Request leaderboard moderation (Read the first post before posting!)
4 years ago
Russia

Well, it’s hard for you to give a moderator to a person who asks for he sees that the moderator in the game is dead and the other moderators are dumb, referring to the fact that you don’t know how he moderates. But you don’t want to take away from other people who, according to your rules, do not have speedruns in those games. Interesting of course. But for the current moderators, these rules do not want to work.

I don’t know how many people do, but I don’t have a desire to try to run a game in which they check the games for a long time, and seeing that there is a dead moderator there is no desire

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Canada

I have no idea what anything you just said is supposed to mean, but anyway, you need to have a run in that game before we can consider adding you as a moderator, that is final. Please stop wasting our time posting in this thread until you've met that requirement.

United States

Requesting moderator for a game via site staff intervention is a last-resort. Game moderators can handle the assigning of moderators as they see fit; while we encourage them to assign moderator to people who know the game very well (this can be via runs or other means), we aren't going to police this because it is a guideline, and we have to lend some sort of trust to people that they can run a leaderboard. But when the game's mods aren't able to due to inactivity, this is where site staff need to step in. If you want us to step in and adjust moderation, we have our rules for you doing so. You not following them means we aren't going to grant your request. Simple as that.

Do you have a run in the game you are requesting moderator for? Yes? No?

No Site staff is not going to intervene and give you moderator.

Period, end of story. If you have an issue with this, you can take it to the feedback thread. The conversation here is done and over.

Canada

@vixiosedits - Your runs have been pending for two days, not "almost a week". Exaggerating your case won't help you at all. Anyway, I'll try to contact the moderator since they are inactive, if I'm unable to we can add you. In the meantime, you'll need to enable Email Authentication in your account settings before you can be added as a moderator to anything.

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United States

Can I request to remove two moderators?

Hi, I'm Awosomeandy, and Me, Neiru, Sgitch, and Ccrusher1 are all super mods for https://www.speedrun.com/helloneighbor . Me and Neiru (and our two verifiers) are verifying runs and contributing to the server. The problem lies with Sgitch and Ccrusher1, Ccrusher1 has not been online to the site in a month, and I haven't seen Sgitch verify a run in more than a year.

We are all super mods, so we can't affect others, and the owner deleted their account, so they can't do it.

Could you please remove Ccrusher1's and Sgitch's mod ranks?

Thanks for reading this!

Sweden

@Liv I suggested to @sasquatchbill that he could add any other runner of the game as a moderator if he didn't trust me to do it. One of my suggestions included @duckfist , who agreed that it is silly to time from the menu. He is also on of the oldest runners of the game and started out by timing from character control to loss of it. I've urged @sasquatchbill to add NES runners as moderators because @sasquatchbill isn't a runner of NES himself. He was unaware of the difference between PAL/NTSC and accepted the runs I submitted without even verificating them. I even used the timing method that he has enforced to be consistent over plattforms.

Here's a quick example of how starting from the menu is different depending on your position, which adds even more weight to the argument.

But then again, I personally don't see how the will of a single mod overweights the norm of every NES Rod Land runner.

To quote a few rules from https://www.speedrun.com/moderationrules ;

"• The users moderating a game should represent the consensus of the players of the game. If it is evident that moderators are not representing consensus among runners, site staff may change moderation." Since he isn't a runner of the game, how is it then that his opinion overweights all the runners?

"• Moderators should typically speedrun the game, or at a minimum be heavily involved with the community." He's not a runner of the game, nor involved in the NES community.

"• Leaderboards should aim to have at least 3 active moderators if qualified people are available." Me, @JkLoser , @duckfist are three potentional candidates. There are plenty of active and experienced NES runner qualified to help out if necessary.

"• Moderators should make themselves available for feedback from runners for rules, categories, and board organization via the game's forum page, social media, or Discord." @sasquatchbill ignores PM:s on speedrun. He doesn't answer on twitter. His discord alias is without tag. Do I need to attempt persuading him through the forum page of a recently opened leaderboards with currently only 2 users?

I've been trying to get the leaderboards up for Rod Land for almost a month now, and I wouldn't have had this patience if I weren't passionate about speedrunning, and the game. I feel very sad that this had to happen right now. But if you tell me that @sasquatchbill is free to rule over the leaderboard exclusivly as he wish, since he is the series moderator, I will drop everything and stop persuading this at once.

United States

@Liv We are all in a discord chat together, and they barely post if at all, if you are not looking to snipe mod ranks, could you make them normal full mods or just verifyers? Thanks, It's partly just that the last change Ccrusher1 did make, he didn't check with any of us.

United States

Requesting moderation privilege for Madou King Granzort. The current moderator hasn't logged on in a year and my (first) run has been pending for a while now, something like a month? I've also attempted to contact the moderator bmosley with no response. https://www.speedrun.com/madou_king_granzort Thanks!

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Maryland, USA

Hello. Mod is asleep on https://www.speedrun.com/super_solitaire with several months between verifications. Tried reaching out by message a week ago with no response. Request for moderation privileges.

Sweden

Hi, supermod from Hello Neighbor leaderboards here. This is regarding Awomeandy's post.

Ccrusher1's role was set by misstake by Andy, as he was messing around with the game settings. Cc's role was deleted by ShikenNuggets because of 10 months inactivity, but I gave him back verifier role as a temporarily test to see if he was gonna become active or not again.

Please change his role back to verifier and regarding Sgitch, he has been really sloppy with accepting runs. Doesn't look at the content, and accepts everything at this point, even if the run doesn't apply to the rules.

// Neiru

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Netherlands

@crazeyawesome I see, misunderstood the term on my end then. Looking at how Intellectual property usually behaves: ownership on 'intellectual property' is claimed by having a potent / copyright on such property. As I'm sure you don't own either of those on a save file, I don't think its very reasonable to make such a claim.

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Canada

Not sure if this is the right place to ask about this, but the CELESTE Classic board (https://www.speedrun.com/celestep8) has Super Mods who haven't really been approving runs since 2015-2016. Particularly, the game's community doesn't even know who @deetaj is, as he's never actively participated in it and doesn't seem to have even run the game. Being just a regular mod, I can't add or remove people to help out- would it be possible to overhaul the moderation team with active, known members of the game's community?

Arizona, USA

Hello, I have some runs pending in Haunt The House: Terrortown and I have reached out to the only moderator twice. Once last month and once this month, and it says they haven't been online for 11 months. Is there somebody else I need to contact or is this the best place? I would not mind becoming a moderator, but I think I am the only one actually running it and since my time should be WR I won't really run it much more.

United States

@Aquas Noticed they're active on Twitter, so mentioned them in a tweet to see if they respond. Will give them a couple days to see if they do. @Ms_Riley_Guprz Sent them a site message since they are active but your run has been sitting a while.

@StickGoku Declined. Fix the issues with your account prior to re-requesting, please (the first post of this thread explains what you need on your account before we will consider a request).

RE: Hello Neighbor - Did not look at this request as of now.

@Meep_Moop Can you point to some kind of community consensus regarding this somewhere?

Canada

@Habreno The community is on Discord (https://discord.gg/9Dm3NCS). It has around 250 people including the top 30 or so runners of the game as well as one of the game's developers- neither of the Super Mods are active there, though. To give some quicker context/evidence, people have been requesting many more smaller categories (such as ILs), but being practically the only one approving runs nowadays, I wasn't able to accommodate some of the requests. This is evidenced by the Discord community making and managing several spreadsheets (e.g., https://bit.ly/2w1VJpF) in place of something on SRC, but I think it would be better for the community if these could get moved to SRC, with more people from the community able to help out.

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Scotland

I've been waiting 4 weeks now for my runs to be reviewed on Galactic Hitman. The mods that are there aren't active and by looking at the last accepted run on the leaderboard, it took well over a month to get reviewed and that was 7 months ago.

Czech Republic

Hi, I recently submitted a run for the Black Mirror 2 ( https://www.speedrun.com/bm2 ) and I've noticed that the supermod is inactive for about a year. I am supermod on Black Mirror 3 which is game from the same series https://www.speedrun.com/black_mirror_iii . Can I ask for giving me the supermod role in the BM2 as well as the game needs lots of editing. Thanks.

United States

@Meep_Moop Removed Deetaj due to inactivity and bumped you up to super. As far as Seckswrecks goes, they are still around and if the community feels they should be removed, I would prefer if you approached them about it since they are relatively active.

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European Union

🦀Deetaj🦀is🦀gone🦀

Sweden

Bumping my post, since @Habreno didn't look at the request.