[Official Message] Official TeamAyu 'A & STAFF DIARY' entries

[Delirium-Zer0]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Great! I hope this is okay with the fanclub though... we've gotten the FC diary text before so I guess it shouldn't be too bad?

Before, the fan translations were necessary even for members to understand what was going on.

Now they're not. As a member I am not okay with this thread. Just putting my input in.

Originally Posted by Earth_maiden

You should join up!! There's a tutorial on how to do it using tenso. Plus you get freebies!!

Thank you, Earth_maiden. And thank you Ayumi_Romania for expressing an interest in joining TA, I hope you do.

Originally Posted by drdolce

That "To my big sister" entry really made me feel emotional. ;_;

And this thread is good idea too! I just hope people won't forget to update it every now and then because I'm always curious about these even if I don't want to join TA myself.

^This attitude is one I'd REALLY like to see less of. "I want the benefits of joining but don't want to join" is IMO really selfish and unfair.

[Earth_maiden]

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

^This attitude is one I'd REALLY like to see less of. "I want the benefits of joining but don't want to join" is IMO really selfish and unfair.

Exactly. If you don't want to/can't pay the $70 annual fee, people shouldn't complain that they don't see the TA entries. People say its a lot of money when it's only about 20 cents a day. That's the price of one Japanese press DVD or two Japnese press CDs in one year. It's not impossible any more, I live in Australia and used tenso to sign up.

[pimenta]

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

Before, the fan translations were necessary even for members to understand what was going on.

Now they're not. As a member I am not okay with this thread. Just putting my input in.

I see your point about the difference of posting the translations before and now, but either way the TA messages were already being made public...

Well, the new English TA posts were already being shared in the twitter thread, and since they were already being made public, creating a separated thread for the TA entries made more sense... But maybe we should first discuss if they really should be shared or not ? (no matter in what thread)

I personally don't mind sharing the messages, but I respect your opinion. Maybe the other AHS members who are also TA members could also express their opinions about sharing the messages so we can decide? If more people don't feel ok with sharing we can just stop doing that..

[Mai82Go]

Originally Posted by pimenta

I personally don't mind sharing the messages, but I respect your opinion. Maybe the other AHS members who are also TA members could also express their opinions about sharing the messages so we can decide? If more people don't feel ok with sharing we can just stop doing that..

I'm a little torn on this issue. I mainly agree with Delirium-Zer0 and Earth_maiden though. I thought about it as a paying TA member and maybe it is selfish, but I feel bad about the entries being posted here - basically just copy&paste. The main reason is that they are now being posted directly in english at TA. There is no more need to translate. I also understand the fans who want to know what Ayu is writing about in her diary. I think a good solution is to just give a little summary/overview about what Ayu posted, not the exact words/entry like it appears on TA copy&pasted.