Leaderboards moderation requests thread
9 years ago

Hi, I know there's a million problems for super mods to deal with, so I will keep it simple the best I can.

The game is this one: https://www.speedrun.com/Twisted_Metal_Head-On

And just to show I've already tried to suggest solving the issue by contacting the mod of the game here, but I got no answer: https://www.speedrun.com/Twisted_Metal_Head-On/thread/4l62n

I've talked to one of the mods of the game and he agrees with my point but only the main mod can do it. And from where I see I think he might be busy to deal with the matter now.

The point is these 2 games, are kinda different games.

TWISTED METAL HEAD ON >> (PSP) TWISTED METAL HEAD ON (EXTRA T. EDITION) >> PS2

It's like comparing "Resident Evil" with "Resident Evil Director's cut" for example. The damage system is different, Item placement, the speed of the cars and all. They are totally different versions, PSP and PS2, but were put in the same leaderboard

The things mentioned alone would be a good reason to have a leaderboard for the 2 games.

But the thing that makes it unavailable for competition is that the PS2 version has an extra level to beat in story mode. So those who play on PSP will always be on top records for shorter story mode time compared to ps2. It's kinda self explanatory. Like a Resident Evil on Wii had extra cutscenes or extra rooms, and other in Xbox has not. it would have to be in different boards for each console.

I don't want to just bull in and make a problem on something, I'm really a fan of TM series as you can check in my runs and I have recorded more runs waiting to be submitted. I know it would be better to have fixed it before runs were submitted, But I think is better to solve now than later when more people submit more and more runs, the long it takes the harder it will become.

The way I could suggest is either

  • requesting a new game for PS2 only, and later when the mod of this one is back he changes it to PSP only. So both games would be in Speedrun.com separately. or
  • being able to modify the boards and slipt consoles PS2 and PSP on this same game,

(Again, I know is annoying, have to erase runs already submitted... but, There are runs from 2 different games on same board, And I'm suposing that runners could just re-submit them without a problem)

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Ukraine

Hi there. Could i be added as moderator for https://www.speedrun.com/Sunset_Riders_Genesis ?. I've submitted a run about a month ago, but the only active moderator is not submitting or rejecting my run, I can't contact him (links in profile doesn't work).Also there is two super mods with last online 3 years (fractale) and 6 month (Pinkpanther01).

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Netherlands

@WeaponLord This is not the right thread for your request. This is a thread to request mod for a Leaderboard. Seems better to take your request to the Forums of Twisted Metal and let the moderators decide how to handle this further.

@TheQuickFox Did you reach out to any of the other moderators? Pinkpanther has some socials linked. Did you try to contact this moderator?

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Ukraine

@Daravae yeah, i could not pm him on discord due "recipient is only accepting direct messages from friends, or you were blocked by the recipient" so i added him to friends and waiting for respond.

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@Daravae Thank you. I've had taken this to the forum as I've shown, I've created a thread on the forum, but had no response.

I think the main Mod is Crisco, he's usually online but my guess he simply ignored. https://www.speedrun.com/user/CriscoWild/info

Could I have a term for example, a week or so, to try further to contact him, and insist on the thread, and then may I be put as super mod for the game? This just in case he is still absent

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United Kingdom

To add on to what @NTRG mentioned (https://www.speedrun.com/The_Site/thread/63nr7/338#3tvjo) I tried contacting the mod myself. Their Twitch channel seems to be mostly inactive now. They have no past broadcasts at the time of writing, their last video was from over a year ago.

I also tried contacting them via Discord but I wasn't able to find them. I directly copied their username as it's written on their SRC profile and tried to find them/add them as a friend and nothing came up: https://i.gyazo.com/a1044609faf22c14055d0070be8e3f79.png

I'm aware it hasn't been the full 3 weeks yet, however I felt like I should try contacting the mod as it's my run that I'm waiting to be verified. I'm not asking to be added as a moderator to the game myself.

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Norway

We have a problem when it comes to super mods and mods in the Trackmania games. There are a lot of super mods, but none of them are active. The ones who we are able to conctact are not super helpfull, and one of them didn't even understand themselfs why they became a mod/supermod for the games. When I got in contact with one of them he did not respond to my request about getting added as a mod. He just stopped responding. It seems like the original and active super mods, Alpines and Yazzo, demoted themselfs or deleted their account, but added some other runners as mods before they left.

The only active mod is RastaBobby, but he is only a mod, not a super mod. He has no problem with adding new people to help him moderate the leaderboards, but he doesn't have the power to do it. He had to make a post himself in this thread over 2 years ago (19. Dec 2016) in order to get added as a mod. His post resulted in the remaining mods getting bumped up to super mod in order to fix the problem, but they are all very inactive.

I would like to be a mod to help with adding some categories and make the leaderboard a bit cleaner. A lot of runs are missing in-game time at the moment, and I would like to fix that. Maybe the best option would be to make RastaBobby a super mod on all the games, as he is the only active mod anyway, so he could add new moderators himself?

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United Kingdom

@Liv Thanks for assisting. By the way I only mentioned my run as a reason as to why I was bringing itup again since @NTRG had tried previously without contacting the moderator, I'm not that bothered that it's not been verified immediately. Cheers

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Norway

@Liv Thank you very much for helping us with that situation! Yes, as far as I know, Rastabobby has been the only mod to verify runs and add categorys for over a year now. Could you also up him to Super mod on TrackMania Nations ESWC? He is listed as a standard mod there.

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France

Thanks @Liv for adding me as a supermod on the other Trackmania games :D

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@Liv Thank you so much

Unfortunately I don't have Twitter, and lost my discord password long time ago. I don't have much time for social media really =(. And the only medias I have are Youtube and Steam (The super mod doesn't have steam or youtube, His youtube account seems to have beem deleted)

I know that the threads are shown to super mods because I super mod some games and I receive a notification when a new thread is created (not always when they are answered) but I do receive notification everytime a new one is created. And I'm pretty sure The super mod has seen it, It's just he hasn't been around on the forum of the particular game long time. If you look, he doesn't have any run on this particular game, and like 90% of other runs are verified by the other mods.

I've talked to @JayTheIdiot on steam. He told me he agrees there are 2 different games on same board and would be good to organize it, but he can't do nothing because Crisco is the supermod of this game.

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Chile

Hello, my name is manticor5... I did submit a run in the game Three Wonders: Midnight Wanderers, but it seems there is no much activity to the page, no runs. My request is to be a moderator of the page: https://www.speedrun.com/Three_Wonders_-_Midnight_Wanderers I would like to add a name category: Co-Op 2 Players. Beat the game is the only category available, and adding that new category would help a lot to the page to rise in popularity, as a Capcom game. I would thank you a lot to accept my request, please.

Link of the run submitted by me, not verified:

https://www.speedrun.com/Three_Wonders_-_Midnight_Wanderers/run/z51ndq5m

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Iowa, USA

@manticor5 At this time no, the moderator for the game has only inactive just over two weeks and they appear to be active using twitter. Try reaching out.

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Chile

Oh no... I don't have Twitter, maybe some whisper to the moderator through Twitch would help =). I will see if I can get an answer, thanks for your comment Dangerless.

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Netherlands

Hey there, can someone add me as a moderator for Not Tetris 2? (https://www.speedrun.com/nt2). The one mod on there seems inactive and doesn't have any social media listed. I have been able to find his yt through one of his runs posted and I tried posting a message on his community tab, but so far I've seen no response.

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Västra Götaland, Sweden

Hello. I would like to request to become upped to a Super Mod on Daytona USA https://www.speedrun.com/Daytona_USA Reason being the previous 2 Super Mods are no longer active (one last online 2 years ago, and other 4 months, with no social media connected to his account). Back when I joined them to post my own results, I was lucky to be able to get ahold of the more active one of the mods and was able to become a mod myself, but now, I want to make changes and additions to the leaderboards and the other mods are nowhere to be found or contacted.

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@Liv I understand that trying alternative ways to find mods in SR.com might be feasible when needed. But it kinda gets out of point like being the "only way" to find them, to make "so mods do moderate". I mean, a person is a mod, is responsibilty of him/her to keep in touch with community of games that they moderate. At least keep a look once in a while. Otherwise... why becoming a mod in first place? So in a nutshell it means that I'm a mod, it's simply okay for me to ignore game forums for like months and vanish. It will be a problem of those runners of those games, not my problem, since they "haven't found me".

We are all part of Speedrun.com. That's our network. We have to give it credit. We are not Twitter users, not facebook users and stuff... =( We are runners in Speedrun.com. Social medias are kinda personal stuff, So a runner has to go in personal profiles beg for people to come here to take a look on forums that they own and should take care of. in their private social places. Using twitter, Facebook, whatsapp, skype, call them and stuff... :(

Imagine you super mods of the website just forget about this thread here and not giving attention 'unless' someone would have to look for you in your twitters. it would be a mess and the end of the site.

The mod is usually online. I'm pretty sure he has seen the thread in question. He just doesn't want to care at the moment. So nothing wrong with that, one has a life to take care of first, when the inactivity its like for days or couple weeks. It's all understandable, but when it comes to a month and keeps going... at least the job should be given to other person with just enough experience to solve the problem so forum keeps going =( You guys would have way less problems to deal with in games in general if this was considered

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Netherlands

@brassbeat Seems accurate. Done.

@Varuuna Also accurate. Its done.

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Netherlands

@WeaponLord Since when is social media "private stuff" ? It is your public profile on the internet meant to be accesible to be, you know, social? In the time you were writing this post you could also have contacted Crisco on social media since Liv already pointed out he has an active Twitter account listed and that user should easily be able to get back to respond to your question going off from that activity.

Please try and make a substantial amount of effort of contacting moderators yourself before asking for mod here. As you can read above other users who also request becoming moderator also checked these aspects themselves just fine so I want to ask you to please respect our guidelines and make an effort yourself before proceeding in this thread.

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Minnesota, USA

I would like to be a mod of the game Thrillville. The current only active mod has been removed for reasons i am unaware and I have a run I would like verified but none of the other mods, have been active for over 4 months and I have no way of getting in contact with them. Thank you. https://www.speedrun.com/Thrillville

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