Moderation Question, times
Esperanto

Hello: http://www.speedrun.com/myth2

So I mod game; set it up but I didn't add the game "game w/o loads" and "in-game timer." Then I submitted my runs. Now to try to accommodate some archived runs from back in the day, I want to add those additional timer settings.

However, if I add them now by editing the game, it defaults the runs I submitted to "time w/o loads," regardless what I make the default timing of the game. However, my runs were "time with loads." I assume this is because the field is attached to the run itself.

Is there a way to add the other two timers and get my runs' times to show up as "time with loads" outside requesting the runs to be deleted, adding all the timers to the options, and then resubmitting the runs to fix it?

Esperanto

Would there be someone best to try to contact about this? It's sort a very specific problem regarding one specific element of the site.

United States

Because of how the site works, you'll have to change the runs manually I'm afraid. They'll be fixing the problem at some point.

Esperanto

I figured that might be the case. Oh well, better sooner than later!

EDIT: Lol, I didn't realize you could even edit individual runs; that's all I actually needed. I figured it out though since you said "change the runs manually," so thanks.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
England

Preferably you want to have at least a basic familiarity with the structure of SRcom before trying to be a game moderator, enough to realize that submission details can be edited at least.

Esperanto

Preferably the majority of the games I intended to run already existed on the site and would already have moderators and rules and categories set up; but that isn't really the case, so, just learning as I go and being as cautious as possible and being open to suggestoins seems to be next best available option.

New York, USA

It's very hard to know how to be a moderator without first being a moderator. There's a shortage right now of people who are eager to teach classes to random people on how to work a leaderboard so the best thing a guy can do if he wants to figure it out is ask questions and hope you're lucky enough to mod a board at some point so you can get first-hand experience. Truthfully, it's actually a super easy thing to do and people won't tell you that 'cause they want to hang on to some sort of special feeling they get from being able to say they're a mod. Literally anyone can do it and it's not hard. The true difficulty comes from not abusing your position and heckin' people over for silly reasons. That's a trap that not everyone can avoid.