Dear Hungarian native,

Thank you for chiming in.
I confess I'm a little unsettled by the way you're addressing me personally out of the blue.
Be it what it may, let me just point to you certain general problems your presentation can't but bring about :

Quoting you,

"1. This comment above can not be for anyone of us, only to the person who always come last and changes anything possible so s/he can earn easy points. Yes, this goes on on Translia. (I have seen it before, even I have done it before. But I have regretted :-)"

a) you're picturing a "person who always comes last and changes anything possible". In other words, a lurker planning on his/her day schedule according to Translia.
Sacrificing one's life and freedom for moderate earnings ? Very realistic from a personal enrichment perspective, indeed. Tell me more, please ;)

b) "so s/he can earn easy points" . Mind you. What do you think is easier, a first rough draft perhaps off-handedly done between two soaps, or a consistent sitting & thinking session to proceed the very gist of Translia's content creators and bring it in the best possible way to one's compatriots ? You may think the latter is easier, fair enough. Well, how about tolerance ? Why should everybody's mind processing be similar ? I know translators who prefer a million times translating a technical notice than a philosophy text. And conversely. And I know happy correctors who wouldn't spend a second focusing on a content and just delight in rewriting typos. And I know high-caliber translators who produce the kind of content one dreams about but which are rife with spelling mistakes and typos. As some individuals delight in accounting, mental calculation feats, declare they have "a kick out of figures", while others like me hate calculation but solve beautiful equations. Face it : people are shades of grey. But, more important : NO ONE IS BETTER

c) "Yes, this goes on on Translia". This is just beautiful. You plain and simply accept disrespect and insult as if it were rain. Thank you for supporting us.

d) "I have seen it before, even I have done it before. But I have regretted :-)" Right on ! Once bitten twice shy. The day Big Brother tells you not to write hyphens any more in your language because it's not politically correct you'll bow and crawl in awe.

"2. The style of the comment is politely straightforward and witty. Not a bad word."

Either you've got an affinity with the author of the comment I quoted, or politeness is a very relative notion for you, "straightforwardness" being the usual excuse. A wife-beater is "straightforward", and the beaten wife is a "tactful victim". Alright. Someone publicaly telling you "your translation is bad" or "I don't know in which state of mind you were doing this" or "you only care about your rank / your points" is right to do so, because it's straightforward, it's witty, and does not feature a "bad" word. Come on.

"3. To stop the plague is easy: be the first on the job, do the groundwork, not only the "proofreading".

So addressing the symptom instead of the syndrome is what you suggest ?
Besides, saying this, you don't seem to be a great supporter of Translia's groundbreaking concept of OPEN TRANSLATION. Yes, "open", like in "open-mindedness". Your gross reduction of the project phases into 1) groundwork and 2) proofreading, that's all, blatantly ignores all the transitory steps, namely what makes it all exciting. I have seen segments with more than 10 revisions. Ten, not one. And it could have been improved still. And granted, we definitively have to stop it at some point. But at least we tried. That's what makes us humans and not machines.
Finally, there will always be a "first one" and a "last one". And I suspect some of us have trouble getting over this. How foolish they think. Can't they see even if we're not cloth of the same cut, all equal, we're all equals in the end ? (Perhaps that is the very meaning of politeness)

"4. By reporting this comment to Yolanda you are exactly playing the tactful victim."

You're absolutely right from a tactical point of view. The snag is : I don't play games.
"I" may be a "victim", but my being targeted by a disrespectful colleague or not is irrelevant eventually.
And you bet I'm voicing my disarray in a tactful manner, because I see only counter-productivity in being unnecessarily curt and rude.
Moreover, I'm not "reporting to Yolanda", the way a school kid would do, but submitting a point of general interest to all of us, in the hope this sad occurrence will ironically enough serve as a caveat as to what not to do. (The proverbial "don't do anything to others you wouldn't like them to do to you")
While I believe our administrators shouldn't be left out of this, I know they have but little leeway as to avoiding it (unless it reaches the point to which they see fit to resort to understandably more drastic methods), and I must confess I bank more on a general awareness among us transliators.

"5. "Questioning the presence" of the people who speak up is the death of the democracy."

Here again, you're perfectly correct in theory. But you seem leniently oblivious of one simple reality : showing disrespect does not equate "speaking up". Perhaps in a primitive democracy, like some transitory form between the jungle state and our modern world, a more minimalist stance of the term would hold ground. Fact is, we're among civilized people in the twenty first century, where venting one's gripes, however sincerely, still has to follow certain elementary rules. In democracies like ours, law notions like libel, calumny, defamation, insult, are well established and act as moderating forces.

I am done. Thank you for bearing with me all throughout ;)
I am always looking forward to swapping points of view with other transliators, needless to say, in a courteous and respectful manner.
Yours sincerely,

Panglosse

Gyongyi
Your words are very clear and exact!
Cheers
Carl

Gyongyi,

Well said!

Liz