Moderators: What is your craziest, weirdest, and/or funniest experience while moderating on sr.c?
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3 years ago
Greece

Although I lost 100 bucks I can say im proud of it cuz now I am a speedrunner boi

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New Jersey, USA

Here's a story:

We had a runner called "ThePope" or "PopeFrancis" or something like that, with the Pope profile picture. He even had a discord and was in our community discord.

Here's the problem: He had a top time. Like, when this occurred, top 20, if not top 10, out of over 100 players.

Obviously it had to be a top runner of our game. We analyzed the run and looked for different things that the runner did that made it stand out. Each runner had their own mark on their runs, so to speak. They mashed in a specific way, they did the skips in a specific input order, they did or did not do specific swag strats. We could reasonably figure out which run belonged to which runner depending on how they played the game.

This runner combined every single top runner's mark. They changed up their mashing to reflect one top runner, they changed how they did their skips to another top runner, and so on and so forth. We had zero idea who this was! And this went on for MONTHS. He just kept submitting more top times with varying marks so we could never figure out who it was.

One day my friend, who was a top runner, gave me the login information for both ThePope's discord and its sr.c account and told me to go nuts. He gave this information to about 10 other people in the community.

And The Pope was never heard from again.

YUMmy_Bacon5, Wrap and 14 others like this
United States

Ground Control to @PopeFrancis, please respond

Argentina

You guys gotta understand, it's pretty hard to run the Vatican while also pumping out sick runs, he probably just had to take some time off

YUMmy_Bacon5, Aqua_boy0 and 7 others like this
United States

If I ever got to see the pope streaming runs live on Twitch, that would make me very happy.

YUMmy_Bacon5, MinecraftGaming and 3 others like this
New York, USA

We've got (American) politicians on Twitch now. Maybe we can get religious leaders on there too.

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Norway

This is recent (as of 2020/04/12) some runner is asking is "Admin Coils" is allowed in tower of hell?

and it isn't permitted at all.

even though you're a game dev or staff in any kind. (You still need to do runs normally)

https://www.speedrun.com/robloxtoh/run/zq1k5o8m

I wouldn't be thoughtful to share the run here.

Edited by the author 2 years ago
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Vermont, USA
Ivory
He/Him, She/Her, They/Them
2 years ago

gonna share this run in this thread too i guess https://www.speedrun.com/robloxsr4/run/zxddwg8y

YUMmy_Bacon5, Lyren and 2 others like this
Vermont, USA
Ivory
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2 years ago

i rejected it because i didn't want the world record to have copyrightten music

Norway

FREEDOM DIVE + BANNED USER + USING NOCLIP

How ironic!

Bulgaria

Once, someone had submitted a run that claimed to be 48 hours, but it was actually just a regular ol' 4 minute IL run.

Oh and two runners submitting hour long runs of normally short ILs. (https://www.speedrun.com/nfshp2010/run/zp3xwq8m)

Edited by the author 2 years ago
YUMmy_Bacon5 and Lyren like this
Bavaria, Germany

On Gunman Clive: Someone tried to submit a Recording of the IGT of the Title Screen as the World Record. Easy to debunk, was not WR by at least 110 Seconds, and there was also no footage of any Gameplay 😆

YUMmy_Bacon5, Lyren and 3 others like this
Canada

Someone submitted a spam run. Then that same person impersonated a famous Geometry Dash YouTuber and submitted their run (which was rejected a looooooong time ago for not following the rules).

YUMmy_Bacon5, Lyren and 5 others like this
Lincolnshire, England

Had someone submit a run with no audio and choppy framerate/lag (I think a top 3 time when they submitted, but the video title started WORLD RECORD), run got rejected. They then re-submitted the run with a longer intro in the video (but the same run) and changed the time they submitted it as (rejected). They opened a new thread called "Omoeba [sic] that's just sad" where they complained I had rejected two perfectly legit runs https://www.speedrun.com/yh10s1/thread/umxyj (they've since deleted their own posts). Later in the thread a moderator of another run lets us know that this runner spliced a run in their game. Finally they open another thread called "Fake Runs Report" (not linking because we locked it and they deleted their own post) where they claimed to be "moderator verifiers" or something, creating faked/cheated runs to "test" src moderators, and well done to the mods for catching them out but "don't tell anyone else because then I can't test them".

Anyway they're banned from the site now, no idea why. https://www.speedrun.com/user/IrreversibleNinja

YUMmy_Bacon5, Lyren and 2 others like this
United States

@AmoebaUK I assume they’re banned since the site rules specifically state

“Intentionally submitting falsified runs is prohibited. This includes attempts to "test" moderators, which will likely get you banned.”

YUMmy_Bacon5, MinecraftGaming and 4 others like this
Lincolnshire, England

yeah that was the joke :)

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