Leaderboards moderation requests thread
9 years ago
GhillieGuide
He/Him, They/Them
7 years ago

I would rather track VC runs on the current leaderboard to avoid the confusion and division mentioned in my previous point. A key point on context is that the VC versions are not only by default significantly slower due to version differences but also that given our existing category distinction no single category would have more than 3 very unoptimized runs that do not have any sign of competition in them. A vast majority of the VC runs(only 1 exception I can think of) are unoptimized and the result of a single session of attempts while learning the category. I have 2 people that advocated for VC runs on the leaderboards that really care about inclusion(the rest that advocated either do not care enough to discuss it with me and present their case or even respond to my message). I have been investigating version inclusion for a long time and have had about 30 hours of discussion with community members on the matter, I have changed my position multiple times as a result of these discussions from one extreme to the other. The harm being done by having 2 leaderboards is minimal atm but served as a warning sign for new runners when we had significant exposure due to a large streamer starting to run the game earlier this year, I would like to at the very least get the leaderboards consolidated. If the speedrun.com mods insist that we include VC to our categories in order to remove the old leaderboards I will do that, but the community decision and my decision as super mod for both leaderboards and a series mod is that we only have 2 versions displayed. Either way I think it is of great importance to consolidate the leaderboards and will work towards that. I feel it is also important to add that the people that have advocated for only 2 versions to be on the leaderboard are much more vocal and commited to their advocacy than the other side(which is entirely populated by inactive runners).

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GhillieGuide
He/Him, They/Them
7 years ago

I would need you to follow me @Ghillie_Guide to send you a DM

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El Salvador

hey, i was just wondering if i could ask you for help? im a lb mod of the the ratchet and clank leaderboards and i was wondering if there is anyway to get mod on going mobile and secret agent clank because the person in charge of the going mobile leadrrboards doesn't even run any of the games or i dont think is even active, and with secret agent clank we dont really see a need for keeping it on the ratchet and clank leaderboards because it has no connection with the actual series other than it uses 1 of the 2 main characters for a mini game type game. even tho we decide to keep it on but would like more mods on the boards but the person in charge of the boards will not give us access in doing so even tho he isnt a active runner of the series just did 2 runs once.

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Missouri, USA

Hey there, I was wondering what I can do about the Plague Inc leader boards. The mod hasn't been online for 5 months and I can't even submit a regular run. It only accepts speed run mode. I can mod it if needed because I want to submit my run for this game

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Gelderland, Netherlands

@cyberdemon531 did you try contacting him?

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Czech Republic

Would it be possible to unmod a supermod? hypnoshark in http://www.speedrun.com/need_for_speed has created this game series, but unfortunately he accepts all runs without even watching them or checking if the timing is correct, which in many cases isn't. I already had to reject several runs that didn't follow leaderboards rules or were flawed in some other way. The whole community thinks he shouldn't be a mod, so we tried to contact him on twitch and here on forums, but no response after more than one month.

So we are kinda stuck :( Can something be done about this?

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Gelderland, Netherlands

Maybe it would be nice for the next time to add that to the post ;)

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Colorado, USA

I was never asked to add other R&C mods to the Secret Agent Clank leaderboards. Yes I am the only one who does runs. As you can see here: http://pastebin.com/TmCfGskb , I will be running the game again in the very near future. Be active in the game if you want to mod it, RejectedLink. Don't pretend you're more qualified, and don't pretend you've asked me.

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New Jersey, USA

100 pages! Cheers! (I'm fashionably late to the party.)

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Russia

Hello guys and mods. Pls add me mod of the game Mario Bros. I have already my speedrun MB on my Youtube channel. And because this game already added on this site, 2 days ago i'm take request of this game, thx

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Gelderland, Netherlands

@Death_Devil did you try contacting the current moderator AquaBlake?

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Russia

No. And how contact with him?

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Gelderland, Netherlands

You can pm him on his twitch that is linked under his name or his youtube

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Maine, USA

Hey I was wondering if I could be a mod on the Kid Icarus Uprising page. The game has a lack important things, such as rules, and guides, and recently a friend and I wanted to try this game, but since we have no rules to follow it makes it hard. On top of this, when I posted a thread about the lack of rules I haven't gotten a response, and both mods haven't been on in over a month at least. So instead of waiting we could define rules.

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United States

Patrick: It looks like you were added.

Skaleks: Without rereading all the discussion, I think the argument has essentially been "I said he was toxic, why didn't you remove him.", by which my position basically has to be "I can't remove people based off claims one person made with no further information given" Life's not black and white. Regarding the post following that, I absolutely don't support dialogue like that, but I personally don't see it as our position to ban people (or to this lesser extent, heavily police game moderation) based on offensive/detrimental things said in Twitch chat (or on Twitter). Doing so would probably warrant removing at least 50 users for similar instances of bad things said on the internet for consistency sake. The counterargument is essentially "No one who says stuff like that should be moderating anything", which is unfortunately not consistent with the current state of people moderating games and would be a major change. Token's posts and my previous posts express similar concerns.

Beardy: I made the series mod a supermod, and then added you cause he said so.

DunkelGotik: It looks like you were added.

Mchan338: Please discuss it with the current game moderators, they are active.

GhillieGuide: I'll delete it since due time was given.

RejectedLink: The first point, I marked the game as "mobile", which makes it abide by the series setting to show unofficial games. This is probably close to what you wanted there. Regarding the second point, this is the classic "We mod the series and play the series but not the game, but he mods and plays the game." It's essentially a no-win situation. Ideally this would be resolved with discussion without having to involve site staff.

NehkRohw: Added.

Cyberdemon531: Looks like he added you.

Ewil: Could you add more moderators prior to us making any changes. Since he only runs one game, it may make since to move things around a bit, but then the series and most games have few moderators.

JandriMC: The user was on recently. If it happens again, we can look at adding you.

Switch_Z: The game has active moderators, you can request through them.

kobepilgrim: 100 pages of something.

Death_Devil: It looks like he added you.

Exelency: I'm putting a bit of faith in you by adding you under these cirumstances, please do sensible things. ^_^;

Personal Note: Still working on transitioning some responsibilities. I've been very busy with work the last couple weeks.

Washington, USA
MarcyAugust
She/Her, They/Them
7 years ago

Good morning! I'd like to request being a mod on the Bloxorz page (http://www.speedrun.com/Bloxorz), as both moderators have been inactive for months and any attempts to communicate with them have not proven successful. I have runs for the first two categories that have been sitting in the queue for over a month so far as well showing their absence.

Thank you and have a great day!

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