I'm the lone super-mod of Monstrum the game. The most of the video in this category were approved back in 2017, when more players were active. I've checked some runs today and realised some source video (on Twitch, mostly) don't play at all (just black screens). Is this fact a reason to delete this runs from the result tables as far as these results don't have a source video anymore?
No, once the run is approved it should stay on the leaderboard (Unless someone report the run for being impossible to beat and requires a second verification and the runner can no longer provide a video). But for future reference it's always recommended to upload video on Youtube or something where it doesn't get deleted.
In the game where I'm most active, we delete runs that no longer have video proof. No point in having it there if the person can no longer prove that he/she got the time that they submitted.
Like @dripping , I think there's no reason to keep a time on the leaderboard if the video has been removed. It's the responsibility of the runners to never privatize their speedruns. It's also sketchy to privatize a run. Someone could upload a run, get it approved and privatize it before the rest of the community detects the anomaly. See what happened to the Minecraft community where fake runs were detected years after being approved. That wouldn't have been possible had those runs been privatized. Just my 2 cents.
I was wondering the same. There is no reason to keep it on the leaderboard if it has no proof anymore. It's the responsibility of the runners to provide it and to keep it alive.
@Sabedena don't bump a 2 year old thread lol.
But it's up to the game's moderators if they want to reject runs with deleted videos. As I assume there was an actual working video when they verified it.
My opnion of it is that runs with deleted videos should probaly remain verified as it makes the board look more popular and that this used to be an actual run that was verified.
Rejecting these runs is kind of hard to enforce, as there's no automated way to know when a run is deleted, especially when there's a lot of different platforms people submit runs on.
But recently Twitch announced that they were going to delete VODs on accounts that had more than 100 hours of content saved. So a runs at risk feature was added to the site. I geuss this helps with finding runs that might be deleted on Twitch at least.
I dind't want to create a new thread for this, so I bumped this one on purpose. But my reply is valid.