Spam runs
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3 years ago
Israel

I think one of the full moderators once said, that if a game moderator reject those runs with the reason "spam", it is flagged for the site moderators (not sure if true or not). But this is a game where verification is not required, so...

Gaming_64, TrenttheN642 and 2 others like this
French Southern Territories

The last place run also is a rickroll, with a time of 69 hours

Scotland

Highlighting it just seems to have encouraged others.

How can it be that this game doesn't require verification???

https://www.speedrun.com/curious_george_gba/run/y2vgplwz

Scotland

I've PMed the game moderator as this is, how would you say.... Curious

TheSecondTry, TrenttheN642 and 3 others like this
Argentina

Not requiring verification is truly a decision in the interest of maintaining the integrity of the board Kappa

TheSecondTry, TrenttheN642 and 5 others like this
United States

I removed the spam runs. It's a very inactive game, verification isn't really needed. This is the first time something like this has come up and it was solved quickly, not sure why all of you are so interested when you don't even run the game.

TrenttheN642 and 6oliath like this
Canada

Well, I mean, now that the game does have some level of attention, what makes you think that people will stop posting spam runs? Personally think that all games should require verification, regardless on how active the game is. If verifying runs is such an issue, you could appoint another moderator.

TrenttheN642, Nordanix and 4 others like this
Argentina

I'm not about to tell anyone how to mod their boards (given I don't mod any boards myself), but not requiring verification usually leaves the boards open to troll submissions like these, which will most likely drive new runners away from the game.

I'm not saying you should stay online 24/7 to verify runs, but in my opinion even taking 3 weeks to verify runs would be better than leaving it open.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Pear, TrenttheN642 and 2 others like this
French Southern Territories

@Silverhand even if its a small game with no attention, all it takes is one person to find it and then make a fake run. I've seen it happen before to another game. Disabling verification is stupid. Even if nobody cheats, people may retime their runs wrong, not read the rules, or submit no video times, etc. It just is so much better to have verification enabled, and as walgrey said, if you don't have the time you can always appoint new mods.

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