Weird API behavior/Adding Game to Series with 0 Moderators
6 years ago
United States

On speedrun.com and on the <ario discord, there is interest in adding All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. to the Super Mario series (http://www.speedrun.com/mario) as you can see here: http://www.speedrun.com/annsmb/thread/c8kca

On discord, we've talked about how this can happen, but it doesn't seem like anyone knows the moderators for the series, and upon inspection with the API, it gives kinda weird results. http://www.speedrun.com/api/v1/series/rv7emz49

It has an empty moderator set and no creation date, as opposed to most results in the API which have those populated. My assumption is that due to the popularity and how prolific the series is, it was manually created very early on in the site's history by an admin and lacks certain properties most series have.

I guess what I'm asking is threefold: Is what I said above true? If so, can we have All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros added to the series? Also, can a moderator be added so this doesn't have to happen again.

I wasn't sure if I should have added this to the leaderboard moderation request thread. I didn't because it was a bit more nuanced than just accepting runs. Sorry if I was incorrect in that.

United States

Items in the API prior to certain dates lack certain properties. Creation dates prior to 2016 or 2015 aren't listed. Series aren't required to have moderators. Particularly, some series get so large and have such wide communities that having people agree on moderators becomes impractical. I added it to Super Mario.

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