I come here to complain about site staff of speedrun.com
2 years ago

The lack of timezone coverage complaint is much more relevant for forum moderation purposes than site moderation. As the past couple weeks demonstrated, having a predictable ~12 hour period of unmoderated time in the forums is a really bad idea over the long run.

@Liv I believe the OP made a thread related to being mod-banned 5-6 months ago, so it's been a while. Not sure how one would demonstrate that they're no longer unsuitable for moderating more games, though I'd expect threads like these are counterproductive.

Merl_, TRLittleToaster and 5 others like this

Thank for @hahhah42 helping me explain better because I am not really natively English. But hahhah42 helps me explain what I want to say.

Actually having only 2 site moderators in a similar timezone have obvious problems in 2 aspects.

  1. Site spam cannot be handled fastly.
  2. Other urgent incident cannot be handled fastly.

Also I am saying that site does not have a clear standard to determine if an user get mod banned can get mod unbanned while site staff said that people who got mod banned could get mod unbanned before. There are various cases that people get mod unbanned easily.

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Tutterey likes this
Indonesia

I don't know your past issues but I have a question.

Why do you really want to be free from the mod ban? What's the issue in having someone else as a mod?

Most speedrunners I've seen never cared that much on who's mods or not, as long as they have fun speedrunning. It's only an issue if the mods are inactive or if you run a game with no other runners.

@srd_27 I have exactly the issue you mentioned: the mods are inactive and there are no other runners running the game / willing to moderate the leaderboard.

Merl_ likes this
Indonesia

is it for a pokemon game? you can ask the series mod to request for the mod position, if none of the other runners are active on the site.

I mean other games.

But I think you are off-topic because we are discussing

  • the problem that site only has 2 site moderators which communicate with us and
  • the problem that does not have a clear standard of mod ban and mod unban. It is not even included in site rule. I think site moderator should clarify the standard.

Not to mention, site moderator even removed me from being series mod because of the reason that happened a long time ago (site moderator reminds me once before and I do not do it again but one day they suddenly removed me from series moderation). :/

Site rule includes the standard of ban but it should include mod ban and moderation remove too.

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French Southern Territories

Jackzfiml lecturing someone else about having a reputation as a moderator and making repeated posts about mod bans lol

I don't think that pika's situation is all that different from yours, Jack. I don't know them enough to be a good judge, but if they can show somehow that they are trustworthy, reliable, and reformed, I don't see the harm in asking for an unban. The problem is there is nothing stated in the rules or anything about how to show that you are worthy of an unban.

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MrMonsh, O.D.W., and Daroach like this

@Merl_ yeah, also, most importantly, I think mod unban is subjective if there is not an actual rule stated that or something.

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Will site moderators see this post?

Edited by the author 2 years ago
United States

Probably, but won't respond

Pear likes this
Mexico
Slevanas
She/Her, They/Them
2 years ago

This new SR is ass my complaint is a game series doesn't have a series mod which it does need one like games need mods. And what did they say to the support request, "The game doesn't need a series mod". Okay then games don't need mods then. Additionally when I tried before their reason before was because it wasn't active with runners. So it's a popularity contest and games or series not popular gets unmanaged huh? This is the kind of crap that is why we need an SR alternative. No wonder the person who was series mod for the game left the game and removed their runs.

Israel

@Slevanas Series moderation doesn't work the same as game moderation. Series moderators have the power to add new games to the site by themselves, which completely skips the game request process. That's why series moderation is hardly given to people. It is more relevant in bigger series, when new games are added all the time.

Gaming_64, Pear and 2 others like this
Somerset, England

Why can't they disable the create game button on a series instead of not adding mods lol And enable it for the popular series

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Gaming_64 likes this
Germany

There is pretty much nothing else besides adding games for a series mod. You can edit the theme/visuals of the series page but once that is done there is literally nothing to do for a series mod.

landus and Walgrey like this

Actually I don't know when my mod ban appeal will be handled under current uncompleted mod unban system until site staff provide a clear standard.