look at the leaderboards lol https://www.speedrun.com/turtle
I cleaned up the variables, most likely just Mill memeing on MidBoss but if they get re-added I'll talk to Mill about it.
Wow. Everything was explained in this forum post. https://www.speedrun.com/turtle/thread/dnwa4 Unbelievable.
[quote]with the "pauses" flag to indicate that pause buffering d-pad input was used. Since this is obviously cheating, an extra column was added noted that the run was performed using cheats. Effective immediately, a new boolean column will be added, "Plays Randomizers", which will show the current state of affairs as noted above. Note that in spite of all available evidence, Midboss' run will not be removed from the leaderboard, as the community feels as a community that being pubically known to play randomizers is ultimately a worse punishment."[/quote]
Okay, so since both of you are now out of rational thinking, variables were removed because they appeared to be shaming the player and they seemed at first to me to be a meme. Regardless of how anyone feels about it, they should NOT of existed regardless of what mindset is at play here. I regret not talking to Mill instead.
Going off the provided thread, the run was cheated yet still stupidly accepted, randomziers also aren't even something that should be on any main game leaderboard because they are ridiculous to track (category extensions is probably going beyond this). If there was a "community vote" I would like to see it.
Reading that post is literally nothing more than publicly trying to shame someone over cheating, joke or not, this has to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read.
Edit: And even going forward, if "devteam" was this much of an issue why wasn't this addressed to site staff a year ago?
@Countdown42 Full-Mods aren't developers on the site, our job is exactly what you think it is "police SRC by fulfilling its rules and policy's".
People come to this website to view times, videos posted and user discussion, no one comes here to see a leaderboard filled cheated runs, public shaming and other ridiculous things that might be on a games leaderboard if a game moderator doesn't even want to manage a leaderboard they shouldn't even be a moderator in the first place. Moderators of said games are held to a higher standard on any leaderboard, the fact this happened at all is in itself ridiculous.
"This website is a joke and should be treated as such" Uh, no. This site is a hub and a major face of the speedrunning community. That's why the hacks were such a problem.
"How about instead of trying to police a group of friends having fun with a game nobody here plays or will play in their lifetime, maybe fixing this atrocious website, like the nico functionality that worked and then was broken and left for years?" If you want to offer to help fix this, I'm sure Pac and company would love your help. But don't judge someone's work unless you can do it better. This site is run by volunteers doing stuff in their spare time.
@Midboss "incompetent", while I had a strong feeling everything screamed as a meme to me (I mentioned this in the discord at one point) it's still mismanaging a leaderboard. The fact that this was played off as long as it was is, still ridiculous and reminds me of so much of April Fool's madness on the site. The moderators of said game obviously need to get their act together and maybe read up on the rules/moderation pages on the site which have been instated ages ago.
If people want to meme and joke all day then might I advise everyone who is part of this to join a comedy club and see how many laughs everyone gets?
THank you @Dangerless#0001 (sorry for nickflash) for rinally ridding the Turtle Community of the scourge of Midboss and his cheating. Since I made the mistake of making MIllnium a mod I have been forced to allow Midboss' cheated runs on the leadboard AGAINST MY WILL. I hope that his toxic and cringery posts in this thread will be justly punished with a swift and permanent ban.
Shell ya guys later