Being a Contributor at Viki means being respectful of the position, the tools, and treating other Contributors with kindness and respect regardless of anyone’s role. To help us maintain a safe and enjoyable environment, we ask all Contributors to adhere to the Contributor Guidelines below.
In addition to these guidelines, all Contributors are required to adhere to our general Viki Community and our Viki Discussion guidelines. Failure to abide by any Viki guidelines or Viki Term of Use will result in disciplinary actions and may affect your ability to join or lead a team.
The following actions are considered violations of our Contributor Guidelines:
Individual Behavior
-
- Using or enabling the use of translating software or applications to translate subtitles on Viki.
- Piracy or stealing subtitles and/or content from Viki’s platform to display on other platforms.
- Hoarding projects.
- Creating and contributing from more than one Viki account.
- Abandoning a role without notifying your Channel Manager or Language Moderator.
- Working around role limits where you are performing actions that don’t correspond to your assigned role.
- Waging a personal vendetta against other Contributors. This includes accusing individuals publicly and/or submitting false reports.
- Lying about contribution points and gift eligibility.
- Treating other Contributors with disrespect or shaming them – either within your channel team or anywhere on the Viki platform.
- Acting in a non-acceptable manner while participating in the Viki Discussions Form. This include but is not limited to:
- Posting abusive or hateful statements.
- Making personal attacks or trolling.
- Discussing ways to abuse Viki or the Contributor Community.
Tool Abuse
-
- Abusing the subtitle tool (e.g. making dots, adding unnecessary spaces, deleting subtitles without a valid reason, etc.).
- Deleting comments on a channel page without reason.
- Hijacking subtitles to promote one’s personal agenda.
Channel Team Behavior
-
- Delaying release to other languages for unfounded reasons.
- “Blacklisting” other Contributors or preventing them from getting on a team.
Disciplinary actions
A first violation will result in a written warning. Multiple violations may lead to account suspension or your account being permanently deleted.
If you refuse to respect the above guidelines or commit certain actions, Viki reserves the right to take whatever action we deem necessary.
Follow the instructions here to report a guidelines violation.