[Viki Community Team] 2023 Winter Subathon Top 11 Badge Options

[vikicommunity]

Thank you for all your badge animal suggestions for the 2023 Winter Subathon badge! We received over 960 responses! For the first time we have a tie for 10th place, so we picked the top 11 most popular badge animal choices.

Vote for your favorite! The poll will close on Friday, Nov 10th @ 11:59 PM PST. Don’t forget!

Final results will be revealed before the Winter Subathon begins on Wednesday, Nov 29th PST.

Go to Form here

[maria_lavendula_77]

Voted for the snow owl but just so you all know I will be suggesting my Badger the next time to (it didn’t even make the list)…
And @sheli reminded me that we need this thread here.

The grim and uncertain future of segmenters and Portuguese volunteers community

It’s such a shame that one of the largest language communities is being thrown away like that, every new channel is coming with pre-subs in Portuguese, and it’s not like we are short on translators, every day new people reach out to the moderators because they want to start to volunteering. Usually, the only reason for us (Portuguese moderators) to turn any volunteer down was the lack of Viki pass or a team way too big for the project, however, lately we have to turn everyone down, not just new…

[sheli]

I don’t care that much on which animal will be on the badge. What I care for is: How can we, segmenters and Portuguese subtitlers, make enough contributions since we are being left out from the projects? Seggers can’t segment anything, they are not even allowed to adjust and combine segments now, a lot of time only adjusting bad segs to end up with 0 contributions. What to say from our poor Portuguese subbers now that everything comes pre-subbed? We always were considered to be one of the communities with the most subbers, but now we are being excluded from the community without a word.

[cerejacult]

Excellent question. How can we make it, @vikicommunity ?

[sheli]

Thanks for linking it

[maria_lavendula_77]

I’m a Swedish moderator but the thing I like doing most is segmenting (that’s where my dream here at Viki started), so I’m on your side.

[magaf]

Dear, @vikicommunity.

Voting animals for the new Subathon’s badge it’s not an urgent matter, at least for those of us who will be unable to contribute. I’m sorry to sound rude, but as a Portuguese subber/editor, I don’t even know if I’ll be able to play along since there’s nothing left for me. All the new dramas are coming pre-subbed, we already talked about this matter before on posts, on helps, on tickets etc…

Example:

@sheli

It’s such a shame that one of the largest language communities is being thrown away like that, every new channel is coming with pre-subs in Portuguese, and it’s not like we are short on translators, every day new people reach out to the moderators because they want to start to volunteering.

Usually, the only reason for us (Portuguese moderators) to turn any volunteer down was the lack of Viki pass or a team way too big for the project, however, lately we have to turn everyone down, not just newbies, but years long contributors, because it comes pre-subbed! We’re left now with variety shows, BL’s and projects with 50+ episodes that clearly ate not the selling point on Viki. Not everyone likes those and I wonder how long we can still translate it ourselves.

Soon there will only be left a bunch of Portuguese volunteers around Viki to be editors. I hope I’m completely wrong, but only Viki itself knows the answer for this. Could you give an explanation of what is happening to us, the Portuguese community? And don’t you think the segmenters also need a clarification? It’s been a long time they’re surviving from the subtitles resulting from combining and adjusting segments, and now they can’t even do that!

The future ahead of us, poor volunteers (seggers and Portuguese subbers), seems grim and uncertain, who knows if we’ll be here next year, or even if we’ll still be needed for anything else besides old shows that only a hand full is actually interested in.

@brendas @vikicommunity @giant_sean @amm11

So I see no point for me voting on something that I won’t be able to play as well🤷‍♀️.
I’m worried about what is ahead of us (I mean… Portuguese subber as I can speak for my community - Poor newbies, they didn’t even get a chance to start at here).

And here’s the question… “no statement yet?”
It’s boring to talk to the walls, you know?
Sorry for this, but it’s your turn now.
At least talk to us privately, you know?
Magali

[valneijr]

Interesting, I guess the Portuguese community doesn’t even have to worry about what animal the badge of this subathon will be, since they won’t be able to get the badge anyway

[asuna]

Also, would like to know how to get the badges even if there’s no projects to translate English => Portuguese. It’s difficult for the Brazilian community to keep our routine in Viki.

Please, give us a reply. We deserve that.

@vikicommunity

[leerla73]

Hi fans,
Remember to keep your tone friendly, but effective.

@maria_lavendula_77

the snow owl

@simi11

Snowy Owl

I voted for the snow owl, thanks to the above post by @simi11.

[rosemereozv]

That’s right Sheli.
When I joined Viki there was still a bit of concern about quality, although there was an attempt to implement Vikiboot, we resisted. We could still organize our teams and really feel like a community. It was fun MAKING THE MAGIC THAT VIKI SAID SO MUCH ABOUT. We were careful not to use terms that weren’t appropriate for a period drama, to use slang at the right time and place, etc… Now we can’t anymore. The segmenters could still combine the scenes (I don’t understand why Viki prohibited it, since the loss of pre-subs is minimal). Will this be the end of the Portuguese-speaking community (mainly BR and PT) and the segmenters? Are Portuguese-speaking volunteer subbers and our fellow segmenters really so disposable?
Do subscribers complain? Yes. But that’s not the end of the world. Viki can’t take it?

@sheli

@brendas @vikicommunity @giant_sean @amm11

[leerla73]

@rosemereozv

It was fun MAKING THE MAGIC THAT VIKI SAID SO MUCH ABOUT. We were careful not to use terms that weren’t appropriate for a period drama, to use slang at the right time and place, etc… Now we can’t anymore.

Love, and Loved this❣️

[anryumi]

Since there are not many projects available, unfortunately the majority of the members of our community (especially segmenters, English-Portuguese and English-Spanish subbers) will not have the opportunity to try to get this badge.

[mirjam_465]

@maria_lavendula_77

but just so you all know I will be suggesting my Badger the next time to (it didn’t even make the list)…

Mine didn’t make the list, either, just like last time. There’s no point in making suggestions, whether it’s for badges or for more urgent matters. Viki does what it wants.

[maria_lavendula_77]

I think you are right… If it wasn’t so we wouldn’t have A only.

[simi11]

@leerla73

I voted for the snow owl

I did as well… hopefully Hedwig will win

[daiemyllygunnarsen_8]

And how will we in the Brazilian community receive it? All projects come with subtitles in Portuguese

[arctiicm]

and who is going to get those badges? the portuguese community isn’t for sure, with all the dramas coming with pre-subs.

[luzienedb_305]

It’s sad not possible contribute more… and the pre-subs isn’t god…so we just don’t understand what viki really want with us…

[marianagmmarques]

Its a shame what’s happens with the portuguese community, we are the biggest group of volunteers and viki is losting your purpose tha is made by volunteers, you don’t forget that in the past if the community was not present, Viki would not to be what is today. These automatics subtitles is killing the volunteers that do it for years and the new volunteer that one day dreamed about to help the community here.