Vikisubteam is a staff account. Generally speaking, staff accounts don’t have to volunteer in order to get a channel. They may become a CM for several reasons, such as, license issues.
Even though Viki has never made any official announcement about when Vikisubteam might become a CM, we have seen several patterns so far:
- It becomes a CM when there are licence issues.
- After a certain period of time, Vikisubteam will be removed from the CM position and volunteer CMs will be appointed as usual.
- You can not work under Vikisubteam.
Another scenario is of older Viki shows with inactive CMs. When a CM becomes inactive, Viki might place Vikisubteam as a placeholder CM until a volunteer CM is chosen, either from the original moderators of the channel or another applicant.
To know if somebody is part of Viki staff or not, you simply need to go to their Badges page and look for this badge:
If you see this, that means that’s a staff account, otherwise, that’s simply another volunteer.