Is there a site-wide policy regarding recent accusations against some speedrunners?
3 years ago
Belgium

As we all know, this is a hot topic right now. Mutliple people in the speedrunning community get accused of immoral or even completely illegal despicable behaviour or acts.

I have seen some individual communities that remove aforementioned runners from their leaderboards, while others don't. I think it would be a good thing to have a site-wide policy regarding this, as this may get out of hand really quickly otherwise (even if the policy is to say that each community should decide on its own).

My personal opinion would be that leaderboard moderators should not become moral arbiters and not touch those runs (while removing such people from Discords, etc.). That is also what the Pokémon speedrunning community has recently decided to apply.

I'm sorry if this got mentioned before, I couldn't find it.

Netherlands

https://www.speedrun.com/rules - Section site bans explains the site's policy on bannable behavior.

Belgium

That does not address this subject though, from what I could tell. What are individual communities supposed to do? Remove the runs? Report them to you src to get them banned? Not touch the runs?

It would be nice if that question could be addressed directly, as I know there have been discussions about this and nobody knows the "right" answer.

Edit: also unrelated, but it might be good to link to that page in the menu, cause I could not find it without using Google.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Aberdeen, Scotland

@wartab its on the sites about page https://www.speedrun.com/about

Belgium

Thank you for the answer, Liv. Letting communities decide is already a policy in itself.