This may seem like a dumb question but to elaborate, in the About it states it is to be a "one-stop shop for speedrunning leaderboards."

Does this mean that this site is meant to be a collaborate data base of every speed run known, regardless of whether the run is done on console, console emulators, community accepted emulators, and banned from competition emulators?

I am asking this because I moderate and speed run games that have issues w/ them being emulated, such as Star Fox, and atm we currently ban any emulated run from being accepted as no emulator is remotely accurate for those games.

Though reading this site's About is making me wonder if this is the right thing to do. I know it's community driven how the rules are stated, but is the goal to host only "legitimate" speed runs?

I define legitimate speed runs as ones done either on console or on a community accepted emulator slower than or equal to console.

The respective communities for each game are still given full "control" over what's allowed and no allowed. If no emulators are allowed, there's an option to ban them from that specific game's leaderboard. Most rules set by the community can be explicitly set forth by moderators either in when runs are submitted (players won't be able to submit a run on emu without lying about it) or rules can be defined per category.

As a note, I could obviously be wrong about this but I'm pretty sure that's the case here.

While I understand that from a community perspective, I was looking more for a site wide perspective. Is this meant to be a site where any speed run ever done can be found? Or is this meant to be a site where a community can put their times on a leaderboard.

I think it's the latter one since admins do not copy/transfer any runs from other sites. That's up to mods and community. Besides, if you compare for example speedrun.com and SDA, they both "prefer" different types of runs. speedrun.com - RTA, SDA - segmented or single-segment.

There's plenty of gray cases. "One stop shop" doesn't imply that we're looking to feature one handed runs with one eye closed just because someone decides to do it. (Though I would like a way for users to upload arbitrary unverified PBs outside of the leaderboards in the future.) It also doesn't imply that all the emulators used are perfectly accurate. At this time it's generally left to the moderators and the users to discern what is useful information to track.

Currently the site does not have great ways of discerning levels of validity of information. Either it's allowed on the board or it isn't for now. Though you do have "emulators hidden by default" available to you, which may address this case.

Neither decision is correct or incorrect currently. This could change if other functionality is implemented to help mitigate the concerns.

I understand, either way this is still a great step in the right direction, just wanted to understand from a coder / admin perspective.