What are some of the dumbest reasons you've ever seen a moderator reject a run for?
Now I have to look through all my notifications. (Edit) Ok I found it. I submitted two runs in Green Square's Quest in the same category, (I did one run then got a better time) the second run got rejected saying - "Runner cannot have multiple runs in the same category" I have verified tons of runs as of witch there have been two of them in the same Category.
@Act7 That happened to me once and after getting a bit mad at the moderator they verified the run. I find it infuriating whenever that happens to me because I really like to submit all my PBs for the history and whatnot. Mods, don't do that, please.
Anyway, one thing that annoyed me the most is when I once submitted a run of Mario & Luigi Dream Team "Glitchless". It was rejected for not having full video. While yes I was told that I must submit full video, I lost footage of a 2 minute part of the run because I accidentally stopped recording while trying to restart stream, so I decided I won't bother looking into uploading a FULL 30 hour long run -- with like 14 hours of those being AFK time.
But what I find the most ridiculous is the fact that there are runs without video that were also verified after my run. Who cares about me not including my AFK time when it's 20 hours behind WR and there were runs verified after that that had no video at all?
Because of this incident I decided that I will keep stream on whenever I go sleep during a longer run, so my next long af run with sleep was accepted because I was able to submit full footage (even though it was through mega.nz lol). On the bright side, none of my runs include sleep anymore, so you dont have 7 hours of nothingness anymore :)
I don't have a link to the one I was specifically thinking of, but runs being rejected with no reason is pretty horrible. Even confronted with the trolliest troll run, a reason is good for logging.
Another example that I also can't find is a Mega Man run being rejected, the boards weren't on speedrun.com so runs should be sent elsewhere, but the rejection reason was 'Nope'. Might have to take my word for it I'm afraid.
I started moderating a game that had no mods for a while, and when I was poking around I saw a rejected run from the prior mod.
They rejected the run because the person submitting it didn't include the emulator and version of the emulator they were using in the notes. Both of those things were very clearly visible in the video itself because the capture included the full emulator window with name and version.
@ZeroThe14th that makes me want to look through all of the rejected runs of games I moderate. Thanks for giving me something to do.
No problem! I went back and added the emulater version and such in the notes and approved it right away after I saw it. I don't know the prior mod, but that seems like a really bad reason to reject a run.
@ZeroThe14th you can check the audit log to see who was the previous moderator
Hi my cookie clicker 1mil run got rejected for reason: brilliant
got a run rejected for not retiming my own run
crikey @Slothboy78YT what board was that xD a good chunk of most moderators' jobs is retiming, just to make sure apart from anything else. Very poor not even to accept runs because of it.
@Symystery rejected my speedrun for reason as: "Try Again" 😭 😭