Submissions and Verifications
3 years ago
United States

I had no intentions of making a post specifically talking about this but I’ve had enough dm’s and seen enough posts that I’m just going to explain it here so we can all get over this hump.

First, stop asking mods to verify your specific run. We already know you want it verified, it wouldn’t be in queue if you didn’t. We will get to it when we get to it. SRC gives moderators 21 days to verify submissions before it’s an issue, and can give allowances when a new game has a high volume of submissions. The longest a run has sat at this point is 5 days and that has only been for a couple of them. If you have an actual issue, like the person who couldn’t see their submission in the waiting to be verified list, please dm or post about it. If you simply want your run looked at, don’t.

You WILL see newer runs being verified before older ones. Most of the attention is being given to the oldest runs first, but there are legit reasons involving logistics and efficiency that you’ll see newer runs be verified first as well. This does mean sometimes multiple runs that are newer will be done before the oldest ones. It’s going to happen when you have a new game with a high volume of submissions. The way things get verified when you have a new game with a high volume of submissions is different than how it gets handled when a game has been out for a while to get through as many runs as possible while ensuring the integrity of the submissions. We try to do the oldest runs first as much as possible, and looking at the submissions queue it is clear that it is mostly being done this way, but there absolutely will be out of order verifying for a game with this many submissions and a larger mod team.

I’ll state this again, most of the verification is happening with the oldest runs being first. But you absolutely will see newer runs being verified first as well. You may or may not agree with it, but we have accepted over 320 submissions in 8 days with 8 moderators (Daravae is not here to help with verifying and is on the mod team for very specific reasons) not to speak of the amount of runs we have looked at that have not been accepted. If there are any more posts asking about verifications they’ll be locked with a link to this post from now on and any dm’s about it will also be linked to this post. Thank you to everyone that has been patient and understood, and thanks to everyone that has been impatient too for being part of the community and being passionate about your submissions.

LameRunner2049, Chaotic_Butter and 14 others like this
United States

Just wanted to give a quick update about a new verification related issue we are dealing with right now. Speedrun.com has put a limit on the number of runs that appear on the moderators verification queue. This only allows a total of 50 runs to appear and that’s a combined amount from all games that we moderate so, for instance I can only see 48 runs from RE3R and 2 from other games I moderate. Other mods for this game have many more runs for other games in their queue as well, so they can’t see as many RE3R runs as I can. In addition, the runs we can see are the newest runs. As we verify them, the older runs fill in at the bottom but until we verify the newest runs we can’t see the older ones. I know we had some that were at 5 days last time I could see that far back, please be patient as we try to get this resolved so we can get back to handling old runs in a timely manner. Whatever you do, DO NOT RESEUBMIT YOUR RUNS IF THEY’RE SHOWING IN YOUR PENDING ACTIONS!!! This will only cause more problems. I’ve posted about this issue on the Speedrun.com site forums, https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/yaw84 hopefully we can get it taken care of quickly so we can get back to keeping submission times to only a few days. Thanks to all of you for being patient with us!

Chaotic_Butter, Jakeeenator and 2 others like this
United States

Another quick update, the limit described above has been kept for the verification queue but they flipped it so now we see the oldest runs in queue instead of the newest runs.

Chaotic_Butter, SauceDallas93 and 2 others like this