Well this sucks! Do you know how often I come to the Discussion…? Maybe once or twice every two months, and that’s if I remember. I can barely manage to check my messages once a day on Viki! So we have to work even HARDER on Viki for this subathon.
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THIS…100 percent!
Not only are there no projects for English translators/editors now, but nothing for segmenters as well!
This is a hollow shell. The challenge is even more hollow, for it lacks any member to do it other than PAID VIKI EMPLOYEES AND MACHINES NOW.
Feel free to gift the MACHINE that took over my translation and puts anachronisms into all historical and costume with MY BADGES!
I loved to segment. I loved to edit, and translate. Most of all, I enjoyed both running and completing the most challenging historical/costume drama projects on C Drama!
But the past is gone, and the joy with it. There is nothing but paid malarkey and machine-garbled words…
THE TIME HAS COME for viki TO TELL THOSE SUBSCRIBERS THEY ARE NO LONGER RECEIVING THE TRUE ARTISAN WORK OF VOLUNTEERS. They are indeed now “paying” for the mess that arrives and binging it. This is what this has all become.
the dragons have sought the deeps of the abyss…and surface not in this climate…
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The challenge wording as you point out is ridiculous…no section I’ve ever seen has 3 segments, and to do 3 seg and walk off is ridiculous. That’s IF you get anything to segment for real, and not something fouled up by a machine or others with no understanding of TIMING which has been lovingly crafted BY NSSA and we were taught the precision of also.
Only someone who has NO UNDERSTANDING OF THE ART OF SEGMENTING can come up with this one. 
And someone who has sadly walked into a job to ‘rally’ the now declining and run off bluntly VOLUNTEERS HERE… Sorry Brenda, but you should have looked at discussions before taking the job. The reality is we’ve been hidden and run off. Only a few words remain here of a past of worldwide cooperation and strong artisan craftsmanship.
Most of our best departed these halls long ago. Most of the rest are departing …or shoved ingloriously out ye door.
sigh. If anybody knows of a site that actually wants or better yet, PAYS for good quality work, feel free to dm me. thanks.
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I automatically filled out the RSVP form as I usually participate in subathons. Now that I’ve actually looked up what the “challenge” is going to be I’m really dissapointed and definitely won’t be participating.
We are volunteers because we love what we’re doing. Making participating every single day a requirement to get a badge will make volunteering feel like a chore. I don’t volunteer because I have to but because I feel like it. Besides, who has the time to log in every single day and contribute? We are busy with life! And it does absolutely nothing for our work flow to make us contribute a little every single day instead of allowing us to choose when and how much we contribute at a time! I can’t speak for others but when I log in to contribute, I sure as heck plan on working for at least an hour. And then you also expect us to post updates every day about our contributions and encouraging others to participate - and spend 15 minutes on such?? I’m sorry but this only sounds like you want us to work like slaves while making us pretend amongst ourselves and to the world volunteering at Viki is amazing while in reality we’re working our bottoms off to get that silly bagde (and this is coming from someone who really likes the badge challenges)! If you want us to feel like we’re growing closer and having a community we can get support from, you should be able to realize that this ain’t it!
And as others have already pointed out, this challenge will be impossible for the segmenters as they rarely get credit for their work and they tend to work on a whole part and not 3 or 6 pieces of contributions. Hope you rethink this challenge and consider not going through with it tbh - but you’ll probably see that in hindsigth when the challenge ends and you see how little people actually “completes a streak”.
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Hi everyone - We have a post up on the new changes to Seg-Subtember based on your feedback.
For improving the way A&C contributions are overall formally recognized, we are listening and noting these comments. Thank you!
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