If you haven't already done so, I'd suggest you submit a ticket.

For game submission tickets, I've received reasonably quick responses every time I've submitted them.

On the other hand, I have a bunch of feedback/suggestion support tickets as "pending" from 3 months ago, without any feedback or acknowledgement. Not really sure if the amount had something to do with that (the first one was sitting solitary for a month, so I'm inclined to think not). Something you might want to keep in mind for the future.

Once 21 days have actually passed, I believe you are clear to request to become a game moderator yourself by submitting a ticket.

Request to become a moderator of a leaderboard when all existing moderators are inactive.

Moderators are considered inactive if they have not logged on or verified a pending run in at least 21 days.

You should at least try to reach out via their linked social media profiles first, though:

In the case of inactive game moderators, please attempt to contact them via social media to resolve the situation.

@BelvaCompany it is ultimately up to you whether or not you are willing to take up the role. Obviously if you want the series to be managed someone has to do it. To be clear, you requested to become a series moderator, not a game moderator? Because if so, yes, the "Add a new series to Speedrun" says:

We are not currently accepting new moderators for series.

If all you want to do is add a game to the series, there is a ticket category for that, "Change an existing game or series" > "Add an existing game to a series". You do have to be a moderator for the game in question:

Series associations are managed by Speedrun staff, but you can request a change for games you moderate.

However, if the current mods are truly inactive, then I believe you should be able to request a moderator role for the game ("Become a moderator for an existing game"), and then escalate into series inclusion.

This is, of course, assuming you are willing to do all this work, but that is your choice. But I believe you do have a course of action available.

I believe those problems are supposed to be resolved by submitting a ticket. In particular, "Become a moderator for an existing game" instructs that:

Moderators are considered inactive if they have not logged on or verified a pending run in at least 21 days.

If a game's moderators are highly inactive (have not logged on in three or more months) and not responding to off-site contact, and you have a run already on the boards, you may request moderation of the game without a pending run. Accepting these requests are at the discretion of site staff.

@GLITCHSTICH, it may still be worthwhile to submit a ticket to request that country list items are always sorted alphabetically (as you can see, most are, but some skip the queue for some reason). I presume you couldn't find it by the "A" and assumed it just wasn't there.

@SioN that is, in my opinion, the ideal solution if you have both the financial means and the technical know-how.

The easier, simpler alternative is to move your movies to another file hosting or video hosting site. Coincidentally, there is another thread on the sub-forum frontpage where we discussed this issue, I mentioned I use VidGuard (no storage limits, which you might be interested in), but there might be others that also suit your needs.

Interestingly, these last few days YouTube has started showing a nag popup on every video when it detects adblock. Curious to see how this situation continues to unfold.

@pr0te I guess what I was looking for was not as much the empty board as the attached ruleset, which is why I mentioned broadly what I was planning to do. But if you can't make sense of it right now I suppose I'll just go ahead and assume my route and setup is admissible.

Hey @pr0te, sorry to ghost you.

I have an "all quests" run somewhere but I'm not quite happy with it so I've been trying for a better time in the meantime, but I am also not happy with my controller either so I've been meaning to get it replaced when I can. Hopefully if that happens soon-ish I can submit that to you.

To be clear, the run would entail the following (with my current route): Mamoo 1 (Bart), Mamoo 2 (Mart), Mamoo 3 (Art), Zonimama 1, Zonimama 2, Zonimama 3, Schloss Kreep 1, Schloss Kreep 2, Schloss Kreep 3, Pyramidicia 1, Pyramidicia 2, Pyramidicia 3, Aquaquatica 1, Aquaquatica 2, Aquaquatica 3, Zonimama 1 (Ammonia), Zonimama 2 (Spriggins), Zonimama 3 (Griddle), Schloss Kreep 1 (Chivers), Schloss Kreep 2 (Marvin), Schloss Kreep 3 (Merrix), Pyramidicia 1 (Jordan), Pyramidicia 2 (Hawkey), Pyramidicia 3 (Wark-Slike), Aquaquatica 1 (Giggles), Aquaquatica 2 (Jonimoris), Buccaneria 1 (Gaybeard), Buccaneria 2 (Babs / Chelle), Ironclad (Lucille / Mamooset).

You surely know this, but some of the revisits are mandatory as Jonimoris' quest spans multiple realms, and some others (Marvin, Merrix, Hawkey) span all areas within their realm. For others (Ammonia, Spriggins) re-entry, beeline for the NPC and quitting through the menu is faster than backtracking from the end of the level where the final requirement is usually found.

Mamooset will proclaim Jinx the new King when his quest is completed and the run ends.

I'll be using some glitches (Mamoo 3 gate clip, Zonimama 2 TNT airwalk, and some others).

Does this sound alright?

@SWIL

If said skips warrant their own category (because they exploit glitches), then yes, I think that would be the most natural choice. Not all skips are glitches, however. Consider that in my WR run I skip the outer rings of the Wind section by taking advantage of the scrapyard mechanic introduced in that section (in the second battle against Megid). But that is not a glitch, the scrapyard is supposed to work that way after you reach the Wind section.

As for moderator privileges, I'll consider expanding the team as workload demands. Are you planning to run this game?

Hello @SWIL!

At this moment the glitchless category is the same as the standard any%, as the route contains no glitches and no glitch routes are currently known (as far as I'm aware).

https://www.speedrun.com/users/sprunkigamesocial

youre the one who suddenly started saying how not everyone can get ads on their sites so i replied to that :D?

I don't recall ever saying that. The closest relevant thing I said was how content interception ads were hard to implement, so most sites are stuck with either banner ads (which pay very little money) or content overlay ads (the alleged motive of contention against VidGuard, although as I said it turns out you can actually use an adblocker successfully). But that is kind of the exact opposite of what you are implying: I'm saying people can and do put ads on their sites, and this entire discussion is about their style and implementation.

google drive is a file hosting cloud service not a video host

I'm well aware. I suppose there is some ambiguity in my phrasing: Google Drive and YouTube are both operated by Google, and they were both suggested as (in my opinion, worse) alternatives to the hosting platform I was using. The bit about Google Drive was more of a side note, I was referring to YouTube (I thought that quoting your characterization of YouTube as "the most well known video hosting site" would have made that clear, but alas).

Although, on the topic of Google Drive specifically: like I said, there are storage limits, leaking your email address as you mention is also a nuisance, and on the matter of support, God help you if your video ever gets automatically flagged for copyright infringement (last I heard, they scan files automatically and use AI detection systems that as we all know by now are prone to hallucination).

EDIT: It appears that @unfound has removed comments and account, so I will quote a comment below that mentioned another inconvenience of YouTube (and a caveat to one of @SioN's comments):

if you do not wish to verify your phone number, the limit is 15 minutes length for a video, and you can only post 10 videos a day

@unfound I actually received feedback about the adult ads and immediately disabled them. I don't see why adult ads would be a problem when they can be disabled.

@SioN

i dont know how it works to get ads on your website. cant you just submit your site to google adsense thingie and theyll look it over and then you can place ads on your site if they accept it.

depending on what your site is offering you could pay a bunch of the costs with donations. like catbox (anonymous file hosting website) gets their monthly fees almost fully paid with patreon subscriptions. their site claims patreon alone has paid 1300$ of this months fees.

Sorry, I can't quite make out what you are trying to say. It sounds like either you think I run VidGuard (I don't) or you are proposing I bootstrap my own video hosting site (I have no income to risk on such a venture at the moment, even if there is a chance I could get lucky enough to sustain myself on donations, like I said, very few manage that).

if thats your concern then youtube also doesnt do either of those? the only limit is 12 hours at max on a video but likely wont ever be a problem.

In addition to what @unfound said (and I'll add, Google Drive has storage limits), and what I have also said above (I suppose you are counting that a "being the most well known video hosting site"), there is also the fact that dealing with Google for support with any issues you might encounter is a nightmare. I've already submitted a handful of tickets to VidGuard and received a prompt response, so from my viewpoint they are providing a better service for me as a content producer.

I could just as well turn it around and say that it appears the real problem with VidGuard is that it is not YouTube or another video hosting site backed by a big company (the complaints about adult ads and adblocker were already addresses, but it appears people are still not happy).

@happycamper_ There is misunderstanding here. I was going to post this:

There exists a feature to check for adblock in VidGuard. But it effectively changes nothing significantly: the overlay ads are still enabled even with adblock (at least with my adblocker). You will not block the ads with an adblocker, even if allowed. What I meant to say by not needing adblock is that the way you avoid those ads is by disabling pop-ups. The reason I left it on is that while it makes no effective difference in the viewing experience it might affect revenue-sharing terms.

However, I double-checked and while the adblocker I was using (AdBlocker Ultimate) did not block those pop-ups, there are apparently others that do (Adblock Plus did it for me). So, for your benefit, I went ahead and disabled the anti-adblock.

Putting that aside from a moment... I don't believe YouTube or other sites would be disallowed if Google suddenly broke adblock (they have been trying for years now). Why would that be a problem here?

EDIT: By the way, I'm happy for every runner to host their runs wherever they like, I'm just using VidGuard because they impose neither storage limits nor remove idle videos, at least as far as I could see. I actually submitted a ticket over a month ago to request support for additional profile association with a variety of video hosting sites, but got no feedback nor acknowledgement so far.

So, it is pretty much like I said, then?

Is the problem here that content interception ads ("we interrupt your transmission to show you this ad") are considered acceptable while link overlay ads ("this page is an ad link until you click it") aren't?

its very intrusive

I suppose there is some subjectivity in what you consider "intrusive", but at the very least content overlay ads are objectively easier to block than content interception ads. You can do it without an ad blocker, even.

usually malicious websites have ads like that

That is factually incorrect. Overlay ads are easier to implement than content interception ads so they are usually found on websites operated by people or companies that have a constrained budget. A subset of those happen to be malicious because malicious sites are always at high risk of takedown, but that is very broad brush to paint every site with.

The problem with this mentality is that you spread the idea that websites are only trustworthy if either they:

• Are operated with almost no ads (or just banner ads, which pay pennies), almost always at a loss, and at continual risk of shutting down when the operators don't feel like burning their pockets anymore (for a relevant example, see splits.io).
• Are operated by giant corporations with millions or billions of dollars, venture capital, etc., and leave no room for new competitors that want to provide a service. Then they become an oligopoly, and when they pull the rug from under you, you are screwed (for a relevant example, see the twitch VOD debacle).

Or even better, those corporations get their hands everywhere and when they murder you while providing you a service somewhere, you can't sue them because of the terms of service of some other unrelated thing you did or used (Disney did this a while ago, look it up).

just upload to youtube, there is no reason not to.

I think there are reasons to use or prefer alternative services outside of the biggest player in the game.

Alright, here it is.

You've sent me the link to the video. After going on the website, without an ad blocker, I pressed "play" on the video and another web page opened and it started downloading a file called OperaBrowser.exe that was blocked for being malicious. I then went back on the page to press play and another advert page opened.

It does a couple overlay link ads, then it plays all the way to the end uninterrupted (as long as you don't need to touch the player again). As for the content of the ads, all I was ever tried to be showed were AliExpress ads, but I obviously have no control over what gets shown. I actually just block the popups myself.

This is why it was rejected as your video hosting platform isn't very good so site staff can't even watch your run due to adverts getting in the way. Use YouTube or another common video hosting service instead.

I ended up restreaming my run on kick.com and submitted that, it was approved shortly after.

Is the problem here that content interception ads ("we interrupt your transmission to show you this ad") are considered acceptable while link overlay ads ("this page is an ad link until you click it") aren't? The latter are even easier to block...

where the hell are you hosting your videos?

I was using VidGuard.