Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-14908162-20180130171542/@comment-30158224-20180131125240

Amandelen wrote: Ihavenoideawhatsoever recently explained how the closed captions work on Damesukekun's Song Translating and Mistranslating Guide so I'll copy-paste that here: "I don't know if it'll be any useful to you or anyone in the wiki, but i think i should mention that most, if not all, producers have no idea that their videos have translations. Translations get published on CC when enough people (think it's somewhere around 4-5 people) press the "Looks good" button . For example 40mp didn't choose any translation for 東京百鬼夜行 a good translation just happened to pass through.

Anyways, it's almost never the producer's choise, i have added translation on all of Kemu's songs and Neru's older songs and the reason they passed was because i had Forgetful's help(The translations were all taken from the wiki btw)."

The producer does have the ability to turn community contributions (as they're called) on and off, though. Furthermore, Damesukekun has already said that multiple translators who often add closed captions (for example Hmm Hmmm and Winter) don't make accurate translations (this is where "not up to our standards" came from). So even though the translations do get checked by multiple people they still end up not being that accurate.

This is actually kind of minor thing but producers can lock caption, which makes other users unable to edit/change them. But you can only find out that they are locked when you go to edit/change them.

So some producers are aware, like i would guess that Pinocchio-P is aware of Forgetful's translations since he followed her on Twitter, i don't know if they are working together 100%, but yeah the whole CC system is pretty loose.