Hello, I made a request for a Sokpop series (all games made by the Sokpop Collective developers). Their games all have a similar feel and aesthetic, and are largely set in the same universe lore-wise, so its not just simply a series of games made by the same dev, they have a larger cohesion. There is also a discord community which is looking for a simple way of accessing all Sokpop speed runs. There are roughly 10 of their games already on speedrun.com, with more to be added. The rejection reason was "a series is not required".
So my questions is, what is the criteria for a series to be required, and why does Sokpop not fit it? Also, assuming this post won't change the verdict, are there other ways of easily searching all Sokpop games? I notice that mods can add tags to games (developer, publisher, genre, etc). Is there a way to search by tag maybe?
Sorry, I actually did message them, but they only told me the "a series is not required" reason, and haven't responded since. And I wasn't sure whether to make a new thread or add to the old one since it's technically a different topic (notification bug vs reasoning behind rejection).
Also the full context of that quote is "If you don't get the notification when they are fixed (Elo is aware that they are bugged), feel free to message me on-site and I can provide you that reason." They did indeed provide that reason (a series is not required), so I didn't want to bug them for more info, and figured I'd make a thread so that anyone can answer, not just that person. My new question is why does my request fall under that category. New question, new thread, right?
As contradictory as it might seem, the purpose of series on the site is not to document every single video game series, but instead to provide a few extra settings to series which really need them. Due to the way the site is set up, series moderators have quite a lot of power which isn't helpful. Site moderators have been limiting the creation of new series and series moderators for a while now.
Thank you for your response! Yeah I've seen that elsewhere on the forums, that the site generally doesn't want more series mods unless necessary because of the power to add games in a way that bypasses the game request submission process. To be clear, I was not requesting to become a mod of the series, just that there would be a series in the first place (presumably with no mods). Games would still be requested through the submission process, and then after acceptance would be requested to be added to the series.
Out of curiosity, what are the extra settings? And are there non-series ways of more easily findings collections of games (eg searching by tag)?
It's mainly just the ability to bypass the typical game submission process and add new leaderboards as well. I wouldn't know of any advanced search methods, but if game series communities are large enough there tends to be a common Discord server, so that would also be a place to look.