It seems that recently there was a change that limits the number of runs that appear on the “Runs awaiting verification” page for moderators. It appears that it has been limited to only show a combined total of 50 runs between all of the various games that I moderate for. My understanding is that it has to do with limiting database pressure, which is great with how the site often has issues due to this, but it has created a bit of an unfortunate side effect that is an issue for games that have a high volume of submissions. The limit has made it so that I can no longer see the oldest submissions.

I am currently a mod for Resident Evil 3 (2020), and with our currently active player count being over 200 we have a decent number of runs coming in every day. As of the time posting this, I can only see runs from today and yesterday which means that folks who submitted runs that had not yet been looked at prior to this will have to wait for us to clear out the newest runs before we can even see theirs, and at the rate we are receiving submissions vs how long it takes to properly verify them those oldest runs may not get looked at for quite some time simply because they won’t get the chance to appear on the page with this limit in place. While RE3R has a decent volume of submissions per day right now, it isn't nearly as much as we had with Resident Evil 2 Remake last year and if another game comes out that has that type of interest then some people will likely see their runs take months before a moderator even has the chance to see that they’ve submitted since their run will be pushed further back every time a new run is submitted.

Since this also is affecting the rejected runs queue it creates another issue where we can’t see old rejections. While in most cases this won’t cause a problem for anyone, there are good reasons to be able to have access to these older rejections. We have had issues with people submitting things to RE3R that the Full Mods have worked with us on and been great help with, but if an issue came up that one of us needed to look at one of those rejected submissions to compare with, we are unable to see them.

I did not just come here with only the problem; however, I have brought along some potential solutions: 1: Flip the order that runs appear on this page so the oldest appear at the top and the newest get hidden behind this limit. This doesn’t give full access to the rejected runs, but helps with verifying the oldest runs. 2: Give moderators the ability to sort by new/old on this page which effectively does the same thing as the first option but gives us the choice. This also doesn’t give full access to the rejected runs, but again it helps with verifying. 3: “Simply” revert to the way it was before this limit was placed, though this option obviously won’t provide any help for the database pressure issues. 4: Give us a “load more submissions” option that adds 20 or more additional runs at a time so it doesn’t force the page to load every run every time but we can access the old runs through clicking this. This would give full access back to all submissions and rejections. 5: Set this list up in pages with X number of runs per page, though this could end up hiding runs for other games someone might be moderating for if the front page doesn’t have some type of prioritization for different games. This would likely make the rejections need their own separate page to be effective.

I know that most of these solutions would take some work to implement, and there may be a significantly better option I have not listed. I appreciate that you guys are doing what you can to make the site run more smoothly and hope that a solution can be made that assists in what you were trying to accomplish but also can give those of us who have these high submission volumes the ability to more effectively moderate. Thank you for your time!

Edit: Editing because I don’t want to bump this post, SRC did adjust the queue so that now the oldest runs appear instead of the newest ones. Thanks to the site folks for the help!