New policy regarding game requests
9 years ago
Bavaria, Germany

For a while now, the site has been growing steadily with several new game requests daily. Our policy for accepting those requests is currently quite lenient, and will remain so.

However, as you can imagine, not everyone that requests a game actually puts effort into it afterwards which has led to a growing amount of 'empty' games, games that have no categories and no levels and even some empty series.

To resolve this, we have decided to implement a new policy: Requested games/series that have not been set up 2 weeks after being accepted, will be deleted.

To clarify what we mean with set up, this means: **

  • For series: No set up games in the series.
  • For games: No categories or levels for the game. If it is not possible for normal users to submit runs for the game, it is not set up. **

To ensure a smooth transition, this policy will be implemented starting one week from now, Friday, 20 Feb 2015. Removing the games will be handled manually, so don't worry about unintended automatic removals.

We hope doing this will make the site even better, it wouldn't have been possible without all of you <3

[small]Remember, #ESAHYPE2015 #keeponsaxing [/small]

Harshit, FireGoesFast and 52 others like this
France

Is it retroactive ?

Baden-Württemberg, Germany

I am fine with the deletion of games what got no times at all. Probably not very motivating for somebody to look up the times for one of his favorite games, just to find a blank page.

There are probably some games that got requested where an active community is doing runs, but the moderator are just to inactive/lazy do add them. Is it alright to request moderator status for those games in here, so that one there is no need to delete them now, just to recreate them later?

Bavaria, Germany

If the current moderator is inactive, you can always request moderator status, yes. (Though you will still have to be a valid choice for it to be accepted, of course.)

New South Wales, Australia

I just requested a game and it got accepted, but i cant figure out how to set it up.

It tells me to make categories, and I thougth i did, but when I go back to the leaderboard it doesnt show up.

United States

Which game was it?

Also you might check Full Game Leaderboard vs Level Leaderboard, they both have associated categories.

New South Wales, Australia

Evolve. I tried adding individual level categories cuz im speedrunning the tutorial levels. But theyre not showing up.

France

You also need to add a category for ILs to show up

New South Wales, Australia

Figured it out, but Id like it to show up as the first thing u see. Right now its in the sidebar. When I visit the page it tells me to add categories still. Theres no way to actually speedrun the game (competitively anyway, itd be like speedrunning a match of CoD). So there wont be a full game category, which is what I assume that spot is meant for.

France

I'll let you do the work, but here it is : http://puu.sh/fWSen/48a707e124.png

Just over the Submit button in the Edit Game panel, there's Rules, and this one :)

New South Wales, Australia

Ahh, thanks a bunch!

Took me ages to figure out that the bubble had to be filled in grey not white. Youd think itd be white cuz of the grey background. Also touchscreens suck for figuring this stuff out.

Gelderland, Netherlands

2 DAYS TO GO HYPE kappaDisco //

France

INB4 SHITSTORM IN 2 DAYS TriHard Kappa

Gelderland, Netherlands

Spring clean day hype \ Kreygasm /

Bavaria, Germany

Would've put the flagged content page up earlier, but then my internet dropped FailFish.

It's live now though, and with that the policy will be put into effect.

New York, USA

Great idea. I've definitely stumbled across a few empty series so far and even some duplicates. This should clean things up a bit around here.

France

We'll just need some time to handle these because the current list is quite... long Kappa

Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Is there any way for a regular User to see WHEN a game was added to the list?

Edit: Here is a list of games i've found without any categories set up:

The 3d Birthday

A

Advent Rising The Adventures of Batman & Robin Alex Kidd BMX Trial Anno 1701 Atelier Ayesha

B

Beavis & Butt-head The Berenstain Bears And The Spooky Old Tree Blaster Master 2 Blaster Master Boy Blaster Master: Blasting Again Blaster Master: Enemy Below Blaster Master: Overdrive Blob Game (blobgame.com) Blues Brothers 2000 Bonanza bros. The Bouncer Bubsy II Bubsy II (GB) Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sacrifice Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wrath of the Darkhul King

C

Cars Mater-National Championship Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow ChainDive Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge Costume Quest Cthulhu Saves the World

D

Darkwing Duck (GB) Descent Descent 2 Descent 3 Die Hard (NES) Doc Louis's Punch-Out!! Donkey Kong Land Donkey Kong Land III Dr. Mario Online Rx Dragon Fighter

E

Electronic Super Joy Groove City Elmos ABCs Enter The Matrix The Escapists Eversion

F

F1 Championship Season 2000 (GBC) Façade Fallout 2 Fatal Frame IV: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse Fatal Frame V: The Black Haired Shrine Maiden Final Fight 2 FlatOut FlatOut (Wii) FlatOut 2 FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction FlatOut: Head On FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage

G

G-Force Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters

H

Hack 'n' Slash Hello Kitty: Roller Rescue Homefront

I

Ikari Warriors

J

Jackie Chan Stuntmaster

K

Kaizo Mario 64 Killer Instinct

L

The Legendary Starfy Lonely Holidays 64 The Lost Vikings

M

Magical Pop'n Mari0 Mario and the Magic Wand DEMO Mario Hoops 3-on-3 Mario Kart DS ISO Mario on An Saoire 64 Mario Paint The Matrix: Path of Neo Max Payne 3 Medieval II: Total War Medieval: Total War Metal Gear Solid (GBC) Mighty Flip Champs Mighty Milky Way Monster in My Pocket Mother Mr. Nutz (SNES) Mysims Kingdom

N

Narbacular Drop Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 NES Remix NES Remix 2 The Need for Speed Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 Neo Turf Masters

O

One Finger Death Punch Organ of Matrias

P

Payday 2 Payday: The Heist Pokémon Emerald Omega Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia Postal Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend Postal 2: Share The Pain Postal 3 Punch-Out! Punch-Out!! Putt-Putt and Pep's Balloon-o-Rama Puzzle Bobble 4 (GBC)

R

Rayman Origins Resident Evil: Revelations 2 Rocket Knight Rocket: Robot on Wheels Rockin' Kats Rolling Hero 4 Rome: Total War: Alexander Rome: Total War: Barbarian invasion

S

Shadow Madness Shaq Fu (GameGear) Shaq Fu (GEN) Shinobi The Sims 2 (GBA) Skullgirls Encore Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Sparkster Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2 Splashdown SSX 3 Star Ocean: Blue Sphere Star Revenge Redone Star Wars: Empire At War Stranded II Super Mario 64 - Sky Stories Super Mario 64: Chaos Edition Super Mario and Planet Stardust's Rampage Super Mario Bros. 3D Super Punch-Out!! Super Punch-Out!! Swamp Thing

T

Tales of Hearts R Tales of Innocence R Tales of Phantasia Tales of the Abyss Tales of Xillia Tales of Xillia 2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time TLOZ: Battle Quest Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas Tomb Raider Custom Levels Too Cool To Fool (GEN/MD) Trackmania: Build To Race Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark Turok: Evolution Turok: Rage Wars TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventure Typing of the Dead Overkill

V

Völgarr The Viking

W

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct Wayne's World (SNES) Where's Waldo? Who Framed Roger Rabbit Wings of Vi WWE '13 WWE 2K14 WWE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth WWF Just Bring It WWF No Mercy

Y

Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL World Duel Carnival

France

I just finished the cleanup via the flagging system that Lighnator set up this morning :)

If there are some games that were on your list and that have not been deleted, then I assume they don't meet the criterias. That's a pretty impressive list by the way, did you do it by hand ? ^^