RomaniaI (and possibly many others) have even made a Support Hub ticket for this.
[quote=Liv] The site mods are now employees at ELO, however you can't expect them to be available at all times (or as you put it "immediately") for a userbase of currently 900K users. [/quote] While I can't deny that 900k users is a sizeable amount the number of users shouldn't be an excuse for them not having a large enough team to handle the site and the community's feedback. There are only 5 accounts on the entire site with the site staff badge (1 of which being an alt), and even if I give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that there's more people than just these 4 people working behind the scenes I doubt there are a lot more people working at src behind the scenes. I work with people that run smaller websites than speedrun.com but have a way larger team, usually consisting of at least 15 people, and I also work with people that run websites with millions of active users on a monthly basis which also have a sizeable team. Yes, you can't expect them to be available at all times, which is exactly why they need more mods or volunteers. That way it becomes increasingly more likely for someone to be available for you and all other users that might need help.
I know this will sound very dark but I hope this isn't a last message before committing suicide because it truly did sound that way to me at least. Life is too precious to be taken away. Even if it's a life that's too hard to live. Everything can be overcome with enough time and patience. I'm not trying to be a generic motivational speaker over here but know that you're not the only one going through these hard times.
I've been off the forums for the past 3 days, have you also started adding beta testers or something because I've seen a few forum posts saying stuff like "they added beta testers" or something. I want to know if it's misinformation or if they genuinely got added.
[quote] is there a thread with 100 pages [/quote] No, but there is one with 330+ pages.
[quote] generally you can't request games that aren't finished yet, but it has happened before [/quote]
I've also done it in the past and only a month ago it finally got accepted, even though I've requested 127 as far back as April of this year, so I don't know if that makes me a "well-known user" or not.
[quote] The issues here and with every previous Elo update could have been solved with community beta testing, and/or running the potential changes past the users first. [/quote] What I find to be weird is that they literally added a post in the News section at one point essentially saying that they have beta-tester applications up for anyone who might want to apply. It's still there however I don't know if they added even 1 person as a beta tester or if they closed those applications but I think they should just reopen those again and actually choose people this time. Like why make a post asking for beta-testers and then not add anyone and completely forget about its existence? This is the post I'm referencing by the way: https://www.speedrun.com/news/581-2021-2-23-knowledge-base-and-layout-updates
To solve this issue I think the following should be implemented so that both sides are happy (using a direct quote from myself from another thread of mine): [quote=Hi] Instead of getting banned from the website as a whole, what if you could separate getting banned on the forums from getting banned from submitting runs? To me it seems very unfair to get banned forever due to how easy it is. Simply having an unpopular opinion that the mods or the users in general dislike will get you banned, so what could be done instead is ban that person just from the forums while allowing them to still submit runs, and viceversa too. [/quote]
