Leaderboards moderation requests thread
9 years ago
Florida, USA

Hello, can I request the "Deadbolt" moderation as the recent addition was added by a runner who is relatively new and unaware of how categories of the game work or naming etc. I've also got a minor complaint to add on despite being not the proper thread to dump this on. Why are random people who have no VODs allowed to form leaderboards without actually verification or checks? I mean I get it if no one runs the game people want to bring attention to it, but people who have no idea how to speedrun let alone call something like "Any% Wrong Wrap" while in reality it's just NG+ IL.... Although it doesn't matter because he made the leaderboard without any vods. Sorry for the rant, but it's just one of the many things I see or deal with on SRC.

As before, I've got a run I can post on "Deadbolt" and worked on the game since it's release. If I can get mod I'd appreciate it and will help the new runner that I'm roasting in question.

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England

@Token A video is requested, however isn't essential for the game to be accepted. Even if a video is provided, it doesn't have to belong to the user who's requesting the game.

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Arizona, USA

Regarding Deadbolt, he's set up the categories but has yet to submit a video (or even proper categories for that matter, considering he's still calling what he's doing any% wrong warps when in actuality it's just NG+ IL's) and still has a fake Twitter linked to his account. I think it's also unfit for somebody completely new to speedrunning let alone the site to be the moderator of a leaderboard.

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England

I don't think it's wrong for a person new to speedrunning to be a moderator, as long as they're smart about what they're doing and listen to the community of the game.

There is one problem though, and that is that I don't see any posts on the Deadbolt forums. I'm sure it would be asked of you that, since the mod is actually active on here and twitch, that you post there to see if you can sort something out between you all. I have left a post there to start things off, see where you get from there then come back if it doesn't get sorted? [Make sure you take screenshots of things as evidence if things go awry]

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Canada

Hey guys. Sorry for the issues. I am new to all of this. I will be modding Lazer, I was planning to since I watched his broadcast. He has strats set up and clearly knows what he is doing. Also, I had no idea my twitter was a dead link, i'll fix that.

Again, sorry for the inconvenience!

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United States

trunk_slamchest: Site staff generally avoids verifying runs unless they actually moderate the given game. User doesn't have a run and has been offline, so I'll add you. As far as self-verifying, I don't consider it an issue unless you're clearly being biased. Some larger games with multiple moderators seem to prefer no self-verifying.

g0goTBC: I guess that's okay, since it's a small game, the user isn't really contactable and you're decently active with the site and have a run.

Token: Yeah

Tarbash: Added

Uglie: The user is pretty active, discuss it with them please.

Lazerlong: I don't recall the specifics of this game request. I'll comment on the issue generically. Looking back a bit, we can see the user has streamed routing in the time prior to the request, so I think accepting the request is reasonably sensible. The difference between an honest attempt at routing and beating the game once is pretty trivial in my opinion. Obviously we shouldn't just let someone open the game on stream for 10 seconds and request mod, but that hasn't really been an issue in the past. Regarding new users/runners, people join the site to request an obscure game they play all the time. (For Steam, we can't really tell the difference between an obscure steam game and a popular steam game easily.) Regarding categories and norms etc, people who are new may or may not have a good grasp on category norms and things of that nature to start with, but everyone was new at one point, right? In my opinion it's probably easier to just resolve these things with discussion than being really strict about adding games, at least as it applies to criteria in this specific scenario. There are cases that are much more gray case than this in my opinion.

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United Kingdom

Darthbuckethead - I don't know why you keep posting about this here. If there's a problem with the game's leaderboards it should be addressed in the game's forum, not here. This thread is a last resort thread for when moderators are completely inactive, not a "this feature is missing from the boards please fix it" thread.

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California, USA

Hi, I would like to be a mod for the leaderboards of New Super Mario Bros. U. I am knowledgeable on the NSMB series. I run NSLU and now I am starting to get into this game. It's alright if it's no but if yes, I'll try to do what I can here.

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Arizona, USA

Well you sort of have to name the game if you want to request the leaderboards for it.

This is also a last resort thread for when the mods are inactive/purposefully neglecting their responsibility.

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Texas, USA

He wants mod for New Super Mario Bros. U. That's a copy-paste post from the NSMBU forum. He was incorrectly informed that this was the only way to become a mod.

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California, USA

Alright. I fixed it. I do want to be a mod for New Super Mario Bros. U to try and see what I can do.

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United States

darthbuckethead: You've posted here I think twice, and I responded both times, and you appear to have ignored me both times.

Mchan338: General policy is to go through the current mods. The current active mods were added after some other mods were inactive. Also as a generalization, moderation is mostly to maintain accurate data, so if a game is maintaining accurate data, there's often not an inherent need for more moderators.

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Seoul, South Korea

Hi there would like to request mod for Gauntlet 2014, only other one has been gone for atleast 1 month on the site, yt and twitch. Much of the runs / difficulties are out of date compared to the new patch.

Thanks.

United States

xEleaa: User hasn't been online and the board has no runs, added.

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Pennsylvania, USA

Hey hey! I honestly hate to do this but I did some investigating before (and after) submitting my Any% run for "Moonlight" (PC game) and noticed that the main mod and other mod haven't been online in over a month, and all methods for contacting him / her are gone. Their twitch is deleted and YouTube channel is gone. There are currently 2 categories on the game's page but no runs have been submitted or verified. So I just wanted to reach out to either be added as a mod for the game, or to have my run verified.

Thanks so much and again, apologies for having to post here about it.

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United States

Forekast: Added to Moonlight because the board was empty and mods were inactive. I also added you to the other game you have a pending action in because the mod was inactive.

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Germany

Hello! My name is Tutas23 and I run Streets of Fury EX. Tetsuo9999 moderates the game on this site and I am already in contact with him. the only problem is that he has no clue how to make me a MOD for the game. It would be really handy for two people being able to create categories for a beat em up with almost 20 characters. I am sorry for posting here and I dont want to cause anyone a headache, but it would really help to split the moderating process between us two.

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Arizona, USA

@tutas23 Tell him to go to the leaderboard, then press "Edit game" on the left navbar. Scroll down to the Moderators section and choose "New moderator"

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