Then this file is right in the middle then, right?
Gigas to the left and minis to the right.

Reminds me of a Steeler's Wheel song. 'Stuck in the middle with you'.

Gotta love a psycho that reminds themself to take a pill on a public board.

That's odd, I didn't see where they said anything bad about honorifics. Your panties must be a bit too tight if you saw that.

The Japanese do indeed add honorifics when adding subtitles, although foriegn movies will be dubbed with honorifics included. (Although Japanese and most other Asiatics mostly prefer domestic TV and Cinema)

The idea of not using honorifics is abhorrent to those from honorific using societies, it can be very difficult for them to get used to, have you ever told an Asian shopkeeper or telephone customer services representative your given name, and they insist on adding the Mr. to it? "Please do not worry Mr. David" "I can certainly sort that out for you Mr. Bob" - Please realise, the person you are speaking to is doing this for himself, not you. You have just told him to call you by your first name, this is often horrifying to him, it is a bit like you just asked him to call him "Babe" or "Honey" - Removing an honorific in a friendly situation like your phone call would seem that intimate.

'desu' serves an important purpose in showing politeness/formality. In some ways, it's similar to the point of honorifics, but no, it's not really a self honorific (in fact, in general you don't use honorifics for yourself) and doesn't supplement one.
Consider these two sentences which have exactly the same meaning:
- nihongo wa muzukashii (日本語は難しい)
- nihongo wa muzukashii desu (日本語は難しいです)

I've never seen any translation try to differentiate the two unless the context makes one particularly out-of-place or similar (and even then, you generally won't find 'desu' in the subtitles).

I suspect many people who complain about the lack of honorifics aren't aware of this, and aren't fully aware of its purpose. Which isn't surprising, as it hasn't really been exposed in fansubs, so not picked up on. The point is, despite the importance in the language, there are lots of stuff that has to get dropped in translations. In the big scheme of things, honorifics hardly matter, yet, funnily enough, it's what gets complained about because watchers have been made aware of their presence.

Translations from Japanese will be subjective in many ways, particularly since it's rather different from English. And in many ways, there's no 'correct' or 'wrong' interpretation, just opinions and choices. I think people need to stop thinking that their ideal is the 'one true way' and learn to be more accepting of others' opinions. If you appreciate other cultures enough to be pedantic over small differences, then surely you should be able to appreciate alternative interpretations which challenge you to accept something that feels a little out of place?

Here, we've got both options anyway, so complaints on either side is pretty much pointless.

Maybe the lower IQ watchers aren't able to get the hang of it and need to be spoon fed westernised equivelents?

The only people I know who use honorifics in the English language are weebs. I don't know anyone who doesn't watch anime that uses them.
The honorifics anime crowd is very small compared to the world population.

" its also respectful to try to be as faithful to the original work as possible, messing with the characters name and honorific can imply all sorts of things unintended by the writers and artists that created the work."

When the Japanese studios are adding honorifics to subtitles for foreign shows they are being respectful and faithful to the original work?
They are making it for their intended audience and really don't care about it being as accurate as the original work.