I thought that since Team Discussions message board is provided through the “famed” disqus so Viki has very little control about disqus “algorithm” of editing. Disqus’ has built in keywords that trigger the “is on hold” action, only Viki can elaborate if they have any system that syncs with disqus program to search for keywords that Viki wants to put on hold…
This wasn’t really so bad some years ago, something must have changed… and disqus has the keywords selections also in some other languages… I personally hate disqus for also other reasons, that when I check feedbacks it directs me so often to create an account with disqus… I use the messaging program only on Viki… so *******
I had this isue, when I as CM replayed in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese to say thank you to their teams and that they have joined the drama & finished it so fast.
Was also confused. I thought it had something to with me being German, but I got help from German Volunteers who studies these languages, so I posted the thank you and had to wait hours for it’s approvement.
I completely agree. There have been too many instances where I’ve tried to communicate something about a segment and the message gets blocked for spam. It’s ridiculous. I think the last time I was blocked for the word “subtitle”.
We are using the Team Discussion to impart important information to our team members about something having to do with the show. Whether it’s a translation question or a timing issue, the team comments should not be blocked as spam.
It’s really frustrating when you don’t have time to fiddle with the wording to get it past the spam controls.
So true. Couldn’t agree more.
In the past, I was often “moderated” with just “Thank you” to someone. That’s puzzling and I do wonder how “that so-called algor” works lol. But we still aren’t sure who’s the “caretaker” - Disqus or Viki? No one’s telling, so…
My original username was “translate” and that made EVERYTHING I wrote in the team discussion censored. So I couldn’t communicate with anyone about my progress. Luckily(?), there was only 1 other subbed on that show, so I ended up sending PM to her and the CM to let them know what part I was working on.
Although I wasn’t 100% sure why all my comments were being blocked and deleted, I had a sneaky suspicion that it might be my username. So I ended up changing it to my current username. Even after that, when I used sentences like “Translated or subtitled Ep. 5.1” or something like that, it got blocked. So that’s when I was sure that they don’t like the words “translate” or “subtitle” for some reason.
Just ran into this problem when trying to comment in team discussions and ask about our naming conventions! Thanks to you all, I’m realizing that I shouldn’t use the word “translate” in my comments. But it’s ridiculous that I had to search through the website to figure out what was going wrong.
Unfortunately this still seems to be an issue. A message I posted in the TD is still not visible after days. Seems like it’s blocked because I offered to translate the medical notes shown on screen.
But really Disqus/viki, why wouldn’t I mention subtitles or translating if the TD is used for keeping the entire team updated on things like that?
Yeah, I recently also forgot about it because I’m a fairly new moderator and haven’t used TD’s often. But I was lucky, the review for the post was taken care of on the same day.
