Request leaderboard moderation (Read the first post before posting!)
4 years ago
Alberta, Canada

I would like a site admin to look into the preferential treatment of verifying PRs based on the current Tetris Attack tournament being held by puzzle general. Cardsoftheheart has deemed it okay that Runs for their tournament get preferential treatment as they have a "Deadline" to meet compared to other runners who dont have interest in joining their tournament. In moderation rules "Moderators must remain impartial in their treatment of community members." and "Preferential treatment of any type (moving runs up in the verification queue, verifying runs that do not meet standards, etc) is forbidden, especially if associated with payment or favors. Failure to remain impartial may result in moderator removal." Puzzle General has a hierarchy on the moderation of the puzzle series games and while myself and another community member (Surrisama) have tired to reason with them and state that their treatment is unfair they neglect to budge. We have asked for a new mod that isnt part of the puzzle general community because of all the scrutiny and preferential treatment on runs. I am asking for the removal of Cardsoftheheart, from the boards based on their continuous actions of gatekeeping people that want to play these games and not listening to the community. (Not to mention it took over a month to get a mod to look at the save state rule they deemed was okay even though emulator specific functions are banned) as well as having a new appointed mod that isnt part of the puzzle general discord that has a choke hold on all panel related baords at this time. Two runners have removed their times from the boards across the puzzle series and therefore due to the moderation of the boards we have lost two amazing runners that just wanted to enjoy running the game they love. If i site admin would like to reach out to me for evidence of this I would be more than happy to oblige.

Shac0le likes this
New Jersey, USA

Hello, I'd like to request moderation for https://www.speedrun.com/newai I have a pending run, but the game doesn't have any moderators.

Thank you.

United Kingdom

@ATunaOnWhite @cozypocket You're both taking the wording of the rules here way too literally. (Lack of) Impartiality here would be applying one sets of rules to RunnerA, and not applying them to RunnerB. e.g. RunnerA gets a run rejected for lack of game audio, but RunnerB does not because for example, the mod is friends with RunnerB (or another variety of reasons).

The preferential treatment is also in regards to single runners, e.g. Always verifying RunnerB's runs first over RunnerA.

Taking the wording literally like you have here would mean the following situation would break those rules: A mod has a 5 minute break, see's a 30s IL submitted, and decides to verify it before a 2hr run that has been in the queue for a couple of days.

Speedrun Tournaments generally rely on verified sr.c runs for seeding, so giving those runs priority is fair game as long as other runs can still be verified in a timely fashion, if they can't then the mods should seek out bringing more mods/verifiers on board to handle the increased load. With being part of the mod team for 2 tournaments being run in the past 6 months, the communities have been supportive of the tournaments and understand that their runs may take a bit longer to verify.

It's worth also pointing out that the "Runs Awaiting Verification" page is not sorted by submission date, but by the date entered by the runner of when they did the run, so there is zero emphasis from sr.c that runs should be verified in the order they are submitted, and if the date on the page was used then a runner could just stipulate they did a run earlier than they did to artificially bump it up the queue.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
FFRPro21 likes this
United Kingdom

@Surri again, this is to deal with specific favourtism to specific individual runners, and to ban the possibility for someone paying a mod for their run to be verified first. It is not as a generalisation to enforce mods to verify runs in a specific order, but more that Mods should not use their friendship with the runner nor accept payment/favours in exchange for verifying their run first.

The 30s IL vs a 2hr full run does certainly exist within sr.c, maybe not in the game in question, but certainly happens.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
FFRPro21 likes this
Florida, USA

I would like to request becoming a mod for Magic Darts https://www.speedrun.com/magic_darts . The board currently has no mods, and with it being in the current Big 20 race, it will surely have plenty of new pending runs incoming. I currently run the game and am familiar with the rules and most of the community.

It appears that the previous mod, NickBGoHard, has deleted his account, hence the lack of mods.

Thanks.

Poland

Hello. I would like itsabigerror to be removed as super mod from the minicraft leaderboards. He hasn’t been active on any of his for 3 weeks minus his twitch but he never responds to me anymore on their. I think they should be removed for being inactive.

RaggedDan and Kai. like this
New Jersey, USA

@swordguy617 I have removed ItzMrBlox and Catt, and bumped you up to Super.

@Lor Okay, they have been removed and you have been bumped to Super.

@shunk Please enable e-mail authentication.

@doyen Added.

@Zaraphira Please enable e-mail authentication.

@adrianus Added.

@victu How long ago have you tried contacting them?

@YuaRyuc Added.

@Gamingguy63 I have removed Squad3 and bumped up Kittyhat, as they seem to be active on other social medias. Please try to contact them.

@Barto59 You do not meet the contact requirements or have e-mail authentication enabled.

@MandarinasGratis Have you tried contacting them? They are active on other social medias.

@Amery Done for both games.

@Kiken This seems to have been sorted.

@solid Added.

@ATunaOnWhite This seems perfectly reasonable as tournaments rely on seeding from the leaderboard, so moving to get all of the runs in the tournament on the board for accurate seeding makes sense. If you feel that the runs that aren't being looked at due to this are taking a long time to be verified, I would ask the moderator to add more mods. Otherwise, this is standard practice in many other communities. If you feel something else is going on, please let me know.

@hobby_joggers Please enable e-mail authentication.

@8BitsOfJoy Added.

@ReniSR How long ago have you attempted contacting them? Cause they're live right now.

Regarding Tiny Toons: Busters Hidden Treasure, I have been busy the past couple days but will take a look into it now and will handle this ASAP.

swordguy617, Shac0le and 6 others like this
Canada

@starsmiley sorry I thought I had already but I have enabled it and confirmed it is enabled. My apologies

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Indiana, USA

HI i have 2 speedruns for beyblade games but the mod has been inactive for about a month now and all forms of contact have gone unanswered. I would just like my runs verified but i would happily take on a mod role. links to the games r below https://www.speedrun.com/beyblade_takao https://www.speedrun.com/beyblade_dachi thanks for your time and help

New Jersey, USA

@starsmiley Enabled now, sorry about that.

Florida, USA

I just checked the https://www.speedrun.com/magic_darts board and it looks like I'm not actually set as moderator yet. Somehow it didn't process? Sorry for the tag @starsmiley but figured you might want to know. Thanks again in advance!

United States
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England

Can I be given Super Mod for https://www.speedrun.com/supermonkeyball please?

I am already a moderator, but our only Super Mod stepped down a few months ago, so we have been left without any Supers since. I really need to add more mods to the game, cause I'm the only active one at the moment. Thanks!

Hi I just started speedrubning the game custertruck, 2 of the 4 mods are inactive speedrunners including me have been waiting so long for verification and Most people in the discord for clustertruck speedrunning agree we need more mods, I run in the any% desert world category on any platform and ps4. I would hold to second place run on ps4 and 40th in the whole world but my runs have not been verified, I would like to take up a mod role and stop this backlog of non verified runs and therefore make the leader board accurate.

Oregon, USA

Hi I would like to become a mod for Hotshot Racing, https://www.speedrun.com/hotshot_racing. It only has one mod and he hasn't been online for 2 months. I've looked to contact him but his youtube is gone and his discord has been non-responsive.