Misc runs - a suggestion
7 years ago
Somalia

I was thinking about misc categories and how no one wants to create them for just one or two runs. The leaderboards are meant to be representative of the whole respective community and that should also be the case for misc categories. That does not mean however, that none of those runs are worth showing somewhere, so I figured that there must be a way to do so.

I'm thinking of a list of unrelated runs, basically a leaderboard without ranking, where peope can dump any of their noteworthy runs. And "noteworthy" does not only have to be some meme category that people invented for themselves, but also marathon and tournament runs. Former WRs might also deserve more of a spotlight on the site, in those cases where they were excellent runs with outdated strats. There are also blindfolded runs and maybe other people can think of even more things of that nature.

So while a clean leaderboard is a nice thing, a speedgame also consists of its fringe runs and moments of historical significance and I think it would be a good addition to the site, if people could compile those here as well.

So yeah, just an idea of mine.

soru and PreFiXAUT like this
United States

This is probably along the lines of letting users host arbitrary PBs on their profiles and letting users search that portion of the database if they really want to. Misc is indeed intended to serve some of that use case. As far as items of historical significance, these things can be captured in guides and forum posts for now. There may be a better way to highlight them, but it seems like rather specific functionality.