Questions:
How do you decide which projects to pick-up?
Do you base the choice on the art, story or availability of staffers?
Same thing on the decision to drop a project. What's the criteria?
Does the reader base have a part in it? Keep doing a project you don't like because a lot of people get it from you?
Drop a project 'cause almost no one reads it and the staff would be best used on another project?
If I can think better questions... That'd mean I got smarter for some reason...
I decide on a whim most of the time (That's the truth.). I see something I like, I see if there are people who are interested in working on it (Sorry, let me re-phrase that: I look if there's a translator willing to work on it.), and I start on it. Then you have projects like Full Metal Panic: Sigma that I bought the volumes but have nobody translating it. Shame. I'd really like to scanlate FMP: Sigma
I base the choice mostly on two things. 1) If I find the series potentially interesting, and 2) If I have a translator for it.
To drop a project, well, it's just overall lack of interest in a project. There are some projects that I just get tired of working on, and leave them be for a few months. When I get back to them, they start to get fun again. Sometimes when I get back to a project, and it still isn't fun. If there's a general lack of interest in the group, then the project gets officially dropped with a news post on the site. Nothing is ever dropped unless we make notice of it.
I don't scanlate for leechers. However, if there's a lot of people who download your releases, it's a nice feeling. If they don't, eh, oh well. Too bad for them. They don't know what they're missing.