We've discussed this for years in the SRL community when it came to Leaderboards. There we're many questions of "What time should be required to be on a LB" or "Require Videos?"

The ultimate conclusion was SRL leaderboards died, lol.

However, in my opinion, it doesn't do the community any good to have half your runs not include video proof. You're going down a slippery slope if you start allowing it for some and not everyone. Ultimately there WOULD be bias if it's an established community member compared to a new person coming along and saying "Yo I've got a PB one minute above your arbitrary cut off line". No matter where you set a line, speedrunning and it's games and routes are changing every day. So you would move this arbitrary line that, whether you think you're insulting other runner's times or not, there would be an inevitable "I put time into this run, and this person with no name came along and is ranked above me". Part of being part of a leaderboard community more then a speed running community is getting to climb those ranks. Would you say the first run is fine but require video proof the 2nd run? Or once you hit the cap. At that point, you are inspiring them to get a capture card to record your runs and not only submit your time, but submit your own unique strategies which is an ever bigger contribution to the community. If we require it up front, imagine the inspiration it would cause for everyone to get that capture card.

Speedrunning to be a more successful hobby imo should require some level of organization, not a messy leaderboard, with a messy ruleset that allows certain perks for some runners and not for others. Speedrunning, like any hobby usually requires some level of financial investment, which includes a game, console, controller, T.V., computer and a capture card, which you can obtain for the same price and cheaper then most of the other requirements above. Don't just be a time or a number, invest a LITTLE more and have video evidence of the many hours you sunk into the game of your choice. I think this is better for everyone involved, new runners, current runners and viewers of the LB's who can give a shit less about my 2:58 without a video and would just watch a time with a video even if it was worse then mine to find strats.

For the record, ALL of my times would be removed with my current stance, and as I said at AGDQ many times:

"This is Fine"