our works are released, they're perceived as an individual work and thus treated as such and don't generate much awareness or appreciation on behalf of the individual.

That's why it's difficult for us to try and recruit new translators or editors, because we don't have the recognition that a group can grant. When a potentially interested translator and/or editor looks between one of our individual releases and a doujin group's releases, I'm sure he'd be far more likely to be interested in approaching the doujin group than one of us simply because of increased awareness of the group and community.

So if we can re-brand EHCT as a doujin scanslator group, we would immediately gain greater awareness among readers of our works. Our advertisements for new translators and editors would be more effective as well, especially when we can show visitors our collective efforts of our past works.

The one of the major benefits of re-branding of EHCT would be advertising, when various English-language doujin hosting sites such as Fakku, #Doujin-World, and Hentai.net groups our releases under a common name. Any visitors from those sites interested in finding out more about our releases would then come over to EH Galleries and its forums for more. EH Gallery already gives many doujin scanslation groups advertising as well by tagging their releases with their names, so it would benefit us all to have the opposite done as well.
We can even get listed on Mangaupdates (many doujin groups already do).

More incoming visitors means more potential translators and editors, and since we offer a form of incentive (bounties) to get our works translated and/or edited, there's no reason they can't take advantage of them to get what they want translated/edited for free (relatively-speaking).

What are your thoughts on this topic?


EDIT: EHCove was agreed upon as our tag. Done.

This post has been edited by lightshader: Nov 4 2011, 06:42

Hi, this is my requesting to join as an editor.
I completed 9 editing bounties for EHCove over the past ~3 months.

Your application was accepted.

Welcome.

Hi, as discussed in dm's with Red_Piotrus; I am requesting to join as a translator. I've completed 4 bounties in the past month a few others this year

Welcome to the team
In case Red didn't yet give you proper permissions you should write him a PM.

Per the proper channels, I wish to join the EHCove officially.

Nice to see you finally join. Welcome to the team!
Btw, the first bounty I ever completed was yours :-)

Hi, I wish to join your translation group. Though I haven't completed these 'bounties,' by myself, I've worked on redrawing and translating two doujins which haven't received English translations in awhile (please don't read them, my Google-Translating prose is cringey af until I learn more Japanese.)

Hey, I'd like to join as an editor.

I have edited the following EHCOVE releases (sorted by date, newest first):

• http://ehentaihip.com/g/1838484/f5f53ee59b/
• http://ehentaihip.com/g/1817182/45da30c0d3/
• http://ehentaihip.com/g/1812651/fe1dee8fc7/
• http://ehentaihip.com/g/1806576/6fe99634f0/

This post has been edited by UselessIdiot: Feb 8 2021, 14:35

Just a note that I don't check this thread often, so nobody is ignored - just unnoticed. Please PM me when you post here to ensure you don't have to wait months for me to get back to you...

Hello, I wish to join as a translator. I wish to join as a translator. I finished 3 bounties within last month and currently should have another bounty done within a week. I plan to be active as well. This was discussed a little over DMs with Red.

Thanks

Hello, I wish to join as a translator. I wish to join as a translator. I finished 3 bounties within last month and currently should have another bounty done within a week. I plan to be active as well. This was discussed a little over DMs with Red.

Thanks

Welcome, new blood (new cookie?). Request approved!

Hey, I would like to join EHCOVE as a translator. I've completed 8 bounties for the group this month, and 18 bounties in total over the last 2 years.

Hey, I would like to join EHCOVE as a translator. I've completed 8 bounties for the group this month, and 18 bounties in total over the last 2 years.

Sounds good, accepted!

Hello, I would like to join as a member.
I've been doing editing bounties for EHCOVE (mostly for Red) for about a year and half, maybe 2 years? So far I've done 9 bounties and currently working on my 10th. I also hitted the 3-bounties-in-3-months quota.

Hello, I would like to join the group officially, after completing 11 bounties.