Hi,

I'm the head moderator for New Super Mario Bros. (https://www.speedrun.com/nsmbds). A few days ago, the world record was set at 23:03. Today, the same player set a new record with a lower 23:03. After verifying the run, I noticed that the older run was still shown on the leaderboard, and the new run was only shown as an obsoleted run since we only time to the second. Is there any way to easily change this?

I realize that the simplest solution would be to add milliseconds to his two runs. However, we as a community decided that it doesn't look good to have only one run (or only the top runs) be timed with milliseconds, so if one runs is, then all should be. We also decided that we didn't want to time every single run to the millisecond because that would be a lot of work for us moderators, and anyway there are runs without video that we would not be able to time.

Another solution would be to reject the old WR, verify the new one, then verify the old one again. The dates of the WRs could be changed too, if that's necessary to make the new one visible by default. I don't like that solution, especially if we have to change the dates, because it would cause the WR data to be inaccurate. However, if there is not any easy way to make the new WR show up by default, I will use this method or any other method that works.

Thanks, MyLittleWalrus

then all should be Why? aesthetic reasons? Just compare the two through milliseconds. You hardly have to time every run on the leaderboard that way.

Yes, aesthetic reasons. Again, I was just wondering if there was some setting I missed that would solve this problem. If not, I will gladly use one of the two solutions I mentioned.

Generally speaking, you can have times with no milliseconds on the board, and then use the millsecond option specifically for instances of settling ties, particularly on WR runs. If other people submit times with milliseconds, you can just remove the milliseconds from their run when they submit and just stipulate in the rules not to put milliseconds unless specifically for the purposes of breaking a tie.

That works, NihilistComedyHour. And UbuntuJackson, the reason is just personally we don't like how it looks when some runs have milliseconds, and others don't. It's inconsistent, and we don't like that look.

But yeah I'll add milliseconds to the old WR but to the new one and that will fix it.

Thanks everyone!