I was considering adding an amendment to the rules to help with proofing, to be allpied from that point and forth.
Rule: Upload a replay file and link it in your comment. Replay proof is always required for the top three positions of a leaderboard.
How would anyone feel about this? Not only would it help with proofing but also give other players the ability to improve the level even further.
I disliked being accused of cheating when I submitted my first runs, but it got me thinking.
A difficulty with serious proofing is that STK is an open source game. A video more often than not allows to spot inconsistencies (higher max speed, etc), but in theory it's possible to do something which passes through casual verification. It would need an intensive verification to check that acceleration, max speed, and other variables... are correct.
What would be useful is if STK displayed some additional information, but they won't want to clutter their UI just for this. They already think that indicators for skidding/drafting loading would be excessive.
I never had any accusations. The only reason I brought this up was the fact that nobody had set in any standards for this thing yet, and I noticed people freaking out over it. At least they did the right thing and asked other people instead of freak out over it and deny the run. That's something that cannot be said for most of the internet, so I'm glad it worked out the way it did. They just haven't seen someone as effective at ILs as me yet so it caught them off-guard.
However the devteam did suggest being able to upload the replay and having the server do some sanity checks on it, so things are looking up for the replay system.
As for uploading the replay, you could use something as simple as https://puush.me/
But isn't https://puush.me/ just for screenshots? It'd be better to just upload the actual replay file.
puush.me is for more than screenshots, it's for files in general. I've used it for replay lumps in SRB2 and got verified on it
