Checkmark for guaranteed SR = WR
5 years ago
United States

Moderation isn't voluntary when you want to submit a time for a new game.

ShikenNuggets likes this
United States

@Drakodan, I believe you are confusing some points due to my continuing inability to explain myself clearly.

The first point is with the "responsibility" of a moderator, which you seem to have condensed down to an inaccurate conclusion of "moderators have no responsibility," a statement I firmly disagree with.

I personally have no expectation for any moderator to "go the extra mile" to scour social media, video platforms, or other methods in search of new data to input in the leaderboard they moderate. There is a responsibility for a moderator to curate the leaderboards to the best of their ability, but there should not be any perceived negatives for said moderator not inputting data of other speedrunners attempts. Doing this extra step only helps the curation process but should stay as completely optional. Failing to do this should not hinder the moderator or the leaderboard in any form.

I emphasize that the actual runner should be submitting their own run, as I subjectively find it more fulfilling for the leaderboard, but I respect the decisions of both parties involved. In the scenario where a runner refuses to post on speedrun.com, an expectation I have of a moderator (or more accurately as described by you, community leader) is to determine the reasons and attempt to entice the runner to change their mind. "Entice" might be too strong of a word here, but I challenge moderators to showcase the advantages to using this website over other options as a method to convince other runners.

The second point that was confused was the "community" aspect. There does not need to be interaction from runners outside of the community in order to submit to a leaderboard. I was trying to paint a perfect world picture where all runners of a speedgame submit their runs to a single leaderboard on a single website from a single speedrunning community. This scenario is unrealistic, similar to OPs suggestion, with the excessive amount of variables that can smear this picture. I was trying to emphasize more on how the community of a speedgame can considerably add (or remove) validation to a world record claim.

Apologies in advance for the confusion.

P.S. - There's more that I could write here, including how I disagree with submitting runs in another's stead, but feel free to DM me instead. Please do not allow this postscript to conflict my response above. There's a method to my madness, but the character count for this reply is already ridiculous.

United States

@Drakodan Every board I run is run as a community project, where people can choose to join, or not. I'm not going to bully people into feeling they have to participate.

Imaproshaman likes this
European Union

"Can you PLEASE not use the term "world record'? It's very misleading and assumes that the video posted is the fastest time, where in fact someone else could have a faster, unrecorded version. Could you please use the term BKTWVEAAAVBMOFSRC (best known time with video evidence as approved and verified by members of the speed running community) in the future. This would help lower confusion in these types of videos in regard to the ever updating and evolving nature of the speedrunning community."

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Surrey, England
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He/Him, She/Her, They/Them
5 years ago

There should be a checkmark to show that it has been definitively proven that no better time exists anywhere online or through any other available or unavailable media.

England

You can't "definitively prove" that.

Hako, drgrumble and 3 others like this
United States

Isn't the "verified by" good enough? Lol.

Valhalla

NO! Obama needs to give my WR the presidential seal of approval

Hako, Quivico and 4 others like this
Ontario, Canada

^ if thats your logic then im sorry that you are still around.

Imaproshaman likes this
United States

I used to think that, but Speedrun.com is recent. For instance, what about moving all the Sonic Rush runs here from Soniccenter? That game has over 100 runs for the first level. Which I guess isn't the most ever, but it's not very reasonable that that is expected to even be possible. I highly doubt most of those people use this site, let alone have an account. Besides, they're used to that other website. They already have communities, ect, over there. Imagine if someone came to you and said "okay, but that game you run on Speedrun.com and have a lot of runs in, why don't you go put all your runs on this other new site though" even though you already have communities, ect, here?

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MASH likes this
Czech Republic

Speedrun.com could at least rename the "Player XXX beat the WR in game XXX" notification.

Imaproshaman likes this
Bulgaria

Might as well remove the ranking numbers cause it isn't verified that there aren't runs that would fit in-between two spots somewhere on the internet or a random hard drive or VHS tape. Come on....

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