They already deleted and replaced it yesterday night.
All the allnighters and time and sweat and hours spent…
I find it really inhuman because:
The teams and volunteers who are still subbing and still active are the ones who will read these messages and feel demotivated (not inactive volunteers, they are not there).
The remaining active volunteers will feel they are punished whereas they’re among the few ones who stayed motivated or liked the drama to continue subbing and subbed the drama until ep 20 or 30 or 40. V is stopping their efforts.
Whereas the ones who didn’t invest at all in the team or invested a little and left, they don’t care or are not touched by it.
It is targeted against remaining volunteers that they want it or no.
If volunteers knew all their work would be deleted by Viki, they wouldn’t even invest time on it to do things correctly.
There is no logic.
It is really demotivating for a contributor to have their contributions deleted and replaced by a bot contributions whereas the quality is better on the contributor’s side.
Plus, receiving they are not active whereas they are but not many.
We are a few volunteers on many dramas, so if you wanted us to leave, then it is well-done.
I’ve never seen a decision so inconsiderate.
It is really the pit bottom of what Viki could show to volunteers. You don’t bring us joy anymore, you’re putting brakes to our efforts to stay in a fun community and when you ask for help, we have to fight to get adequate help.
All the problems I got with Viki:
- uncomplete scripts and I got an answer 2 months later, then a few months later. I have to ask them once in a while to know if they could send us these scripts. And still no more answer.
- cut scenes, they changed subs, they changed parts timing, shifted segments while creating micro gaps whereas it has been checked 2x and they did everything behind the team’s back without saying anything before “we would begin to do this on… day…” they even ask us after they did it if they can do it, whereas they already did it.
When you ask if they changed subs, they tell no. When you go check, you see they change.
They don’t believe you and you have to take screens to tell them: it is Viki staff name under this sub and some moderators edit back these subs because obviously someone changed it.
- when reporting abusive segments, they put solved and nothing has been fixed. Abusive contributions are still there.
When you ask them to delete them, they told it takes 1 week.
Then you tell them, don’t put it as solved if it is not solved or tell us the info before because if I want to work on the video, I can’t whereas I read you already solved it.
Then when I go back to see how it was solved: all the part has to be redone because no more extensions that were butchered by the abuser. And Viki let the remaining segments not done by the abuser, but hell half of the segments and all extensions were gone = it means redoing it would be faster.
So you have to tell them again to delete all segments, but how come they can’t ask before or see that before?
It took 1 month just for that to be solved… was it difficult or?
- we asked for designated channels everywhere since the beginning but they don’t listen. Then they continue to receive reports, that is normal.
I have lost >100 hours with them on 1 drama, it is crazy.
We are not carpets or slaves or dogs or punching-balls.
We are humans, treat us as such.
We are not going to say thank you and be all merry or recognize your hard work or your help if you don’t listen to our needs and find pseudo remedies that would add more work for us to fix your mess. It is incredible.
More I see Viki way of working, less I believe we are working for the same website.
It is like we don’t exist.
In front of our despair, you add more fuel… like you have no empathy or feelings or respect toward your community or volunteers who made this website possible with you.
I’d like to recognize Viki work in these situations, but it is asking too much.
Adding more and more each time, how can we remain patient?
