Leaderboards moderation requests thread
9 years ago
Czech Republic

Seems like noone understood after all...

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Valhalla

The GT series has had its own community for decades now and has tracked time attacks way before SRC. Looks like the mod was telling you to look there.

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Valhalla

If you're upset about license ILs not being removed yet, it's not that big of a deal. If you're upset about emulation being banned, disc systems are hard to emulate properly. Separate board for emu? Eh, sure, up to the mods though. If you're upset about GT4 not being as fleshed out, maybe you should do some runs of categories you think should be on the leaderboard.

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Czech Republic

I understood that emus are not allowed, they can't compare consoles... BUT can compare, if loading times will not count and that's why I suggested to change ILs with something interesting than duplicated Cyberscore boards... Ahh, my opinion guys, If Liv thinks it's ok, then it's ok. :)

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Valhalla

I think you'd have an easier time getting an emulator leaderboard than making the argument that removing load times is good enough. Does look like some of the GT games need a cleanup on SRC, but tbh it's not a popular speedrun outside of some time attack stuff so I can see why the mod hasn't done much yet.

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United Kingdom

There are many issues with emulator in terms of comparing it to console apart from just load times, really.

The only solution if they don't want emulator interferring with actual hardware runs is to make it a separate category, and a lot of games have issue with doing this and so choose to simply ban emulator because it pushes competition away from console (playing games is easier on emulator, especially PS1, if emulator is a choice there is almost zero reason to run on console) and also it creates two separately tracked "WRs" for what are essentially the exact same thing. The only difference being one record is on an inaccurate version of the game. Which some boards don't like.

With NES and SNES and some other retro platforms it kinda makes sense because PC-based emulation for those platforms is incredibly accurate. PS1 emulation is still kinda... bad in terms of accuracy. Especially ePSXe as listed in that thread. As I've said in the past, if there were any kind of 'emulator enforced' type rules on the site, which there won't be, I would also strongly be in favour of in particular cutting ePSXe in terms of PS1. That thing is awful for speedruns.

@RecommendedPlaying Tweeted at FoldableHuman myself. I'll give him a couple days to respond/address the issue. If he doesn't, I can perhaps get around to adding you to assist.

@Derpidude It seems going by this thread: https://www.speedrun.com/Sexy_Hiking/thread/3pvqu Chip_Idiot has now been made a moderator of the game.

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I wanted to report some cheating, but unfortunately it involves one of the game's moderators so reporting it to them isn't going to help.

PresJPolk posted to the ZeldaOne discord a picture of his modified controller setup for playing the Legend of Zelda which automates A button presses on controller 2. While it's not the biggest cheat out there, he is still using a tool to give him an advantage over others. If he's willing to cheat to save some inputs and time here, what else is he willing to do? He's also a moderator for this game, which questions his integrity when it comes to verifying others runs. He doesn't abide by rules himself, so why should he care what others are doing?

Because of PresJPolk automating button presses in his runs, admitting it, and posting proof of it, I call for all his runs to be invalidated and removed from Speedrun.com. His integrity as a moderator is also being called into question now, so as a result of cheating in games, I also call for his moderator privileges to be revoked

You can find his post on the discord here https://discord.gg/vRFfuAg or a screenshot of it here https://imgur.com/a/Hdp6dCu

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Valhalla

Hello new person, welcome to SRC.

I don't know much about zelda for NES but something about that scrot strikes me as being comedic. Maybe some more context would be helpful? Is there any rule put in place saying you can't continuously hold down A?

Has anyone else taken issue with this? No offense but I have a tendency of not trusting fresh accounts that seemingly don't have a connection to that game's community suddenly popping up to not only demand that, number 1, All of PresJPolk's runs be removed from SRC, and number 2, that all of his moderator privileges be removed.

As someone who hasn't even played Zelda 1 in probably 8 years I can understand your concern! From the outside looking in it seems like some mechanical contraption is being used to gain an advantage, but in your very own scrot it seems cantaloupeme accomplishes the same task using his feet. It seems like this would be allowed, so simply creating a simple setup to not have to use your feet would seem ideal, AND be okay. That's just my uneducated opinion though.

I'm mostly posting to just say that you're off to a bad start as a new SRC member, and potentially a new speedrunner altogether, by creating an account solely to try and remove someone completely from the community. I'm sure you had a lengthy, in-depth discussion with PresJPolk and Cantaloupeme that you're just not sharing though. One that resulted in you having no choice but to come to this thread. Surely you wouldn't just lurk, scrot, and try and get someone taken down. Surely, that isn't you, Mr. NewSRCMember.

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Ontario, Canada

The Sonic Fan-Game series (Link: https://www.speedrun.com/sonic_fan_games ) has been dormant for over half a year. blazethecat has since left the community in pursuit of a cartography career, and is no longer interested in speedrunning, and I can't get in contact with her anymore. I'd like to request to become moderator of that series so that the series can continue to have moderation. I do not intend to replace her or the marvelous job she's done of the page (and thus feel no need for her to be removed) but she hasn't paid any attention to the series whatsoever, and I already know a few people who need their game requests considered. May I please be assigned as a moderator for the Sonic Fan Games? I'm aware that kirbyfan has requested this already, but I tried my best to wait a little while.

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Ecuador

Hello i want to be mod of the game castlevania Dracula X, 2 mods are frequently online but they said never have time to verify I have been waiting for 1month. and the mod joelcoolgames usually is off so..

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Valhalla

Technically it's been less than 3 weeks. Some runs, especially ones claiming to be WRs take time to verify. I'll admit it's taking a bit longer than it should, but last I chatted with dingus he was looking into your run.

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Virginia, USA
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Costa Rica

Hi. I wanna be a mod of the Sims 1, the game have 3 mods but only One is active (1 no connect ago 3 months and other ago 3 years)

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United Kingdom

@Phailedname Have you even asked PresjPolk at all about anything regarding this? This seems like a sock account that was created for this express purpose with how coordinated this is, and the demands being given.

@Kitoko We understand the Sonic Fan Games series mod is currently inactive, but right now it'd probably just be best if fangames requests were sent directly to us through the request form as normal and we can manually add these games to the series after the fact. As I believe I said to KirbyPlayz also, the secondary issue with doing this is we then also allow essentially all Sonic fangames to be added to the site without question which... we don't really want to do. And although the series moderation is inactive, its only actual use at this point is simply being able to freely add games. That said, whilst it would be nice to have some more active moderation for this particular series, I would say it would have to be worked out with staff beforehand so that some kind of understanding can be met regarding this as is the case with say... SM64 romhacks.

@pumax I have messaged the moderators for this game. @lildingus was the one who wanted to look over your runs due to some potential issues he may have spotted regarding it (he also appears to have previously rejected several of your runs due to using banned emulators), but is too busy at the moment to dedicate the time to fully consult your run to the best of his liking due to working long hours currently, as he himself told me via DM. If you have any questions regarding your run, I would message LilDingus about it.

@jpoint24 It's only been 5 days since you submitted. I wouldn't say that's nearly long enough wait to be requesting mod for any games.

@MikuRuns If one mod is active, ask them? Perhaps via Twitter. I upped BeastlyN64 to Super due to them being the only active mod, so they're now able to add further mods at their own discretion. Consider contacting them, but due to you having seemingly no runs/no pending runs for this game, I am not going to add you to this game myself.

Also, do not submit runs using the videos of other's: https://www.speedrun.com/pkmnyellow/run/z03llo9z

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Florida, USA

Looking to get super mod for Bolt The Video Game, because mod has been inactive for a really long time. Hasnt responded to any forum posts in 6 months and has logged on in 24 days. https://www.speedrun.com/disney_bolt

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Scotland

Looking to request to be super mod for the Devil May Cry series. I am currently a Super Mod and have been active sinse the day i was modded.

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United Kingdom

@BowMasterBlaze I'll add you to help since the Mod doesn't appear to read the forum, has been offline for 3+ weeks and Youtube is kinda ehhhh to contact people from. They also don't appear to have a run in the game.

@Renegade522 The series mods for DMC are active, ask them. I have no idea why you're requesting this here. Also, considering you requested DMC5 over 4 months prior to its release previously, I can almost guarantee you would add the game months early if this was applied.

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Costa Rica

I wish be a mod of This game , the actual mod is banned and no login ago 1 month. https://www.speedrun.com/Operation_Thunderbolt

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