I'm not sure what you mean by "if you don't want to."
I asked if it was right taking people's speedruns and posting them on a leaderboard without their knowledge. Like if I were to take your past broadcasts on Twitch and post it to YouTube for you because you didn't. The second place time on Senran Kagura 2 didn't highlight his speedrun becuase he didn't care about the leaderboards, so his run is now deleted off twitch. Would it be right for me to have recorded it and posted it on YouTube for consistency?
There might be a reason they didn't submit it to the leaderboards, or they simply don't want to. Most of my speedruns aren't on this site, and I don't want them to be. Just because "other people have done it" doesn't mean that that's something that "should be done." Heck, you don't even know if they don't have an account and just use a different username. So you could be crediting a run to someone who didn't even do it on this site. A good example are a few Minish Cap runners who's accounts on this site are not the same as their Twitch.
You should contact people first before taking their runs and posting them somewhere.
I put my runs on my YouTube as a archive of my runs, and to share with friends. Some speedrun to just top their best, not necessarily compete with others.
It's still a hobby at the end of the day, you know? Still, it could be they just didn't know about this site. So it's still worth reaching out to them, imo.
"(I don't really see the point of not having them here but it's none of my business) "
That's a good point. So why do you consider these other people's runs your business and that it's your place to upload them in other places without their knowledge?
Also, you have no idea if they don't have accounts here. That's sort of a point I made that you actually quoted but ignored. You could take someone's run, upload it here, credit it to the same YouTube name, but uh-oh-- the guy you credited to links to an account that the runner didn't make. Someone else got the name here and the runner's speedrun.com profile has a number in their name, or a underscore.
So now that run is credited to a user who took their name first because for some reason you felt you had to step in for someone and put their run on a leaderboard.
What's so hard about contacting them first and asking? Why is this topic so important that you don't want them aware of you doing that? My Twitch name and YouTube name weren't the same or a long time. So were you to find my YouTube and take my run and upload it here, you'd be giving it an account that DOES exist on this site, but is not me.
As you yourself said, it's their personal choice if they didn't want to make an account, or didn't want to submit their run. So why do you feel the need to do it for them?
Oy vey.
I don't know how you can sit there and concede I made a conscious choice but the idea that someone else did is impossible.
Why is asking so taboo, again?
It'd be cool if there was a way to submit runs as anonymous if the user didn't want to take credit for them. As far as I'm concerned I'd just add every run to the site since it's just links, and if a user didn't want their run to be linked to then it would be unlisted.
