I straight talk please give some space to the potential mod farmer. As I am one of those people, I know the feeling. I also want to say no one is perfect.
First of all, I need to clarify this time, the incident among another user and me may be counted mod farming. But before that, I need to guarantee that every obscure games I have ever speedrun is just my hobby and it is funny to speedrun some underrated games. I do not understand why a lot of people think I always mod farmed before, after this incident. But being always critiqued is not very comfortable to me. I want everyone to leave some spaces to me and other people get mod banned.
"There's a reason for everything, even if it might seem pointless to someone else, all that matters is that you find it interesting, or you yourself find some meaning within it." This was said by one of my speedrunner friend. I need to clarify that I do not moderate leaderboards for being "cool" or "popular". I moderate those games because those underrated games were not in speedrun.com originally. One of my purpose of moderating those games is to let more people know those games exist.
I think I need to rest because not only I keep being critiqued by many people which made my mood very bad but also irl stuff. I think everyone speedrun just for fun. I think it is not necessary to critique anyone that hard. I also think my mental health gets affected because of it.
I clarify that I may always do some mistakes. But please, leave some spaces to us! It has been a stress for me...
Take care, Pika
@PikAsriel did you mean to send this in DMs or something? I haven't heard of people targeting 'mod farmers', but if you really don't like the hate and/or critique, it can help to block the people that are sending it your way. From my experience, no one cares what games your run, it's all for your enjoyment anyway, and if you happen to moderate those games to help their communities I see no problem. The 'hate' that I've seen are for people who are mods for a ton of games but don't actually verify any runs or interact with the community in any way (and you seem to actually be moderating these games). If I were you, I would just ignore whatever hate you're getting, I think you're overthinking their responses, and half of what they're saying might be misdirected. Best of luck, Sizzyl
The bottom line here is: it doesn't matter the exact amount of games for which you're currently a mod, but rather whether you're contributing to said games' leaderboards in a meaningful way, be it verifying runs, setting up the categories or writing rules/guides for the game.
People normally tend to frown upon people with a lot of mod roles (given that normally it's hard to keep up with too many speedgames at once), but if the games you're moderating aren't too active and you care for them and can actually manage them properly, it's not inherently wrong.
If you know it in your heart that you're not collecting mod roles for meaningless "internet points" then you should pay no heed to those accusations, as you know them to be false. Best of luck.
