I have a friend that feels uncomfortable having an account on the site, due to the social and out-there aspects of it. He is okay with recording videos of his runs, with just with game audio. I couldn't find anywhere it was mentioned, so I am asking here:

Is it allowed for me to make an account, this one here, and use it to post my friend's runs? He will also have full access to the account, if that is of any relevance.

Thank you.

Strictly speaking, one account is supposed to belong to one person, and you can only submit your runs on your account. That said, if you treat this as specifically their account that you manage for them, it's probably fine (I don't really see how that's better than them just submitting the runs themselves, but whatever). And obviously you need their explicit permission to do any of this, which it sounds like you have. Just if you ever want to do your own runs, you should make a new account that's specifically your account.

Alternatively, they could ask the moderators for the game(s) they're running directly to submit the runs on their behalf. Runs don't need to be associated with an account to be on the leaderboard, but only game moderators can do that. But the moderators might not be comfortable with you asking on behalf of your friend, and your friend might be more uncomfortable with the idea of having to reach out to them directly. That's also not a great long-term solution for the moderators if your friend is planning to submit more than one or two runs.

All that said, if the main concern they have about having an account here is the social features, it's pretty easy to just not engage with those parts of the site at all, most people don't. You can outright disable comments on your runs, the private messaging feature, and any/all notifications, then no one can really bother you or anything.

Thank you for your in-depth and quick response. All you have stated makes a lot of sense. I will be treating the account as their account, only have their runs on it, and I will just be managing it for them. I'll also do my best to be as transparent about it as possible. I will present your suggestion of disabling social features to them, though I don't know if that solves the problem for them, it is something I can't understand but only recognize/acknowledge.

Thanks again.