Babel Realm and is it really what it claims to be?

So babel realm, a new translating website and it looks like its a pretty huge one at that, spamming releases like nobodies business. The novels seem to mimic each other and it appears that on their website several works have thousands of chapters!
Too good to be true right? well the catch is. Its all machine translated.
I should get to the point? Ofcourse lets see.

https://www.novelupdates.com/series/ultimate-master-of-martial-arts/ (even the bloody synopsis is MTLed)

heres a milder example, chapter 1, first few paras of 'Returning after 10,000 years cultivation' (yes the title appears MTLed too, or the english sucks in which case i apologize)
'My father was caught in jail for a crime and committed suicide with hatred
Originally, Grandpa Zhong couldn't stand the excitement and died'
so basically having your son die makes you so excited you just explode! yes its a joyful thing having your flesh and blood die in such a hateful manner. Ofcourse 'originally'
Same chap a few lines later
'My mother got into a car accident on the highway and was hit by a truck while she was still alive. She was suspected of murder'
Who's murder? did she off herself? wdym while she was still alive? did the truck-kun eat her alive?

https://www.novelupdates.com/series/super-dragon-slaughtering-system/ (chapter 4 onwards)
Please give it a read, the page says its translated upto chapter 12 but heres the catch, it isnt. Starting from like chapter 5 the quality drops significantly, you can literally see the machine translation unless 'cuttlefish' is an actual way to refer to someone. (no its not a nickname, ill quote "return my cuttlefish to me" cuttlefish here being a girl the villian kidnapped)
So its clearly machine translated from that point on, so is it valid to machine translate something and pass it off as a proper translation so other people no longer retain interest in truly translating (or reading it cause of the quality) it?

Babel seems to be to just be a paid comrademao.com
What i wanna ask everyone here since i dont really actively participate in the community, is it really alright to pass machine translation as the real deal? I mean we all know how to click on auto translate. Is it really appropriate to literally spam the website with 'translations' when you just copy paste what google did for you?

Is it really alright to claim you are 'translating' a work, laying claim to it so other translators are dissuaded from actually working on it?
(did i mention you can actually pay to read google translated works! yay! spending my money on normally free and easier to access features!)

SUMMARY TO ALL THOSE WHO DONT CARE TO READ: Basically, is it ok to machine translate something and claim it as a legit work and then to add it to this site. (making money off google translate and well literally making actual translators not wanna work on it cause apparently its already picked up) @babel realm.

 

Welp let me get my pitchfork and torch I think it’s time for a good old fashioned lynch mob

 

If it's straight up a mtl without changing anything then you can report it to the staff through report button found on your NU's profile page

 

If they don't advertise themselves as MTL and you find them on NU, report them.

 

I think the criteria for NU is that it has to be edited MTL. so the question is: is it edited MTL or straight MTL?

 

The name is cringe af

 

their translations are fucking ass for some but the most popular novels are actually quite readable, Against the gods in particular. Then again i reread the translations when they catch up anyway so meh.

 

They are edited but not that great ones, from personal experience. They are better than LNMTL by a long shot though.

 

Yup, this is a rebrand. Babel Realm's a pure MTL site which was formerly known as Babel Novel/Babel Chain. The reason popular novels are 'better' is because they bootlegged a lot of the terms and stuff from licensed translations like Wuxiaworld's ATG. The reason the others are even worse is because they have to do it all themselves, and they don't have that ability. They are essentially a slightly improved lnmtl, in that their algorithm is better but they mainly rely on users (hopefully) fixing stuff for them and building up their library.

 

Good thing I searched before posting a new forum post, was about to ask why Limitless Sword God isn't updated all that much when it's listed as completed on the site. Reading the replies here answered that question.

 

The problem is, ill use an example,
The first novel i mentioned has a MTLed synopsis i dont think i need to read this one to explain it.
the 2nd novel, they straight up MTLed from chapter one. its nearly unreadable and it only gets worse.
the 3rd novel its full on MTL from chapter 4 onwards. they claim to have fully translated upto chapter 12. try reading it and see

 

hmm there one old thread about site announcement I think it was babel rain and it mark about that site is mtl
please wait a moment

oh that another
as as nuffies lover mod stated babel not new one

 

FYI, they use their own in-house MTL system.

 

@Westeller



Like @rwxwuxiaworld said Babel use their in house mtl system. It make words flow smoother but still have hiccups like above picture.

 

they have fans proof read their work. its like comrademao. just paid

 

Comrademao is pure MTL site, they don't proofread anything.

 

IIRC they have BOTH MTL and edited MTL on their site

iirc the very first time something is posted there, it's a very crappy edited mtl, like tapread

and then their users can put a "bounty" on the novel to get other users to edit it and earn points or money

i also recall that they've also tried to get actual people to work on their chapters by paying them money like you've said

so we have some novels that are actually very readable and more or less as good as HTL, but some are just as bad as tapread's

iirc, they were also called babelchain too for a time and they paid out crypto to people who edited a complete chapter

also like he said above, the novels i've seen on NUS that babel(Whatever) submitted are not pure MTL

if you go to their site, you'll see so many more novels that are pure mtl that are not submitted to NU

it's just like how several novels that used to be on WW are obviously badly edited mtl and we also still have some crappy mtl on qidian right now but neither of these sites are being prevented from posting their edited mtl onto NU