Was it right for VIKI to delete posts?

[sonmachinima]

If you take a look in this forum’s past or are a part of this community for long you could see that the recent situation didn’t happen suddenly.

The global real world crisis just added the last drop to this forum.

Some people have mainly negative views about this community and its users (maybe for people in general) for whatever reason. They’re spreading negative thoughts for years talking and waiting for change that will never happen - or at least no change in the way they expect it.

They expect different results though their thoughts, their behaviour stays the same.

Now VIKI did take action but suddenly some aren’t happy with that either (it’s not about your post/thread/opinion Adrian since you have a clear position and although you weren’t directly involved, VIKI’s decicion and new rules counts for you in the same way as for everyone else).

These examples are couple of years old, long before I even knew VIKI and this forum.

(Just scroll down and you’ll see the same statements as you see now; how bad this community is, how rotten (even worse than the real world - but how can one think the online world exists independent from the offline world? it’s not that being online means being surrounded by a programmed AI):

Contributors who want to demotivate other contributors on purpose

Hello ! I am aware of the fact of contributors (real contributors and not only viewers) saying bad and harsh comments about others’ contributions, about others’ mistakes on translations saying that they are trash etc These words are spoken with no trace of kindness, nor consideration for others’ feelings but only with disrespect from the contributor author. It’s clearly written with the intent of hurting the contributors and discouraging them in pursuing their contributions on Viki. What I fin…

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A forceful choice!

I have limited experience as Channel Manager, only a few titles, but I’ve dealt with many as a moderator, so I have started to have an idea of what it is or what it should be in my mind. A Channel Manager is not an enviable role, it comes with more responsibility than fun. First of all, the choice of managers, in languages you know nothing of. You have to have a large network of people you trust and ask for their opinion. And even then, how do you build that network of people you trust? Maybe …

So it’s at least ~4 years old. Nothing changed and finally VIKI took action.

If you read the old posts you’ll also see that those who did have a different - more positive - opinion about the community and its users in general (in the way that not ‘all’ are bad, not ‘everyone’ is a enemy, there are no tons of sockpuppets (fake accounts) that do only exist for manipulations etc.) also kept their way of writing/posting.

PS:

I posted the old threads as examples that certain things are longterm issues that already existed before some new users joined this community and that even without being part of all that several years old stuff one could easily get involved in these old strings without knowing at first that its the usual pattern some are following for years.