SHAR Community Blackout Update V2

With the recent speedrun.com allowing us to disable comments, the blackout has ended.

We're still not 100% happy with how the website works, but this is a big enough step for us start maintaining the boards again.

Thanks!

• SHAR modteam

Alright now we just need to push for the most important thing: comment notifications.

If I limit comments on a series to runners of the series, will that setting apply to all games in the series?

I like how I verified over 1000 hours of runs in a game with a runs total of 2 hours. :D

@Saradoc I just did a test in one of my own games. While the total run time of a game only counts verified runs; the "verify" time of a moderator counts ALL RUNS, INCLUDING REJECTED RUNS.

So my guess is that someone submitted a 999:59:59.999 run to your game as a joke, you rejected it, but for the reason above it still contributes to your 1000+ hours. (Bug reported by the way)

Comments are still opt-out... I mean, I'm happy that Elo has finally decided to let mods disable comments on games, but opt-out vs opt-in is (IMO) where they throw their true colors, and sticking with opt-out doesn't exactly signal concern about their users.

Its damage control

I really think the most important update would be to add optional comment notifications. This is because

1. Without comment notifications you cant hope to effectively moderate comments.

2. What even is the point of comments if the runners themselves dont know people have put comments? If nobody else knows about/reads the comments then the only reason they would be used is to spam.

are banned users allowed to moderate comments on their own runs? if not then that would be very easy for spammers to exploit

@garsh sure this isnt about forum posts`? pretty sure in the moderation hub they were called comments.

@survivalMichi Comments are indeed written in the audit log. Forum posts are classified as "comments", and the new comments are classified as "run-comments".

@Oreo321 at the moment there's a bug so only a handful of comments are written in the audit log, In Seterra the audit log only shows 5 run comments in total but there's many more than that.

@Oreo321 Does it not include run-comments from before they were added to the audit log? I just checked the audit log for the one game I know has a couple comments, and it's missing the first one.

Or maybe it's just generally off as @dha suggests?

Actually you are probably right, old comments are not in the audit log.

Old comments can't be in the audit log when no one cared to put them in...